If it's on the internet, it MUST be true.... (and amusing) I liked the "high security Army base" line. I was still on active duty when this training "presumably" took place. Two A-Teams for a week long study... hummmm
The Ultimate Peak Performers: Alpha Feedback Training for US Army Green Berets Dr. James V. Hardt
Biocybernaut Institute 1052 Rhode Island Street San Francisco, CA 94107 415- 824-5581 415-824-5582
Training@Biocybernaut.com
Superstar athletes are often considered to exemplify peak performance. However, many athletes have an off-season where training goals become lower priority. US Army Special Forces have no off-season, and their training goals are always first priority. Two 12-man teams of US Army Green Berets received extensive training in EEG alpha feedback. Prior to their alpha EEG training, all 24 Green Berets had 4 channel EEG recordings of their EEG baselines under three conditions: Eyes Open and Eyes Closed [4 minutes each], and Eyes Closed with White Noise [6 minutes]. These baselines recorded simultaneous integrated amplitude EEG activity from 4 different cortical sites [O1 , O2 , C3 , C4]. Each soldier had a private interview following these recordings. Then all 24 soldiers went on a month-long meditation retreat [retreat is a bad word in the Army, so it was called a "meditation encampment"]. Following the month of meditation, the soldiers received the Biocybernaut Institute 7-day intensive alpha training. All trainings involved simultaneous integrated amplitude feedback [auditory plus digital scores] on at least two different cortical sites [O1 , O2], and were conducted at a high security Army base using a group EEG feedback system from Biocybernaut Institute, which had been configured to train 6 soldiers at the same time. The soldiers took batteries of personality tests before and after their alpha training. These tests included: MMPI, Myers-Briggs Type Inventory, and the Personality Orientation Inventory [POI], which operationalizes Maslow's concept of the self-actualizing personality. Also included in this pre-/ post-testing were the trait forms of the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List [MAACL], the Clyde Mood Scale [CMS], and the Profile of Mood States [POMS].
Many of the action-oriented soldiers had a bad experience of the meditation encampment, which they experienced as very stressful. EEG baselines taken just after the encampment showed large reductions of EEG alpha activity. In contrast, their subsequent 7-day intensive alpha training was a very positive experience with both 12-man teams showing large increases in alpha activity. The Biocybernaut Institute EEG feedback equipment was available on the army base for 2 ½ months. After their initial week of intensive alpha training, the soldiers had continued access to the equipment for "tune ups". On voluntary days, when they could choose any activity they wished [swimming, playing ball, sleeping, PX], fully two thirds chose to do additional alpha feedback training, finding that it provided significant value to them personally and professionally.
Comparing pre- and post-alpha training results, both 12-man teams showed significant reductions of their POMS scores of Depression/ ejection,Fatigue, Confusion/Bewilderment, Tension/ Anxiety, and Anger/Hostility. There were also significant reductions in their CMS scores of Sleepy, Unhappy, and Dizzy. The analyses of the MMPI and POI showed beneficial changes in personality dimensions that were linked to changes in the EEG alpha activity of the soldiers. These mission- relevant changes in personality were produced by learned increases in EEG alpha activity. Details on these sometimes complex changes will be presented as overheads during the presentation.
http://www.futurehealth.org/98BrainAbstracts.htm
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