Patent Document ID: 9901279
Application ID: 14608278
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for improving reading memory by engaging a subject in a combined cognitive and electrophysiological assessment of how a mind responds to a reading task to ascertain a subject's values on the negative and positive quantitative EEG (QEEG) variables of reading memory while a subject performs each of the following tasks: reading input, immediate recall and delayed recall, the method comprising the steps of: exposing the subject to each respective task; attaching an electro-cap on a subject's head; measuring QEEG brain variables in 19 locations comprising of coherence, phase, relative power, peak frequency, peak amplitudes, magnitudes at 5 frequency bands comprised of 0-4 Hz, 4-8 Hz, 8-13 Hz, 13-32 Hz, & 32-64 Hz during each respective task; recording the QEEG measurements and memory measures (subject's verbal recall of material); converting the subject's QEEG data obtained during the recording into an ASCII file and creating a spreadsheet of the average values of each of the variables during each of the respective specific tasks; importing the QEEG data, represented in the spreadsheet, into a statistical computer analysis program loaded on a computer, examining the subjects QEEG data during the reading input task with the QEEG correlates of performance in one of the following relevant databases that the subject is a member of group A) all participants, B) non-clinical children, or C) non-clinical adolescents and adults; the subject's data is analyzed for deviation from the average values on the variables which are linearly related (positively and negatively) to performance in the relevant database; analyzing at least the subject's phase and coherence variables in at least the 13-32 & 32-64 Hz bands for deviation from the average values of the 19 QEEG variables which are linearly related (positively and negatively) to performance in the relevant database; determining if the subject's positively related variables for at least phase and coherence in at least the 13-32 & 32-64 Hz bands are below the average in the relevant database; for the positively related variables that are below the below the average value, employing EEG biofeedback protocols, using a biofeedback device, to increase the value of one or more of the positively related QEEG variables, until the value of the one or more QEEG variables, in subsequent EEG measurement and data processing, is at the average value or above, in the relevant database, thereby improving the subject's reading memory; determining if the subject's negatively related variables for at least phase and coherence in the at least 13-32 & 32-64 Hz bands are above the average in the relevant database; and for the negatively related variables that are above the average value, employing EEG biofeedback protocols, using a biofeedback device, to decrease the value of one or more of the negatively related QEEG variables, until the value of the one or more QEEG variables in subsequent EEG measurement and data processing, is at the average value or below, in the relevant database, thereby improving the subject's reading memory.