Mapping the Brain

Quantitative EEG (qEEG) also known as Brain Mapping, is a procedure that records electrical activity within the brain from 19 channels. This tool gives us the ability to view the dynamic changes taking place throughout the brain during processing tasks or at rest and assists in determining which areas of the brain are fully engaged and processing efficiently or inefficiently.

Brain Maps provide information about the functional organization and disorganization of the brain and its normal development. It serves as a basis for identifying variations in brain function that are associated with different types of neurological disorders including Attention Deficit Disorder, Learning Disabilities, Depression, Dementia, Mild Head Injury and Obsessive/Compulsive Disorder and recently, there is indication that dysregulation from brain injury from COVID, a disorder called Post Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrom (POTS), a form of Disautonomia.  Some physicians and psychiatrists use brain mapping to choose or titrate medication.

When a patient comes for Brain Mapping, a few minutes of an Eyes Open Task and an Eyes Closed Task are recorded and sometime we record reading or practicing a math exercise. We upload the data using, encryptioniton, to an outside company which compares the patient’s brain activity with a normative database of persons who are neurotypical to find out which parts of the brain are overworking or underworking. From that, a report is written and signed by a physician and recommendations for electrode placement and frequencies to train are made so that we are more accurate in Neurofeedback Therapy.

The QEEG Brain Mapping received FDA approval [510(k) 974748] as a diagnostic tool and presently is the only objective measure for many of these neurologically based disorders. This process is used in select hospitals, clinics and research centers around the world.