Dr Myra Preston QEEG neurofeedback treatment opinions please

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Bob <achoohoo@...>

asked about neurofeedback treatment

1. The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia Support Group of

Dallas-Fort Worth have for sale an updated presentation by Myra Preston,

Ph.D., mainly on QEEG testing but a bit on the brain retraining afterward.

It's over 2 hours long, if I remember correctly, and very detailed. Preston

says that people make various degrees of improvement, depending on how many

sessions, how long they've been sick, what parts of their brain are most

wonky, etc.

2. My chronic illness specialist sends her patients to someone doing the

same testing and retraining as Preston BUT they don't recommend the

retraining the brain until pathogens have been routed or at least knocked

back and issues of nutritional deficits, hypercoagulable blood, etc have

been addressed.

If you've got pathogens perpetuating brain inflammation and dysfunction,

it's going to be an uphill battle retraining the brain. If you have a

clearly demarcated event in the past, such as a stroke or head injury,

causing your problems, then you would proceed to retraining as soon as

possible, without having to worry about ongoing perpetuating/complicating

factors such as infections and thick blood.

I will have to wait for such specific retraining of my own brain. And I

would like to follow up on this, because I want to recover as much brain

function as possible. Although I had a modest closed head trauma summer of

'95, the evidence is still there on my brainwaves for any EEG/QEEG

specialist to read. The evidence of my brain infections is also there on my

brainwave printouts. My perpetuating factors include chronic, systemic

intracellular bacterial infections, viral infection, hypercoagulable blood,

poor liver function, low cellular levels of B12, etc.

I have good documentation of what areas of my brain are off-kilter and the

manner in which those areas are malfunctioning. And I spend time each day

with a medical device called an Alpha-Stim cranial electrotherapy

stimulator, to remind my brain what a normal, alert alpha state is like. The

more my brain entrains to the normal alpha rhythm, the less it's likely to

go into too-fast alpha rhythms, in a vain attempt to speed up my too-slow

delta rhythms. The too fast rhythms are panic mode and the too slow rhythms

are near-coma mode, but together they don't equal out to a normal state of

attention. The too fast rhythms become so habitual they interfere with

meditation or sleep or even normal concentration.

See

http://www.epii.com

for information about the Alpha Stim

and for an article on the Alpha Stim's effect on FM pain etc

http://my.webmd.com/content/article/1728.78761

These Brain Waves May Tame Fibromyalgia

I have no financial interest in the little device I use.

If anyone's interested, I'd be willing to post a little article I wrote just

last week, for a local newsletter. It's mostly about my experiences with the

Alpha Stim, but it also touches on how our brainwave patterns are unique and

correlateable to our symptoms, and how it's possible to repattern the brain

with electrical stimulus, biofeedback, and audio stimulus.

C