Brain Mapping
​Everything You Need to Know About QEEG:
A Map That Reveals Insights About Your Brain
A QEEG is an elaborate, personalized map of your brain. It shows you which areas of your brain may be overactive or underactive, contributing to poor or high attention, memory, or processing speed, and highlights your brain’s strengths and weaknesses.
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But most importantly, it enables you to seek appropriate interventions or therapies tailored to your specific brain activity patterns. This can lead to more effective and targeted interventions, ultimately improving your overall wellbeing. And it's all thanks to QEEG (quantitative Electroencephalography).
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QEEG is a technique that involves recording and analyzing the electrical activity of the brain. But what does that mean exactly, and how does QEEG work?
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Brainwaves
A QEEQ is a Measurement of Your Brainwaves
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The patterns to the left are called brainwaves (delta, theta, alpha, beta, and gamma), and are associated with different states of consciousness, including alertness, relaxation, and sleep.
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These brainwave frequencies can be measured through sensors placed on your head. QEEG enables you to see your brain activity as it unfolds in real time, at the level of milliseconds.
For QEEG, which is an evidence based tool, recordings are processed using sophisticated mathematical and statistical methods. They can then be compared to known brain performance markers calculated from a normative database consisting of recordings from other brains.
These markers take into account factors such as age, gender, whether your eyes were closed or open when the measurements were taken, and sensor locations. QEEG data can even be used to create visual representations in the form of brain maps.
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These Important Measurements Enable Healthcare Professionals to:
Discover the underlying cause of your psychological or physiological symptoms: Specific functions may be better performed by a given brain region when associated with specific brainwave levels. For example, after a QEEG, your provider may find frontal alpha brainwave asymmetry. These findings can help explain symptoms such as impulsivity.
Train your brain with neurofeedback: Neurofeedback is a type of personalized and guided brain training that uses real-time feedback to enable you to regulate your brain activity. QEEG brain mapping findings could help a healthcare professional create a personalized neurofeedback protocol that targets the specific areas of your brain that are causing your symptoms.
Create a data-driven therapy plan for the best results: A QEEG-guided therapy plan ensures treatment aligns with brain activity patterns. By mapping neural activity, providers can identify underlying conditions, such as depressive traits linked to irritability. Comparing results to normative data helps refine diagnoses and personalize interventions for more effective outcomes.