Re: Alpha too high in left rear

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Nita,If alpha is reversed in the parietals--that is there is more on the left than on the right--that could be related to sleep problems and a kind of negative/depressive view of the world.  The questions I would have are:

Is the beta also reversed (stronger on the right than the left in the percentage view)?Is the alpha (as I think you may be saying) slow--more 8-10 Hz than 10-12 Hz?What kind of sleep problems does he have?  Can't fall asleep (sleep onset insomnia), wakes up and can't fall back to sleep (terminal insomnia), sleeps a lot but is never rested, moving around a lot in sleep?

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On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 5:02 PM, anitafain <anitafain@...> wrote:

Pete and all,

My trainer has one spot where the Alpha is too high in the left rear. I don't have my papers with me, that would be P3 I believe. Anyway, he continues to have sleep problems although he has affectively reduced his beta to acceptable levels. I suspect this spot of Alpha, as sleep issues are often seen at the rear, correct?

Can you verify this is a reasonable thought, about this being a possible culprit to his sleep problems? Also if I am going to reduce Alpha, which I've never really done before, would it be best to train to raise a lobeta/alpha ratio? He has too much slow activity in that area so I don't really want to make it any slower. I could just do a squash on Alpha, but I have noticed that squashing often squashes everything, so perhaps moving the alpha up into the beta area would work better?

-Nita

[Guest guest]

Pete,

Yes you got it, reversed on Alpha. It's an amplitude problem, not a percentage problem. The percentage is higher on the right as it should be, not too much under the desired 1.1.

Amplitude is

27.3 P3

17.37 P4.

Percentage

70.4% P3

73.5% P4

The beta is not reversed. It is indeed stronger on the left, except lowbeta which is 8.8% on the right vs 8.7% on the left, still not very bad.

Yes he has more 8-10 than 10-12 paretially and centrally. Terminal insomnia issues are the only sleep issues left. He used to have them all until I downtrained the excess beta.

I have wondered if it's habit that makes him get up and do things instead of sleeping, or learning to sleep without being medicated beyond reason to sleep, or perhaps as I'm looknig hard that Alpha amount that is high on the left, P3, but only in value not percentage. He sleeps like a rock, but is always tired, his biggest complaint. I didn't have the nIR HEG before I downtrained the beta. At this point he struggles to get the nIR to respond, so I am working with him on that. His general attitude is one of someone who easily gives up, hides in the shadows, and avoids confrontation. He does not appear to be depressive or have a negative view of life. However, he has a very poor ability to know how he feels about most anything. The rest of us serve as his mirror. This has been a long standing problem. He tends to be OCD and have an addictive personality, but I THINK these are all better since the

beta training. They haven't been well tested and he can't tell me if he "feels" any difference.

-Nita

Pete and all,My trainer has one spot where the Alpha is too high in the left rear. I don't have my papers with me, that would be P3 I believe. Anyway, he continues to have sleep problems although he has affectively reduced his beta to acceptable levels. I suspect this spot of Alpha, as sleep issues are often seen at the rear, correct? Can you verify this is a reasonable thought, about this being a possible culprit to his sleep problems? Also if I am going to reduce Alpha, which I've never really done before, would it be best to train to raise a lobeta/alpha ratio? He has too much slow activity in that area so I don't really want to make it any slower. I could just do a squash on Alpha, but I have noticed that squashing often squashes everything, so perhaps moving the alpha up into the beta area would work better?-Nita