Interpreting Assessments Please remember, TQ8 is neither a diagnostic nor a research tool, though it could be used for either. Diagnoses don’t provide much guidance in figuring out how to train the brain to change desired behaviors, and it’s useless to start an assessment with a diagnosis already in mind. The TQ8 is meant to […]

First Steps The rule I use in looking at the TQ is very simple: look at the brain through the window of what the client wants to change. If you look at the Analyze page, beginning with the section entitled Heads (the Heads page), there are a series of categories we look for (Disconnect, Hot […]

Maps Page The maps and power maps in the TQ assessment have colors assigned based on the relative values or percentages of amplitude and power of an individual frequency relative to the total. Those are not norms. They are useful for identifying hot spots (e.g. a spike of alpha at Fz). If you look at […]

The Client Summary Report was added to the TQ8 in response to requests from trainers for something they could share with referral sources and/or other professionals working with the same client. I used to teach that I never reviewed the assessment with the client or family. When they would ask, I would tell them that […]

Working without an Assessment–the Recipe Approach Recipes are used because they do work a reasonable percentage of the time. But there is certainly likely to be a big difference between what you get when you eat something made by my mom from a recipe of hers-and what you get if I make the recipe. The […]

You Don’t Change It, The Brain Changes Itself It’s really hard for many who are trained in the area of mental health care to get this concept: it’s the BRAIN that is changing. You aren’t changing it; it’s changing itself. If you’ll just let it look at itself in a series of mirrors (feedback) until […]