paulbrennan
paulbrennan
I am a registered psychologist based in Victoria Canada. I am interested in neurofeedback and software development. So far, I have really only used the Muse and the various 3rd party apps. I'm particularly interested in applications for mood disorders - depression, anxiety - and ADHD
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Okay thanks for that William, I'll take a look at those threads.
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Thanks William!
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This type of ear clip just arrived with the QWiz and I did have a puzzle getting it to snap in place but got it to work with some force. Is paste necessary also with this type? (https://openbci.com/forum/uploads/editor/dy/3fik63qpxwym.jpg )
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Thanks William. In the meantime I've got all these Muses that I need to find a temporary use for James Clutterbuck's Mind Monitor is great but the feedback is visual - no use for my therapy clients. I would need to send the OSC output to an audio …
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Thanks for that William, very useful detail on the FFT v. filters issue.
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HI William, I think a good person to answer this would be James Clutterbuck at Mind Monitor. He is not connected with Interaxon but has developed 3P software for Muse for years now and runs a forum at https://mind-monitor.com/ and is quite responsiv…
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"If Ros was successful in his trial, and you are not able to run his protocol whatsoever due to anomalies in the Muse / Myndlift, then that is a statement about your hardware / software combination. Because it is working quite noticeably in my own c…
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I ran this issue by my prof and by ML support. Response from prof is that the Muse amplifier is decent for what it is. There will be some noise with dry electrodes. Those low amplitude values are more a consequence of the quantification algorithm u…
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Yeah that is concerning.
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Just a thought - could your values be power [(amp)2] whereas Myndlift are just amplitude? I can try moving the electrode - though I notice that my alpha sessions on F7 and F8 (Muse electrode )are in the same kind of range. In fact everything's in…
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As usual Muse is a morass of issues. According to the GitHub the Muse 2016 is not viable on MacOS for neuromore - it won't connect due to a bug. The 2014 works but then that doesn't help validate the Myndlift as it's 2016 only. I could validate the…
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Yeah, I don't know much about the signal processing side yet so I can't really comment, I'm still learning this stuff really. But that does sound concerning. And I have noticed that it's very difficult to compare my data with my prof's. Neuromore i…
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I have both Muse 1 and 2. If it supports the extra electrode that would be useful. Mind Monitor does - but raw EEG only I think. However - Neuromore does support Mac I see - one of the issues with the other solutions is they are Windows only so need…
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What I think this shows is alpha rebound from the previous sessions and then me working to get it back below threshold for the rest of the session.
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It's a challenge to get comparable level of detail from Myndlift but here is some data from the last of the 5 rounds this morning.
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I tried alpha down again for 5 x 4 min sessions at 60% feedback. I found visual focus to be a reasonably effective strategy during the session. Subjectively, there was an open, alert sensory focus. However, looking at the numbers for these alpha dow…
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For sure. I've tried the down training one time. First impression was that it was a quite effortful compared to up training, and that it did seem to lead to an interesting shift after the training period rather than during it. In this respect it rem…
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"Tarrant's mindfulness protocol either downtrains beta at Pz...." for sure, but his Quiet Mind protocol up trains alpha at Pz, with the objective of "reducing self talk"..... hence my confusion. I went back to the Ros presentation from April where …
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However I'm still bit confused as to Ros's explanation of Pz Alpha as it relates to mind-wandering. William, am I correct in saying that people who successfully lowered their alpha during alpha down also showed less mind wandering during the oddball…
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Returning to JT's protocols for a moment if I may - I guess the simplest one to do is Quiet Mind, alpha up at Pz - single channel. He also suggests trying a narrower band for alpha (8-10). It's interesting that Ros' research supports both alpha down…
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Thank you I'd be very interested in that
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Hi William, yes I tried the alpha down protocol myself the other day and was impressed with it, first impression. And I am reading the Sebern Fisher book, she mentions it. Honestly at this point I'm finding the learning curve on these protocols pret…
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"quieting mind chatter / self-referential thoughts at the PCC / Precuneus" - for me this is a bit of a holy grail as a practitioner, because rumination is such a difficult clinical problem. I'm interested in the work of Tomas Ros (Ros et al. Mind ov…
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HI William, so yes I have only one channel so I haven't been able to do most of them yet. More channels are coming! I'm very interested in Jeff's work and have corresponded with him a bit. Actually one of his colleagues at the institute, Heather Har…
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Great project Danny! Just an observation, according to my notes, the Tarrant protocol for Focus is Reward gamma (35-45) at FZ & Reward alpha 8-12 at PZ. (as opposed to theta). Whereas his mindfulness protocol is to reward Theta 4-8 at FZ and rew…
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Thanks William that's extremely helpful. Fifty bucks is the price I pay direct from Myndlift so I suppose it's the going rate ¯_(ツ)_/¯. It would be interesting to try dry connectors. Also, the spring clip idea is good, that way I can use whatever…
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William I don't really understand Pete's system yet but it seems like a layer on top of BioEra, BioExplorer. Which I also haven't used. But do you think that layer is really necessary? Is it just a matter of a better GUI? Also I do wonder if somet…
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It seems like a very interesting model and I'd like to try it. On the other hand, like the Muse, it sort of does one thing, which gives me pause - I wonder what you do if this model doesn't seem to producing the expected results? Right now I'm readi…
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Yes a lot of people around here are offering services with Neuroptimal. In fact it looks from your attachment that they are out of Victoria, my town! To me, it seems a bit overpriced (equipment plus services charges) but I guess I can't have it both…
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Yes good observation. I don't think it can matter much at this point. I'm in Canada but I don't think it's much different.