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Bill Scott
Bill Scott is a co-investigator of a research project studying somatization disorders at UCLA’s Neuropsychiatric Institute with Lobsang Rapgay, Ph.D. He’s in the design process of a study investigating brain states during mindfulness meditation with Jeffery Schwartz, M.D. and Barry Sterman, Ph.D. He recently developed a new neuroimaging technology that creates a fractal signature from EEG and is successfully utilizing this technology as a form of EEG biofeedback in a process termed BrainPaint®. He is the first author and principal investigator of a controlled study on addictions (n=121) which was published in August 2005 in The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, with David Kaiser, Ph.D, Siegfried Othmer, Ph.D, and Steven Sideroff, Ph.D. |
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Plenary #231): Bypassing the Mind; "Brainpainting"
Cortical Visual Prosthesis have been dabbled with since 1929 starting with the work of Foerster, O. (1929) Beitrage zur Pathophysiologie der Sehbahn und der Sehsphare. J. Psychol. Neurol., Lpz, 39, 463-485.
Brindley, G.S. and Lewin, W.S. (1968) The sensations produced by electrical stimulation of the visual cortex. J. Physiol., 196, 479-493.
showed a patient could detect patterns from their cortex being stimulated through electrode implants.
My thoughts were, “If the brain in all its complexity can make sense of crude input, what might happen if it's given the chance to output and manipulate complex systems?" “Why is it that we get such good results even from a subject watching a simple bar graph fluctuating, yet we usually see no significant changes in the fast frequencies we have been "rewarding"?” Perhaps it’s because we haven't yet been able to quantify the brains complexity.
Now, years later as computers acceded speeds above 2 gigahertz I've done just that.
This talk will demonstrate the brain's doodling in what I'm calling BrainPaint. We're able to animate these fractal images at speeds greater than 20 per second.
Here's a sample image of thousands of them I've collected.
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Plenary #231): Bypassing the Mind; "Brainpainting"
Co-presenter with Thomas Brod of MYSTERIES OF NF SUCCESS: What's Happening When"Nothing's Happening"?
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