How to Make HEG Work

What is HEG ?

HEG is the study of Neurofeedback

controlled blood flow

Hemoencephalography (HEG)

1) HEG & fMRI live on blood oxygenation.

2) Oxygenated blood is red.

3) Deoxygenated blood is purple.

4) HEG looks at the brain to see its color.

5) Active brains are red.

6) Inactive brains are purple.

HEG light path through skull

It’s not dark in there.

–In the sunlight, if you were in there, you could read a newspaper by that light.

HEG Spectrophotometer

Where does HEG Work

HEG = Blood Flow =Angiogenesis

SPECT

Blood Flow Map

Yellow = Normal Flow

Blue = Very Low Flow

HEG or EEG

Learned ConditonsMaladaptive, Addictive, Dissociative,

Anxiety, PTSD, Brain States

Developmental Disorders,Injury

ADD/HD, Autism, Aspberger’s, Depression, TBI, Learning Disabled,

Dyslexia, Schizophrenia, Stroke

EEG

&

HEG

Angiogenesis

&Synaptogenesis.

What Matters?

Electrode placement ?

Protocols ?

Instruments ?

Frequencies ?

Therapist skill ?

What Matters ?

• Where we train• What we train• How much we train

Strangely !• Not much else.

Repetition of demands develops the Brain!

Repetition:

Learning = Synaptogenesis

Exercise = Angiogenesis

Do you like to read? T4-Fp1

• Do you recognize written words ?

• Is reading hard work ?• Do you reread sentences or

paragraphs ?

Broca’s Area T3

• Do your words sound right ?

• Is it the intended word ?

• Do you stumble over words ?

Regional Blood Flow Changes in Schizophrenia, Autism and ADHD

BipolarPatient with Neurologic

Impairment

Neurofeedback is a Brain Exercise

Exercise Repetition makes the difference

in

Angiogenesis and

Blood flow

Patient Gains vs HEG Sessions

Memory & DyslexiaAt 17 Heidi couldn’t read.

A word repeated many timeswas always a new word.

Her frequent reversals said no instead of on. When math changed from visual to conceptual, she was

lost. T5, F7, Fp1, Fpz, Fp2, F8, T5

Crutches F7-T3

• Do you use memory aids?

• Do make lists?

• Lists of lists?

• Do you forget why you entered a room

Where Train ?

The accessible brain

module contributing most to dysfunction

functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)

• Oxygenated blood cells are not magnetic • Deoxygenated blood cells are magnetic• Intense radio magnetic field spins molecules• Molecules continue to spin after field is off• Radio receiver amplifies spinning signal • Computer makes picture slices from signal

That’s HEG neurofeedback working