A Neurofeedback Course for MD's, PhD’s and Clinicians Wanting an In-depth Science-based Approach to Brain Mapping and Neurofeedback

Neurofeedback is an incredible tool to help patients. It's a whole field. The more you know about neurofeedback, the EEG, neurophysiology and brain function, the more effective you can be.

Those interested in learning neurofeedback want to be able to learn from top people in the field.

Dr. Joel Lubar stands out. He was a pioneer in the field in ADD and has published around 150 studies. Within the field, he's extremely well-respected.

He has helped hundreds of clinicians get started - including a number of MD’s from around the world.

In addition to being a researcher, he and his wife Judith have run a center for over 25 years with neurofeedback. Not only have they seen thousands of ADD kids and adults, but they've worked with depression, anxiety, seizures and many other symptoms over 25+ years. Dr. Lubar continues to provide consulting - guidance on cases for clinicians all over the world.

Dr. Joel Lubar’s Course

When health professionals attend Dr. Lubar’s course each year in Florida, they generally hang on his words. His depth of knowledge - about neurophysiology, about the implications of EEG, about equipment, about how to train - is almost unequalled. He keeps up with a lot of the newest neuroscience and brain research and thinks carefully how that information can improve neurofeedback. He often shares some of those insights even in beginning courses.

Dr. Lubar is engaging, passionate, and very committed to the field. His goal is to help people understand how to do neurofeedback well - and how to use information from brain mapping in a useful way. He shares easily his vast range of knowledge. Importantly, he can explain very complicated concepts in practical, easy-to-understand terms.

Click here to listen to Dr. Lubar discuss his course and his approach to teaching neurofeedback and qEEG.

Understanding the brain

The more you understand the brain -- its timing, it's connectivity, the more ability you have to target training that produces powerful brain changes.

Hearing Dr. Lubar's insights and knowledge about the brain and how neurofeedback can improve function is really a treat. In one course, you get a very integrated, multi-disciplinary model that is solidly based on brain science.

Learning Theory

Neurofeedback is solidly built upon Learning Theory, but very few courses focus on it. Dr. Lubar helps you understand the how learning theory works and uses equipment with specially designed reports that measure the learning curves. He feels very strongly that tracking measurements of improved learning of each individual's brain is critical to providing these services professionally. He teaches how to use and watch the metrics that measure learning progress.

Equipment

For teaching purposes, most courses generally use one piece of equipment and software. It's too confusing to teach with multiple pieces of equipment. Dr. Lubar has chosen equipment that he thinks is well-designed and very well-implemented and easily illustrates the core principals of learning neurofeedback and qEEG. Dr. Lubar uses a system that records the EEG for qEEG reporting - and also is used to train neurofeedback. He believes it is very high quality and has the reporting needed to track the learning curves for each client.

Innovation - Z-Score Training and LORETA

Dr. Lubar is one of the most knowledgeable users and teachers of qEEG - quantatitive EEG. He's been working with it for many years, as a researcher, a clinician, and a consultant to many clinicians. Quantitative EEG provides a snapshot in pictures of an individual's brain's timing and connectivity compared to a normative database. Dr. Lubar is very good at helping clinicians understand the qEEG and its importance as a tool in neurofeedback training.

Z-score training is new innovation. It uses a qEEG database to set objective goals. It identifies areas, for each individual, which vary significantly from the normative qEEG database. The training rewards the client as he or she moves towards the norm - based on the client's qEEG.

Dr. Lubar focuses a great deal on Z-scores and how to use them to better target neurofeedback and multi-channel training. He thinks it has enormous potential for clinicians and patients.

Dr. Lubar also demonstrates LORETA training and discusses its role in targeting brain problems. LORETA is new software that creates a 3D picture. It computes the source of problems areas within based on a sophisticated set of EEG calculations. It's a very sophisticated tool that is gaining increased acceptance. Its use in neurofeedback provides some very specific training targets. Dr. Lubar is one of the pioneers in the use of this technology and introduces it in this course.

Lots of sharing

This course is non-stop information. Even though the course ends each day in the late afternoon, Dr. Lubar and his colleague stay until late in the evening for those with the energy and interest to learn even more.

Not for the faint of heart (A Rigorous Course)

This is a course that is better recommended for health professionals who want serious immersion in a whole new field. You should be fairly comfortable with computer software. It's not the focus of the course. However, it is a computer-based technology, and he'll be showing you how the software produces the results, reports, qEEGs, etc.

It's better targeted to people who are comfortable with an analytical model. He helps you understand the principles and the underlying mechanisms and science, not just how to do it. In addition, he very clearly takes a systems quantitative approach to the brain.