From: peterson_at_d...
Date: 2001-07-23 01:23:57
--- In buildcheapeeg_at_yahoogroups.com, "frans" <f.smith_at_c...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Working with one channel EEG.
> If one want to relax rigth brain (anxiety, depression),
> Where does on place the electrode ?.
> Frans
Frans--Your question seems to presume that the answer to both anxiety
and depression is to "relax the right brain." This is a logical
assumption and I can understand why one would think of it this way,
but this is not necessarily the best approach based on clinical
experience. Training alpha-theta activity at the left occiput is
often all you need to do to reduce both anxiety and depression (see a
paper by Saxby and Peniston about 1995; I don't have the exact
reference immediately at hand). Or training alpha at Pz may replace
both anxiety and depressive ideation with a relaxed, focused state.
Or training beta at F3 or T3 may eliminate depression and induce a
rather euphoric state. Now I'll bet that other clinicians have other
ideas, will have discovered other things that work, and will advocate
for their specific approaches. And their methods will probably work
about as well as mine. Sometimes I think it's not so much the
specific training protocol that matters, but rather just the process
of using neurofeedback to get the mind/brain system out of a rut it's
stuck in. It's hard to adjust to this idea, but all sorts of
different approaches seem to get results.
Regards
Jim
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