A Deep Dive into EEG with Firefly Neuroscience's Dave DeCaprio
About this episode
Owen Scott Muir interviews Dave DeCaprio about EEG technology and its implications for clinical care.
Dear readers, I’ve been a sceptic for too long. It’s easy to be sceptical as a psychiatrist—the flowers will be lour’d upon you! I’ve been using Graymatter’s Health PRISM EEG-fMRI neurofeedback system for a few years, it’s true. There are EEG leads on there. I saw a lot of EEG-related technology in Beijing. It’s possible I’m looking at an EEG in this very photo from my hotel room in China, below: But have I been measuring the brain with EEG regularly? Well, no, again! I’ve been content with my fancy fMRI scans alone, for SAINT , and giant brain healing magnets at set frequencies, like deep TMS with SWIFT . There are even videos of me talking about TMS, like this one below, with friends like Colleen Hanlon from BrainsWay, and heroic patients who chose to speak publicly, too. But one thing I haven’t routinely done is measure the brain itself as part of clinical care, as companies like Firefly Neuroscience are making possible. That may need to change, is the outcome in my personal brain as a result of this interview. I speak, at length, with Dave Decaprio, their president and COO. The EVOKE system provides multimodal analysis of brain function, including Quantitative EEG and…
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