Clinical Methods
April 12, 2006

Inhibit Options

I have been using wide inhibits recently with just about everyone. Wide inhibits are typically 2-13 and 14-30 Hz, and easily cover the entire 0-30 Hz frequency band of interest. I moved to wide inhibits a few years ago, first for a stronger effect on fibromyalgia symptoms. I then gradually tried the wide inhibits with […]

Symptom Tracking on EEG Expert

With the new year I have reorganized my new client evaluations to include both the Qik CPT (replacing the TOVA) and Symptom Tracking on EEG Expert. The idea of tracking relevant symptoms every session or every few sessions is an attractive one. But implementing this change takes some thought and preparation. EEG Expert makes the […]

Neurofeedback in the mental health disciplines

Someone just drew our attention to the position taken by the American Academy of Pediatrics on certain alternative approaches to ADHD. (http://www.aap.org/pubed/ZZZXL1ITXSC.htm?&sub_cat=18) We quote from the website: “The following methods have not been proven to work in scientific studies: Optometric vision training (asserts that faulty eye movement and sensitivities cause the behavior problems) Megavitamins and […]

Year-End Newsletter

At the office we received our Christmas present just a day or two after Christmas. It was the arrival from our Swiss development partners of a new amplifier, with built in impedance checking, for EEG and peripheral measures. It was immediately placed into operation in our office. Peripheral measures to follow. EEG Support has been […]

Clinical Methods, Protocols
August 04, 2005

The Connectivity Conference

The Connectivity Conference in Armonk, New York, brought together a number of people engaged in synchrony and coherence training or the corresponding analysis. Speakers were brought together by invitation from Michael Gismondi, organizer of the conference. As a user of a variety of neurofeedback instruments, he realized that a focus on coherence training would be […]

Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome–An update

We just attended the annual conference on Irlen Syndrome, sponsored by Helen Irlen and her staff, and held here in Long Beach. This was the twentieth anniversary of Helen Irlen’s work, subsequent to her discovery of Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome in 1983. The conference was a warm and spunky affair. There was still the sense of […]