Maps Page The maps and power maps in the TQ assessment have colors assigned based on the relative values or percentages of amplitude and power of an individual frequency relative to the total. Those are not norms. They are useful for identifying hot spots (e.g. a spike of alpha at Fz). If you look at the Maps page, you can usually very clearly see if there are frequencies with higher percents on the midline than the two lateral sites. There […]

See also Dual Monitors. If you are using a laptop, you’ll already have ports for an external monitor (and perhaps a digital external monitor) if it is anything made in the last 10 years. If you are using a desktop, you may need to add a video card, most of which have dual monitor outputs. Once you have the second monitor attached (may need to install a driver for it) and turned on, you’ll need to right-click on some blank […]

Energy Patterns/Exercise Analogy There are energy patterns that are very costly–lots of fast activity–and others that are very “cheap”–lots of slow activity. It seems possible in some cases for a very costly pattern to reset itself in a single session, often an extended session to a much more sustainable level of activation. I’ve seen this happen a number of times with patterns like hot temporal lobes. In one session the client may experience a dramatic improvement that lasts for some time. Anxiety levels […]

Mastoid Crease Behind the ear, near where the ear attaches to the scalp at the top, there is a valley in the heavy bone there, running usually from the ear toward the back of the head. It is called the mastoid crease. It can also be found just below the level of T4 and T6, partway between them. On the left, the site is referred to as MC1, and on the right, MC2. Although A1 and A2 technically refer to […]

The Client Summary Report was added to the TQ in response to requests from trainers for something they could share with referral sources and/or other professionals working with the same client. I used to teach that I never reviewed the assessment with the client or family. When they would ask, I would tell them that the technical details of the brain’s patterns would mean little or nothing to them; they were useful to me in determining what and where to […]

Whole-Brain Training Since I’ve been in Brazil, I’ve been doing workshops in Portuguese and establishing 6-month-long supervision arrangements with individual (or, ideally, pairs of) trainers. It has been a great improvement in being able to stay connected through their development, and it has been great for me, since it allows me to learn from them as they develop. One woman in particular has a practice where she trains brains for (originally) a neurologist and (more recently, based on results) a […]

Peak Frequency Peak frequency is a statistic that tells us what the frequency within a band was that had the highest amplitude.  For example, in the alpha band (8-12 Hz), 10 Hz should be highest in most adults.  Values rising above that may result in problems experienced by the client, depending on where we see this, and peaks below 10 can often result in cognitive difficulties, word-finding problems, etc.  The TQ8 shows you peaks in alpha, beta and the overall […]

See also Whole-Brain Training Plan As the name implies, the auto plan version for assessments produces the customized plan automatically. I usually do one plan for each client unless there are major intervening complications–someone who was heavily medicated for the assessment and is now off medications–someone who has had a head injury, for example. The idea is that you are increasing the range of things you can do with your brain and for how long. Not necessarily that you have […]

Working without an Assessment–the Recipe Approach Recipes are used because they do work a reasonable percentage of the time. But there is certainly likely to be a big difference between what you get when you eat something made by my mom from a recipe of hers-and what you get if I make the recipe. The people who create the recipe (in this case) have years of experience with thousands of cases and probably have a great intuitive feel for what […]

Frequencies Below 1 Hz Any EEG value below 1 is not AC EEG that we train.  It’s DC. It’s not produced in the cortex, nor even in the brain’s subcortical areas, as are the AC frequencies.  It appears to be a signal from the brainstem.  The published research that’s been done, or at least what I’ve seen, has been done on Slow Cortical Potentials (SCP) which range from about .3 to about .8 Hz, and it was done by serious […]