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A Father Finds a Solution: Z-Score Training
STS Instructor Authored by Mark Smith
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Article at a glance
Practitioner perspective. This article describes a clinician's own experience, cases or methods. It was not peer reviewed or controlled, so it can be subjective. Read it as practical insight, not as evidence that a treatment works.
- Area
- Practitioner Perspectives
- Authors
- Smith M
- Journal
- NeuroConnections (April 2008)
- Year
- 2008
- Participants
- 1 (the author's son)
- Population
- Children
- Protocol
- QEEG-guided inhibit training, then live z-score coherence training within a range
- Equipment
- BrainMaster live z-score training
Key findings
- One child with worsening epilepsy despite medication
- Inhibit training helped, but seizures returned whenever conventional coherence training was used
- Training coherence within a z-score range, not toward one value, was followed by lasting seizure control
- Told by the child's father, who was also his clinician; no controls
A personal account by a clinician of treating his own young son's epilepsy with neurofeedback. The boy developed benign rolandic epilepsy at three, and his seizures worsened despite medication. QEEG-guided inhibit training brought periods of control, but the seizures kept returning whenever traditional coherence training was added. In 2006 the author switched to the newly released live z-score training and trained coherence within a range rather than pushing it one way. The seizures stopped within weeks and, at the time of writing, the boy had been seizure-free for over a year and a half and was doing well at school. It is a single, uncontrolled case told by a parent.
Read it in NeuroConnections, April 2008 (ISNR archive), p. 22 →