Thanks for featuring IACS and this work, Cody! We are honored to be able to share these exciting efforts with a wider audience.

@CodyRallMD

9 ай бұрын

Had a great time and looking forward to more visits!

What a time to be alive! I wish I lived in the US I would be volunteering in a heartbeat.

@CodyRallMD

9 ай бұрын

Yes it was so cool! I wish you could too Josef!

Josh here (from the video). Really happy to finally be communicating the world of focused ultrasound to the broader public. Thanks Cody for the help with this! After 6 years with the technique, I really like to see that it's now becoming more broadly adopted in neuroscience and is set to be used in countless psychiatric applications in the near future.

yessssss

@CodyRallMD

9 ай бұрын

Ah yeahhh!

Such fascinating possibilities. How exciting to bring such positive mental experiences to a broader population without needing to ingest a drug. Excited to keep an eye on this!

@CodyRallMD

9 ай бұрын

Definitely @racheloon !

$420? Nice.

@CodyRallMD

9 ай бұрын

Coincidence...

I seriously love the work this lab does!

@CodyRallMD

9 ай бұрын

Me too!

You had me at 420

@CodyRallMD

9 ай бұрын

Haha funny coincidence

I would totally try this, and if I liked it a lot, I'd want to do it all the time. Since I am already highly experienced with Cranial Electro-Stimulation, I wouldn't be nervous about it at all.

@CodyRallMD

9 ай бұрын

I wish I could do it more often! Hopefully there will be a wearable with similar effects someday soon

@joshuacain5785

9 ай бұрын

Consumer products are being developed but are likely a couple years out yet! They'll come though!

Wowww this is amazing stuff Nicco is a good friend of mine and his impact on the world is one of a kind!! I’m definitely signing up for this

@CodyRallMD

9 ай бұрын

Awesome!!!

Coolest new neurotech I've seen in years!

Thanks Cody! I just signed up for a trial with IACS.

🎉🎉thank you so much!

Talk about elegant intervention! Dovetails nicely with 4e cog sci.

@CodyRallMD

9 ай бұрын

Agreed! Thanks James.

@joshuacain5785

9 ай бұрын

Thanks!

I discovered Joe dispensas work 2020 when I was struggling with severe long covid. Biggest change in my life. I am a daily meditator that uses Huso as well as other tools like the muse to keep myself in alignment. Thank you for sharing! i would be excited to try this new technology someday

the AI will use this to keep us in some virtual reality and use us as batteries

@CodyRallMD

9 ай бұрын

Probably not Ms. Matrix.

Fantastic news! What other kind of effect can the system produce? ego dissolution? If so, It Will accelerate planetary consciousness Evolution. Timeline for consumer device? Keep us updated, thanks.

@CodyRallMD

9 ай бұрын

Yes! Ego Dissolution! Agreed!

@joshuacain5785

9 ай бұрын

We have a trend toward ego dissolution in our pilot data so far but that's preliminary. Consumer device appears 2-3 years out.

@carmineflammia3734

9 ай бұрын

@@joshuacain5785 what a great innovation It Will be! Keep up the good work. 🙏🙏🙏

i was in a hit&run accident 5 yrs ago . and my brain is not working like it should be. I'm up for testing !

@CodyRallMD

9 ай бұрын

That would be great

Did I read that correctly? They're paying to try this out

@CodyRallMD

9 ай бұрын

Yes, up to $420 to participate.

@whatwhat9519

9 ай бұрын

@@CodyRallMD oh, it's one of those "up to" kinda deals

@joshuacain5785

9 ай бұрын

@@whatwhat9519 I run the study, it's based on the time it takes, which varies some but it's roughly that amount. Probably averages higher.

@whatwhat9519

9 ай бұрын

@@joshuacain5785 that's cool, too bad I don't live near to y'all and have the free time. I would have tried it out whether or not y'all were paying for the time it took.

This is one of those videos that should have a 11 million views in 11 days.

“We let you get up to the top of the hill, see the view + appreciate it, so then in the future you can develop the discipline and practice to climb up there yourself” -- this perfectly captures the ethos (pedagogical above merely theoretical), pathos (empathic while bespoke), and logos (practice makes perfect, but let’s promote intrinsic motivation to practice in a truly accessible and impactful way) that Dr Reggente and his lab (IACS) so deftly imbue with their research…. And that’s just the proverbial tip of the iceberg. Incredibly fascinating research and kudos to everyone involved in this video for distilling foundational, multi-faceted, multi-modal, and wholly inspirational science into something fun + educational with all of its integrity still intact. Also they pay you to contribute?! Say less, fam 💯💯💯💯

@CodyRallMD

9 ай бұрын

@nreggente quotes are the best!

Fascinating to see how it's developing! Tech like this is going to help us live Happily Ever After, for all the good and all the bad that entails. I live about an hour away from their Tucson lab; driving to Santa Monica is a bit too much of a bother for me, but... well, I'll still sign up! We'll see!

@CodyRallMD

9 ай бұрын

I hope you can make it! Thanks for commenting :)

@Dodgerzden

9 ай бұрын

Me too. I live in Eloy. I would go if it's in Tucson, but I just can't go to Santa Monica for 5 days.

@psiga

9 ай бұрын

@@Dodgerzden It's even harder than that, too: It's 5 visits _spaced out a week at a time._ So about $150 per round trip flight, plus $120 from and to Burbank airport via Uber. And that's if you make it a kamikaze daytrip; staying overnight would be about $200 for even the cheap hotels. (A part of me is still considering it, obviously, but I probably won't. We'll just have to find our Zen in 115 degree heat punctuated by windy monsoons!)

@Dodgerzden

9 ай бұрын

@@psiga Yeah. That's out of the question. I thought it was 5 days in one week, so if it was in Tucson, I could make the drive every day. And it's funny you mention the desert as a Zen-like atmosphere because the reason I moved to the desert is that I did training in 29 Palms in the 80s and fell in love with it because it seemed like such a spiritual place. Thirty years later, I moved here.

@joshuacain5785

9 ай бұрын

Josh here. I run the study. We have relaxed the spacing requirements. If you are able to be in SM for a week, it could possibly be performed during that time. 5 visits on 5 consecutive days is fine. We just want consistent spacing between visits within subjects.

Amazing Stuff!

Thanks for sharing this Cody. Let us know if you hear about any studies on the east coast.

really interesting work .. if something along these lines ever bobs up in Australia would love to hear about it ... thanks for sharing Cody :-)

Outstanding !!!

Ultrasound stimulation. That's interesting.

@CodyRallMD

9 ай бұрын

VERY Interesting! Thanks for the comment James.

Love it!! 💯❤️

@CodyRallMD

9 ай бұрын

Me too!

Very cool!

Signed up for the study, hopeful that I might be allowed to volunteer (though it is some distance from my residence). Sounds a bit like LENS treatment, but much more refined (I have not been terribly impressed with LENS, however some clients have reported benefit).

Hi Cody, thx for great channel. Have you came across or spoken about "how to and advantages of using "headband/muse" in daytrading!?" Would love to hear your feedbackback and a video in the subject would be very interesting for all traders. Many thanks m

Dang I’m on the wrong coast! It’s so exciting to see the rapid advancement of focused ultrasound!

Fascinating!, if I was in the USA I´d signing up without thinking

@CodyRallMD

9 ай бұрын

I wish you could Adrian!

I do not believe science yet can pack ten years of meditation experience in 12 minutes of brain stimulation. Meditators have to learn how to use the skillful use of thinking to control their brains. Also the experience acquired during meditation needs to be integrated into daily life.

@CodyRallMD

9 ай бұрын

True. Forgive the copyright, believe the underlying goal.

@joshuacain5785

9 ай бұрын

Very true. We intend to integrate this procedure with more typical practice over longer periods of time.

@mj231985

9 ай бұрын

It's good to see there is traction with this. There was a kickstarter project on this done in 2018. I didn't get funding, but, I used the scans of experienced meditation practitioners (20+ years) to find the specific frequencies and locations based on the 10/20 electrode placement chart. I used cortical metrics over the span of a few months to measure the results. Only side effects are brain fatigue, but this depends on duration and power. Despite this, the device works in 3 phases, each designed to swiftly give people the benefits of clinical research into meditation. PHASE 1: NEUROPLASTICITY BOOST - Allows nerve cells in the brain to compensate for injury and disease, adjusting their activities in response to new situations or changes in the environment. PHASE 2: INCREASE LONG TERM POTENTIATION (LTP) - This is the main form of synaptic plasticity, reflecting the activity of synaptic information storage processes. In recent studies, increased LTP has been shown to have resistance to depression, stress, and anxiety, which can also be seen in patients with PTSD. PHASE 3: SICKNESS BEHAVIOUR - This refers to a common pathway in illness, where there is fatigue, loss of pleasure, loss of interest, disconnection, an uncoupling between energy utilization and efficiency, and social, immune and metabolic network failure. This phase is based on the EEG activation patterns of long term experienced Zen meditation practitioners.

I want to sign up

@CodyRallMD

9 ай бұрын

Do it!!!

This is fabulous technology, I mastered meditation in my late teens and 20's I had to stop because I became overly clairvoiant but 61 now and I still have the benefits of that period of my life, but now I've aquired covid induced parkinson's and I am wondering if this could help or even cure my Parkinson's?? Please respond...

@joshuacain5785

9 ай бұрын

There is ultrasound surgery for parkinsons now, which is pretty effective. You could ask your neurologist about that. It's like surgery without any cutting. Stimulation for parkinson's is likely to exist in the future but is years out as an approved treatment..

WOW!

@CodyRallMD

9 ай бұрын

Yeah it was awesome!

Is there a permanent shift after this procedure?

This is very interesting... ...I thought that I had seen a few years back where I believe it was in Australia that they were looking into using ultrasound for dimentia/alzheimers patients. Wondering if this could help them. Also wondering if you get any damage around the the area where the ultrasound heads are placed on the skull. I know if ypu use ultrasound for tissue that you are not supposed to use it over boney areas as you can burn the Periosteum and probably much more.

@CodyRallMD

9 ай бұрын

There are a lot of safety precautions like the intensity of the ultrasound pulses.

@joshuacain5785

9 ай бұрын

Yup, reasonable concerns. If you turn the ultrasound intensity up high enough, you can burn tissue, but I've spent a ton of time ensuring that that's not possible in my experiments. I do them myself of course (often multiple times) so i'm pretty motivated to make sure it's very very safe. There has been some work in alzheimers but it's pretty preliminary. Definitely in the future all sorts of applications like this make a lot of sense. You can stimulate but also open the blood brain barrier to allow drugs into specific brain regions. I believe focused ultrasound will be fairly common in psychiatry in 5-10 years.

Detaching rewards from effort eventually causes more suffering

@CodyRallMD

Ай бұрын

I hope not in this case!

I may have missed this but exactly what brain regions were they stimulating? Also might mention if this is not done precisely it could fry your brain, so I doubt there will be any large-scale applications soon.

@nreggente

9 ай бұрын

Cody's stimulation was to the caudate (bilateral). He talked about this at 5:20. The other sites we stimulate are the bilateral insula and PCC. The intensity ranged we are using right now is extremely far away from tissue ablating frequencies, so this is quite safe.

@CodyRallMD

9 ай бұрын

So interesting!

@joshuacain5785

9 ай бұрын

Yup, if done improperly, ultrasound can be dangerous. However, I have taken great care to ensure it's very safe. We know a lot about safety limits at this point. Good study on this: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32289711/ (no damage with intensities much higher than ours)

Dr Steuart Hammeroff discovered the ultrasound effect when he tried one on his brain many years ago.

🤔Some kind of air pressure oscillation to brain tissue oscillation?

Hey man, I have an autistic friend that gets over stimulated quite easily. She wants to train her brain to help get her brain focused on things that won’t overstimulate her. Do you have any suggestions on devices that may help with this? Thanks much

Hell I’ll try it

Wow!, I did a course of tms a while ago, it worked for a while, but those effects faded quite quickly and I didn't think it was worth paying for another course, but this I suspect would be more lasting

@CodyRallMD

9 ай бұрын

Hopefully! Good thought.

@joshuacain5785

9 ай бұрын

Hard to say at this point how long it lasts compared to TMS, though there is a lot of evidence for ultrasound having long-lasting effects. My guess is that the effects of an ultrasound vs TMS treatment would last similarly long. However, that may change once we know more because ultrasound can allow for some more advanced targeting methods and pulse sequences.

@johnPaul-qn3dg

9 ай бұрын

@@joshuacain5785 hopefully, I also 'imagine', once you get the location you could buy the band and self administer, this isn't an option with tms.

I am a Dr Joe advanced student. Been doing his work since 2015. I meditate twice a day. I am not in LA, but in Florida & Georgia. I would like to participate can this been done remotely? Thanks.

@CodyRallMD

9 ай бұрын

No, you would have to go to the lab for now. But might be included on future Dr Joe retreats! Stay tuned! Thanks for the comment.

Cody, I just put my email in. I am NOT an experienced meditator however. I have been diagnosed with PTSD in the past and about a week ago with Adjustment Disorder. I live nearby and would be willing to go through these sessions without pay, just to see if it would maybe help me.

@CodyRallMD

9 ай бұрын

Awesome! Glad you were able to put in for the study. Let me know what you think!

@joshuacain5785

9 ай бұрын

We also have a novice meditator wing. However, psychiatric disorders disqualify individuals...

How do they know it's harmless, have there been long-term studies, even with babies it causes weight loss, when used routinely. I'm more interested in magnetically enhancing the mid-line semi-conductive current as described by Robert Becker in his "The Body Electric"

@CodyRallMD

9 ай бұрын

Good questions. It's supposed to be low intensity. My brain hasn't melted yet so all seems to be fine! But I'll definitely pull up more safety data for the next video I do on it.

I am from North Carolina, Raleigh, and one of my friends is working with your team. Can I take part in this research?

@CodyRallMD

9 ай бұрын

Do it!

@joshuacain5785

9 ай бұрын

just gotta be on site for 5 different days

would be curious to know if they've tried this with an illness like ME/CFS. As someone who is severely suffering from this illness, I can tell you brain dysfunction plays a massive role.

@CodyRallMD

9 ай бұрын

There is sooo much work to be done. Agreed.

So, is this like a synthetic psychedelic with none of the risks?

@CodyRallMD

9 ай бұрын

I think it's in a class of its own. No documented risks so far.

@thejollyrama3083

9 ай бұрын

​@@CodyRallMD Did you feel depleted in any way afterwards? Seems to me that this would be very similar to MDMA, which can help open the heart coupled with breathwork. But it depletes the serotonin and dopamine in doing so, requiring the need for upping the mineral intake following the journey. Interesting for sure, but I'm not sold on brain manipulation via ultrasound being anything more than what the pharmacology already does, which needs care to remain balanced in "state of being" afterwards. To me, my best meditation experiences happen via breathwork which kinda takes the brain outta the equation, giving way to the heart being more open. I personally work with sonics in a hexagonal array to aid with healing and meditative states.

Is this like neurofeedback? I didn't had a good experience but would love to try this. 😊

@CodyRallMD

9 ай бұрын

No it's really nothing like Biofeedback. No feedback, just stimulation.

@joshuacain5785

9 ай бұрын

Nope. We hope that this is more impactful than neurofeedback for meditation. That's a major motivation for the study. But, combining this with neurofeedback is also an interesting possibility in the near future, turning the US on at moments of particular brain activity.

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CIA brainwave entrainment

@CodyRallMD

9 ай бұрын

CIA? Where? ;)

@alyjiyu

9 ай бұрын

Are you referring to Alpha Biocode developed through Robert Monroe's work @ Heartmath Institute?

Iacs

similar to god helmet from Michael Persinger

@CodyRallMD

9 ай бұрын

I had thoughts of that as well!

There are no shortcuts in life, I don't care how much your brain gets stimulated.

@nreggente

9 ай бұрын

Agreed that there are no shortcuts. There are, however, ways to make the path easier to talk. I speak in this video about the importance of this technology to serve like training wheels for people to get used to riding a bike, so they can get a feel of the final sensation such that they would be motivated to develop the discipline necessary to cultivate the feeling without assistance.

@CodyRallMD

9 ай бұрын

Yeah there's no reason that these experiences cannot enhance your overall understanding of deep meditative states.

@joshuacain5785

9 ай бұрын

Yes, we worried about the possible downsides of shortcutting the process of meditation practice but we believe the benefits of having more people experience deep meditation are very much worth it. Indeed, the Dalai Lama recently personally approved of methods like this (personal correspondence with our colleague).

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@CodyRallMD

8 ай бұрын

Thanks!

What you mean cheat your way to something great? What next? I don't think it works that way

Do you even know what meditation is? It purifies the soul conscience. You don't just get away with sin just like that. May as well smoke some pot to calm your guilt.

i don't think this is a good idea. neurofeedback is better because it teaches you how to control yourself. this way just controls you. which could have addictive / dependent side effects