Restless Legs Cz or C4 SMR up (I like training it up as a percentage of the EEG) could be very helpful for restless leg. This would be especially true if there are sleep onset issues as well.

Rumination/Racing Thoughts Racing thoughts are often an indication of hot temporals, but they can also be consistent with high levels of beta and high-beta in various areas of the brain.

Seizures Working with seizures is probably trickier than meets the eye. There may be some possibility of triggering seizures in people who have had a history of them. I would think twice about working with such a person without a fair amount of experience or tight supervision by a well-experienced person. Seizure activity is normally related to extremely slow areas of the brain–as are ADHD and language-based learning problems.  In the neurofeedback world, below the level of diagnoses, they’re all […]

Sensory Issues Sensory inputs are supposed to be screened through the thalamus, which, in concert with the pre-frontal cortex, filters what is sent to the cortex to be processed, and blocks material that is not considered necessary.  When this function fails, or is too weak to do its job in situations of greater sensory load, the client’s sensory integration and association areas can be overloaded by chaotic inputs, resulting in what we see from the outside is extreme sensitivity.  This […]

The amount of sleep you require seems to be related to your ability to get into and process through five REM cycles per night. The more high beta, the less beta, or the more alpha intrusions, etc. you have, the harder it is to complete this, so the brain doesn’t get to do its psychological restoration and long-term memory storage and it doesn’t feel rested and ready to get up. Stages of Sleep Stage 0 When we are awake, the […]

Speech and Language Issues For resolving language or reading problems, anyone who has done much neurofeedback can tell you that there can be dozens of EEG patterns that could result in speech and language problems.  Assuming that your clients might possibly have one or two other issues in their lives beyond difficulty with reading, just focusing on a tertiary symptom like that can minimize your chances of finding something that resolves it. That said, speech problems often are related to […]

Stage Fright I get it that there are plenty of neurofeedback approaches which are driven by symptoms, and there may be one that can tell you exactly what to train for stage fright, but our system prefers to take a broader look at a client’s complete experience, identify a variety of things that he/she would like to change (if he/she thought it was possible), look at their brain patterns in a fairly comprehensive way and seek to shift the stable […]

Stimulants – Training PFC when using meds, caffeine or other stimulants See also The Impact of Medication and Drugs on Neurofeedback Training I recently worked with a young man here in Brazil who began trying to cut back on coffee and discovered that he had a real crash if he stopped drinking it so frequently.   Over his HEG training, he developed the ability to sustain his increases in oxygenated blood flow (presumably even better if you also stop smoking which […]

Stress (Hesitance to training) I like to tell the story of Barry Sterman’s study of the top-gun pilots. I ask the client if he/she really believes that his job is more stressful than piloting a billion-dollar stealth bomber, and I point out that the stress is not coming from the job–it is coming from the person IN the job. I note that this level of stress has the potential to become addictive as people become adrenalin junkies, and, just as […]

Stroke One of the keys to working with stroke is that you don’t train directly over the site, though around it is okay.  Your primary goal is to help the brain reorganize to pick up lost functions–same as with any head injury. Using HEG with Stroke The conventional wisdom is that, since HEG is designed to improve the brain’s blood distribution system, it will actually reduce pressure, not increase it.