Re: My 8 year old son

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Tammy,Perhaps the easiest way to make sense of HEG is to think of it like aerobic exercise for the prefrontal cortex--the brain's executive control center.  Just as anyone at any level of health can benefit from a regular program of aerobic exercise, so anyone can benefit from improving blood perfusion in the PFC. The more efiiciently the brain gets blood to the neurons in the prefrontal area--the part of the brain which should be most active electrically, since it performs most of the brain's processing and control--the better the PFC can do its job.

If that makes sense to you, then you will understand that not only your son, but also yourself and others in your family can benefit from a couple 30-minute sessions a week.  When you were beginning an aerobics program, you could do it at a gym with a personal trainer to watch over you.  Or you could do it on your own.  You could plan to do it for a specific period of time with the idea of getting in shape, or you could just make it a regular part of your routine.

The cost of an HEG system that will work on any Windows computer (or a Mac with Windows available via BootCamp or some such program allowing dual operating systems) is around $1450 for the headband to collect data from the brain, the amplifier to process the data and send it to the computer and the software to manage the training.  In most cases you should be up and running with your unit within half an hour of starting to install it.  (If you get a system from brain-trainer.com, you just set up a time with me or Foxx to get online with you and install everything.  Then you can start your first session with us looking in over the internet.  And that's about it.

The training can be done with a variety of games, which will keep an ADHD child interested for a while.  It can also be done using digital video files or DVD's (any commercial DVD is fine), which play during the session.  When the client drops out of the training range, the video pauses or gets darker.  When the brain focuses again, the DVD or video plays.

Just as with aerobics, you don't want to start--especially if you are out of shape--by jogging 5 miles uphill.  You'll hurt yourself, or at least make yourself so uncomfortable that you won't want to do it again.  Training goes on while the brain is managing to improve metabolic activity by optimizing blood supply and providing neuron pools with oxygen and glucose.  When the brain starts to show signs of tiring--infrared temperature starts trending down instead of up--that's the time to stop the session.  That way you'll avoid headaches or irritability or fatigue.

Little by little, maybe a minute every couple sessions, the client increases the time his body is prepared to provide a high-performance blood perfusion and sustain it.  The process can be as effortless as a walking program: just going out and doing something relatively enjoyable regularly changes your cardiovascular system's ability to produce and sustain higher energy levels, but it's not some trick you learn or some special technique, or even anything you need to think about or even do consciously.  When your body tries to activate, it's simply, automatically, better able to do so.

If you look through research findings on ADHD (and many other issues including management of moods, performance, etc.), you'll find that consistently they demonstrate that people who qualify in our society as ADHD have smaller PFC's with less blood supply, slower operating speeds and fewer connections than other people.  Improving metabolic capacity makes it possible for the neurons to become more active for longer.  They are able to make more connections and control functions more effectively, and that increases their size.

This applies pretty much to both pIR and nIR systems, though pIR trains a broader area at one time where nIR is very tightly focused.You mention anxiety and anger.  It is your judgement that the anxiety causes anger, but in fact both are related to a brain that is overly activated on the right side.  HEG could be helpful in improving regulation and balancing blood perfusion, but I would suggest you take a look at Heart-Rate Variability training as well.  HRV can be set up on your computer with hardware and software called EmWave, which costs around $270 on brain-trainer.  HRV is a very powerful way of relaxing and learning to release stress, reducing anxiety and even helping people whose emotions are locked up to begin to release.

Both HEG (for cognitive and control functions) and HRV (for emotional brightness and openness) have the great benefit that both have literally no learning curve.  Again, in 15 minutes you can be doing HRV and do it for 10 or 20 minutes as often as you want to, slowly reducing the body's tendency to " live in "   the fight-or-flight state.  You can do it for a matter of weeks or on and off for the rest of your life.  Anyone can use it, and most anyone can benefit from it.

I hope this is helpful. Pete-- Van Deusenpvdtlc@...http://www.brain-trainer.comUSA 305 433 3160

BR 47 3346 6235The Learning Curve, Inc.

 Subject: My 8 year old son

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Hello, I am writing in regards to my son who has ADHD with severe

anxiety which in turn causes anger outbursts.  His therapist is

recommending the pir heg treatment.

I was wondering if I could get any information possible in regards to

results, duration, and recommended frequency of treatment.  Also, what

is the average cost of treatment and what are the chances insurance

will help with payment?

Any information you can provide for me will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your help in this important matter, I know early

intervention is key