On Fri, Jul 1, 2016, at 04:14 PM, Dean Esmay wrote:
Hey. I would like it if everyone would respond to this and say a
little about themselves. There's only a half-dozen or so of us on
this list.
A year and a half ago I had lifelong depressed turned off in my head
by neurofeedback therapy, and being an IT guy I immediately grasped
its principles. I eventually looped Meredith Patterson in, who
proved to herself that it worked by going and having her insomnia
cured with it.
When you see how it works, it's inherently obvious:
1) An EEG sensor on your scalp monitors for particular brainwave
patterns in realtime.
2) When it sees the brainwave patterns move to a desired frequency
set, it gives positive and/or negative feedback to the patient via
pretty lights and noises on screen and through speaker or through
any other medium humans might like. Negative feedback usually
something like light static or a dimming screen, positive being
nice noises.
3) Over time, this causes the brain to use neuroplasticity to make new
neural pathways to make the new better signaling in the brain
permanent as desired, same as you learn to ride a bike.
The challenges to this are that we need:
1) The EEG monitoring equipment
2) The EEG monitoring software
3) The realtime feedback
4) Code to implement known protocols for sleep,depression, and other.
Right now we have zero funds though we can seek to find some. The
skillset I bring are as a tester, a writer, an interfacer between
aspie and nonaspie types, and a reputation for harassing people and
keeping them in place.
Could you guys all give a brief introduction and give your thoughts
what you can bring or what you think you need?
--
Rogue journalist, Biohacker, & cultural critic
Skype: Deanesmay
Phone: (US) 1-313-334-4887
