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EEG-Driven Simulation
uses gently flashing lights as the feedback signal, and
has resulted in rather significant alleviation of
attention-deficit and hyperactivity symptoms.
Specifically, EDS has
reliably decreased:
- irritability and explosiveness
- distractibility to visual and
auditory stimuli
- blaming of others
- attention problems
- difficulty absorbing verbal and
written material
- sleeping problems at night
- procrastination
EDS has reliably
increased:
- sense of physical self and
boundaries
- ease of taking in information
- short-term memory
- ability to finish what is started
- ease of listening, comprehending,
and conversing
- ability to disengage from one
task and move to another as priorities change
These problems
exist concurrently with EEG slowing, which consists of
high amplitude, high variability, low frequency brain
waves. EDS should been seen only as a reliable way, and
a reasonably rapid way to reduce EEG slowing, and not as
a treatment magically improving a wide variety of
disorders -- an outcome "too
good to be true." At this point,
over 100
children, adolescents, and adults with ADD/ADHD have been
worked with, with all finding significant
relief from the above problems -- often first seen after
the completion of the program.
The system, in
general, operates by monitoring the person's brain
waves, analyzing the EEG patterns, and using the
ever-changing EEG patterns to continuously make the
frequency of the flashing lights relevant to the person
in treatment. Instead of evoking seizures, as many
predicted, this has acted as an anticonvulsant, allowing
people to safely reduce their medications. The results
have been holding for the people finished five years
ago, in fact, once they have started improving again,
their improvements have continued to evolve.
Most of these
people are light and sound sensitive. The first phase
of the process desensitizes them to outside
stimulation, at which time frontal EEG slowing is
strongly decreased. The next phase involves
systematic discovery and addressing of all other sites of
EEG slowing on the scalp.
People sit in
their chairs, eyes closed, and rest from 5 minutes to 20
minutes (on average). Daily sessions are most effective
and reduces total numbers of sessions needed. Average
numbers of sessions is 26, however the session duration varies considerably with the duration and
complexity of the person's problem(s). Participants must be
able to sit quietly to maintain electrode contact.
Since
EDS is a non-psychotherapeutic procedure, it is always
important for the patients to have competent, adjunctive
psychotherapeutic treatment and support at a level
commensurate with the seriousness of their problems.
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