QEEG & s-LORETA Brain Mapping Basics Explained
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Brain waves can be measured with a quantitative electroencephalograph that delivers no radiation or electricity into the patient. Color pictures of brain regions, frequencies, and power output are produced and compared to normal levels. The reliability is high, and the brain is just waiting to tell us what it needs. Technology has brought new depths and layers of data for our use.
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3. QEEG analysts from qeegcertificationboard.org/
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As a physician who learning how to apply qEEG, your videos are unique teasing out the processes and nuances of this technology. This has been very helpful and well worth the time. Thank you
Great-tell us more about what you do and where you are located.
God bless you for all this knowledge and for sharing with us. I learned so much with your video. My mom is suffering from some type of hallucination (closest I can describe) of being constantly robbed or tricked by a close family member. She sounds so eloquent in everything she says/does, even her own doctors believe her. I am trying - hard - to convince her to do a qEEG in hopes to find something off in her brain that could explain this obsession/hallucination. She is too independent and says she does not need it, docs never found the need to prescribe it.
Good luck!
Really good explanation, thank you
Thank you, Denise, glad it was helpful. Thank you for watching our channel!
this helped me so much to understand a research paper
Yay!
Thank you so much for your explanation. Do you recommend dynamical non linear neurofeedback ( home settings) machine?
I thinnk that everyone who can should experiment with all these neurofeedback devices if it is safe for them. I believe in health freedom and the right to mess up and learn on yourself within a safe range. There are so many different methods of NF out there that surely there will be something that works for each individual, and I always say, if you aren't careful, you may learn something! If one has never seen a professional, it can be very rewarding whether sick or attending for optimal performance to have a pro guide the process, and this leads to more self-discoveries.
Good information
Thanks
Thx dok
Are there any books you recommend for newbies looking to understand their QEEG report as applicable to behavioral/psychiatric disorders? The report I got has so many terms I don’t even know what they mean, once I google all of them I still won’t know yet how to interpret the colored pictures apart from the brief notes my doctor wrote.
www.amazon.com/Quantitative-EEG-Event-Related-Potentials-Neurotherapy/dp/0123745128 this would be my first choice for you by Kropotov, a world expert and a clear writer. Its not too dry and not too weak for a clinician.
This next one below is basic for consumers:
books.google.com/books?id=EgxdDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=intro+to+QEEG&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjTkM2h5pL5AhU9GDQIHUgxCLgQ6wF6BAgEEAE#v=onepage&q=intro%20to%20QEEG&f=false
The next one is a deeper dive for professionals:
www.amazon.com/Introduction-Quantitative-EEG-Neurofeedback-Applications/dp/0123745349
Let me know what you think!
Thank you so much for such a clear explanation =) I have got my qEEG and it's also got a Network Z Scores (an octagon with these names: anxiety, communication, attent-D, atten-V, default, mood, executive and memory) How do I read it? Any literature for not a doctor may help. Thank you and congrats!
Well that's a lot of info to digest. You can consider neurofeedback practitioners from BCIA.org, and chiropractic neurologists from ACNB.org, and QEEG analysts from qeegcertificationboard.org/. Please tell us what you learn so others may benefit!
Thank you, Dr. Michael. It's very helpful to know this knowledge because we use the Brainview for children with ADHD, and I have a question, is there any book about explaining QEEG for applying treatment?
How can you explain the five wave names used in the QEEG? What are their wavelengths and frequencies? To what part of the brain can they be detected? etc.
They are a bit different depending on which manufacturer or researcher you follow, but generally a close consensus is about this: delta 1-4 Hz, theta 4-8 Hz, alpha 8-12, beta 12-35, and gamma 35 and up. The alpha is split into 2 bands and beta into 3 bands, and gamma is quite complex and can extend quite high in research, but not much above 45 Hz in practice on most commercial equipment. There is also a mu band which is alpha in the front instead of the rear parts of the brain. Typically the strongest alpha is in the rear and the strongest beta is in the front, and the delta and theta are kind of in the middle or all over or deep, but they are not strong when awake.
I’m getting one of these done next Monday..
So cool. I like to see mine too. Let us know how yours goes!
I just got my qeeg back for an adult ADHD diagnosis and it was pretty neat to look at. Lots of red lol
Good job investigating your brain waves. With all that red, remember, always watch for artifacts and data noise.
I just did mine today. He showed me what it looked like after but he has to get the data analyzed. So I go back on Tuesday. Lots of red up front for me he also noticed the blue lines, connectivity. Very eager to see what he has to say.
sLORETA uses additional norms that QEEG norms? Or it localizes the surface Z-scores deep in the brain?
Sort of, but not exactly. This is a great question that requires some unpacking to explain well. We have decided to do a video on this question to explain and clarify and it is on the way, stay tuned. Here now we will drop a few references for you that will not explain the issue but do provide a range of opinions on different applications of s-LORETA z-scores and their use until we can explain on camera! Thank you, Saini Ksefteri, for the concise question.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128012918000054
meridian.allenpress.com/biofeedback/article-abstract/43/1/15/113514
www.neuroregulation.org/article/view/19303
link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10484-018-9420-6
I'd really like to know if the technology exists to see qEEG as an animation in real time so that we could view how the brain is reacting as it is processing various specific thoughts. I imagine it would be very helpful in (say) a therapy session during a discussion. Ever seen anything like this?
Yes there are some scientists I know working on this; I will keep you informed. Very cool stuff. chiropractors are using video MRI to show cerebrospinal fluid flow around the atlas too. Wow.
What equipment are you using for the brain mapping?
I have used many systems and now we use Brainmaster and several other amplifiers for QEEG. We also use several databases, some include ICA or AMICA processing filters.
I’m getting one done on the 27th
Thank you for your explanation. So, what would be what can be done after the diagnostics. Is there any specific therapy, if the results are far away from the stochastic normal standards? I mean one would try qEEG to find out what's not functioning, but could you do something about it or the therapy is the same as before.
Great question. There is so much information in every EEG and QEEG that several choices often emerge from the data. After the results are in there are other options outside neurofeedback that include personalized brain rehab exercises targeted at the regions indicated on the QEEG maps, as well as dietary and supplement regimens to stabilize brain chemistry or detoxify, and finally several types of neurofeedback can be used, such as amplitude training, ratios of waves, several types of coherence training, s-LORETA training, and several types of infraslow frequency training and even CES and tDCS. Some options are do it yourself and some involve clinicians. Check out my colleague Dave Siever and his amazing products at mindalive.com/pages/about-us
I do not receive any payment from him or his company.
Is QEEG useful for targeting TMS treatment? How about SPECT or a medical EEG for targeting TMS? Is QEEG always superior to a medical EEG for psychiatric/developmental disorders when seizures are not an issue?
QEEG is used to target TMS currently by many, and I use SPECT from IllumeAI (once CereScan) to track treatments inside and outside neurofeedback applications including targeted rehab and biochemistry. My colleagues and I report that 20 minute QEEG in the right hands is more useful than a medical EEG reading simply for pathology and paroxysms-when addressing chronic, systemic mental health and developmental trauma issues yes. QEEG reading and EEG raw data reading is intended to be for "medically normal" EEG and there is a trove of signals that can illuminate state and trait tendencies and define targets for medication, feedback, diet and lifestyle. And don't forget the endophenotypes of Jay Gunkelman that you will not find on a standard EEG report. Look at ADHD papers from Martijn Arns too, and multivariate coherence from Coben. Let me know what you think.
For PTSd and OCD qeeg is good or sLoreta for Neurofeedback?
The QEEG is a color surface map of brain wave data for statistical analysis and assessment, it is not a diagnosis or treatment, although some neurofeedback training is called QEEG-based because it relies on collecting real time QEEG data during training. S-LORETA is a 3D mathematical representation of deeper brain structures that are calculated based on surface electrode data, and it can produce images or be a part of training also. These are not direct treatments for either condition, but can be valuable part of supportive, adjunctive or palliative care for those suffering.
Micheal do you know if a QEEG can detect or diagnose the condition of Voice to Skull Torture? Would it pickup the synthetic telepathy connection during the test?
QEEG cannot legally diagnose anything, in this regulatory environment. However, there are biomarkers of brainwaves that are emerging for overactivation or under activation of very specific brain areas in such conditions we look for. They are often in the temporal lobes and deep structures. They are called beta spindles, slow waves, displaced alpha waves, and disorders of vigilance (like attention and drowsiness) and many other signals that are not pathologies but can point out atypical wave types that could correlate with the symptoms or abilities. There is a place called psy-tek in San Diego psy-tek.com/ that seeks to scientifically measure all kinds of brain phenomena-check them out and tell me what you think.
@@TheHumanCondition I appreciate that. Im just trying to get my life back. Ive been Targeted and Tortured with Voice to Skull Technology since Fri Oct 5th 2018. Ive lost everything. I was told to my face by a wealthy individual that he hooked me up to V2K because I was late paying back a loan. Now the loan has been paid for years and there's no end in sight. Gov Kemp told me to get an Attorney for V2K Neuroweapon torture. The FBI told my Congressman Barry Loudermilk that Targeting Americans with this demonic technology is not a federal violation. My local Sheriff Department is fully complicit in my torture. I have several videos on my channel talking about my situation including the Sheriff Deputy telling me that years of this Torture is not domestic terrorism because im the only one being targeted here locally. If you have any other advice I'd greatly appreciate it. This technology has to be exposed before everyone is enslaved by it.
Can you build a faraday cage or buy a faraday tent? I have seen them less than $800 and you can build one also for cheap. No EMF can penetrate if the correct metals are used.
how do u fix stroke - functional arm left sie dominant. does it read motor cortex??
Generally you look at the arteries that supply the opposite brain cortex and thalamus. The lenticulostriate and other arteries are the watershed types we look at, and rehab involves gentle activation of the cortex and thalamus opposite the affected limb. So we map all the symptoms, then we compare to the MRI and see how the umbra (real necrosis) compares to the penumbra (the clinical indications of the affected brain areas). Rehab is based on fatiguability of the grey matter and of the autonomics. See my video czcams.com/video/PRZg0Mw3zQY/video.html thank you!!! let us know how it goes.
Thanks for the great video. Can you say that it is proven that reading QEEG map and applying TMS helps kids with slow development , speech disorder, social disorder… etc. Thank you
No. Your question structure shuts down the conversation whether you intend to or not because of the law. Using the language "proven to help with condition X" ties one to the FDA standards of drug testing which no one can afford to do except patented drug companies. Therefore there will never be results that meet this criteria. If you want to really know if something is promising, more of the truth, ask a different question; "What evidence is there of a sound mechanism and some clinical results that some kids with some slow development, speech or social disorder can improve?" You will never find these words proven for non-drugs due to the power structure; "diagnose, treat, cure, prevent disease or condition". However, many people are simply reversing every chronic disease known to some degree. the word reverse is not yet pwned.
TMS is a controlled therapy, that shuts out other clinicians-it is a powerful and nonspecific magnetic coil that is used mostly for adult depression and blasts the brain and is used by psychiatrists only, and there are much more subtle and specific tools to help brains become more balanced. This is a sledgehammer tool that has important but limited potential. When one demands FDA "proof" for a drug they end up seeing captured researchers publishing fraudulent studies for industry, then the FDA declares it safe, then a decade later the truth comes out and class action suits are filed, then an award is given of many millions of dollars, which is just a line item cost of doing business for the drug companies. Half of the FDA budget is paid directly from the drug makers. Would you let big coal fund the EPA? Why do I say all this? because TMS and the standards applied to mental health are captured by PHRMA and the psychiatry profession. You need a high priest to get access just like a drug, and other methods are dismissed.
I would try QEEG and neurofeedback before TMS in these cases with informed consent that it is not a recognized treatment, but that NF can support a learning brain and we should see corresponding brainwave and symptomatic changes if our clinical hypothesis is correct. Clinicians with their patients daily make decisions without "proven" efficacy based on their legal right to make a clinical hypothesis.
Question: my daughter was recently scanned by a Psychologist who showed us a pattern of low connectedness he said was consistent with a brain injury. If the brain was injured, it must have been falling down the stairs as a toddler (she is now 21). Is there anything we should pursue medically that might be of value in further diagnosis or treatment in case of a TBI?
Well, good question and good luck. I will use your question as an opportunity to explain mTBI assessments. First, TBI is generally serious and involves breaking the skull somehow, while mTBI is mild, and it is most of the car accident and sport concussions we see without a fractured or penetrated skull. The symptoms are motor, sensory, emotional or cognitive and can be less than 30 minutes in duration after a head impact or whiplash. Post-concussion syndrome involve persistent symptoms beyond 3 months.
Assessment should involve history, questionnaires, and neurological exam. The areas of investigation include:
-vestibular-inner ear testing including eye movements related to ears
-oculomotor-visual eye movements assessed separate from the inner ear
-emotional-affective questions and symptoms
-QEEG brainwave map
-MRI or CT is often not needed but can be valuable in many cases of bleeds in the head and brain
-X-rays of neck movements because you cant have a whiplash without a concussion and a concussion without whiplash
-cognitive assessment such as math, reading, writing, word-finding,
-memory, usually short term
-autonomic assessment-this is the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems such as digestive movements and secretions, blood flow, sweating, temperature regulation, heart rate and pressure, pupil size and response, endocrine and immune regulation and more.
The treatments can include drugs sometimes, counseling, neurofeedback, chiropractic and acupuncture, brain rehab exercises, PT/OT/speech therapy, diet such as ketogenic, many supplements to support pathways injured and modulate inflammation, and acupuncture, cupping, and sleep and recreation. If you hate your job or your spouse that can be a problem too, and if you have financial insecurities that can aggravate any condition including mTBI. The secret to TBI is that each injury is unique and requires customized brain assessment and targeted treatments, because not all of the brain is equally injured.
Investigate the style of copulation she practices- intensity, hair pulling and chocking. These things are healthy for a women so it can heal her old injuries
Where in the Houston area do you know to have and provide QEEG testing and analysis?
Thank you for watching our channel!
Here are some resources and other options for you to find neurofeedback practitioners - www.BCIA.org; for chiropractic neurologists - www.ACNB.org; and for QEEG analysts - qeegcertificationboard.org/ all over the United States.
Here is the Institute for Functional Medicine website if you need to find a Functional Medicine professional as well - www.ifm.org/about/people/educators/
@@TheHumanCondition Thank you, Dr. Do you think qEEG should be done prior to neurofeedback? What should be your advice, Dr?
While I like to do QEEG maps first before neurofeedback, there are many methods that do not require this first. There are so many old and newer neurofeedback methods to try out there that I think there is something for everyone. I like to try out new methods and see how I feel, and I also like to ask the clinicians what their experience is with their favorite pet methods. The hope is that each of us will find the methods that can work for us by trying out several methods. The safety record of NF is so good that most people can just try several methods on to see how it works for them. Tell us what you discover.
@@TheHumanCondition Thank you for the insights. I have searched but didn't find much info on the methods that have been used by clinicians. Can you help me to list them here, please?
Here are a few and some of these are in my other videos: simple bipolar with a few electrodes can be very effective neurofeedback in the hands of a skilled clinician. This is very old technology and less expensive. Then there is infraslow or low feedback far below 0.5 Hz for healing the astrocytes purportedly which are the glial or nurse cells of the brain and make up 99.9% of the blood brain barrier. There is another method called s-LORETA training that seeks to read deeper structures past the surface, and train them. Some even try training multiple areas simultaneously and I have seen this work well sometimes, like all tools. There is NF based on normalizing amplitude which is kind of like power, but not exactly, and there is training to normalize coherence, which is more like cross talk in a classroom-too much or too little is not optimal for processing. There is combination therapy that seeks to raise one wave and lower another, and perhaps the most famous is SMR or sensorimotor training which has a lot of research historically. I hope this mini tutorial helps.
What is excessive beta spindling and Slowed P300a and slowed P300b ? Normal visual processing latency but low power seen in the N100. Excessive frontal slow content and frontal over activation.
Beta spindles are local areas with short, fast bursts of brainwaves that are faster than 12 Hertz. They can be biomarkers for anxiety or insomnia or other symptoms depending on where they are located. Slow P300 are ERP event related potentials that test your brain reaction times and its too slow compared to age and gender typical numbers. Reduced power in N100 is basically reduced perception of some stimuli. Mixed slow and fast frontal waves can be medication or metabolism or concussion or other trauma or toxic exposure. We usually correlate your story with brainwaves when we do this kind of analysis. I wish whoever scanned you explained their findings-but thanks for asking. I wish I could tell you more. We plan to do AMA questions soon!
I’ve been having a hard time getting the right answers from the provider. I had trauma in January 2022 with three medications. I called 911 it was so scary. I don’t know if it’s actual it’s trauma or they damaged my brain from possible neurotoxicity. I’m having dementia like symptoms and amnesia. Not being able to recall my life before this and eveything I do feels like it’s the first time. Like all my memories before this event aren’t there. It’s very sad because I have two children and I’m only 35 years old. I was very healthy before this. He did say he saw neuro inflammation. I’m very confused on what to do and how to treat this. I have feelings of nothing makes sense anymore and a lot of confusion just sitting here I feel confused. Basic tasks like cooking and cleaning seem like I don’t know what I’m doing.
I think toxicity is under examined. I like hair heavy metals, and urine mold toxins and industrial toxins and glyphosate all from great plains labs in Kansas. Let us know if this helps.
i have visual snow syndrome, can Qeeg can detect hyperexcitability neuron in the brain?
usually, although I may choose brain SPECT too in this description.
Is there a home neurofeedback machine you recommend? We just had a qeeg done on one of our children and have 30-40 sessions ahead of us. Thank you!
My favorite home system that is safe for laypersons is the suite of products from Dave at mindalive.com/collections/all-devices
just remember your mileage may vary, and some people really need help from a pro and a complete QEEG as well as lab testing and history and physical exam. I believe in health freedom so have fun. The Pareto principle applies in that 80% of people will do just fine, and 20% will need further help and tun into trouble. They are not likely to harm themselves with this, just may have lesser outcomes than with a pro. Good luck and tell us how it goes.
@@TheHumanCondition awesome THANK YOU! Is there a particular model from Dave that you recommend?
You can choose single units or combine them all for about $600. The tDCS is one of my favorites.
I am having physical episodes. I believe it’s from massive trauma and PTSD. I’ve been being seen by multiple hospitals, Cardiologists, primary care physicians, etc. I have blood work after blood work and test after test, EVERYTHING, every test comes back TOTALLY normal and healthy. I’m starting to think these physical episodes are a chemical imbalance or something not connecting in my brain. My cardiologist believes this is mental, and I have a few psychiatrist who believe the same. Yet I need tools and skills to help me treat us. Is there any information you can give me or anyone that can help. This has been such a long journey already and I’m truly scared. I get these weird, almost alarming sensations at rings for my body. It almost kind of starts right above my abdomen. There’s sometimes I can’t tell if it’s my diaphragm or my heart but it’s definitely below my heart right in the center of my rib cage. And it’s like these weird sensations and they come sometimes randomly, sometimes in clusters, and then other times are full-blown episodes that I can feel physically. But no one can tell me what’s happening. I’m really starting to feel like it’s my anxiety manifesting physically and now I’m having terrible insomnia, I’m literally getting jolts out of my sleep and I am getting massive waves of depression, and really low Lows. I’ve never struggled this much with my mental health, my emotional health, and now my physical health. Can anyone who is truly qualified help?
look for a chiropractic neurologist from ACNB.org or a neurofeedback counselor from BCIA.org and tell us how it goes. Don't give up.
Hi, my name is Andrew Germain. I love your work and really respect what you are doing. How can I find out the waves per second of an average adult male brain??? Thank you.
THe alpha peak frequency is the dominant adult brain rhythm, average is 10 Hz but it ranges from 7 to 14, and changes for the better or worse with age, injury, study, rehab and sleep work.
@@TheHumanCondition Thank you so much for confirming around and about 10hz adult brain resonant frequency. I am eternally grateful for your reply.
How much is the average qEEG test if you don't have insurance?
There are a range of prices based on several factors. Some equipment is not really a full QEEG, and some practitioners are higher or lower on the scale of expertise. For cash prices I have seen from $300 to $1000+, and this sometimes includes or excludes an oral report of findings, a written set of pictures and data, and separately a narrative document explaining the interpretation and maybe even suggestions for treatment plans. When insurance is involved or personal injury this can commonly be in the $1800 range. Sometimes there is medical necessity required for these to be paid, and that is an issue in controversy. There are a great deal of other metrics that can be added, as well as database comparisons and s-LORETA maps which are not always necessary, and these can add expense. It is quite expensive for clinicians to maintain all the hardware and software, training and databases and recordkeeping for this work. Always ask why and how they reached their conclusions on a QEEG report and ask how another school of thought may interpret the same data.
Dear Dr I want to make an appointment for doing Sloreta and Qeeg brain map. how can I have appointment to visit your clinic plz?
Nasrullah Nasrullah, Dr. Pierce's clinic is in Newport Beach, California, and Las Vegas, Nevada. You can visit the clinic website ifixspines.com/ where you will find phone numbers for either of those clinics in the top right corner on the main page. You can schedule an appointment by calling one of those numbers (depending on the location that works best for you). If none of these locations would work, here are some more resources and other options for you to find neurofeedback practitioners - www.BCIA.org, chiropractic neurologists - www.ACNB.org, and QEEG analysts - qeegcertificationboard.org/. Hope this helps and Thank you for watching our channel!
@@TheHumanCondition
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after I received the covid vaccine I feel pressure at the left side of my head and now 20 days after I received the vaccine I still feel that pain and pressure in my head I got my EEG test and they diagnosed my headache as the result of depression and anxiety and recommend me to do tDCS. I'm not sure about this and I'm actually scared. what should I do? thank you for your helpful video.
The QEEG community of professionals has seen brainwave signs of covid effects whether from vaccine or wild spike proteins. Maybe you can find a local practitioner for a map and see. We find lifestyle modification and neurofeedback can often help a lot. I'll follow this with resources for you.
Dr. Pierce's clinics are in Newport Beach, California, Las Vegas, Nevada and Denver, Colorado. You can visit the clinic website ifixspines.com/ where you will find phone numbers for either of those clinics in the top right corner on the main page. You can schedule an appointment by calling one of those numbers (depending on the location that works best for you).
If none of these locations would work, here are some more resources and other options for you to find neurofeedback practitioners - www.BCIA.org; for chiropractic neurologists - www.ACNB.org; and for QEEG analysts - qeegcertificationboard.org/.
Finding functional medicine doctors can be challenging due to the varied levels of expertise in biochemistry you will find. Some do food and diets really well, and others use complex lab tests to refine and target nutritional supplement regimens to support very specific biochemical pathways and even gene mutations. Sometimes we are persecuted for not using the standard diagnostic and treatment coding system to solve practical problems and I think those critiques are thin and tone-deaf. Interview your candidates thoroughly and see if they have a reputation. We plan to offer more educational and fun interactions, courses and classes for those of you who need more personal attention next year in 2022-but we will not be diagnosing or treating patients-just explaining every element of wellness and the biology of Your Health Journey. Stay tuned, and let us know if you want more direct access to education and we will move faster.
Teaser item for 2022: We are working on online general education projects for next year for those who are far away from us. Let us know if you are interested.
Hope this helps and thank you for watching our channel!
Why might someone’s brain be “operating as if it had traumatic brain injury” as per a QEEG but don’t have a history of any TBI but are diagnosed with ADHD and Asperger’s? Is that common?
It is possible that the person forgot or minimized a whiplash injury or head impact that seemed mild at the time. The head does not need to strike anything in order to have the brain slosh against its inner moorings in the skull and have a mTBI.
On the other hand, an emotional trauma, a toxin or heavy metal exposure, pesticides (see Dr. Stefanie Seneff on this), some insulin resistance cases, a chemical exposure or drug reaction or anesthesia reaction or infection can appear like a "chemical concussion" phenomenon that mimics a brain impact. I have even seen this in excitotoxin exposure such as artificial sweeteners, flavors or colors. See the work of Russel Blaylock. for reasons I do not understand, some people have specific brain areas that suffer more from blood borne exposures. Maybe it's local variation in genetic susceptibility.
I have also seen autoimmune patients or highly inflammatory patients have a trivial hit of their head grazing the car door frame getting in or out of the car suffer as if they were hit by a sledgehammer-massive amplification of impact. what do you think about this?
@@TheHumanCondition Interesting, sounds like a lot of potential factors at play. Could excessive stress/anxiety at the time of QEEG give a false reading as a TBI? Symptoms in this case have been lifelong but the QEEG was only done as a teenager. Thanks.
A current QEEG is important-sometimes a year out is ok and other times a more recent scan is required. QEEG properly don tends to be stable data unless some effective therapy is applied or a new trauma occurs between runs.
To your first question, yes excessive stress/anxiety often shows up on a QEEG but a skilled reader should not mistake that for a TBI. In the raw waves we often see things like beta spindles and fast waves in places we should not in anxiety, and we can usually see focal changes in TBI. We also see more slowing of waves in TBI but we can see other changes. I like to correlate the point and vector of impact with the head or the whiplash if the head was not impacted in order to understand coup and contra coup concussion as well.
Sometimes we see global slow wave dominance of metabolic or other encephalopathy, and this finding is bad but not specific. It means we need to look further for cause. It is often liver or kidney imbalance or brain infection but many causes exist. We also may see triphasic waves as a metabolic sign that is also nonspecific in cause. Changes in vigilance and signs of sleep disorder can show up despite the fact that this is not a sleep study-K complexes, vertex sharp waves, sleep spindles, loss of posterior alpha dominance with eyes closed, breakthrough alpha with eyes open all can indicate stress and sleep problems and respond well to neurofeedback if the biochemistry is also balanced.
Watch out for the SAD or standard American diet-it will mess your patients up and delay improvement and cost them more money and time.
Thanks-great questions.
My doctor told me that there is no difference in EEG and qEEG, according to her its the same information just displayed in a different way. Is that correct?
Sort of-an EEG is is the raw data-the waves on a screen or paper, and that is crunched by the doctor, or by algorithms, or by a normative database to produce charts and graphs and tables that are not apparent visually from the raw waves. These trends may be partially visible to the trained eye, but the calculations and comparisons with graphs can be more useful. Further, EEG is read in medicine for pathology, and discounted if no pathology. QEEG clinicians tend to read more into the normal resting state waves to look for subtle biomarkers of imbalance and dysfunction that are trainable and reversible.
Thank you very much, doctor. I damaged my brain by drinking ayahuasca with a shaman in Peru. I recently had an EEG performed and the head maps show up to +3 SD in some areas of my brain. Could you possibly take a look at those head maps and give me your opinion? I would deeply appreciate that. I could email an image of the head maps to you if you were to agree to take a look.
Do you have someone nearby who can use neurofeedback to help? You may also benefit from tDCS transcranial direct current stim is a home use device that may help. See my notes below the videos and channel for contact info.
@@TheHumanCondition Thank you but I am homeless and unemployed due to the brain damage, so I cannot afford that. And very few doctors are willing to accept my Medicaid health insurance. The very few that are willing to do that are usually not very good.
We are working on this problem. In the meantime, do you have access to any organ meats for brain nutrition? this is the best option I can think of. Maybe a local restaurant or butcher can serve you offal.
@@TheHumanCondition Unfortunately, they do not accept foodstamps and I doubt that they will give me offal for free because people have become extremely mean to each other in New York City but thank you for the advice - I will keep in mind that organ meats could be good for brain recovery.
Good luck! find ethnic markets and butchers too, sometimes Asian or Russian or other stores carry organ meats for low prices.
Woild results be altered if patient was in medication for Adhd and anxiety?
Lots of patients start on meds, run labs, then change their diet and do NF and counseling and gradually wean off the meds. no shame if you cannot, but I think its good to try if at all possible with your prescriber. It may be slower, but it can be smoother.
Can brain mapping help with idiopathic hypersomnia?
sometimes. Let us know what happens for you please.
Is this a good tool, for people who have Dyslexia?
Many dyslexic patients respond well to a combination of neurofeedback and functional neuro rehab exercises to integrate the left and right hemispheres. Check out Robert Melillo book Disconnected Kids and let un know what you think.
I have a stroke mum i am trying to learn what is hapening in her brain
TRy QEEG and ERP and functional neurology-ACNB.org for a provider. This is alternative medicine let me know what works.
can I send you my daughter QEEG, can you read it for me she has a developmental delay
I would love to do it publicly so you and others could benefit, but sadly no, however your locally licensed doctor or chiropractor may contact me and hire me legally for any case they wish and I agree to. That's how I handle the medico-legal structure of today in the US. I am most comfortable with QEEG above age 6 and not qualified to review infants or newborns, although I do examine them neurologically. Also use the website
qeegcertificationboard.org/
to find a local QEEG diplomate, there are many better than I.
@@TheHumanCondition thank you for your honest answer
All the best
does nuerofeedback scientifically proven to treat learning difficulties?
This is touchy politically and medico-legally. The most correct answer is; there is no fully validated alternative treatment for learning disabilities, but the trick is that the words diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention are literally owned by the medical-industrial complex and profession and strictly regulated. So if you want to know "is there a real scientific basis for methods of neurofeedback helping with certain specific and modifiable aspects of brain waves", then you will find many plausible mechanisms and methods that are amazing even though they fall short of the drug FDA standard to validate a treatment.
Also, your term "learning difficulties" is not a diagnosis, so you cannot really find a specific validated approved orthodox treatment without a specific diagnosis and the code that goes with it. I hope this helps explain-good hunting! Please keep us informed and tell us about your story so all of us can learn from your health journey.
@@TheHumanCondition So.. are you saying 'there is very little that can be done', but in are really complicated way?
I am saying that there is huge promise for neurofeedback and other natural modalities to help many mental health conditions emerging in the literature, but it is too early to stake a drug-level claim that they are validated. We are not there yet so we have to choose language carefully. Full treatment claims cannot be made yet. There is much that can be done, but the buyer must beware. All the same, the approved drugs are not a sustainable choice for many people regardless of the studies that validate them. I wish we did not have the muzzle laws that we have about non-drug choices.
@@TheHumanCondition The modern "psychiatrist" reliance on drugs is pathetic and profit driven. The muzzle laws you mention are ment to keep it that way. I didn't see real improvement in my problems until I tried treatment modalities like this.
They say science advances one funeral at a time? The same can be said for psychology.
You took the words out of my mouth here. I think we just roll up our sleeves and dive into the process of figuring out which biochemical or neurological pathways are intact and which are not working well, instead of the orthodox diagnosis-or-not game that is payed with chronic illnesses. This can be frustrating, but I find that some genetics and family histories justify the expense of functional lab testing that cannot reveal a current diagnostic code. Thank you so much.
I wanna see the eight-foot man
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Looking to utilize this knowledge on brain mapping for neuromarketing perspective
Many thanks 😊
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