What Different Brainwaves of Personal EEG Devices Mean

[@MartinJanikDublin]

Hi Cody, thanks for the great videos, my question might be a bit dumb, but we hear experts saying "her brain went into Alfa or Delta during meditation". I am using muse and today started recording my brain waves while doing different tasks to compare and see if my brain "goes into i.e. the Alfa state" but I see all the frequencies displayed at the same time (on all the apps), it does not clearly (for interested in it beginners) clearly state if my brain slowed down from Beta to Alfa for example. Could you please explain how to read the chart in this context (using Muse)? Or point me towards any videos that already explain that? I am only starting but it seams like most of the explanatory videos and the Muse app itself are either for quite advanced researchers or for children (birds and storm) while there is a huge group interested in biohacking and brain hacking that would like to have a bit more information using language we read in the related books rather than birds and Storm (which are great for feedback, but I would prefer to see how long I was in Alfa or if I ever reached Delta etc). Thanks in advance! :)

[@sarahedrington5720]

What is excessive beta spindling and Slowed P300a and slowed P300b which will correlate with slowed mental processing speed and memory complaints. Normal visual processing latency but low power seen in the N100. EEG showed excessive frontal slow content and frontal over activation.

[@ahlammallak8853]

I am glad I found your channel. Thanks a lot for the information. I am wondering if Muse the brain sensing band can actually gives you measurements of all these waves? I am interested to know for research purposes. Thanks a lot 😊

[@CodyRallMD]

Yes it can! Try Mind Monitor.

[@boneandjointindonesia]

Thanks! Great info.

[@johannaturgeon9949]

Thank you for such a great video !

[@CodyRallMD]

You're welcome!

[@emeryloik1]

Thank you for the explanations, when you speak about Alpha / theta ratio should we use the average value or the average relative value at the bottom of Mind Monitor graph?

[@jameslweaver]

Thanks Dr. Rail for an excellent explanation of brain waves. I plan to create a BCI demo using a Muse and an artificial neural network (ANN), and am working through what features to use as input. I'd really like to use imagined movement as primary control, perhaps of a cursor. It seems that choosing frequencies from alpha, would be helpful, but would I also choose frequencies from theta so that the ANN has the benefit of ratios? What advice do you have along these lines?

[@CodyRallMD]

Thanks for writing James! You are really coming up against the extent of my knowledge base here! I'm in the process of learning BCI as well and will have more experience in the coming months. My guess is that the Muse does not have enough sensors or sensitivity to pick up SMR (imagined movement) specifically. It would help if Muse had a sensor over the sensorimotor cortex... but it doesn't. Perhaps global alpha/theta ratios would give you more reliable parameters than alpha alone. It would definitely be worth trying out and experimentation would be the final word. Let me know how the project is coming along!

[@CodyRallMD]

How is the research going? I'm reviewing comments on YT today and following up with people

[@randomusername509]

@@CodyRallMD I can comment on that... Was trying to apply different Machine Learning algorithms on raw EEG data from Muse, as well as on frequency powers. The target is: detect, how much the subject likes or dislikes the music he/she listens to at the moment. I must confess: not much of success until now. I've just started online course on ML now in order to understand more about different ML algorithms. It seems like trying to apply the most popular models like CNN, RNN etc. does not work , at least does not work without fine-tuning of parameters.

[@PakManPak]

Great videos, thank you so much for this education. where are you located? thx

[@CodyRallMD]

Chicago currently :)

[@CoreyHixsonCSU]

I have an academic work that presents a lot of information about this same topic. Can I use this video as a part of the slideshow?

[@CodyRallMD]

Absolutely, thanks for asking :) . Feel free to email your presentation to [e-mail] if you want, I'd be curious to see what you are working on..

[@jorgenavarrete3912]

Hi, when you are reading brainwaves on meditation 🧘‍♂️, it's the same interpretation?, I had seen estudies about high gamma on meditation?, and be associated Whit kindness or compassion state of mind

[@CodyRallMD]

The research is mixed but general principles apply. Gamma can be related to a number of things.

[@jsfbr]

Thanks, Doc.

[@squamish4244]

Gamma is the great undiscovered country, apparently of deep meditative and transpersonal states of consciousness. I wonder if it is the 'enlightenment' brainwave ;)

[@elizabethtrescott2079]

Do you have a book? I have a hard time focusing on videos. (ADHD, Dysthemia, GAD)

[@CodyRallMD]

Sorry no book yet but working on one!

[@nigeldupaigel]

If that's true, than your brain is able to hyper focus. Get to it.

[@mirandaa3839]

Have you read this book. Robert Duncan Project: Soul Catcher: Secrets of Cyber and Cybernetic Warfare Revealed. EEG. EKG. BRAIN HACKING

[@CodyRallMD]

nope looks spooky!

[@dan020350]

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