Tune Your Mind: a personalized brain fingerprint | Clemens Bauer | TEDxMIT

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In his talk, Clemens will discuss a novel real-time neurofeedback system that is personalized and can enhance mental training and reconfigure brain function. He will specifically show how it has helped patients with treatment resistant schizophrenia to learn how to regain control of their minds by means of meditation, thus helping them improve their psychopathology.

" Clemens Bauer is a Research Scientist Affiliate @ the Gabrieli Lab at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT. He received his MD from the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara and his PhD from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Clemens has had a long time interest in understanding the neural correlates of subjective first person experience, in particular, the mechanisms underlying the interactions between mind/brain and body. Before joining MIT he conducted research with experienced meditators, assessing subjective phenomenology of bodily sensations that yielded specific brain activity correlates. This inspired him to further search for correlates of subjective first person experiences with neuronal activations of different networks (e.g. Default Mode Network) in the brain during controlled and sustained attentional periods, especially during meditation. Using novel real-time functional magnetic imaging methods he now can obtain a personalized fingerprint of brain networks with particular spatiotemporal signatures of brain activity, which then can be used as feedback in real time through a virtual mirror of specific mind/brain states (e.g. meditation vs distraction). This has led to the development of a personalized neuro-template for efficient neurofeedback protocols in psychopathology. In particular, it has enabled patients with schizophrenia to enhance the learning of meditation to consequently reduce their auditory hallucinations. Now he wants to extend this research to other areas of mental health (e.g. anxiety, depression, dementia) as well as find accurate electroencephalographic markers to make this technique more accessible. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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