Frequency of Training There are reasons why I would not personally train every day. One reason is that the effects of a training session may be seen anywhere from immediately during/after the session to 12-24 hours later. So even in the beginning, training every day tends to make if difficult to recognize connections between one training’s effects and another’s. With a day break between sessions, the client can attend to what happened during/after the session and that day, then what […]

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 […]

Gender-Related Differences Everything I’ve ever seen about brain function–I don’t track anatomy and geography–shows little or no gender difference. All of the work done on alpha and beta symmetry has obviously been done with men and women, and everything backs up the beta-stronger-left, alpha-stronger-right findings for emotional stability.

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, […]

Handedness and Training Way back in the 90s the Othmers did a nice little study where they took a group of children and measured everything they could think measure on them prior to training, then measured again post training. It between they simply trained C3/A1 and C4/A2 per their (at that time) standard ADHD protocol. One of the things that struck them in the pre data was that, while in the general population about 92% are right-handed, among the ADHD […]

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 […]

Headphones You can’t use headphones with any kind of electrical circuitry, volume controls, noise-canceling ability, etc. Use plain headphones or earbuds. If you do an internet search on ear clip headphones or clip on headphones, there are many inexpensive brands that do not interfere with electrodes on the scalp the way standard headphones may.

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 […]

Hemispheric Dominance If you are right-handed, as is roughly 92% of the population, your left hemisphere is dominant for language; right for music and emotional response. If you are left-handed, there is about an 85% chance that you’ll be the same as the righties. Roughly 1.2% of the population has brains that have organized to use the right hemisphere for language (for which it’s not as well suited) and the left for music and mood (also for which it’s not […]