Workshop Clinical Applications of the EEG by Robert W. Thatcher, Ph D.

Date: 28/29 November 2005
Location: Bilthoven (Hotel Heidepark: www.heidepark.nl)
Price: EUR 550, lunch included
Time: 10-18:00 uur

Accredited by the BFE.



Admission: mail to your info to workshop@neurofeedback.nl and pay EUR 100 as a non-refundable reservation fee to:
Neurofeedback Instituut Nederland BV, giro 4460465 te Baarn.
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If you have any questions feel free to contact Derk Mulder at workshop@neurofeedback.nl.

COURSE OUTLINE

Clinical Applications of the EEG:
A Practical and hands on approach: From Clinical History to EEG Acquisition to Editing to Analysis to LORETA to Discrimiant Functions to Brain Behavior mapping to Clinic Report Writing and Neurotherapy Recommendations.

For more information on Rober W Thatcher and the Q-EEG database he developed visit: www.appliedneuroscience.com .

Day One – 10 Point Tutorial:

Exemplar patient - 55 year old TBI patient, history, complaints and symptoms.

1. Learn how to visually examine the EEG tracings and how to recognize artifact and how to re-montage.
2. Learn how to Automatically Eliminate artifact and how to measure the Test Re-Test Reliability and the Quality of your recordings.
3. Visual examination of the EEG for Diffuse vs. Localized deviations from normal.
4. Quantitative analyses of the EEG for diffuse vs. localized deviations from normal.
5. Interpret LORETA source localization and surface EEG validations.
6. Interpret Patterns of Coherence and phase relations.
7. Interpret EEG Discriminant Analyses.
8. Map the diffuse and localized EEG measures to Brain Function and to the patient’s history and symptoms.
9. Write a exemplar QEEG report.
10. Develop Neurotherapy recommendations

Day Two:

Interpretation of EEG and writing of clinic reports from 1 to 5 additional patients. Build upon the knowledge gained on Day One.

1. Repeat steps 1 to 10 covered in day one and practice the conventional EEG and QEEG evaluation of additional patients.
2. Learn more about how to compute discriminant functions and the circumstances and situations in which they are to be used.
3. Learn more how to evaluate the individual EEG patterns that give rise to a Analysis and how to interpret the meaning of the patterns.
4. Learn more about False Positives/False Negatives and Statistical concepts of Sensitivity and Specificity.
5. Learn more about how to Write a Clinic Report.
6. Learn more about how to create your own clinic report templates and how to then validate the reliability and meaning of the interpretation of EEG/QEEG.
7. Learn more about how to validate the QEEG by visual inspection of the conventional EEG and to produce a more valid clinic report.
8. Learn more about how to use NeuroGuide to derive NeuroTherapy recommendations and strategies.
9. Learn more about how to identify EEG features and areas most deviant from normal and then produce Individualized NeuroFeedback Strategies.
10. Learn how to use NeuroGuide to develop NeuroTherapy Efficacy studies for your own personal use or for publication.


Robert Thatcher, Ph.D.

Robert W. Thatcher received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Oregon and a Ph.D. in psychology with a major in biopsychology from the University of Waterloo before completing postdoctoral fellowships in neurobiology and neurophysiology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Thatcher was an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine from 1977 to 1979 and then was professor of psychiatry and director of the QEEG service at Shock Trauma, University of Maryland, before joining the National Institutes of Health in 1991 as the program manager for the integration of 128 channel EEG with MRI and PET. Dr. Thatcher was the EEG and MRI principal investigator for the Department of Defense and VA Head Injury Program (DVHIP) from 1993 to 2001. Dr. Thatcher is currently the director of the NeuroImaging Laboratory at the Bay Pines VA Medical Center, Bay Pines, Florida, and he is a

adjunct professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of South Florida. He also serves on the National Institutes of Health Scientific Advisory Committee for the NIH Human Brain Map Project, the board of the American Board of Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, and the board of the EEG and Clinical Neuroscience Society. Dr. Thatcher is certified as an expert in both conventional electroencephalography and quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG) and has written or supervised the writing of over 5,000 clinical EEG cases. Dr. Thatcher is the author of over 200 publications including six books