ANSA Annual Conference 2013 : Program Brain and Body, What Lies Beneath - Physiology, Function and Feedback
Schedule / Conference - Saturday 24 August / Conference - Sunday 25 August8.00 / Registration Desk Open / Registration Desk Open
8.30am / Welcome from the ANSA President / ANSA AGM and Update from the BCIA-A (Neurofeedback Certification)
9.00am / KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Prof. Richard Clark "ERPs: the what, where, why and how of event-related electrical potentials"
10.30am / Morning Tea / Morning Tea
11.00am / Jay Gunkelman Skype presentation: Is that bathwater, or "somebody else's baby" you are throwing away?
1.5 hours (6pm West Coast USA) / KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Joy Lunt, RN BCN “Building Bridges Between the World of Research and the World of Clinicians.”
12.30 / Lunch – Exhibition – Networking / Lunch – Exhibition – Networking
1.30 / Dr Steve Hawkins: “Stretching the Boundaries - Biofeedback, Neurofeedback and Chiropractic Practice” / Protocol Discussion Forum: Joy Lunt and others
2.30 / Dr Kerry Leahan: “HRV and RSA training”
3.15pm / Afternoon Tea / Afternoon Tea
3.30pm / Prof. Yuri Kropotov – prerecorded presentation. Using ERP analysis for neurofeedback - From ERP diagnostics to neurofeedback intervention / Prof. Yuri Kropotov (via Skype) (6:30 or 7:30am St Petersburg) – Q & A on yesterday's topic and more.
4.30pm / Quality Control in EEG Practices (Michelle Aniftos)
followed byNFB & Psychology Interest GroupAGM / ANSA President’s Closing Address
6.30pm / Conference Dinner / ANSA Executive Dinner Meeting: 2013-14 Strategic Plan
NOTE: The BCIA-A examination will be held at the conference venue, Novotel St Kilda, on Friday the 23rd of August from 7:00pm – 10:00pm.
Notes on the Conference Presentations
Prof Richard Clark: "ERPs: the what, where, why and how of event-related electrical potentials"
Abstract: This seminar will offer a basic account of event-related potentials for those who have little familiarity with them.It will cover how the ERP is obtained from the EEG, the assumptions underlying its derivation, and the problems involved in its extraction,but will presume a reasonable understanding of the EEG and how it derives from the electrical potentials of neurones.The seminar will review the major ERP components, their scalp distribution and the psychological functions they index, and provide a discussion of a numberof theIssues and techniques related to component identification from the ERP waveform. Issues and techniques relating to localising ERP components in the brain will also be addressed if time permits.
Joy Lunt, RN: “Building a Bridge Between Researchers and Clinicians”
In 1929, Hans Berger discovered that he could record the EEG. In 2013, scientists have discovered a link between the effects of stress and the expression of our genetic material. Information about the brain is becoming available at an amazing rate. We are standing ready to work with this information.
The field of Neurofeedback owes it’s origins to research, but the future will be a combination of research and clinical application. Building a bridge that allows for a faster, better pathway for researchers and clinicians to work together will benefit the entire field.
The field of Neurofeedback is evolving quickly and we have many exciting opportunities to contribute to the well being of the world’s population, we need to make the most of each and every contribution.
Jay Gunkelman, QEEGT. Is that bathwater, or "somebody else's baby" you are throwing away?
(Physiological signals that are not EEG may not just be "artifacts" to ignore.)
Cardiac issues seen in monitoring channels (PVC, PAT, couplets... and Q-T interval elongation and sudden death).
EOG and frontal lobe function (frontal eye fields)
EMG chronic levels (headaches, TMJ, peripheral tension in over-arousal)
CNS over-arousal and Electrodermal/thermal (myo-epithelial cells and sweat glands)
Precipitous descent into sleep.... sleep issues: circadian rhythm delay, Restless legs, Apneas/hypopneas, nocturnal paroxysms, Primary vigilance treated with stimulants (like narcolepsy).
SMR and insomnia.
The relationship of ADHD and solar intensity with circadian delay (supra-chiasmal nucleus).
Jay Gunkelman, QEEG Diplomate, is recognized as one of the top leaders in the field of EEG and QEEG, and has processed over 500,000 EEGs since 1972. He has served as president of The International Society for Neurofeedback and Research, as well as a board member and treasurer of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback and is a past-president of the Biofeedback Society of California. Jay was the first EEG technologist to be certified in QEEG (1996) and was granted Diplomate status in 2002. He has conducted, published or participated in hundreds of research papers, articles, books and meetings internationally. He continues to lecture on EEG/QEEG at neuroscience meetings worldwide. He has co-authored the textbook on EEG artifacting (2001). Jay remains busy with current projects and publications related to his seminal paper on EEG endophenotypes (2005, Clinical Electroencephalography). He is co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Brain Science International and is a popular lecturer worldwide on the topic of QEEG and phenotype identification of neurological disorders.
Yuri Kropotov Bio: Prof. Dr. Kropotov has got three high educations: in theoretical physics (1971, Leningrad State University), in philosophy (1976) and in neurophysiology (Institute of Experimental Medicine of USSR Medical Science Academy, 1975). He defended two dissertations: one in 1975 with title “Infra slow electrical and metabolic processes in the human brain” (1975), and the second one in 1984 with title “Neurophysiological mechanisms of human memory”. In 1970-1990 he worked in psychiatric clinics of the Institute of Experimental Medicine and Institute of the Human Brain of Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg with neurological and psychiatric patients to whom electrodes were implanted for diagnosis and therapy. By means of implanted electrodes he recorded various physiological parameters of the human brain such oxygen concentration, impulse activity of neurons and local field potentials. For this research he was awarded the highest scientific award - the USSR State Prize (1985), while his discoveries were officially registered by the Academy Committee in 1990 (diploma for highest achievement in science). Now his scientific interests are focused on Quantitative EEG and normative data bases, event-related potentials (ERPs), neurotherapy (neurofeedback, tDCS, DBS), QEEG/ERP markers of ADHD and other brain disorders. Academic Press, Elsevier recently published his book on “Quantitative EEG, event related potentials and neurotherapy” (2009). For this book he got Award for the Year’s most significant publication in the field of neurofeedback from Foundation for Neurofeedback and Applied Neuroscience. He was also awarded the Copernicus Prize - Award of the Polish Neuropsychological Society (2009). He published more than 200 papers including 8 books. He is currently Director of laboratory of the Institute of the Human Brain of The Russian Academy of Sciences (St.-Petersburg) and Professor at Institute of Psychology of Norwegian University for Science and Technology (Trondheim).
Dr Steven Hawkins (Chiropractor), BSc MChiropractic BCN
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Dr. Steven Hawkins has spent the last 20 years in clinical practice helping people to improve their nervous system function. As past principal of two practices and now an associate in an integrative Canberra practice, Steven marvels in the everyday miracles that unfold as people regain neurological integrity. Bodies that heal, health that improves, brains that work better, improved sleep, pain reduction and vast improvements in quality of life. Steven works with biofeedback, neurofeedback and specific Chiropractic adjusting techniques to help people of all ages regain optimal neurological function. He has a particular interest in how Chiropractic care can change brain and autonomic nervous system function and furthers this interest as a part of a network of neurologically based Chiropractors.