<p>There are many ways to assess a patient and determine which neurotherapy protocol to use (and there are many different neurotherapy protocols to choose from). These two component parts of your clinical practice: 1) Assessment techniques, and 2) Applied Neurotherapeutic practices, are of foremost importance to the range of applicability your success as a neurotherapist reaches.&nbsp;</p><p>Of the assessment techniques available to you, there are some who believe no prior recording of the brain (EEG or QEEG) is necessary before treatment. This is the belief of Sue and Siegfried Othmer and EEG Info, for instance. Many other camps use abbreviated QEEGs, wherein only a few electrodes are used. In Richard Soutar's New Mind Academy, there is the option of collecting EEG data from a limited number of channels (12), but one can also upload data in 19 channels. In Paul Swingle's Quick Q (also called a clinical QEEG since their patient database referenced is of individuals from their clinic, the practitioner conducts the assessment using one active electrode and moving it to different places on the scalp.</p><p>This section shows many different means of quantitative analysis from many different providers in the neurotherapy realm. While the decision tree process and protocol development process is different for each school, fundamentally, its advised the practitioner is able to identify the source of the patient's symptoms through the data recorded and analyzed.&nbsp;</p><h4><b>Paul Swingle's Clinical QEEG Assessment Report</b></h4><p><img src="@@PLUGINFILE@@/Quick%20Q%20Map.png" alt="Quick Q Map" width="1000" height="1057" class="img-responsive atto_image_button_left"><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><img src="@@PLUGINFILE@@/Quick%20Q%20Map%202.png" alt="Quick Q Map 2" width="1000" height="1021" class="img-responsive atto_image_button_middle"><br></p><p><b style="color: rgb(55, 71, 79); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;; font-size: 1.286rem;"></b></p><h4><b style="color: rgb(55, 71, 79); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;; font-size: 1.286rem;"><b>Protocol Guide for New Mind Academy</b></b></h4><p>The New Mind Academy uses between 12 and 19 electrodes for client assessment, but many single channel or dual channel protocols are assigned thereafter. Below is a Mini Q Report as generated by Richard Soutar's software.</p><p></p><p><b style="color: rgb(55, 71, 79); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;; font-size: 1.286rem;">New Mind Academy's Mini Q Report</b><br></p><p><b><img src="@@PLUGINFILE@@/New%20Mind%20Map%201.png" alt="New Mind Map 1" width="750" height="1017" class="img-responsive atto_image_button_left"><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><img src="@@PLUGINFILE@@/New%20Mind%20Map%202.png" alt="New Mind Map 2" width="750" height="734" class="img-responsive atto_image_button_left"><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><h4><br></h4><p><span style="font-size: 1rem;"></span></p><h4><span><b>The Neurofield System</b></span></h4><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Many clinicians pre</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">fer to analyze the raw EEG data and then process it through one or&nbsp; more quantitative methods. The school of neurotherapy, using the NeuroField EEG system is one where the raw EEG data is first analyzed through raw inspection (if the clinician so chooses) and then processed and analyzed quantitatively, through power analyses and Independent Components Analysis. Finally, the data can be assessed from synchrony indexes, such as power power coupling analysis and others. This is a more advanced form of computational analysis. Neurofield uses the open source software of EEGlab within its analysis. What is compelling about this level of analysis is one can use more than 19 electrodes, providing a higher resolution picture of the brain and a more approximate sourcing of important components This software also uses three Gaussian curves, as opposed to one, with an algorithm called AMMICA: adaptive mixture independent Components Analysis. Finally, this software identifies artifacts in the components with a program called IC Label, however the clinician can use their naked eye to determine if they agree--even algorithms make mistakes sometimes.</span><br></p><h4><br></h4><p><span><b><img src="@@PLUGINFILE@@/Neurofield%20EEG%201.png" alt="Neurofield EEg 1" width="1000" height="511" class="img-responsive atto_image_button_left"><br></b></span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><img src="@@PLUGINFILE@@/Neurofield%20EEG2.png" alt="Neurofield EEG2" width="1000" height="806" class="img-responsive atto_image_button_left"><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><img src="@@PLUGINFILE@@/Neurofield%20EEG%203.png" alt="Neurofield EEG 3" width="1000" height="653" class="img-responsive atto_image_button_left"><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><img src="@@PLUGINFILE@@/Neurofield%20EEG%204.png" alt="Neurofield EEG 4" width="1000" height="653" class="img-responsive atto_image_button_left"><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><img src="@@PLUGINFILE@@/Neurofield%20EEG%205.png" alt="Neurofield EEG 5" width="2452" height="1460" class="img-responsive atto_image_button_middle"><br></p><p><img src="@@PLUGINFILE@@/ICs.png" alt="Independent Components" width="700" height="426" class="img-responsive atto_image_button_left"><br></p><h3><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><h4></h4><h4><b><br></b></h4><h4><b><br></b></h4><h4><b><br></b></h4><h4><b><br></b></h4><h4><b><br></b></h4><h4><b><br></b></h4><h4><b><br></b></h4><h4><b><br></b></h4><h4><b><br></b></h4><h4><b><br></b></h4><h4><b><br></b></h4><h4><b><br></b></h4><h4><b>iSYNC Brain Database</b></h4></span></h3><p><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Other QEEG systems also use independent components analysis, such as iSync (the South Korean databases), however there is automatic artifact rejection via a cleaning process, which some clinicians do not prefer (since real data could possible be cleaned out). This is a robust EEG analysis software, however, and worth a look.&nbsp;</span><br></p><h4><br></h4><p><b><img src="@@PLUGINFILE@@/Isync1.png" alt="isync 1" width="750" height="666" class="img-responsive atto_image_button_left"><br></b></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><img src="@@PLUGINFILE@@/Isync%202.png" alt="isync 2" width="1000" height="341" class="img-responsive atto_image_button_middle"><br></p><p><br></p><p></p><h4><b>WINEEG and HBI Database</b></h4><p><span>Another EEG analysis software that looks at independent components is WinEEG, built by Juri Kropotov. Like Isync and Neurofield EEG, WinEEG takes into account independent components analysis, which is a more advanced method of computations neuroanalysis. WinEEG uses an algorithm called Infomax, which uses one gaussian curve to analyze the EEG data into individual components.&nbsp;<br></span></p><img src="@@PLUGINFILE@@/WinEEG1.png" alt="HBI Database" width="800" height="449" class="img-responsive atto_image_button_left"><br><p></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><img src="@@PLUGINFILE@@/WinEEG2.png" alt="WinEEG2" width="800" height="631" class="img-responsive atto_image_button_left"><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><img src="@@PLUGINFILE@@/WinEEG4.png" alt="WinEEG4" width="291" height="270" class="img-responsive atto_image_button_left"><br></p>