Do you want to learn more about how your brain works?
Want help deciding on the best type(s) of neurofeedback for you?
Want to find out what medications or other interventions might best work for your brain?
Try Brain Mapping.
What is Brain Mapping?
Brain Mapping, or QEEG (Quantitative Electroencephalogram), is a form of assessment utilizing an EEG. This is a non-invasive test that records your brain waves in real time.
Brain waves are electrical signals produced by the brain. They are measured by counting the peaks in one second. Fast brain waves tend to be produced when you are awake, alert, or anxious. Slow brain waves are associated with lower activity levels, such as being relaxed or tired. The picture below provides an illustration of brainwave frequency patterns and their associated states.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
We record brain maps by placing a cap with 19 different electrode sites on your head. Each brain area corresponds to clusters of symptoms that we can later treat with neurofeedback.
The QEEG records your brains’s electrical signals to determine if your brain is producing too much or too little electrical activity in a certain area. It will also tell us if your brain might be functioning inefficiently (which is often the cause of symptoms).
The brain map is essential for treatment planning. It helps us create a highly customized and individualized treatment plan specific to your brain. Through a brain map, we can determine with greater certainty which type of neurofeedback is most likely to help you. Unlike most practitioners, we use advanced interpretation of the raw EEG to categorize your brain functioning into one or more phenotypes that have been found in the research to correlate with certain symptoms and disorders. This data assists us in creating your neurofeedback protocol.
Brain mapping is not intended to diagnose a medical or psychological disorder. However, it can show us where symptoms are being generated in the brain so we can better target them. Images are generated that show “hot spots” in the brain that correspond to certain symptoms and diagnoses, similar to the images below.
