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Course Level: Advanced
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
The Low Energy Neurofeedback System is a
neurofeedback system that uses an electromagnetic field as the carrier
wave for the feedback. The
electromagnetic field is not measurable except by equipment meant to
measure the electromagnetic field around digital watches.
This field is generated in a J&J C2 Plus or GP Plus, and is
carried down the same EEG leads that carry the EEG signals to the J&J
EEG. Thus the EEG leads serve
as bi-directional conduits for both the brainwaves and the feedback
signals. With feedback
exposures averaging 4 seconds per week, and EEG connection times averaging
2 ½ minutes per week (connection baseline times being longer that
feedback exposures), the remainder of the session can be used to gather
data, provide context for the experienced changes, and to answer
questions. The qualitative
results, after fourteen years of experience with the LENS, are the same as
that from traditional neurofeedback. The
major difference between the LENS and traditional neurofeedback is that
the duration of treatment for ADD/ADHD, depression, PTSD, Tourette’s,
and seizures averages 13 sessions. The
other major difference is that system settings and electrode site
selection are empirically derived and explicitly defined, and change from
client to client, and for any client, change from time to time.
The major responsibilities of the clinician are to assess the
client’s sensitivity, evaluate the client’s problem, and keep the
duration of the session in line with the client’s sensitivity.
Because the LENS appears to be more time efficient as a treatment
process, the same range of side effects as occurring with traditional
neurofeedback appear more rapidly and dissipate more rapidly.
The content of the course will be directed at both human ( 18
months into senescence) and animal (horse, dog, and cat) clients.
The point of using the LENS is that most clients become so excited
at the relative brevity treatment times that they bring others in and the
practice becomes more filled.
COURSE AGENDA:
1.
History and Background
2.
Conceptual Bases
3.
The Equipment and Software
4.
The Interview Evaluations
a.
History
b.
Prior attempts at relief
c.
Sensitivity Evaluation
d.
The CNS Functioning Questionnaire
5.
The EEG Evaluations
a.
The Offset Evaluation
b.
The Topographic mapping
6.
Integrating the Evaluations with into a treatment protocol
a.
Dose estimations based on the prior evaluations
b.
Assessment of effects, transitional effects, and side
effects
c.
Framing the treatment for the client
7.
Treatment courses
a.
Cycles of treatment and re-mapping
b.
Courses of treatment by diagnosis
i.
Head Injury, strokes and bleeds
ii.
PTSD
iii.
ADD/ADHD
iv.
Autism and Asperger’s
v.
Cerebral Palsy
vi.
Affective Disorders
8.
Adjunctive treatments
a.
Photonic stimulation
i.
Defined
ii.
How it works
iii.
Tissue repair
iv.
Sympathetic blocking
v.
The point: to reduce pain and sympathetic barrages on the
brain
b.
Heart Math: quieting
c.
Medication and its management
9.
Summary: Differences and Similarities between traditional
and LENS approaches
10.
Professional Issues: choosing clients; ethics, practice
management, publicity
LEARNING
OBJECTIVES:
Workshop participants will be able to:
1.
Describe the conceptual bases for the LENS
2.
Describe the basic rationale for turning evaluations into
treatment plans
3.
Discuss the general course of healing for different kinds of
pain, affective, neurological, and cognitive problems
4.
Connect equipment to clients and perform both evaluations
and treatment
5.
Generate reports for both client communication and treatment
planning and re-evaluation
Bio:
Len Ochs is a psychologist in private practice with a long history of
innovation. He was so
recognized for his technological contributions by the AAPB.
Nevertheless, nobody
has done less than he for the field of neurofeedback.
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