I don’t use the term ADD/ADHD any more than absolutely necessary.  It is so broad as to be almost meaningless – rather like saying, “we’re having soup for dinner.”  It’s technically accurate but not very descriptive, covering such a broad range of behaviors and problems that I would have a hard time saying what one should do to train it. Is every ADHD client you see the same?  The people who come to me with that diagnosis are so different […]

There are many people working with autism in its various forms who use the TQ. You’re talking about brains which are extremely disorganized.  Certainly, coherence and timing issues are part of that problem, and perhaps I’m not up to date here, but I’m not aware of any research that indicates that front/back connectivity is a greater or more basic problem than any of the many others involved. Many folks who work with autistic spectrum who don’t do any assessment to […]

I’m aware of several folks who have trained bipolar one-channel montages just below O1 and O2, at the top edge of the inion ridge, for balance and gait issues (certainly cerebellar issues) and claim to have gotten very good results.  They used a bipolar and inhibited 4-7 Hz while very mildly reinforcing 15-18 Hz activity. The EEG amplitudes are very small at this location in comparison with other places on the scalp, and the thresholds for reinforcement are adjusted accordingly […]

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 […]

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 good way to work with it.  It won’t likely change the nerve regeneration rate, but it may help one feel more relaxed while that’s happening, […]

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 after a period, the client collapses into the depressive phase.  Since there is not (to the best of my knowledge) any identified brain activation pattern […]

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 overall relative to surrounding and homologous areas relate to gray-matter damage, literally a killing of the neurons, so there are many fewer producing the electrical […]

Neurofeedback brain-training is an energy intervention.  It improves the brain’s ability to produce a range of energy levels, to reduce levels of inflammation and hyper-sensitivity, to communicate efficiently within itself, etc. There are physical issues like Parkinson’s (the death of dopamine-producing neurons), Alzheimer’s (physical blocks by amyloid plaques within synapses), loss of myelin sheaths on axons which slow down transmission in disorders like MS or ALS, white-matter brain injuries which sever neurons from the communication systems, etc.  Training energy patterns […]

It’s pretty common to see bruxism in folks with very low levels of SMR.  They also tend to be rather rambunctious sleepers in other ways as well and may have sleep-onset insomnia.  Try training SMR% (adjust to get the right frequency for the client) at Cz/A2 or at C4/A2.

Burnout is not generally a mental issue (nor is it usually simple). The term suggests that the autonomic nervous system (ANS), which kicks into sympathetic gear in response to stress, has gone beyond its ability to respond anymore; literally the adrenals are burned out. Absolutely certainly you want to make sure that the client is taking some B-vitamin complexes (since cortisol burns up B vitamins), and it’s worth checking to see about the status of the adrenals, since there are […]