Manual Series
What Makes This Series Unique?
- fully integrated
- highly systemized
- International 10-20 Placement system-based
- QEEG driven
- all updates are available free of charge — manuals never become obsolete
Manual #1: Functions, Pathways and EEG Frequencies
- 169 pages with full-color graphics
- Gives the Brodmann’s Areas that correspond to the neuroanatomy
- Neuroanatomical Structures
- Neurophysiology
- Neurofeedback Research
Special emphasis is placed on which processes are mediated by the brain under each of the different 10-20 system placement. This focus guides the neurotherapist in determining training placement and frequency as precisely as possible.
Manual #2: Neuropathologies (Dysfunctional: Microvoltages, Peak Frequencies, Asymmetries and Coherences)
- 193 pages with full-color graphics
- Covers 44 neuropathologies including, ADHD, depression, OCD, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Dissociation (MPD), Learning Disabilities (both receptive and expressive), addictions (both drug and behavioral), impulse control disorder, etc.
This manual guides the neurotherapist to make training placement and frequency as precise as possible.
Manual #3: Neurodiagnostic Evaluation Procedure
- 167 pages with full-color graphics
- 44 categories of neuropathology
- 315 item questionnaire which fleshes out each neuropathology category
- Adjusted percentages are assigned for each neuropathology indicating the probability of involvement for the corresponding 10-20 system placement.
- These percentages are transferred onto four 10-20 heads organized into disorders involving 1) frontal cortical placements 2) posterior cortical placements 3) sub-cortical placements and 4) a general head, concerned more with frequency aberrations than placement. Transferred results illustrate the probability that a particular placement will be involved when inspecting QEEG results.
- Psychological, educational and continuous performance tests provide standardized scores for various neuropathologies indicating the probability of involvement for the corresponding 10-20 system placement.
- These percentiles are transferred onto another set of four 10-20 heads organized as in e) above. Again, transferred results illustrate the probability that a particular placement will be involved when inspecting QEEG results.
- A battery of tests that is intended to point to particular disorders is provided.
The purpose of this manual is to obtain subjective data from the client and other people of significance in his life and to obtain objective data from psychoeducational testing to serve as a guide for interpretation of the QEEG and for placement selection for z-score training.
(Manual #4 is currently not for sale.)
Manual #5: Neurofeedback Training Procedures Utilizing Fully Individualized International 10-20 System Placement and Bandwidth Selection, Constantly Updated Spectral Analysis and Instant Display Screen Specificity
- For BrainMaster equipment, this manual is 123 pages with full-color graphics. For Thought Technology equipment, this manual is 110 pages with full-color graphics.
- Approximately 200 highly organized and fully systematized neurotherapy training programs for both Brainmaster and Thought Technology.
As quickly as the neurotherapist types in the corresponding code, he/she can have almost any combination of protocol characteristics that a client requires.
Manual #6: Mastering Independent Neurofeedback Training
- For BrainMaster equipment, this manual is 154 pages with full-color graphics and photos. For Thought Technology equipment, this manual is 114 pages with full-color graphics and photos.
- The QuickGuide leads clients by the hand through the software to navigate their own sessions.
- Teaches clients how to do skin preparation, to connect to the equipment, and to enter and do simple manipulations, i.e. graphing, within the software program.
- Trouble shoots what to do when impedances are not low enough.
Whether training in the office or remotely, we find it a great time/resource saver if the client (or parent, if the client is a child) learns how to hook themselves up properly and run as much of the session as possible. Clients or parents are quite agreeable when they realize that the neurotherapist can provide more training time, if the preliminaries are done beforehand by them. This involvement generally leads to increased investment in the neurotherapy process. Of course, when home training is involved these skills become essential.
Manual #7: A Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Checklist for Tracking Neurotherapy Progress
- 109 pages
- This manual consists of an extensive list of additional questions for most of the manual 3 categories.
- After a client completes the checklist in Manual #3, he/she and their support people are given additional items for the six highest-rated neuropathologies.
- From their answers a customized checklist based on the particular client’s needs is created.
- Clients and support persons are asked to complete this 50-60 item checklist on a regular basis, usually once per week, to document progress during training.
Research has shown that the efficacy of any therapy increases when both the client and the therapist are frequently informed on a detailed level of the progress being made.
Manual #8: The Bio-Psycho-Socio-Theological Cognitive Behavioral Framework–The Basics
- 121 pages
- Describes the 16 healthy behaviors which we see as necessary to provide ideal conditions for desired results when undertaking a neurofeedback training program.
- Provides a method for charting compliance.
- Offers research to support the relationship between brain health and the majority of the 16 behaviors.
This manual reflects our belief that a client’s success when doing neurofeedback training is significantly enhanced when that client engages in overall healthy living.
For ordering information call Donna at 610-434-1540 or you can email her at donna@brownbackmason.com.
What leading authorities in the field have said about the BMANS Manual Series
“The manuals created by Brownback, Mason and Associates are quite well done. This compilation of diverse information into a single reference allows the users to identify the functional cortical locations involved based on symptom and EEG/QEEG data. Rather than the more common and more simplistic “single point” approach, these manuals utilize a more sophisticated “neural network” approach to functional localization, assigning percentages to the 10-20 system electrode’s involvement in these networks. I recommend this work as one of the most complete and advanced efforts at topographic localization that I have seen to date. My congratulations to Tom and Linda’s whole organization!”
Jay Gunkleman, QEEGT
Technical Notes Editor, Journal of Neurotherapy
Past President, International Society for Neuronal Regulation
“As the developer of Lexicor’s NRS24 brainmapper and 2 channel Neurotherapy technologies I am continually amazed by the Neurotherapy manual set created by Brownback, Mason and Associates. I have observed the evolution of this encyclopedic set of manuals over many years and come to realize that this may very well be the Holy Grail of Neurofeedback. No other system I am aware of even comes close to this comprehensive set of procedures and protocols which are linked in an extraordinarily intelligent and thorough manner to the QEEG information generated by brainmapping. Although vast in scope, the Brownback, Mason system is organized in such a methodical manner, as to allow for the step by step entry into what would otherwise be an overwhelming set of possibilities.”
David Joffe
Creator of Lexicor’s NRS-24 Brainmapper and Neurologic Software
“I have often wished that there was a collation and summation of research providing a coherent guide to training protocols related to various disorders and explaining the physiological basis of the protocol. This task is monumental, staggering in the amount of work and complexity involved, and I never imagined I’d see this in my lifetime, but Tom Brownback has done much of it and is in the process of completing this task. He has assembled clear and coherent training manuals that explain the physiology of the brain, and relates this to the commonly treatable DSM disorders, the EEG patterns commonly seen with the disorders, and treatment protocols that both reflect the research and work of many and the physiological basis for the treatment.”
David Toll
Licensed Psychologist, BCIA certified in EEG Biofeedback
“No delivery has so excited me as the delivery of the BMANS Manual 2. It took me about an hour to calm down!”
Celest DeBease, PhD, BCIA Chair Elect
