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Stimulation of the vagus nerve is becoming an area that many people are interested in for their mental wellbeing. While searching on the web, we came across this study which concludes: “Stimulation of the tragus activates the cerebral afferents of the vagal pathway and combined with our review of the literature suggest that taVNS is a promising form of VNS (vagal nerve stimulation).www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29361441Why does stimulating the vagus nerve help improve mental health? The vagus nerve...

Year in Review 2020 Sharing our Greatest Hits! We’d like to share our most popular posts on our Facebook and Twitter pages in 2020. So please enjoy whether this is the first time seeing the post or a review! Most often, we post about the technologies that we use in our work – Audio-Visual Entrainment (AVE), Cranio-Electro Stimulation (CES), transcranial DC Stimulation (tDCS) and Microcurrent Electrotherapy (MET), but we also like to share interesting articles...

By Nancy Siever, Co-Founder of Mind Alive Inc. At Mind Alive, we often have people ask us what’s so special about our DAVID Delight Pro compared to other devices that might be available out there in the marketplace. Well, I can’t speak to the other devices, but I do know that over the past 40 years, Dave and our team here at Mind Alive have continually been developing, designing, and producing various families of devices...

Are physical distancing restrictions getting in the way of you providing therapy to your clients who struggle with anxiety? We are getting more and more feedback from clinicians on how they are using Audio-Visual Entrainment (AVE) with their patients during these very stressful and difficult times. Some clinical offices rent or sell devices to their clients to take home to use between appointments. With an increase of Skype, Zoom and Facebook Messenger video chat availability,...

EEG recordings are always relative recordings. By “relative” this means that the recording electrode determines brain wave activity in comparison to a reference electrode. It the reference electrode is on the ear lobe, then the brain wave activity seen will be compared with the activity in the ear lobe. Surprising as it may sound, occasionally, a fair bit of brain activity can get into the ear lobe, cancelling out “real” brain activity while injecting fake...