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What is Brain Mapping?
Brain mapping is completely painless.

Quantitative EEG brain mapping (QEEG) or quantitative electroencephalogram is a well researched diagnostic procedure that can actually pinpoint the abnormal brainwaves in ADD/ADHD, Autism, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Depression, and substance abuse.

Our physicians gently place electrodes on the scalp and then record data on brain wave activity. This establishes a record.

This record of a patient’s specific patterns is then put into an extensive normative database that compares their patterns with the norm. It is through this process and the ensuing analytical interpretation that we see how the patient’s brain site functioning differs from that norm.

In many cases these variations are at the seat of behavioral malfunctions that can be significantly improved or corrected. Simply changing biochemical imbalances with drugs is just a temporary stopgap that often has serious side effects, while the benefits are fleeting.

Quantitative EEG Brain Mapping (QEEG)

Because of different subtypes of ADD, a QEEG is important in complex cases or patients or with comorbidities such as:
• anxiety
• depression
• high functioning Autism
• obsessive compulsive disorder
• tics
• overly aggressive or explosive behavior
• oppositional-defiant disorder

The QEEG can identify the specific abnormal brainwave pattern. From this information we can develop a specific Neurofeedback protocol to help normalize brain functioning for that patient.

Following are scientific studies on QEEG Brainmapping and ADD/ADHD:

• Inhibition in Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Psychophysiological Study of the Stop Task

• EEG evidence for a new conceptualisation of attention deficit hyperactivity diorder

• Simultaneous EEG and EDA measures in adolescent attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

• Excess beta activity in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: an atypical electrophysiological group

Example of Michael, Age 7 Before & After Treatment

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Treatment of Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders for Children and Adults

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