Understanding Bipolar Placement
In the following I hope to demystify some of the aspects of neurofeedback training with bipolar placements, or at least provide substantiation for some of the statements I have been making about it. We are concerned with reward-based training with narrow-band filters that select a particular training frequency. The bipolar montage feeds a differential amplifier […]
Interhemispheric Versus Single Hemisphere Training
We have explored interhemispheric training over the past years, optimizing reward frequencies, and learning the specific effects of training different sites. Now that we have started also training left and right side separately again, we need to ask when and why we would choose to do one rather than the other. At first we moved […]
A Simple Proposition
One issue in particular has been weighing on a number of people with regard to our work. It is the question of why a single protocol should be so effective for such a variety of conditions, and why a particular virtue seems to attach to the use of bipolar training, a tactic that has been […]
Left and Right Prefrontal EEG Training
For the last several years we have focused on interhemispheric EEG training including prefrontal Fp1-Fp2. Interhemispheric training influenced the activation of both left and right prefrontal areas and the coordination of activity between them. More recently we have moved back to left and right-side training separately in some cases. This brings us back to the […]
Misbranding
The Food and Drug Administration uses the term “misbranding” to finger any piece of medical equipment for which specific claims are being made that have not been validated in research. When we now survey the field of neurofeedback and consider the various “claims” that we believe to be reasonable to make for neurofeedback, it is […]
Reward Frequency — A Breakthrough in Getting Low Enough
While our inhibit filters typically cover the entire 0-30+ Hz band, it is clinically useful to target the reward frequency very specifically for each individual and each site. We find that the optimal training band can be anywhere from 0 to 30+ Hz. We also find that the majority of our clients need reward frequencies […]
Thoughts on Visiting the Cardiologist
Even a regular visit to a cardiologist is an occasion for a sobering appraisal of one’s lifestyle. It is Judgment Day of a sort, as one’s cumulative neglect of dietary prescriptions, exercise mandates, and stress management regimens come to be exposed in the language of the heart waveform pouring out on the chart paper while […]