Clinical Applications of the EEG - A Practical and hands on approach: From Clinical History to EEG Acquisition to Editing to Analysis; LORETA; Discriminant Functions; Brain Behavior Mapping; Clinic Report Writing; Neurotherapy Recommendations
 

By: Robert W. Thatcher, Ph.D

 

Date: July 3rd - 5th, 2015

 

Location:  Dr. Alois Alzheimer's 1901 Laboratory in the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy 

                  Campus City Nußbaumstraße 7, D-80336 München 

Hosted by:  Prof. Dr. Oliver Pogareli and Daniel Keeser, Ph.D., Univ. of Munich, Dep. of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

                     Doerte Klein, PP KJP BCN, eegtrain-neuroclinic/euribion

 
Course was be held in English.

 

Course ongoing education, 24 units, 45 min. each  -- 18,75 CP's valid for BCIA, e.g. recertification

 
Dr.  Robert W. Thatcher covered his approach, how patient's history, complaints and symptoms are linked to brain's localization of function properties, and how this knowledge is transformed to treatment planning and application of Neurofeedback Training. He did some EEG recordings and NFB Trainings and analyze these data as well as QEEG- Data given by attendees. He explained the science behind the various analysis tools and their clinical value.  Dr. Thatcher along with the help of Ernesto Soler introduced new developments like the Automatic Clinical Report Writer, the NeuroLink, the ERP program and the Concussion Index.  The new Dry Electrode/Amplifier Headsets from Cognionics and Wearable Sensing integrated with NeuroGuide was also a discussed.
 
Professor Dr. Oliver Pogarell give a talk on "Qualitative (standard) EEG in Clinical Practice" with a main focus on qualitative analysis, clinical interpretations and medication effects.
 
Dr. Daniel Keeser presented the simultaneous EEG - fMRI neurofeedback study. Results of real vs. sham EEG phase neurofeedback will be presented on a multi-level analysis approach. The applied neurofeedback protocol comprised cortical regions as the frontal, parietal and temporal cortex and the alpha and low beta frequency range was trained. Resting state EEG, task-based ERPs (Go- NoGo paradigm), Resting state fcMRI, task-based fMRI and behavioral data was presented and discussed in regard to the efficacy of EEG neurofeedback.
 
Ernesto Soler was available to help demonstrate the new NeuroGuide Evoked Potential add on as well as discussions of "Effective Connectivity" using the Phase Slope Index.   swLORETA (weighted sLORETA) was discussed as a future part of NeuroGuide.  swLORETA increases source localization accuracy by weighting deep sources to better approximate the distance from the scalp and deep cortical EEG sources.  

Time was allotted for attendees to contribute with case studies, short reports on their own research and studies on covered topics.