It also identified that stimulant medication should not be used, despite what the doctors had all prescribed for him. A man we treated was plagued with anxiety for most of his life. Anti-anxiety medications did not help, and his quality of life suffered greatly.
A brain map revealed that his brain had sensory integration problems. He also became anxious and overloaded if he had too many things to deal with at one time. Once we used neurofeedback to improve the sensory integration function in his brain, his anxiety subsided. He reported feeling far less anxiety than he had in years, relief he had never experienced with medications. Because no one looked at their brain function for the cause of their symptoms.
Pinpointing the real source of the symptoms with a brain map provided key information needed to identify appropriate treatments. Conducting a brain map requires special equipment as well as technical know-how and skill. Additionally, it takes a great deal of experience to interpret the findings and to be able to custom-design protocols for each client using those findings. There are less sophisticated systems available for less experienced practitioners.
There are several types of qEEG maps. One we use is called a connectivity map, The connectivity map is most often used to help identify key brain patterns associated with a learning disability, concussion, seizure disorder or depression.
Other types of maps look at brain patterns present in mood disorders, attention, anxiety, sleep issues and other neurological problems. Once we meet with you, we will determine which type of map makes sense for your particular situation. Conducted in our office, the entire process takes about 1 hour and 15 minutes. During the recording you sit in a comfortable chair wearing a cap with electrodes that record 31 sites on your head.
We take two sets of readings — one with your eyes open and one with your eyes closed — about ten minutes each. Our analysis compares the results with a database of other people the same age to see if your brain deviates significantly from the average or norm and where those deviations lie.
With very active children, we record only with eyes open to minimize the amount of time they must sit in the chair. Millions of people feel desperate in the quest to keep their brains healthy. After all, the World Health Organization has predicted that the number of dementia cases will triple to a staggering million people by the year As Dr.
Exception 2: The study revealed that 1 to 3 brain-training sessions per week are effective, but benefits are neutralized when sessions are more frequent. And at a certain point, the law of diminishing returns sets in.
Your body and brain need at least one day of rest between exercises for optimum effectiveness. The study also analyzed computer cognitive training CCT. Treatment resulted in significant improvement in production of correct, intelligible scripted words for trained topics, a reduction in grammatical errors for trained topics, and an overall increase in intelligibility for trained as well as untrained topics at post-treatment.
Follow-up testing revealed maintenance of gains for trained scripts up to 1 year post-treatment on the primary outcome measure. Performance on untrained scripts and standardized tests remained relatively stable during the follow-up period, indicating that treatment helped to stabilize speech and language despite disease progression.
To identify neural predictors of responsiveness to intervention, we examined treatment effect sizes relative to grey matter volumes in regions of interest derived from a previously identified speech production network.
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