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 the morning.  They essentially cannot produce much beta (you should see high T/B ratios), so when they fall asleep, instead of cycling down to delta sleep and up into REM (where they are close to the waking state and can wake themselves up if necessary to go to the bathroom), they stay in deep sleep, almost like a coma, and don’t get the body messages.  The very slow EEG is consistent with a very young brain, so failure to advance out of it is consistent with a number of other immaturities. As they improve their ability to cycle, they become easier to awaken in the morning, and they stop wetting the bed.

Of course, bedwetting can also be an emotionally-triggered event–as it may well be in the population you work with.  And it can have psychological overtones (“do you still love me”).  In those cases you might be oriented more toward trying to dampen the emotional overdrive in the temporal or parietal areas to un-dampen the sheets.  (sorry).

Bedwetting Plan

Start with C3/A1/g/C4/A2 and just run a 2C squash (2-38 Hz)

1C Amplitude at Cz/A2 and train to reduce 2-11 or 2-38 Hz

FCz/CPz inhibiting 2-38 Hz and rewarding 12-16 Hz

Children like this often have slower brains in that they are more dominated by delta and theta activity.  Slower brains are perfectly “normal” in younger children, so it’s fair to say the child’s brain has not matured to an age-appropriate point yet.  Training down 2-5 Hz at C3 and/or C4 may be helpful.  Trying 2-5 down and SMR% (wherever that turns out to be for him) at C4/A2 may also help.  And, once you have a handle on SMR, I’d try some beta up and 2-5 Hz down at C3/A1.

Encopresis

I’ve had fewer cases of encopresis, which (perhaps because it often occurs during the waking state) has been slower to respond, though again, as the brain moves toward more mature speed patterns, it has disappeared.

HEG

HEG works the prefrontal executive center, which doesn’t fully come online until the mid 20s. Speeding it up does help with brain maturation, so it might have a positive effect, but I’ve never used it alone for these types of problems.