About Filters – Speed vs Accuracy If you look at the filter graphs in your training software, compare an IIR filter, like an Elliptic, and an FIR filter.  You’ll see that the IIR filter tends to focus on producing a stable response across the whole frequency band of the filter, but the time response changes […]

Gender-Related Differences Everything I’ve ever seen about brain function–I don’t track anatomy and geography–shows little or no gender difference. All of the work done on alpha and beta symmetry has obviously been done with men and women, and everything backs up the beta-stronger-left, alpha-stronger-right findings for emotional stability.

Also Eneuresis My experience has generally been that enuresis responds well to speeding up the left side of the brain, either by reducing slow activity or by training up beta (or both), depending on the client. This is especially true of bed-wetters who fall asleep easily, sleep too deeply, and are hard to awaken in […]

Sampling Rate (samples per second) The sampling rate is the number of times each second the amplifier grabs a sample of brain activity and brings it to the software.  It shouldn’t affect the frequency (Hz) or amplitude (microvolts) at all, except that perhaps in very high frequencies a very low sampling rate might show less […]

Bell’s Palsy is usually related to an injury to a cranial nerve.  If you can’t identify a source of the injury, chances are it was fairly minor and should improve by itself fairly quickly.  There is a correlation between immune system weakness and recurrence, so trying some alpha training at P4 or O1 might be a […]

Handedness and Training Way back in the 90s the Othmers did a nice little study where they took a group of children and measured everything they could think measure on them prior to training, then measured again post training. It between they simply trained C3/A1 and C4/A2 per their (at that time) standard ADHD protocol. […]

There really isn’t a recognized pattern for bipolar on the TQ – or in the QEEG to the best of my knowledge. There is some indication that it may be, like other affective issues, a Tone problem. When the Autonomic Nervous System is stuck in Sympathetic mode, the client in manic; due to adrenal exhaustion […]

Sync Errors in the software Sync error relates to communication between the amplifier and either its dongle or the computer. BE expects 256 bits of data each second to be coming through the dongle. When something less than that comes, BE warns you that something is interfering with the synchronization of the communication. Most commonly […]

Headphones You can’t use headphones with any kind of electrical circuitry, volume controls, noise-canceling ability, etc. Use plain headphones or earbuds. If you do an internet search on ear clip headphones or clip on headphones, there are many inexpensive brands that do not interfere with electrodes on the scalp the way standard headphones may.

There are two type of damage that can result from head injuries: damage to gray matter (the neuron cell bodies) or matter to white matter (the neuron connective filaments). Gray matter damage Gray matter damage results in loss of neurons, no matter what speed they were firing, in an area. Areas of very low amplitudes […]