When I see an adult, especially mid-40s and beyond, with fogginess and memory issues, I would look at levels of frontal alpha and look at alpha frequency distribution.\u00a0 If the alpha levels in the front are relatively high\u2013as high or higher than theta levels\u2013then I would train them down.\u00a0 If the slow alpha to fast alpha ratio is high, indicating a generalized slowing, then I would train up, say, 10-15 Hz and train down 3-5 and 8-10 Hz.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Working memory is usually left prefrontal.\u00a0 Looking in the F3, PF1\u00a0and F7 would give an idea of whether there is excessive slow or alpha activity there\u2013or perhaps even excessive very fast activity.\u00a0 Try doing slow-wave reduction in that area.\u00a0 Don\u2019t set any reward frequency.\u00a0 Just inhibit.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Often, though, when we do an assessment of a person who has memory problems, we\u2019ll find excellent working memory.\u00a0 If you aren\u2019t actually present when you arrive in the classroom\u2013that is, when the teacher is asking for homework to be passed in, you are lost somewhere inside your head and don\u2019t hear it or recognize it as relating to you, you will \u201cforget\u201d to turn in your homework.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
People with dominant slow activity in the brain\u2019s activation pattern essentially live in an internal universe.\u00a0 They make representations of the outside world and bring them into their heads and interact with them there.\u00a0 Dominant slow processors (which does not mean that they THINK slowly), have a difficult time staying in contact with an outer reality, and they have a hard time processing language for detail and doing things in steps or sequences.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
T3\/Fp1 would link the narrative memory center to working memory,<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Short-term memory is a tricky one.\u00a0 Many people who simply can\u2019t keep their attention outside themselves appear to have memory problems, but the real problem is that the information never really gets IN to be remembered in the first place.\u00a0 There can certainly be issues in the left prefrontal or the right parietal areas, where working memory tends to be handled, as well.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
There is a very common confusion between problems of memory and problems of presence.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Memory When I see an adult, especially mid-40s and beyond, with fogginess and memory issues, I would look at levels of frontal alpha and look at alpha frequency distribution.\u00a0 If the alpha levels in the front are relatively high\u2013as high or higher than theta levels\u2013then I would train them down.\u00a0 If the slow alpha to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":127,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"topic":[775],"class_list":["post-39333","answer","type-answer","status-publish","hentry","answer_topic-library-of-symptoms-problems-and-goals"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n