Ideally, I recommend that a person do an assessment before starting training, so you know what patterns are actually present in the brain you are training before you try to change them.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
There are a lot of different brain patterns for depression. One of the most common is called alpha asymmetry, which is too much alpha (especially 10-12 Hz) in the left hemisphere compared to the right. Another common one is excessive alpha in the front of the head.\u00a0 Others are very low alpha levels in the back of the head, or failure to block alpha with eyes open or at task, or any of a variety of tone strategies.\u00a0 If you run through the full assessment, you may find lots of slow activity frontally or on the left side underlying depression. Identify the ones being used by the brain at hand, so to speak, and train them.\u00a0 If you couldn\u2019t be bothered to see what the actual patterns were before deciding what to train, beta in the left front quadrant would be a reasonable option.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
If you find significantly more beta at F4 than F3 or Fp2 than Fp1\u2013or significantly higher alpha levels at F3 than F4 or Fp1 than Fp2\u2013then train to resolve those reversals of what should be seen.\u00a0 Those are very common patterns among people of any age who have depressive characteristics.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Certainly, breathing and blood flow improve with good posture.\u00a0 But Tony Robbins also talks a lot about the message we give the brain with our posture.\u00a0 I always ask a depressed person to sit as if he\/she were depressed, and then sit as if feeling powerful and happy.\u00a0 This includes facial energy, breathing and posture.\u00a0 It is startling to watch the brain wave changes when you do this\u2013for the trainer and the client!\u00a0 As the brain gets more active and outgoing, so does the posture and facial carriage, but it also works the other way around.\u00a0 Just not as lasting.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Each of the five levels of the control system I described has a homeostasis which is thrown off under certain conditions. For example, depression can be seen in SPECT scans by an overactive thalamus and Basal ganglion, an overactive cingulate, and under active prefrontal areas. Dr. Amen has documented a lot of this.\u00a0 I\u2019m aware of Amen\u2019s work, but depression is seen in the EEG as at least half a dozen stable activation patterns in the brain\u2019s chaotic electrical system.\u00a0 Same with anxiety, etc.\u00a0 However, there is a whole question of brain \u201cstyle\u201d as well, if one steps past the layer of \u201cnormality\u201d and \u201cpathology\u201d.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Being that we\u2019re talking about brains, it\u2019s never quite as simple as it sounds in a book or online. Depression is often related to the left frontal quadrant producing slow-wave or alpha activity in excess of what appears on the right. Low energy, helpless\/hopeless depression often improves quite dramatically just with HEG training activating the left front, and right temple areas are related to emotional regulation as well. The anterior cingulate, from about AFz to Cz is also related to emotional regulation. All those things can respond to HEG, but EEG is helpful in breaking up and re-forming the patterns that underlie those responses.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Depression Ideally, I recommend that a person do an assessment before starting training, so you know what patterns are actually present in the brain you are training before you try to change them. There are a lot of different brain patterns for depression. One of the most common is called alpha asymmetry, which is too […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":108,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"topic":[775],"class_list":["post-39314","answer","type-answer","status-publish","hentry","answer_topic-library-of-symptoms-problems-and-goals"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n