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Nicolas-Sebastien Chamfort
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QEEG evaluation
January 2nd, 2008 (Last modified: 1/3/2008 @ 10:23 am UTC)
We met with the professionals who did the QEEG on our daughter on New Year’s eve to discuss what the results indicated. They basically supported the training that we have been doing for the past year. However, now the training protocol will be modified to support more closely the findings at this time.
One good thing is that her delta waves are more in line with what they should be. However, there is high beta wave production on the right side. This indicates some type of traumatic brain injury.
Next Monday, the adjusted protocol will be used and tweaked. Once the session is complete, I will take the new protocols home with me for use at home.
Keeping up (QEEG)
December 2nd, 2007
We had a QEEG done on our daughter last Friday. It was interesting in several ways. One was because we had to had her off medications for 2 days. It was nice (?) to see how she acted without meds. She was kind of bouncing around and getting into everything but, for me, that was a good sight. I just wish she could tell us how she feels with and without her meds.
The actual QEEG session went well. She has to wear a skin-tight skull cap with 19 electrodes for measuring. She did put up with the positioning it on her head well. The session usually starts with an explanation of what will be happening, but with Alicia, this doesn’t matter as she can’t respond and acknowledge. “Relax” would be the instructions. Then, after this part, she was told to “close her eyes” so that those patterns could be measured. Since she couldn’t do this, I covered her eyes with my hand and a couple of spongy pads for her eyes. She did tolreate this for 2 minutes. Then we stopped because she was getting anxious. We tried again for about 30 seconds after a little break. I think this was the bare minimum for getting appropriate measurements.
We hope the session results will be back in time for an appointment with the psychiatrist on December 11.
Time and lack thereof
November 24th, 2007
Well, it’s been it’s been 6 or 7 weeks since I bought the neuroband. I was really hoping that this would nudge me to do more sessions. But I have just not had the time to do as many sessions as I had planned. I was hoping to do at least 5 per week and then cut back on the 2 sessions we pay for to one. With my teaching at night and melancholy mood, I have probably only done one additional session per week.
I need to get back to the plan. The last couple of times I’ve tried doing a session with my daughter, she has abruptly ended the session. Lately she has appeared less cooperative (at least with me). She has started to take off the battery that is clipped to her shoulder. At another time, she just got up and walked away. So, the doctor has suggested changing the duration of the session to 10 minutes for now. And he feels we need to do another QEEG.
I’ve been thinking about Alicia and progress. How do we know if there is any? I’m sort of a concrete person and would like to see data that can show this. I hope to work with someone to help him analyze the NFB data via an Excel spreadsheet.
