FREE POST CONFERENCE VENDOR SEMINARS

PostVS1: From NxLink to BrainDx: Clinical Applications for QEEG (4 Hours, AM)

Psychological Sciences Institute
David Cantor, Ph.D., cantord@msn.com

This workshop will provide a review of the basic tenets of QEEG analyses and various clinical applications in populations of pediatrics and developmental disorders, dementias, neurologic syndromes, and forensics. The workshop will provide an overview of the new BrainDx software for analyses and clinical reporting as an update from the NxLink program. A demonstration of the use of such software for convergent diagnostic processes as well as for the purpose of considering treatment guidelines and establishing treatment efficacy for a variety of intervention techniques will be provided.

PostVS2: BrainMaster Atlantis 3.0 Hardware/Software Seminar (8 Hours)

BrainMaster Technologies, Inc.
Thomas Collura, Ph.D., tomc1@brainm.com

BrainMaster Product Seminar. Learn about the latest developments from BrainMaster Technologies, Inc., including connectivity training, HEG and temperature feedback, advanced games, z score training, and the Atlantis series of hardware.

PostVS3: Deymed Diagnostic Post-ISNR Conference Seminar (8 Hours)

Deymed Diagnostics
Douglas Youngberg, Director of Sales, Douglas@deymed.com
Steven Stockdale, Ph.D., steve@deymed.com

This seminar will cover the Truscan 32 QEEG/Neurofeedback System as well as the Deymed Brainfeedback system. The morning session will cover fundamentals of qEEG recordings and basics hardware and software use. The afternoon session will focus on the newest neurofeedback software release, designing neurofeedback protocols, including referential, bipolar, coherence, linear channel combinations, and z-score training. The seminar is open to current Deymed users and other interested professionals and will run from 8 AM to 5 PM.

PostVS4: An Overview of the Low Energy Neurofeedback System (LENS) (8 Hours)

Ochs Labs
Len Ochs, Ph.D., lochs@earthlink.net

This overview presents a conceptual and historical overview of the LENS approach, with emphasis on its place in the worlds of EEG assessment and treatment. Topics covered will be how it works, typical courses of treatment and their length, how treatment planning and evaluation is conducted; what the limitations and strengths are of the approach. Components of the system will be shown and demonstrated. If time permits an intake and evaluation will be run on one of the participants.

PostVS5: The Next Step, NeuroMapping: Looking Inside Your Client's Head For The Big Picture (8 Hours)

NeuroPulse-Systems LLC
Steven Willson, M.A., steve@np-systems.com

This workshop is designed to help professionals understand brain function through correlations between Nuclear Brain Imaging and clinical symptoms as well as using QEEG mapping to more effectively understand and identify brain function, recommend and approach symptoms and behavioral interventions with greater specificity. Professionals with a basic understanding of Neurofeedback will be able to see how hyper-arousal and hypo-arousal, in regions of interest, will help clarify, what regions of the brain are likely to influence complaints, symptoms and behaviors. The workshop will cover blood perfusion and current density as they relate to metabolism. The workshop will begin with a live QEEG acquisition using the NeuroPulse, NP-Q 10/20 system with a 19 channel Electro-Cap configured with dins for linked ears recording. Next, using colorful images from Nuclear Brain Scans, instruction will show functional relationships between brain images and symptoms of ADHD, Depression, Anxiety, OCD, Bipolar disorder and TBI's. Further discussion about the use of QEEG and current density at regions of interest will demonstrate correlations between symptoms and recorded EEG samplings. Later, using NeuroGuide Basic and LORETA current density, with Z score analysis from NeuroGuide, an analysis of the earlier acquired QEEG data will proceed through interactive learning and discussion. Those participating in this workshop will be better prepared to guide their Neurotherapy through QEEG acquisition and identify symptoms as they may relate to current density at regions of interest. A knowledge of this burgeoning technology will better prepared attendees to increase their efficiency in diagnostics, as an adjunct to the methods and tools they are already using. After this workshop, attendees are unlikely to look at an In-take session with a psychosocial or biosocial history quite the same again. This post-conference workshop is a "Must See." You will not be disappointed.

PostVS6: Wireless NeXus Systems and Advanced EEG Applications for QEEG, Slow Cortical Potentials, Evoked Potentials & ERP, VEP and P300 (8 Hours)

Stens Corporation and Mind Media Netherlands
Erwin Hartsuiker, CEO, Mind Media, erwin@mindmedia.nl

A vendor workshop on the Wireless NeXus systems and advanced EEG applications for QEEG, SCP (slow cortical potentials) and EP & ERP (event related and evoked potentials, VEP and P300). Offered by Stens Corporation and Mind Media Netherlands (developers of the NeXus-4, 10, 16 and 32 and BioTrace+ software). Please join us to see why so many clinicians have switched to using these beautifully designed wireless systems. In this workshop we will elaborate on the new advanced functions of the NeXus-10 and NeXus-32 in the field of DC-EEG (looking at the EEG in the wideband from 0Hz - 100Hz). The training and analysis of Slow cortical potentials and analysis of event related potentials (like the P300). Visual evoked potentials (VEP) will also be discussed. The NeXus-32 is capable of doing this on up to 24 EEG channels and supports real-time NeuroMapping as well. The BioTrace+ software for the NeXus-32 offers programmable Neuromaps and has data export functions for the most current QEEG databases. This workshop is specially targeted to those people who want to get an overview of these 'advanced' functions, and see how they can be used for research or clinical purposes. An overview of all the NeXus wireless systems will also be presented.

PostVS7: Beyond the Basics: JTFA, Z-Score Biofeedback and Evoked Potentials with BioGraph Infiniti (8 Hours)

Thought Technology, Ltd.
Marc Saab, Master of Biomedical Engineering, marc@thoughttechnology.com
Didier Combatalade, Doctor of Chiropractor, research@thoughttechnology.com

There are many new EEG-related algorithms in the latest version of BioGraph Infiniti. These include z-score biofeedback, evoked potentials and slow cortical potentials, reaction time testing, Gabor JTFA, industry standard phase and amplitude asymmetry (to complement our existing industry-standard coherence). In addition to these leading edge methods of EEG analysis, many new features have been added to improve EEG training and general usability, such as a right-click settings menu, right-click logic control, dual thresholds for better range training and a programmable binaural beat generator for tone-guided feedback. Along with the powerful trend graph instrument, the only in-session, real-time reporting tool on the market, BioGraph Infiniti offers unparalleled training and data processing possibilities. With the largest library of algorithms and computations, as well as its exclusive safety and reliability features, such as pause-on-disconnect and in-session impedance checking, BioGraph Infiniti remains at the top of its class. Come and see what all the buzz is about, and discover the most advanced and most robust neurofeedback software in the world.

PostVS8: QEEG/ERPs Assessment by Human Brain Institute Normative Database and WinEEG (8 Hours)

Institute of the Human Brain
Juri Kropotov, Ph.D., kropotov@ihb.spb.ru

The goal of workshop is describe a new methodology for assessment brain functioning and dysfunction developed recently at the Human Brain Institute in St. Petersburg. It starts with a shorts introduction to theoretical concepts extracted from our experimental findings in studies of local field potentials and impulse activity of neurons in patients with implanted electrodes as well as in neural net simulations of information processing in the human brain. Neuronal mechanisms of basic operations in different brain systems will be discussed. The main focus of the workshop concentrates on practical application of the theoretical concepts in a form the Human Brain Institute (HBI) Normative Database. The normative data includes 19-channel EEG recordings in 1000 people of age from 7 to 89 years old. It also includes recordings of 400 ADHD children and adolescents, as well as numerous recordings in other kind of patients (patients with epilepsy, OCD, addiction, depression, whiplash, etc.) 19-channel EEG was recorded in two resting conditions with eyes open, eyes closed, and five different task conditions, including two stimulus GO/NOGO task, arithmetic, reading and two auditory tasks. To reduce amount of time for preprocessing the data some procedures such as artifact correction, artifact elimination and spike detection are automated. Absolute amplitude and power spectra, averaged and two-channel coherences, wavelet transformations and ERPs are computed in three different montages off-line and mapped into 2D representations or into 3 images using LORETA technology (including s-LORETA). Comparison with the database consists of computing z-scores - standardized measures of deviation of individual EEG parameters from the normative data. ERPs are subjected to independent component analysis. Using this methodology, separate components associated with distinctive psychological operations are extracted. Each component is characterized by time dynamics, 2D topography and LORETA image. Spatial filters are built up on the basis of these topographies and provide the means to extract the amplitude of each component from the individual ERPs. Comparing these amplitudes with the normative data gives the insights concerning different stages of information processing in the individual under assessment. In the workshop I am going to present the results of application of the HBI database for diagnosis various brain dysfunctions. Example will include ADHD, OCD, dyslexia, depression and stroke. I am also going to show how the Database has been used for constructing protocols of neurofeedback and transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) in ADHD and stroke. The results of the treatment will be presented.