qEEG BRAIN MAPPING & NEUROTHERAPY

For over 40 years, the accepted treatment for mental health symptoms has been the use of medications. However, the disadvantages to medicating the brain are becoming more widely known. Side effects are common, and stopping the medication often results in a return of the symptoms. We are becoming increasingly frustrated with high-cost medications that do not offer a long-term resolution to their symptoms.

There are other ways to change the brain that are non-invasive and more natural. The sleep you get, the water and food you eat and regular exercise are all critical to brain health and function, but they are simply not enough.

Fortunately, Neurotherapy has emerged and is yielding amazing results and offering hope for many people living with debilitating mental health symptoms and traumatic brain injuries. Neurotherapy has been shown to be incredibly powerful. There are many case studies of people who have changed their lives for the better using NeuroStim and Neurofeedback. Research has shown people of all ages see a dramatic improvement in attention, depression, anxiety, addiction, and effects from trauma. Results like these have become too great to ignore.

Neurotherapy is not an instant process. It takes time for the brain to change and learn. Often many sessions are needed to see lasting results. Clients can even reduce their reliance on medication and talk therapy upon symptomatic relief, after consulting with their prescribing physician.

Neurotherapy has been proven to the brain – to change timing in the brain. It’s published in scientific literature. Neurofeedback and NeuroStim specifically have been used by thousands of physicians and mental health professionals around the world.

It is the most important new tool available for mental and neurological health.

Methods we offer:

(QEEG) BRAIN MAPPING

A quantitative EEG is a brain map. This is an electrical measurement, analysis, and quantification of the brainwaves. The brainwaves are the brain’s verbing, or the action potentials of the brain. We first gather the raw EEG data, and then we process it through a normative database, which is a database of healthy individuals’ brainwaves of the same age as the patient. This gives us a comparison of the client’s brain relative to others’. This is the first step in our assessment process.

The brain mapping process entails placing a cap with 20 electrodes onto the head of the participant and injecting gel into the electrodes. Then, we use the electrodes to pick up microvolts of electrical potentials generated by the brain, which show up as brainwaves (looks like squiggles).

We then interpret the squiggles in their raw form, as well as run them through many types of digitized filters (i.e. different software), that breaks them into their respective components and brainwave bandwidths of Delta (0-4 Hz), theta (5-8 Hz), alpha (9-12 Hz), low beta (13-16 Hz), mid beta (17-25Hz), hi beta (26-40Hz), and gamma (41-70Hz).

With this data and the use of different databases of hundreds of others’ EEGs, we are able to determine where the individual is different from the norm—for better or for worse. We are able to look not only at the brainwaves, but also the relationship of the brainwaves to one another, the symmetry of the brain, the stability of the brainwave relationships, and the areas where the brain might be generating problematic signals, manifesting in problematic symptoms and behaviors.

This form of assessment provides the roadmap that all training follows.

Neurofeedback

Neurofeedback is called many things. It is referred to as EEG biofeedback, neuro-biofeedback, neurotherapy, and brain wave training. These terms are often used interchangeably. Neurofeedback training is effective for many conditions, such as head injuries, neuroses and anxieties, and a variety of conditions regulated by brain wave function.

Neurofeedback is a therapeutic intervention that presents the client with real-time feedback on brainwave activity, as measured by sensors on the scalp, and typically in the form of visual or audio rewards. The number of sensors determines if the clinician is doing “single channel” or “full cap” EEG. We do both. We also use a variety of neurofeedback methods and modalities.

When brain activity (amplitude or connectivity) changes in the direction desired by the customized neurofeedback protocol, a positive "reward" feedback is given to the individual. Most neurofeedback methods train brain waves to create conditioned self-regulation.

Neuromodultion (NeuroStim)

Neuromodulation is also known as neurostimulation and is what makes us different from other neurofeedback practitioners.
Neuromodulation is also comprised of transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS), transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS) and pulsed electro-magnetic field stimulation (pEMF).

We use NeuroField Neurotherapy, Inc. technology and training.