AW: alpha-theta for musicians

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Hi ,

Since I am doing assessments I have seen quite a few adults that were recently traumatized in accidents. They all had problems to get out of that and with talking about the assessment T3/ T4 disconnenct and/or high beta, it was often clear that there is retraumatisation after early childhood traumas that were never resolved (not necessarily abuse). There was also a case where I "expected" early abuse" but the client didnt react when I talked about possible early traumatic events to explain the disconnect and I asked a psychologist of out team ( I am only about to learn) to do tests with her that might show these kind of problems. It turned out to be completely supressed and we had a chance to softly work it up.

I was absolutely fascinated what an assessment might tell us!

With my current client I see definitely temporal high beta to begin but she knows how to controll it. I imagine she wants to keep this emergency signal in unknown environment unless she is ready to feel confidence ( I have never seen such a steady decrease in a signal). There are other asymetries /inversions which we are working on, alpha can be produced without guidance in P3 but not P4 and when she is guided to rize P4 she feels very comfortable and it generally decreases beta. We tried one session with the light and sound system (without sound) and it gave a broad alpha signal P3 and a peak (corresponding to the light signal) P4. After about 15 minutes she managed a broad alpha signal on both sides with very relaxed feeling.

Thanks for your encouraging comments

Happy New Year

Regina

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----Von: Key [mailto:danielkey@...]Gesendet: Montag, 29. Dezember 2003 14:10An: Betreff: RE: alpha-theta for musicians

Regina, Pete, everyone

I enjoyed your questions about A/T which made me think more about questions we’ve discussed in the Charlottesville group. In almost every child I see (abuse/neglect/trauma) I see extremely high beta/hi-beta usually with a big differential at T3/T4. I suppose some of the differential could be due to being children and still developing (???) .. Robin, on the other hand, sees adult trauma victims and rarely sees the differential (I think Mark Waller also said clients he felt were disconnected didn’t always show T3/T4 differences but he believed they were still there. You pointed out your client had done 3 years of trauma work which she felt was successful. My belief is that in her mind she is right and yet the brain patterns still exist that could make her brain less efficient.

1) What I guess I’m getting at is the question can the cognitive work resolve the trauma, but the brain patterning was so strong, even with years of the new cognitions there is little change.

2) We talked about disassociation also, but then I wondered would the hippocampal disconnect with T3/T4 hi-beta % and/or differential actually be a form of disassociation, or would the extremely high theta-delta person be more likely to fit classic disassociation since they are noted being highly hypnotizable?

Thanks for giving my ADhD mind a workout Regina.

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