alternative method for training down theta?

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Hey everyone,I realized recently that I have a great deal of theta popping up between FC3 and F3 and decided to start training it down.  I have some experience using bipolar montages but have decided that I am against using them.  Everywhere I read about bipolar setups (here, the Othmers, quantitative EEG textbook) it seems apparent that no one actually knows what is happening during the training.  We may be training the signal up at the active point or down at the active point, down at the reference or up at the reference, changing the phase relationship at either location in one direction or another, but in the end we have literally no idea what is going on other than a vague conception that the electrical activity at one site is now more similar or more different than the activity at the other.  

For this reason I have created a new design based on, of all things, the alpha-synchrony design that Les Fehmi uses.  The logic is that I can put four electrodes between FC3 and FP1 and then sum the theta at these locations.  I then set a threshold around 85% and set it to " decrease " so that when, for example, there is a burst of theta in my left frontal region pacman stops moving.  I find the inhibit only strategy appealing because once you train theta down the remaining activity will be whatever frequency of beta my brain is most comfortable making, as opposed to trying to get my brain to make a particular frequency of beta.

What are people's thoughts on this strategy and my rationale?  I would really appreciate any feedback at all. Zumbach

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