The QEEG eavesdrops on the Brain’s electrical chatter and compares it to a normative database. It’s famous for its colour-coded brain maps which show significant deviations from normal (= green) in blue or red.

The Digital QEEG is very different from the Analog EEG used in Neurology as it has high scientific reliability and validity, allowing for more than 90,000 accepted academic publications in the last 40 years. QEEG is invaluable to identify the glitches in Brain function which cause the client’s symptoms in Mind and Body.

Whilst the QEEG produces a flat map of the Brain’s strengths and weaknesses, LoRETA localises the faulty circuits in a three-dimensional brain scan from the comfortable and convenient 19-channel recording.

Superior to fMRI (an expensive tool for research), LoRETA analysis is available to clients, has excellent temporal resolution and can identify a Brain’s problem thanks to normative databases. This results in more effective training protocols and a reduced number of Neurotherapy sessions, eventually saving our clients’ time and money.

Faulty or overwhelmed computers sometimes “freeze” and need to be “re-booted”. Similarly, Brain areas can get “stuck” which shows as reduced flexibility in the signal they send out. LENS Neurofeedback can “unfreeze” those stuck Brain areas with a tiny, barely measurable, imperceptible modulation of the ever-present electromagnetic field.

LENS works particularly well with sensitive and highly sensitive, even finicky clients. Although the mode of action sounds fairly cuckoo, LENS is not only effective but also highly regarded in the field of Applied Neuroscience. We’ve been using the LENS successfully since 2006.

Just like muscle cells, neurons produce heat when they’re working. Emitted as infrared light, the heat production represents the area’s activity level quite accurately. On the forehead, where everybody is bald, Thermal Imaging shows sluggish areas of the Prefrontal Cortex as darker.

For PIR NFT, we measure and train the activity of the “command centre” of the human Brain with a high-precision head-set. It turns out that people are much better off, when the mature human part — the Prefrontal Cortex — is strong enough to reign supreme over the evolutionarily older Mammillian and Reptilian Brain (“the animal in us”).

Over last 40 years, professional Neurotherapists all over the world have been gathering a lot of clinical experience and sharing it with their colleagues at conferences and in online discussion forums. From that, a number of “true and tested recipes” have emerged that work well with certain problems in certain situations.

Although this approach appears a bit dated in comparison with the modern LENS, PIR, ILF, Z-score or LoRETA based Neurotherapy methods, it is sometimes helpful to resort to an “old classic” (for example the protocol that protected the cats from seizures). What counts for us is what helps our clients.

The Brain’s neurons communicate in various frequencies. The famous ranges of the EEG are called Delta, Theta, Alpha, Beta, Hibeta and Gamma and cover 0.5-42Hz. Above Gamma, the signal is fairly weak, not too well explored and also called Gamma. Go figure.

Below 0.5Hz, the signal is actually very large and originates from helper cells, called Glia, “whispering into the neuron’s ears”. Long story short: Training these infra-low frequencies in defined montages can be very effective. ILF NFT is the method with the largest number of clinicians world-wide relying on it, partly or solely, due to its elegance and simplicity.

It is logically appealing to target the patterns and areas of the Brain that are responsible for the symptoms, guided by the results of an assessment. Neurotherapists who have invested time and money acquiring QEEG knowledge, equipment, software and a database typically favour this approach, as it is the most scientifically sound.

Nowadays it is possible to train the glitches with continuous real-time reference to the normative database in the form of Z-scores, the unit of “abnormality”. You could say that Surface Z-score Training uses “256 QEEGs per second” to guide the Brain towards better function. It’s a bit like a heat-seeking missile playing “hot-and-cold”.

These days, Neurotherapists have access to a system that uses real-time Z-score LoRETA information for Neurofeedback-based Brain training.

LoRETA Z-score Neurofeedback combines the advantage of live database guidance with the 3D source localisation of Brain activity and the unmatched temporal resolution of LoRETA. This allows for an even more specific training of the Brain’s wonky modules, hubs and networks.

LoRETA Z-score Neurofeedback does away with the need for a clunky million-dollar fMRI machine with its 50-ton magnet and $30,000 for liquid helium every month. While fMRI scanners look good, they tend to clutter your garage.

In contrast to Neurofeedback-based Brain training — which is an active form Neuromodulation — TDCS is a passive method to encourage or discourage neuronal activity. The TDCS-device is essentially a 9V-battery with a bit of electronics. It applies 0.5-2mA via two wet sponges to the scalp, thereby creating a weak, barely noticeable direct current. Done correctly, TDCS is completely safe and a potent primer for active Neuromodulation.

We use TDCS with resilient clients, when aberrant activity patterns refuse to budge, as is sometimes the case in Chronic Pain, Chronic Migraine or Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). In our view, TDCS guided by a QEEG is far superior to the many forms of passive Neuromodulation that Medicine uses merely based on a diagnostic label (e.g. rTMS for Depression).

Many of the problems that clients experience are caused by a lack of flexibility in certain Brain areas and pathways. In this regard, the Brain can behave like a grumpy grandpa who keeps telling the same stories over and over again. Besides the LENS, we use a second system to tackle this problem: Photic EEG Disentrainment.

Photic Disentrainment forces the Brain to follow flickering lights at irregular, chaotic frequencies to stimulate the Brain’s inherent phase-error correction. You could say, it works a bit like defragmenting a hard disc in your computer. Since the Mind has no part in this, we often combine Disentrainment with Brain music or hypnosis tracks for a powerful, deeply relaxing Neuromeditation session.