Patent Document ID: 20160220141
Application ID: 14608278
Patent Flag: 0

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) correlates of reading memory involving the input, immediate and delayed recall tasks, the method comprising of; exposing the subject to a reading memory task; attaching an electro-cap on the head; measuring QEEG brain variables in 19 locations comprising of coherence, phase, relative power, peak frequency, peak amplitudes, magnitudes of 5 frequencies comprised of 0-4 Hz, 4-8 Hz, 8-13 Hz, 13-32 Hz, & 32-64 Hz during the task; recording the QEEG measurements and memory measures; converting the subject's QEEG data obtained during the recording into an ASCII file; importing the QEEG data into a statistical computer analysis program loaded on a computer; examining the subject's QEEG data during the reading 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; when the subject's values on the positively related QEEG variables are below the average value in the relevant database then EEG biofeedback protocols are employed to increase the value of that variable to the average (or above) value represented in the database, as the linear relationship between the QEEG variables and performance indicate that a higher value is related to higher performance; when the subject's values on the negatively related QEEG variables are above the average value in the relevant database then EEG biofeedback protocols are employed to decrease the value of that variable to the point of being the average (or below) value in the relevant database, as the linear relationship between the negatively related QEEG variables and performance indicate that a higher value is related to lower performance.