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.

Dr. Michael Pierce has 25 years of clinical experience in chiropractic neurology and metabolism and uses clinical and laboratory science-based reasoning wherever it is possible to provide safe and effective wellness and lifestyle changes for those suffering chronic pain or illness.

Dr. Michael Pierce is board certified in neurology by the American Chiropractic Neurology Board, which is the sole specialty board in neurology recognized by the American Chiropractic Association (ACA). The ACNB’s Diplomate program has achieved accreditation by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA). Chiropractic as a discipline is endorsed by the US Department of Education, by the Department of Health and Human Services, is applied by the US military and research is partially funded by the National Institutes of Health.

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There are lots of providers who have more skill and experience than I do, and many are closer to you. Here are some more resources and other options for you to find: You can locate -
1. Neurofeedback practitioners from www.BCIA.org
2. Chiropractic neurologists from www.ACNB.org

❗ Core concepts:
- First, do no harm
- Always progress from the least invasive to the most invasive
- The simplest answer is usually the closest to the truth
- Those that wander are not always lost
- It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
- One-quarter of what you eat keeps you alive. The other three-quarters keep your doctors alive
- Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable
- Your body knows the truth

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[thomassantucci]

We have been running QEEGs for 10 years and I really appreciate your straightforward explanations. We are in Los Gatos, CA.

[allenarthritis]

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

[uditisinha]

this helped me so much to understand a research paper

[hanyelbanna]

Wonderful explanation
Thanks
May Allah bless you ❤

[Sophia-monkey-lover]

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.

[travisprater]

I just got my qeeg back for an adult ADHD diagnosis and it was pretty neat to look at. Lots of red lol

[honestlyhaylea]

I’m getting one of these done next Monday..

[hoatrangnguyen]

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.

[ozkanozkan]

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

[guyswartwout]

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?

[michellealvarez]

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!

[fifthavenuegirl]

how do u fix stroke - functional arm left sie dominant. does it read motor cortex??

[martinlutherkingjr.]

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?

[martinlutherkingjr.]

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?

[arvinyan]

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?

[mirjanaaksic]

Thank you so much for your explanation. Do you recommend dynamical non linear neurofeedback ( home settings) machine?

[sarahedrington]

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.

[VCPRPressingIssues]

How much is the average qEEG test if you don't have insurance?

[tevatev]

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?

[martinlutherkingjr.]

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.