Eyes Open vs. Eyes Closed Training As for training down beta and high beta, in my experience it matters quite a bit whether you are training eyes closed or eyes open. Also what kind of feedback you are giving can make a difference. Using contingent feedback (beeps or clicks) only when the client passes on all filters can result in a highly beta-oriented person “trying,” which often will increase fast activity. I often use eyes-closed protocols with musical (continuous) feedback, […]
Asthma is very often related to stress responses in an individual, so any of a half-dozen different brain activation patterns can be connected to it. Certainly, the temporal lobes and the anterior cingulate area are good places to look for several of those, but they are not the only places. The assessment is designed to give you information about many of the different potential patterns that have been correlated with behavioral issues a client may want to change.
Falling Asleep During Sessions You can work with a “sleeping” client with any EEG equipment. Unless you see a significant spike in Theta, the client is not really asleep. Letting a client “sleep” and get the brain into a solid SMR/sleep spindles state for a few sessions is very positive. However, if in fact one has an unchangeable lifestyle that doesn’t allow one ANY down-time, no wonder he sleeps as soon as he has a chance to sit still for […]
RSA Breathing (Respiratory sinus arrhythmia) Since RSA breathing tends to stimulate the vagus nerve, which pushes you into parasympathetic mode–and is the pair of the cranial nerves that connects the brain to the abdomen via the heart, esophagus and lungs, it prepares the body to participate more effectively in these parasympathetic maintenance functions. It also reduces autonomic stress, so doing it multiple times during the day creates points in the stress graph which produce drops, breaking up the steady climb, […]
Feedback Don’t think; don’t try. Just pay attention to the feedback. Meaning of Tones What does music mean?!! What do sounds mean? Of course an anxious, obsessive person, a person driven by the need to control, wants to know that kind of stuff. That’s exactly why I started playing with music feedback when my son first introduced me to the WaveRider back in the mid-to-late 90’s. Of course, those clients HATED closing their eyes, and even more HATED being told […]
I don’t use the term ADD/ADHD any more than absolutely necessary. It is so broad as to be almost meaningless – rather like saying, “we’re having soup for dinner.” It’s technically accurate but not very descriptive, covering such a broad range of behaviors and problems that I would have a hard time saying what one should do to train it. Is every ADHD client you see the same? The people who come to me with that diagnosis are so different […]
Windows vs. Apple BioExplorer (BE) was written for Windows. Almost all recent Macs include an Intel chip along with the Mac chip. You can run a program called Bootcamp, which will allow you to install Windows and the Mac operating system side by side. You’ll be able to switch back and forth. If you really have a bunch of stuff to do that you feel will be worth the extra cost of a Mac, this will work fine (using your […]
4 Channel Right Hemisphere Bipolar How To: https://provider.brain-trainer.com/resources/bal4c-rh-bipolar This particular design, the 4C RH Bipolar, is a type of bipolar training that trains a combination of effective bipolar montages. They are: C4/T4 (reducing fast/increasing slow differences between the sites) often very helpful for reducing physical hyperactivity.Fp2/T4 (reducing fast/increasing slow differences between the sites) often very helpful for reducing racing thoughts.T3/T4 (reducing all differences between the sites) for emotional stabilityP4/T4 (reducing fast/increasing slow differences between the sites) often very helpful for […]
Four-Channel or More Training I’m not aware of any data comparing multi-channel with 2-channel options. In areas other than sum-channel options (synchrony, squashes, squishes, etc.) it becomes rather complicated to set up 4-channel protocols without ending up with a large number of inhibit and reward bands. One of the benefits of 4-channel over 2-channel would be that you can cover a lot of real estate in the brain. For example, in a brain with excessive fast activity on the right […]
There are many people working with autism in its various forms who use the TQ. You’re talking about brains which are extremely disorganized. Certainly, coherence and timing issues are part of that problem, and perhaps I’m not up to date here, but I’m not aware of any research that indicates that front/back connectivity is a greater or more basic problem than any of the many others involved. Many folks who work with autistic spectrum who don’t do any assessment to […]