Neurofeedback Bibliography by Cynthia Kerson – PDF file Bibliography of research articles EEG Glossary, A glossary of terms most commonly used by clinical electroencephalographers S. Noachtar, C. Binnie, J. Ebersole, F. Mauguiere, A. Sakamoto, B. Westmoreland 19 Channel Z-Score and LORETA Neurofeedback: Does the Evidence Support the Hype? R. Coben, D. C. Hammond, M. Arns […]

Two-Person Synchrony Training This is not something done very often, but training two people together to increase their brainwave synchrony can be done. Keep in mind, though, that there’s a big difference between doing alpha training or alpha theta training with two people and doing synchrony training. You’ll need something that allows you to send […]

Based on some research done years ago, we used to use a tape player (to show you how old this was) to play music in the background during our sessions in Atlanta. 60-beat Baroque (e.g. air on a G string, Pachelbel Canon) definitely helped people into the middle frequencies, especially alpha. Mozart, the faster sections […]

Drug Use The use of any medication—whether prescribed or not—has the potential to impact the EEG and neurofeedback training. The following is commentary the impact of medications on training. 1. Your brain operates with its own chemicals–neurotransmitters–that change how we think, feel and act. The brain’s chemistry is directly related to its energy states. For […]

Exploring Symptoms, Problems, and Goals Despite the fact that conducting neurofeedback training in accordance with the brain map, TQ8, is the best way to help you reach your goals, there IS information about specific symptoms and situations, and how they relate to brain habits, that can inform your choices. Choose from the many topics to […]

I always start this kind of client with training how to do RSA breathing to move her into parasympathetic mode, using something like EmWave (a product from HeartMath) to provide her feedback in the direction of heart-rate variability training, and HEG for a session or two while you are getting a training plan for the […]

Binaural Beats Binaural beats are the result of hearing two different signals entering each ear separately but at the same time. This causes harmonics we hear as beats. The brain as a whole responds to them and often moves in the direction of the beat frequency. The beat rate is the difference between two separate […]

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 […]

Abreactions Abreactions are any unwanted and usually negative responses to brain training. They are rare when one is carefully following a brain map, and no research has ever found that there are lasting negative effects to a few sessions with negative reactions. That said, there is usually never a time when a negative response such […]

In the 1990s, Tom Budzynski studied effects of aging on the brain. He showed that one of the clearest brain findings related to cognitive issues was slowing of the peak alpha frequency in the rear of the head. He also demonstrated that training to increase the peak–what he called brain-brightening–had positive effects on semantic memory–the […]