August 31 - Sept 2, 2009 in
Indianapolis, Indiana (3 days before ISNR conference)
“Getting Started with NeuroGuide & Z-Score Training”
This workshop is FREE for all participants who purchase Discovery package
A three Day Intermediate level Workshop featuring BrainMaster's Atlantis and Discovery QEEG
Assess with NeuroGuide, then train with Z-scores (4-channel Atlantis or 19 Channel NeuroGuide)
Instructors: John N. Demos, LCMHC, BCIA-EEG, author of “Getting Started With Neurofeedback,”
Dr. Robert Thatcher of Applied Neuroscience will be the guest speaker for the evening session on day 3.
Overview
Getting Started with NeuroGuide & Z-score training is a hands-on workshop. All participants will learn how to mount and record EEG; process with NeuroGuide; then train with Z-scores methods.
“Getting Started with QEEG, NeuroGuide and Live Z-Score Training” enables practitioners with some experience to master the most powerful new tool in the NFB armamentarium, QEEG assessment-combined with Live Z-Score training or “LZT” This safe yet effective training and live monitoring technology is particularly powerful with clinically challenging “disorders of connectivity” like the autistic spectrum disorders, learning disabilities, traumatic head injury, and certain treatment refractory presentations of depression and complex PTSD. NeuroGuide software and database is not only FDA registered (lending instant credibility in the medical community), it is a leader in forensic QEEG.
(BrainMaster's MiniQ II may also be used during workshop).
Greatly expand your clinical scope and effectiveness with this unique training featuring FDA-registered hardware and software, grounded in a scientifically sound practice model.
Learning Objectives:
Three Day “Getting Started with QEEG, NeuroGuide and Live Z-Score Training”- Learn how to expertly mount QEEG caps and collect clean data
- Learn how to detect and remove artifact
- Learn to use and interpret NeuroGuide Deluxe or NeuroGuide for BrainMaster (Mini-QII) for both optimal Live Z-score Training (LZT), electrode placement and general NFB
- Learn how to get started with LZT; indications, contraindications, global vs. local training strategies, the role of assessment, future refinements and trends
- Case studies will demonstrate how brain maps reflect common disorders such as depression, anxiety, insomnia, ADHD, head injury (mTBI), autistic spectrum disorders and seizures. The clinical power of multivariate z-score training for coherence and amplitude problems will be described and differentiated.
(3-Days) Getting Started with QEEG, NeuroGuide & Live Z-score Training:
Day One:
Monday (9am-6pm) August 31st
Introduction (didactic) to QEEG
- What is a QEEG analysis?
- Normative databases: NxLink, NeuroGuide, others
- Brain Map basics: absolute, relative, power, coherence, phase, asymmetry, eyes open/closed, linked ears, Laplacian, single hertz bins, banded frequencies, peak frequency
- Identifying artifacts and anomalies: EOA, sEMG, EKG, salt-bridge, electrode pop, glossokinetic, transients, spikes, spike & wave complex and interictal waveforms.
- Interpreting the data via the raw EEG
- Case studies via topographical brain maps.
- Introduction to navigating in NeuroGuide (demonstration)-artifacting (editing) & processing. Selecting the best “representative sample.”
Evening: 7pm-9pm
Part I QEEG lab (Impedance & salt bridges): Participants will mount EEG recording caps, learn best practices of reducing impedance, sizing, placement and troubleshooting. The emphasis in this first lab will be on reducing impedance and preventing salt bridges.
Day Two:
Tuesday (9am-6 pm) September 1st
Part II QEEG lab (Recording & Processing QEEG data):
Lab goals: Acquire, edit and process QEEG data from participants. Train participants to use NeuroGuide effectively)
- Recording data with QEEG (or MiniQ) hardware.
- Training your testee to limit artifacts (EMG, EOA, glossokinetic, etc.)
- Eye blinks, contact, eyes open vs. eyes closed, neck support.
- NeuroGuide data acquisition (program operation)
- Navigating through NeuroGuide: saving data, editing, analyzing raw data and choosing features, setting standard deviations, split-half reliability, processing data and creating maps.
- Normative EEG patterns
- Drug effects on EEG (overview)
- Neurological specificity, symptoms and protocol selection
- Common EEG signatures for depression, anxiety, ADHD, ASDs, learning disorders, traumatic brain injury.
Evening: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
- Basic threshold setting compared to Z-score training
- Single & multiple filter training designs with monopolar & bipolar montages
- Advantages of Z-score training
Wednesdays (9am-4 pm) September 2nd
The Neurofeedback Practitioner (putting your knowledge to work)Comparing Z-scores to Symptoms + Neurology
- Threshold setting compared to training with live statistics or Z-scores.
- Case studies: developing Z-score interventions.
- Percent Z-OK, isolating coherence, phase, power ratios and asymmetry.
- Z-score training demonstrations with Atlantis (4+4)
- 19-channel Z-score training demonstration.
- Special EEG recording caps and montages.
Wednesday evening (8:00-9:30 pm with Dr. Robert Thatcher)
- 19 Channel Z-score concepts
- Surface and LORETA neurofeedback
- Questions & Answers
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POST WORKSHOP GROUP ONLINE MENTORING:
Upon completion of the workshop participants will no doubt begin acquiring QEEG data and generating NeuroGuide reports. Post workshop mentoring will help you to use those reports as a bridge to creating effective neurofeedback protocols.
Special Offer to Workshop Participants
We are excited to announce an unprecedented offer to our workshop participants. For those clients who agree to purchase from us most or all of the following two BrainMaster –based QEEG packages, either before or during the workshop event, we will offer 3 days of QEEG training for free (for package #1) or a 65% discount off the training for package #2.
What the two packages have in common is support for QEEG-assessment-based Live Z-Score Training, a scientifically sound, FDA-registered approach to boosting your practice now!
BrainMaster –NeuroGuide Package #1
$5800.00: Discovery with Head Box lid [alpha testing period]**
$2995.00: NeuroGuide Deluxe
$755.00 EEG recording (2) cap system (medium & large starter kit - TIN)
$499.00 Impedance meter for QEEG (Required for Tin Caps)
Total (TIN caps plus impedance meter) = $10,049.00
Other options:
$250.00 BrainMaster’s multimedia player
$995.00 4 Channel Z-score training (for Atlantis or Discovery)
$175.00 Deluxe sensor upgrade (10 gold leads plus 2 ear clips)
$30.00 Jumper (extended)
$2,000.00 19 Channel Z-score training (NeuroGuide)
$500.00 Discovery acquistion add-on for NeuroGuide (required for 19 Channel Z-score training)
**[During the alpha testing period users are required to submit a brief report to BrainMaster. Once this period is over the price of Discovery will increase significantly]
For people who already have one or more dedicated training units (preferably at least one Atlantis 4+4) and want, right now, the greatest possible degree of assessment power, with a unique upgrade path to advanced Thatcher 19 channel LZT, the Discovery Suite is the full monty! Cost for the Discovery 24-channel QEEG acquisition system, NG Deluxe, an impedance meter and electro-cap kit is less than $11,000. This package would entitle the purchaser to a complete refund of the cost of the three day training. See the following illustrated link for details!
BrainMaster –NeuroGuide Package #2
$2425.50: Atlantis 4+4 (10% discount on $2,695.00 price)
$1495.00 Mini-QII
$1250.00 NeuroGuide for Mini-QII
$755.00 EEG recording (2) cap system (medium & large starter kit - TIN)
$995.00 4-Channel Z-score training
$250.00 Multimedia player
$149.95 4-Channel training cable
$7320.45 Total (TIN caps w/o impedance meter)
$225.00 (750.00 workshop registration fee discounted to
$225.00)
Other options:
$30.00 Jumper for linked ear montages
$175.00 Deluxe sensor upgrade (10 leads plus 2 ear clips)
$130.00 DCN128 assessment software for MiniQ
Package #2 will provide clinicians with NeuroGuide brain maps plus Z-score training. Your Cost; $7,545.45 (Workshop $750 discounted to $225.00)...not much more than what one might normally spend on a NFB system with little or no assessment capabilities! Obviously, this is even more attractive to those clinicians who already own parts of this package. Package #2 is a fully integrated assessment AND training solution that will allow practitioners to take on clients they would normally have to pass on or do a less than satisfactory job with. Another advantage is that the Demos DCN-128 report software is a powerful tool for treatment planning, AND it is an effective "sales tool" with clients, both current and prospective, who can easily see the nature and extent of their problems as reflected by the EEG, and track progress across the treatment sessions. As a clinical vs. research-based report, it has a much easier and rapid learning curve than the NeuroGuide. This package would entitle the purchaser to a 65% discount off the cost of the three day training.
Remember, not all "Mini-Q" systems are created equally. With the Mini-QII-NeuroGuide for BrainMaster system, you can get full homologous site (interhemispheric) data on coherence/phase pairings. You can also get some key intrahemispheric (ipsilateral) data needed for autism and LDs. Front to back/intrahemispheric coherence is invaluable clinical information....our four-channel based entry level system makes it affordable and provides you with a very quick learning curve.
Workshop Costs and Logistics
The cost of the 3-day “Getting Started in QEEG, NeuroGuide and Live Z-Score Training” is $750.
To Register:
Contact Mike Gismondi at (845) 497-7836 -- Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Major credit cards accepted (MC, VISA, AM-Ex)
Must pre-register, no on-site registrations
Lodging: See ISNR website for lodging suggestions
Group Rate Cost of Rooms; Cancellation Policy; No refunds 15 days prior to the event unless other arrangements made through us. Attendees Should Bring A Laptop With Wireless Internet Capabilities.
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