THE SCIENCE

Measure the mystical.

What we record, how your protocol is built, and why the training changes your brain.

Dr. Jeffrey Tarrant, Chief of Neuroscience

Meet our Chief of Neuroscience

Meet our Chief of Neuroscience

Dr. Jeffrey Tarrant leads the science at 40 Years of Zen. You may know him as the head neuroscientist from The Telepathy Tapes. He has studied meditation and neuroscience for 20 years.

Dr. Jeffrey Tarrant leads the science at 40 Years of Zen. You may know him as the head neuroscientist from The Telepathy Tapes. He has studied meditation and neuroscience for 20 years.

Jeff Tarrant, Ph.D., BCN, is a licensed psychologist, board certified in neurofeedback, founder and director of the NeuroMeditation Institute, and author of Meditation Interventions to Rewire the Brain.

Jeff Tarrant, Ph.D., BCN, is a licensed psychologist, board certified in neurofeedback, founder and director of the NeuroMeditation Institute, and author of Meditation Interventions to Rewire the Brain.

First, we measure.

A qEEG, a quantitative electroencephalogram, records the electrical activity of your brain from the scalp: nineteen sites, eyes open and eyes closed. It measures where your brain works hard, where it idles, and how its regions coordinate.

Your recording is compared against normative databases: thousands of brains, matched to your age. What comes out is a map of where your brain's activity differs from typical, which patterns are working for you, and which ones are working against the thing you came here to improve.

Then, a protocol that's yours.

Dr. Tarrant reads the map against your goals: what you want to improve, held up against what your brain is actually doing. From that comes the training targets for your week. Which sites, which frequencies, which direction. Two clients in the same week train different protocols, because they brought different brains.

The loop that does the work.

Neurofeedback is operant conditioning, the same learning mechanism that trains any skill. Electrodes read your brain's activity in real time. When your brain produces the pattern your protocol targets, you hear it and see it, instantly. That's the whole trick, repeated thousands of times: the brain gets immediate feedback on a state it normally can't feel, and like a muscle under repetition, it gets better at finding that state on its own.


You don't force it. You sit, the loop runs, and your brain learns.

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