
← The EMPWR Podcast26 Aug · 1 h 00 min
Brain Specialist Who's Scanned Thousands of Women: '80% of ADHD Diagnoses Are Wrong’ | ft. Angie Noack
I was diagnosed with ADHD at seven years old. I was put on medication and stayed on it for over twenty years. I changed medications more times than I can count, for ADHD, for anxiety, for depression, and I never really felt like I knew who I was without them. When I finally came off everything in my early 30s, I started building structure and discipline through fitness, nutrition, breathwork, and routine, and it changed my life. But there was always something underneath that I couldn't reach. So I let a brain specialist put a cap on my head and map my brain. What she found confirmed things I'd felt my entire life, and explained things I never understood.
Angie is the founder of Brain Code Centers and a neurofeedback specialist who has helped thousands of people rewire their brains without medication. She fractured her skull and suffered a traumatic brain injury in college, was told she might never go back to school, learned to walk again, and went on to get her master's in clinical mental health. In this episode she maps my brain live, maps Ian's brain, explains why 80% of people diagnosed with ADHD don't actually show the neurological pattern for it, breaks down what anxiety, depression, and trauma actually look like in brain waves, and tells me the one thing I've been missing in my entire wellness routine: a hardware reset for my brain.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Trailer/Intro
1:30 - What is neurofeedback and brain mapping
3:00 - How neurofeedback is different from therapy and counseling
5:30 - Angie's story: fractured skull, TBI, and learning to walk again
7:00 - What the brain is capable of: transformation and healing
8:00 - What conditions neurofeedback treats: anxiety, depression, OCD, ADHD
8:30 - ADHD in kids: the youngest she's ever worked with
9:30 - Why people are skeptical (and how a 10-question questionnaire gets you medication)
11:00 - How the brain map session works: in-person vs remote