Re: accessing bioreview

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Ann

What kind of help are you talking .. and what version (trial) or

purchased ?

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> Ann

>

> What kind of help are you talking .. and what version (trial) or

> purchased ?

>

,

I just purchased and started using bioexplorer amonth ago... Pete

set me up with his protocols and I have been doing training on my

stepmother who had a stroke several years ago and who has undergone

some radical personality/ social changes over the past several years

(in addition to huge memory deficits)... Since starting the

training, we are seeing some shifts in her focus, etc. but I cannot

seem to access bioreview, graphs, etc. so that any changes I am

seeing are fairly subjective... I am a beginner at all this... I

had been fairly competent at getting the graphs, etc. when I was

using Brainmaster 1.9... Anyhow, hope this helps gives you an answer

as to how you might be able to help me... thanks in advance...

Anne

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Absolutely . it does..

My first suggestion would be NOT to depend on graphs

and data too extensively. While, for me, it's good to see what kinds of

short term results are met, many " academic studies " have shown that

overall, the EEG does not change. I had a hard time with this, at first,

but now doesn't bother me, since J I’ve seen my theta/beta

ratios change dramatically. HOWEVER, initially it was discouraging.

All that being said, what is your goal, exactly.

I’m guessing, there’s lots of low, delta-theta stuff, you may be

trying to inhibit, and you may be trying it at particular sites.

Give me an idea of your goals, and I can try to help

you set up a BioReview assessment that would give you your data. (oh, and also

the protocols .. whether one channel or 2 channel..etc.

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USING BioReview with BioExplorer Preview v.99.06

Just as in BioExplorer where you have to do some work to establish a Design

that will do what you want, so too in BioReview you must do some work to get

a Report that will do what you want. In order to utilize the power and

flexibility of each program, you usually have to make some choices and set

them up first.

REPORT MENU

To establish a Report of your own, you must first start either by 1.)

clicking on Report>Open.. to get Larry's "SingleChannelBands.rpt" or

"DualChannelsBands.rpt"; 2.) opening some other Report that may be on file;

or 3.) clicking on Report>New to use one of the recorded sessions you

have on file, in which case there will be no name with "[Report- ]" at the

very top of your screen. In the most unlikely case that you have no

recorded sessions on file or no Reports on file, you're temporarily out of

luck; and you will have to get one from somebody else and load it since

there is now way to create a Report totally from scratch in BioReview. Once

you have opened a Report, you can use it, alter it, "Save" it in whatever

its present state may be, or do a "Save As" with a name that is all its own

thus leaving the original source of your new Report intact.

SIGNAL DIAGRAM MENU

Each report you have on file will have one Signal Diagram and a number of

Views (or even no View at all if one hasn't been created.) Each View will

access some or all of the things that appear on the Signal Diagram. Nothing

will appear in any View that is not present on the Signal Diagram.

Therefore, click on Window>Signal Diagram to see what you have there, and

then Add (click on Signal Diagram>Add Objects) or Delete objects to the

diagram to get what you want just as you do when working on a Design in

BioExplorer. Since your Report will process only the original raw EEG data

stream, the details of the Design used when that raw data stream was

recorded are totally irrelevant The same "Transform" objects used in

BioExplorer are all available here so that you can reproduce any aspect of

the previous Design and do even more. For example, it may be useful to use

Expression Evaluator to compute a ratio and divide it by a million so that

its numerical range will now easily fit on the same Chart display as the EEG

signals.

VIEW MENU

Unless you need to go back and add something new to your Signal Diagram,

once you have opened a Report and clicked on Report>Run on Session .. to

load a recorded data stream, you will mainly be working with the View menu

to review your data. However, if you do find it necessary to add something

new to the Diagram - and then of course to a View as well - you must do a

"Run on session ..." again in order to process the signal with the object(s)

that you've added.

Open a View -

- by clicking on the Window menu and choosing one that is on file, or by

establishing a new one by clicking View>New. By default, View will first

display in "Chart" mode, but you can toggle this with "Table" mode using

the tabs in the upper left corner of the View window. Chart mode displays

graphs and summary data for the whole session, or for a part of the session

that you choose to run or process. Table mode presents averages of each

signal, epoch by epoch for the epoch length chosen under View>Properties,

again displaying the whole session or that part of it that you are running

with your Report for analysis.

Delete a View -

- by clicking on the X in the little red box in the upper right hand corner.

This is NOT the way to close a View and still have it on file; instead

either minimize it or open another one.

Add signal to a View -

- by clicking first View>Add Signal, clicking next on an item from the list

of what's available from your signal diagram, and then clicking on Add.

Each signal that you add will appear on a line below the View screen's

graphical display area. This line provides summary statistical data for the

displayed run of data. Note that if you had given the Design Object a

special name when working on the Signal Diagram, that name will appear here

now. Changing the value of “Scale” is used to transform data either for purposes

of exporting or so that graphs with very different original scales can be displayed

together. Checking or unchecking "Chart" determines whether or not that line

will be displayed with the next "Run on Session..." and that you can give each

lines its own color by clicking on the colored box in just the same fashion

as one changes colors in BioExplorer.

Delete a signal from a View -

- by clicking on the gray box for the line under "Signal" and then hit the

Delete button.

Change View Properties (Epoch, run lengths) -

- by clicking on View>Properties. Little needs explanation here except for

Epoch and the Start and End Times. Epochs are the length of time chosen to

break the raw data stream (issued about 124 times per second with

BrainMaster) into chunks of equal length that are then averaged to produce a

smaller number of data points for Chart or Table display. If, say, the Epoch

length you chose here was 10 seconds, six data points would be computed from

the raw data for a given signal giving you 6 rows on the Table display and 5

line segments connecting these six points on the Chart display. (An epoch

length of 8.0m will actually give you each raw data point; but the raw data

stream is better accessed by View>Export.) I like to use 30 seconds or even

longer for chart display to clients as it smooths things out some and better

shows overall trends. (I believe that some moving average options to smooth

things out even better are on Larry's long list.) By choosing stop and start

times for a part of the session that you want to run through the processing,

all Table results and Chart - including the summary statistics - will be

limited to that part of the session you have chosen.

Zooming and unzooming the Chart -

- by positioning your cursor in the upper left corner of that part of the

Chart display that you want to enlarge, hold down your left mouse button

releasing it only after having moved the cursor to where you want to

position the lower right hand corner of the enlarged display. In addition to

changing what you see, this also has the same effect as changing the Start

and End Timesof the length of run that is processed. To return to the chart

display - and numbers - that you started with click on View>Cancel Zoom. You

can also zoom a zoom you've already done.

Print or Export Data -

- by clicking on View>Print Summary or Print Epochs or Export. Note that the

nature and extent of data issued will depend on the epoch length chosen and

on the length of the run of data processed which you may have chosen by

zooming or through View>Properties.

[Guest guest]

I'm guessing here but do you have the bioreview shortcut on your

desktop? Go to the BioExplorer folder and find Bioreview.exe. When you

click it BioReview should start. You can right click the icon and create

a shortcut for your desktop. BioExplorer and BioReview are separate

programs.

Re: accessing bioreview

> Ann

>

> What kind of help are you talking .. and what version (trial) or

> purchased ?

,

I just purchased and started using bioexplorer amonth ago... Pete

set me up with his protocols and I have been doing training on my

stepmother who had a stroke several years ago and who has undergone

some radical personality/ social changes over the past several years

(in addition to huge memory deficits)... Since starting the

training, we are seeing some shifts in her focus, etc. but I cannot

seem to access bioreview, graphs, etc. so that any changes I am

seeing are fairly subjective... I am a beginner at all this... I

had been fairly competent at getting the graphs, etc. when I was

using Brainmaster 1.9... Anyhow, hope this helps gives you an answer

as to how you might be able to help me... thanks in advance... Anne