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Dr. Steve Rondeau

45 episodes

1 week ago

Psychedelic therapy is gaining momentum—but what happens after the journey ends? How do we turn temporary breakthroughs into lasting change? In this episode, we explore emerging research on how neurofeedback and neurostimulation can enhance psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, helping the brain consolidate new patterns of regulation and resilience. Drawing from the work of Dr. Steven Rondeau, a leading integrative mental health physician specializing in qEEG-based brain mapping, this discussio...

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Psychedelic therapy is gaining momentum—but what happens after the journey ends? How do we turn temporary breakthroughs into lasting change? In this episode, we explore emerging research on how neurofeedback and neurostimulation can enhance psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, helping the brain consolidate new patterns of regulation and resilience. Drawing from the work of Dr. Steven Rondeau, a leading integrative mental health physician specializing in qEEG-based brain mapping, this discussio...

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Episodes (20/45)

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Rewiring Healing: How Brain-Based Therapies Are Redefining Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy

Psychedelic therapy is gaining momentum—but what happens after the journey ends? How do we turn temporary breakthroughs into lasting change? In this episode, we explore emerging research on how neurofeedback and neurostimulation can enhance psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, helping the brain consolidate new patterns of regulation and resilience. Drawing from the work of Dr. Steven Rondeau, a leading integrative mental health physician specializing in qEEG-based brain mapping, this discussio...

1 week ago

14 minutes

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Beyond the Average Brain: Gender-Informed Insights from EEG and qEEG

"Gender is more than a demographic—it's a neurophysiological variable." In this episode, Dr. Steven Rondeau, BCN (EEG), qEEG-DL, explores how EEG and qEEG data reveal measurable differences in brain rhythms, cognition, and psychiatric presentation between men and women. From depression and ADHD to learning and stress regulation, these insights challenge one-size-fits-all diagnostics and open the door to more precise, compassionate psychiatry.

2 weeks ago

12 minutes

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Why Psychiatry Has Lagged Behind Other Medical Fields in Using Biomarkers and Objective Testing

In this episode, Dr. Steve Rondeau unpacks why psychiatry has fallen behind other areas of medicine in adopting biomarkers and objective testing. Unlike cardiology or oncology, which use biological markers to improve diagnosis and treatment, psychiatry has remained reliant on subjective assessments and symptom-based categories. Dr. Rondeau explores the historical reasons behind this gap, the scientific and ethical challenges that continue to slow progress, and the promising future of biomarke...

3 weeks ago

16 minutes

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The Broken Compass of Suicide Prediction

Why do our current tools for predicting suicide fail so often? Questionnaires and interviews can feel like trying to forecast a storm with a windsock—unreliable and subjective. Many who struggle never disclose, and many who disclose never act. In this episode, Dr. Steve unpacks why depression ≠ suicide, explores famous stories through the lens of hidden brain patterns, and reveals how EEG + AI may finally provide the objective "GPS" we’ve been missing. From misunderstood tragedies to groundbr...

4 weeks ago

18 minutes

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Productivity Guilt: The Neuroscience of Overwork and the Struggle to Rest

Ever finish a big project only to feel guilty the moment you stop working? That’s productivity guilt — the nagging sense you’re never doing enough, even after major accomplishments. In this episode, Dr. Steve Rondeau unpacks the psychology of overwork and perfectionism — and the surprising qEEG brain patterns that reveal why rest feels so unsafe for high achievers. From parietal alpha asymmetry to restless theta/beta ratios, he explores the neuroscience of guilt-driven productivity and what i...

1 month ago

16 minutes

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The Physiological Fingerprints of Likeability: How Brainwave Patterns Shape Our Social Strengths and Struggles

Why do some people seem effortlessly likeable while others struggle to connect, even when they have the best intentions? Beyond personality tests and self-reports, neuroscience is uncovering measurable brainwave patterns that influence how we show up socially. In this episode, Dr. Steve Rondeau, BCN (EEG), qEEG-DL—integrative mental health physician and founder of Axon EEG Solutions / EEG Data Hub—breaks down seven core EEG patterns that shape our interpersonal style. From impulsivity and per...

1 month ago

18 minutes

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Rewiring Love: How Your Brain's Operating System Shapes Your Relationships

Episode Summary: In this episode, Dr. Steve Rondeau explores how brain-based patterns, measured through quantitative EEG (qEEG), shape how we love, argue, and connect in relationships. While traditional frameworks like attachment theory and communication models offer insight, they often miss the neurobiological drivers beneath recurring relational patterns. We’ll break down how specific brain rhythms, like frontal alpha asymmetry, theta/beta ratios, and Mu suppression, contribute to emoti...

1 month ago

24 minutes

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Neuroscience or Noise? AI and the Validation of qEEG

Description: qEEG has been called revolutionary—and ridiculed as pseudoscience. So which is it? In this episode of Off Label: Data, Diagnostics, and the Future of Mental Health, Dr. Steve Rondeau dives into the high-stakes debate over quantitative EEG (qEEG), a brain-based diagnostic tool offering rich insights into neural function. But with so much controversy around its accuracy, interpretation, and clinical utility, the real question becomes: how do we know it’s real? Enter AI. We explore ...

1 month ago

58 minutes

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The DSM: Psychiatry’s Rulebook or Relic?

Description: Since the 1950s, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) has shaped how we define, diagnose, and even experience mental illness. But has it helped us understand people—or just categorize them? In this episode of Off Label: Data, Diagnostics, and the Future of Mental Health, Dr. Steve Rondeau explores the complex legacy of the DSM—from its early editions shaped by institutional psychiatry to its current status as the gold standard for diagnosis and billing....

2 months ago

43 minutes

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You Are Not Your Code: The Problem with Psychiatric Labels

Description: Is your mental health diagnosis helping you—or helping a billing system? In this episode of Off Label: Data, Diagnostics, and the Future of Mental Health, Dr. Steve Rondeau takes a hard look at the ICD-10—the globally standardized classification system used to diagnose psychiatric disorders—and makes the case that it’s doing more harm than good. We explore how rigid diagnostic codes reduce complex human experiences to bureaucratic shorthand, distort treatment pathways, and often ...

2 months ago

36 minutes

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Different Brains, Different Needs: Personalizing Mental Health Care

Description: What if your diagnosis said more about the system than about you? In this episode of Off Label: Data, Diagnostics, and the Future of Mental Health, Dr. Steve Rondeau challenges the static, category-based frameworks that still dominate psychiatric diagnosis. Instead, we explore the concept of mental health heterogeneity—the truth that no two people with the same label experience it the same way—and why personalized psychiatry offers a more effective and human-centered path forward...

2 months ago

27 minutes

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Default Mode Network Dysfunction in Treatment-Resistant Depression

Description: For many facing depression, therapy and medication offer a way forward. But what happens when nothing seems to work? In this episode of Off Label: Data, Diagnostics, and the Future of Mental Health, Dr. Steve Rondeau explores how dysfunction in the brain’s Default Mode Network (DMN) may be a key driver behind Treatment-Resistant Depression (TRD). The DMN—often active during introspection and self-reflection—can become overactive, misaligned, or rigid in TRD, reinforcing ruminatio...

2 months ago

40 minutes

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The Guru Problem in Mental Health: AI Has Entered the Chat

Description: Let’s be honest—too much of neurotherapy looks like performance art in a lab coat. In this episode of Off Label: Data, Diagnostics, and the Future of Mental Health, Dr. Steve Rondeau takes direct aim at the guru culture that has hijacked parts of neurotherapy. We dig into how opinion, anecdote, and cult-like followings have often replaced scientific rigor, leaving practitioners chasing protocols passed down like sacred scrolls—regardless of the data. Enter AI: not a mystic, not a...

2 months ago

48 minutes

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EEG vs. fMRI: Competing Tools or Complementary Allies in Psychiatry?

Description: Two of neuroscience’s most powerful tools—fMRI and EEG—offer radically different views of the brain. But which is better for psychiatric diagnosis? In this episode of Off Label: Data, Diagnostics, and the Future of Mental Health, we explore the evolving roles of functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and Electroencephalography (EEG) in identifying and understanding psychiatric disorders. Drawing from cutting-edge research and computational modeling, Dr. Steve Rondeau walks ...

2 months ago

1 hour 7 minutes

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EEG: Mapping Minds, Networks, and the Future of Brain Science

Description: Electroencephalography (EEG) has come a long way—from crude early signals to cutting-edge insights into cognition, consciousness, and clinical care. But where is it headed next? In this expansive episode of Off Label: Data, Diagnostics, and the Future of Mental Health, Dr. Steve Rondeau takes us on a tour of EEG’s evolution, from its scientific foundations to its futuristic potential. We explore how EEG technology maps the brain’s dynamic networks, informs psychiatric diagnosis, ...

2 months ago

1 hour 10 minutes

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Who Decides What’s Wrong with You? The Illusion of Psychiatric Accuracy

Description: Are psychiatric diagnoses helping people—or just organizing them into boxes? In this foundational episode of Off Label: Data, Diagnostics, and the Future of Mental Health, Dr. Steve Rondeau challenges the assumptions at the heart of modern psychiatry. Drawing from his article The Illusion of Psychiatric Diagnosis and Treatment, we take a critical look at how standardized labels like those in the DSM fail to predict treatment outcomes, often contribute to over-pathologization, and...

2 months ago

29 minutes

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Can EEG Tell Us Who Psilocybin Will Help?

Description: Psilocybin therapy is generating excitement for its rapid antidepressant effects—but how can we know who it will actually help? In this episode of Off Label: Data, Diagnostics, and the Future of Mental Health, Dr. Steve Rondeau explores the role of EEG in predicting individual responses to psilocybin therapy. We examine the emerging science behind neural oscillations, connectivity patterns, and biomarker profiles that could help clinicians identify ideal candidates and avoid unne...

2 months ago

30 minutes

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The Adoption Lag: What’s Holding Back qEEG in Mental Health?

Description: qEEG offers psychiatry a path to objective diagnostics, brain-based treatment planning, and measurable clinical insights. So… why isn’t it used everywhere? In this episode of Off Label: Data, Diagnostics, and the Future of Mental Health, Dr. Steve Rondeau explores the promise—and the persistent resistance—surrounding quantitative EEG (qEEG) in psychiatric care. Despite decades of evidence supporting its utility, qEEG remains underutilized in clinical settings due to lingering ske...

2 months ago

48 minutes

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Driven or Dysregulated? The Brain Science of Perfectionism

Description: Is perfectionism just a personality trait—or a window into deeper neurobiological patterns? In this episode of Off Label: Data, Diagnostics, and the Future of Mental Health, we explore how perfectionism—often admired, sometimes pathologized—intersects with psychiatric conditions like anxiety and OCD. Featuring insights from Dr. Steve Rondeau, we examine how EEG and quantitative EEG (qEEG) can illuminate brain activity linked to cognitive rigidity, hypervigilance, and compulsive t...

3 months ago

17 minutes

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From Misdiagnosis to Precision: EEG in Mood Disorder Differentiation

Description: Bipolar disorder remains one of the most misdiagnosed and misunderstood conditions in psychiatry—but what if the brain could offer clearer answers? In this episode of Off Label: Data, Diagnostics, and the Future of Mental Health, we dive into how electroencephalography (EEG)—and more specifically, quantitative EEG (qEEG)—may serve as a reliable, objective tool to improve diagnostic accuracy in mood disorders. Dr. Steve Rondeau explores the distinct neural activity patterns associ...

3 months ago

40 minutes