What actually happens during a panic attack?In this throwback NeuroNoodle live Q&A, Jay Gunkelman, Joy Lunt, John McCormick, and Anthony Ramos dive into panic attacks, neurofeedback, PTSD, TBI recovery, brain fog after surgery, vagus nerve stimulation, and the hidden neurological patterns behind anxiety.One of the most talked-about moments:Joy Lunt explains how she stopped a patient’s panic attack in about 9 minutes using neurofeedback training.🧠 Topics covered:• Panic attacks & the amygdala• Neurofeedback vs Lexapro/Xanax• PTSD & TBI recovery• Brain fog after anesthesia• Why some panic disorders involve epileptiform activity• Vagus nerve stimulation• Home neurofeedback devices• The difference between “training” and “treatment”⏱️ Jump straight in:0:24 – Panic attack discussion starts18:29 – Coma recovery discussion23:35 – Walter Reed / PTSD discussion25:41 – Panic disorders & epileptiform activity30:07 – “It’s not a character flaw — it’s brain circuits”Throwback Thursday from the early NeuroNoodle live Q&A days.#Neurofeedback #PanicAttacks #MentalHealth

Jay Gunkelman goes in BLIND — no diagnosis, no report, no hints. Just the EEG that Joshua Moore reviewed live with the panel on The Brain Bar the night before. Two recordings, two months apart, unknown treatment in between.

Jay's read: low voltage slow, diffuse encephalopathy, salience network packed with delta, right anterior insula involvement, cardio-ballistic screaming Pickwickian sleep apnea. The kicker? When Joshua revealed the case on Brain Bar, the patient HAS a confirmed sleep apnea diagnosis. Jay called it from the waveform alone.

The full reveal: live-in-nurse-revoked patient who regained dressing, feeding, and recognition. OSHA reached out asking what they did. Jay's verdict: god awful to terrible. That's the line.

👉 Watch the Brain Bar where Joshua reviewed this same brain: https://youtu.be/YaRLfVhbn3I

🧠 WHAT WE COVER:

🎙️ 0:00 — Welcome to Thursday Carnac

🐕 0:24 — Sky the dog and EEG chasing

🔍 1:04 — Jay opens files: holy cry, these are awful

📋 1:45 — How Carnac works: cold read, no hints

💬 2:37 — Brain Bar recap

🎯 3:22 — 58yo female, two months between

⚡ 4:01 — No alpha, slow content both sides

🧪 4:35 — Tiny EEG at max sensitivity

💥 5:21 — FZ-CZ paroxysm

😴 5:45 — Anterior alpha burst, drowsiness

❤️ 6:48 — Cardio-ballistic: short stocky build

🫁 7:30 — Pickwickian setup

🌫️ 8:39 — Peering through artifact

📉 9:17 — Low voltage slow encephalopathy

⚠️ 10:05 — C4 wicket spikes (mu rhythm)

🌐 10:46 — F7-FZ out of phase: right insula

☣️ 11:26 — Toxic or metabolic

📊 12:00 — Spectra confirms no alpha

🧠 12:56 — Diffuse encephalopathy types

🩺 13:27 — Post-toxic vs post-traumatic

🤚 14:21 — EMG tremor at 5 Hz

💪 15:08 — Biphasic spikes are muscle

🔄 16:40 — Two months, EEG not better

👁️ 16:52 — Eyes closed, out of phase

🪞 18:11 — Mu at C4: mirror neuron disconnect

⏯️ 24:13 — The reveal: case got better

🛏️ 24:35 — Nurse revoked, function returned

📈 24:50 — Front midline improved

🎯 26:33 — Source localization

🎨 27:39 — 36% variance off cingulate

🧭 29:12 — Salience network lit up

🆘 31:22 — Right insula trauma signature

💡 33:27 — Protocol: terrible to fair?

🎚️ 34:04 — C4-PZ SMR brain brightening

🧘 34:52 — 15-18 Hz frontal midline beta

😵 37:48 — Pickwickian hypoxia nightly

☠️ 39:14 — Hypoxia, edema, glutamate, cell death

🏥 42:32 — Barbiturate coma protection

🧊 44:11 — Slow edge of alpha = ischemia

🔍 44:23 — Periventricular white matter

🎤 46:19 — God awful to terrible

👋 46:45 — Brain Bar Wed, Carnac Thu

🎓 49:15 — Joshua Moore qEEG Phenotypes

💊 50:52 — 85% improvement with phenotype

📈 51:25 — Better predictive power

🎵 MUSIC FROM THIS EPISODE:

🎵 God Awful to Terrible (lyric album): https://open.spotify.com/artist/2Rj0dKUYadn23cAzrxKr4A

🎵 The Slow Edge of Alpha (meditation album): https://open.spotify.com/artist/2Rj0dKUYadn23cAzrxKr4A

🔗 SHOW LINKS:

👉 The Brain Bar (Joshua's live read): https://youtu.be/YaRLfVhbn3I

qEEG Courses: https://www.qeegcourses.com/

SwingleSonic apps: https://swinglesonic.com/

Suisun Summit: https://courses.eegstrategies.com/col...

Patreon: 🅟 / neuronoodle

🧠 ABOUT THE SHOW:

Wednesdays 6PM Central — The Brain Bar LIVE on StreamYard. Joshua Moore presents an anonymized EEG, panel reads it live.

Thursdays — Carnac: Jay Gunkelman blind cold-reads the same brain.

#NeuroNoodle #NeurofeedbackTherapyPodcast #JayGunkelman #PeteJansons #EEG #QEEG #BrainMapping #Neurofeedback #MentalHealth #SalienceNetwork #PickwickianApnea #LowVoltageSlow #BrainBar #ThursdayCarnac #JoshuaMoore

BCIA would mark this EEG wrong — Jay Gunkelman calls it vascular ischemia anyway. Jay goes in **blind** — no diagnosis, no report — and disagrees with Joshua's TBI read on the exact same 50-year-old EEG. Joshua reviewed it live on The Brain Bar the night before. The next day on Thursday Carnac, Jay cold-reads the slow alpha at PZ, lands on hyperbaric + 40 Hz photobiomodulation, and shows how neurofeedback fits into the treatment plan. Read the brain, treatment follows the brain. The story doesn't matter. 👉 Watch the Brain Bar episode where Joshua reviewed this same EEG: https://youtube.com/live/tUryp2Deu2A?feature=share 🧠 WHAT WE COVER:🎤 0:00 — BCIA Says Wrong, Neurology Says Right (cold open)🎯 3:15 — BCIA would mark this wrong, neurology calls it his alpha🧒 4:18 — A 50-year-old should not have a 3-year-old's frequency tuning🌀 5:30 — Left temporal persistence vs right temporal bursts😴 6:56 — CZ beta as an insomnia marker💤 7:20 — Stage one drowsiness: alpha dropout and resurgent burst🌈 8:29 — Adding color: alpha peak sits just outside band at 7.81 Hz🧮 9:01 — Slow alpha = semantic and declarative memory not optimized🔥 10:31 — Hypercoherence at 0.6: regulatory issues up front👤 11:51 — Connecting technical to human: what does this patient deal with daily?🧓 12:16 — Mild cognitive impairment expected — not surprising📉 12:33 — PZ alpha predicts rate of cognitive decline 2 years out💡 13:07 — Photobiomodulation, red light, 10 Hz at the back of the head🩸 13:45 — 13 Hz temporals, 15 Hz frontal: gentle perfusion for ischemia👴 14:53 — Jay at 76 has a 12 Hz alpha — this 50yo near 7.8 is severe📡 15:11 — Your alpha frequency IS your sample rate of the world🔧 15:46 — This brain needs a major tune-up before it needs a rebuild🎓 21:42 — Joshua said severe TBI post-concussion syndrome⚖️ 21:56 — Jay's call: vascular ischemia, not necessarily TBI🧪 22:14 — Doesn't matter for the treatment — ischemia is ischemia🛌 22:46 — Get him sleeping better first, then SMR/beta balance🧠 23:34 — CZ-C4-PZ for brain brightening at the alpha hub🏥 24:39 — This one is a really good candidate for hyperbaric💡 26:20 — 40 Hz photobiomodulation: boosts mitochondria🛡️ 26:53 — Strong assistance avoiding cognitive decline at the precipice🩺 28:06 — What does a loved one do tomorrow morning if they get this EEG?🎯 31:50 — Read the brain, treatment follows the brain — the whole method🏈 32:54 — NFL draft tonight: do you watch football differently now?👊 33:48 — Subconcussive blows: linemen, CTE summing up over years🥊 36:53 — Fencing pose: ding the brainstem, MMA knockouts at 80%🌱 39:01 — How many people have OD'd on marijuana? You'd choke first📅 39:38 — Suisun Summit October, qEEGCourses.com 🎵 MUSIC FROM THIS EPISODE:🎶 Bonk on the Head: https://open.spotify.com/album/2EddRD6V1y1057qzq9sYJF🎶 Seven Hertz at the Edge: https://open.spotify.com/album/0eSxm3c6nBy1rYF6t0wb6f 🔗 SHOW LINKS:👉 Watch Joshua review this same brain on The Brain Bar: https://youtube.com/live/tUryp2Deu2A?feature=shareJoshua Moore's qEEG Courses: https://www.qeegcourses.com/Jay Gunkelman's Suisun Summit: https://courses.eegstrategies.com/Support NeuroNoodle on Patreon: https://patreon.com/NeuroNoodle 🧠 ABOUT THE SHOW:Every Wednesday at 6PM Central — The Brain Bar LIVE on StreamYard. Joshua Moore presents an anonymized EEG. The panel reads it live. Every Thursday — Carnac: Jay Gunkelman blind cold-reads the same brain.

Jay Gunkelman goes in BLIND — no diagnosis, no report, no hints. Just the EEG that Joshua Moore reviewed live with the panel on The Brain Bar. The next day on Thursday Carnac, Jay cold-reads the same 58-year-old female and finds a 45-degree diagonal line running from her left frontal cortex to her right posterior — the classic geometric signature of a coup-contra-coup injury. Plus a right temporal spike, left frontal alpha hyper-coherence, and Davidson's depressed mood signature. After half a million EEGs, the patterns reach out and grab you. The reveal? Depressed female with a history of a right-side head knock. Jay called it from the waveform alone.👉 Watch the Brain Bar episode where Joshua reviewed this same EEG: https://youtube.com/live/tUryp2Deu2A?feature=share🧠 WHAT WE COVER:🎙️ 0:54 — Good morning Jake Gunkelman, or should I say Carnac?🔍 2:02 — Case five: a 58-year-old female, that's all Jay knows🧠 2:57 — Anterior cingulate beta: the salience network is active and focused⚡ 4:48 — The rhythm is left frontally but not right frontally🎯 8:14 — Sharp transient right temporal: real signal, field surrounds it, it repeats❓ 9:09 — Can Jay tell male vs female from EEG alone? No, but norms matter🔬 12:32 — Leptiform activity: spikes don't always mean epilepsy😤 13:50 — False emotion, fit of rage, pseudobulbar affect from temporal discharge🧩 15:40 — Fast alpha at the back of the head: Niedermeyer's 11 to 16 Hz📉 16:50 — Half a microvolt scale: this EEG is very small💤 17:43 — The Goldilocks frequency of 10: light drowsing, resurgent alpha🔄 18:31 — Eyes closed, presto changeo: now we've got lots of alpha🧱 19:25 — Where the hell did F8 go? Puny little runts of alpha right frontally⚖️ 19:50 — Which side is wrong? Big alpha left vs suppressed right🎲 22:00 — God doesn't roll dice: spike and alpha on the same side is no coincidence📊 25:44 — Dominant alpha peak 8.5 Hz, slow edge 7.5 Hz📐 28:32 — The 45-degree line: left frontal to right posterior💔 29:12 — Davidson's frontal alpha asymmetry equals mood regulation🥥 30:35 — Coup-contra-coup: maybe something happened🎯 34:20 — The skull as a parabolic reflector: percussion focuses energy at a distance🔗 36:44 — Dominant alpha coherence: hyper left frontal, absent right posterior🧠 38:07 — Jay's full read: depressed, right-side pathology, possible head injury✅ 38:37 — The reveal: depressed female with right-side head knock, Jay nailed it blind📚 39:20 — I read EEGs, not reports🎯 42:00 — Why we do this every week💊 45:03 — One-third of psychotics need anticonvulsants, not antipsychotics🎖️ 46:11 — Jay's no-bid military contract story: Camp Lejeune data🏆 48:20 — Suisun Summit October birthday bash: silver commemorative coin🧬 49:48 — The gift of neurodiversity: autism genes and intellect🏖️ 50:36 — The Outliers Club origin story: Cancun, Dirk DeRitter, the OC from the OG🎓 52:57 — Joshua Moore's QEEG Phenotypes workshop preview at qEEGCourses.com💡 54:40 — Why 85% improvement beats any single medication study🎵 MUSIC FROM THIS EPISODE:🎶 The 45-Degree Line: https://open.spotify.com/album/13VJ0SBsyi6czrdNCuNIfe?si=FMzaKx4wTZCJkvAhyAlP1g🎶 The Slow Edge of Alpha: https://open.spotify.com/album/1uooNnT1eYIF2C8yr72jpN?si=dNHgOkdETZ-4smaFVvWd2A🔗 SHOW LINKS:👉 Watch Joshua review this same brain on The Brain Bar: https://youtube.com/live/tUryp2Deu2A?feature=shareSupport NeuroNoodle: https://www.patreon.com/neuronoodle🧠 ABOUT THE SHOW:Every Wednesday at 6PM Central — The Brain Bar LIVE on StreamYardJoshua Moore presents an anonymized EEG. The panel reads it live.Every Thursday — Carnac: Jay Gunkelman blind cold-reads the same brain.#NeuroNoodle #NeurofeedbackTherapyPodcast #JayGunkelman #PeteJansons #EEG #QEEG #BrainMapping #Neurofeedback #MentalHealth #BrainHealth #Neurotherapy #CoupContraCoup #AlphaAsymmetry #TemporalSpike #SingleBlindedRead #BrainBar #ThursdayCarnac #IrritableFocus #MoodRegulation #HeadInjury #JoshuaMoore

Joy Lunt drops a bombshell — the neurofeedback field has never done a single head to head comparison of its own approaches.

"Our field has never in any way shape or form done any head to head comparison."

So what kind of neurofeedback are you actually getting?

#NeuroNoodle #Neurofeedback #BrainHealth

Jay Gunkelman — the man who has read over 500,000 brain scans — breaks down exactly what photobiomodulation does to your brain.

"If you flash a light at the cortex, the brain follows it."

Flash at 10 hertz, you get 10. Flash slightly faster and you can gently shift brainwave frequencies in areas with low perfusion.

#NeuroNoodle #Neurofeedback #BrainHealth