Judith Becker, Ph.D.

Thomas Budzynski, Ph.D.

Jon Frederick, Ph.D.

Robert Gatchel, Ph.D.

Emil Jovanov, Ph.D.

Clete A. Kushida, M.D., Ph.D.

Edward W. Large, Ph.D.

Scott Makeig, Ph.D.

Melinda Maxfield, Ph.D.

Harold Russell, Ph.D.

David Spiegel, M.D.

M. Barry Sterman, Ph.D.

Patrick Suppes, Ph.D.

Concetta Tomaino, D.A.MT-BC

Udo Will, Ph.D.

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Schedule of Events

Format: 20 minute presentations, 10 minute Q&A, 5 minute transition

 
Panel: Research on Brainwave Entrainment to External Rhythmic Stimuli

 

Chair: Patrick Suppes, Ph.D.

 

8:30-9:10

Udo Will, Ph.D.

Introduction to Auditory Driving:

  • Andrew Neher's 1961 Study

  • New Research on Short-term (4 min. minus) Auditory Driving

 

9:10-9:50

Emil Jovanov, Ph.D.

Effects of Rhythmic Drumming on EEG and Subjective Experience:

  • Extended (20 min. plus) Auditory Driving Phenomenology and EEG data

 

9:50-10:45

Jon Frederick, Ph.D

Introduction to Photic Driving and Audio Visual Stimulation (AVS):

  • Overview of Photic Driving Literature

  • EEG Coherence and Amplitude Effects of Rhythmic Auditory and Visual Stimulation at the Dominant Alpha Frequency

  • Comparison of Auditory Driving, to Photic Driving, to AVS

 

10:45-10:55

Break

 

 

Roundtable: Research on Brainwave Entrainment to External Rhythmic Stimuli

 

10:55-11:55

Moderator: M. Barry Sterman, Ph.D.

 

Discussants: Udo Will, Ph.D., Thomas Budzynski, Ph.D., Emil Jovanov, Ph.D., Jon Frederick, Ph.D., Andrew Neher, M.A., Patrick Suppes, Ph.D., Edward W. Large, Ph.D., Scott Makeig, Ph.D.

 

 

11:55-12:25

Discussion of Future Research Projects

 

12:25-1:45

Lunch

 

 

Panel: Clinical Applications of Brainwave Entrainment to External Rhythmic Stimuli

 

Chair: David Spiegel, M.D.

 

1:45-2:20

Judith Becker, Ph.D.

An Ethnomusicological Approach to the Phenomenology of Extended (20 min. plus) Auditory Stimulation:

  • Discussion of Changes in Arousal and Attention

  • Meditative States and Trance States

  • Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) and Trance States

 

2:20-2:55

Concetta Tomaino, D.A. MT-BC

Music Therapy Applications of Auditory Driving:

  • Regarding Treatment of ADD, Anxiety, Depression, Insomnia, and Chronic Pain

  • Discussion of Monaural Driving

  • Common music therapy techniques, CDs

  • Discussion of Binaural Beat Driving

  • Discussion of Motor Cuing

 

2:55-3:40

(including questions 

for whole panel)

Thomas Budzynski, Ph.D.

Light and Sound in Clinical Practice:

  • Regarding Treatment of ADD, Anxiety, Depression, Insomnia, and Chronic Pain

  • Regarding Treatment of Alzheimer's and Cognitive Decline in Elderly

 

3:40-3:55

Break

 

 

Roundtable: Clinical Applications of Brainwave Entrainment to External Rhythmic Stimuli

 

3:55-4:55

Moderator: Concetta Tomaino, Ph.D.

 

Discussants: Judith Becker, Ph.D., M. Barry Sterman, Ph.D., Thomas Budzynski, Ph.D., David Spiegel, M.D., Clete A. Kushida, M.D., Ph.D., RPSGT, Jon Frederick, Ph.D.

 

4:55-5:25

Discussion of Future Research Projects

 

5:25-6:00

Reception

 

6:00-8:00

Dinner

 

8:30-10:00

Live Musical Performance and Lecture from Musicántica

 

 

 

 

 

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