The Brain Scan Results & The First Two Treatments

It's taken us a few days to process and begin to understand just a fraction of the brain scan results we recieved on Monday.  Above is a picture of just one page of the results.

As you look at this photo you will several different colors.  The colors indicate overactive (red), underactive (blue) and normal (green).  Light green is the middle between blue & green.  Yellow is the middle between green and red--so there are concerns in this areas, but not at great.

It's as if Dr. Hammond painted a picture to the smallest detail of our child without having a personal relationship with our child. For example, by analyzing the brain scan data, Dr. Hammond would say: "it appears that your child is worrying and dwelling on things which I assume is adding to and creating anxiety, because I am seeing a very high level of brain activity between the areas of the brain that control both long and short term memory" or "see this area in 'red,' this is the area controlling physical sensitivities it is also overactive which would lead to your child feeling uncomfortable with how things feel against their body, and this overactivity is requiring your child's brain to overprocess these sensory inputs, which is affecting other areas in the brain--as shown in the correlation between several other areas of the brain being acted upon by this area that controls processing physical sensitivities."

Can anyone make sense of any of that?!

To simplify, this is what we have taken away so far.  Our child's most significant concerns are:

1.  Over sensitivity to sensory inputs recieved through the skin.
2.  The "worry" areas of the brain are rings of fire--over active.
3.  The memory areas of the brain are being greatly affected.

Everything that comes into our child's brain is being processes at least 2 to 4 times--which causes worry, "over thinking" and slow processing.  In other words I've been emotional to realize just how hard our child is working to learn and to function in life.

Dr. Hammond explained that after reviewing the brain scan for our child, these are our child's most important points to focus on first and then we will move to the next areas of concern.

This morning our child completed the second day of Neuro-feedback treatment.  Dr. Hammond targeted the areas of sensory, worry and memory.  An eletrode was placed on the ear and one on the specific point of the brain.  He looked at that area and for simplicity's sake he said something like, "Oh, this area is suppossed to be running at 40 mega hertz per second and it is running at 20 mega hertz."  He would then apply the smallest amount of electricity (less than my cell phone) to that spot to bring the brain waves to 40 mega hertz and hold it there for 5 seconds.  Over time this is to re-pattern the brain impulses in that area to a "normal" more typical pattern.

We are to watch for headaches, fatique or a sudden increase of energy or agitation and report these to Dr. Hammond.  On the first day of treatment our child demonstrated an uncharacteristic goofiness, and playfulness which is uncommon.

We are all trying to settle into a new schedule to accomodate treatment as this requires very early mornings and a total disruption to our family schedule.  It is so worth it, because it means everything just to have hope.