Educational Programs and Neurocognitive Assessment
The Attainment Center for Neuroeducation works in two areas: educational programs in music and cognitive skill development, and QEEG-informed neurocognitive assessment.
Both rest on the same idea, that individual brain function can be measured and described in terms a person can use.
Neurocognitive assessment
Quantitative EEG measures the brain’s electrical activity and compares an individual recording against a reference sample of typical values for that person’s age. Source localization estimates where in the brain the activity originates, producing a three-dimensional map of how that brain is functioning.
An assessment produces a written report describing those measurements: which regions and networks fall outside the typical range, in which frequency bands, and what the published research has found about such patterns. Reports are prepared for educational and informational purposes, for the individual and any practitioner they choose to share them with. An assessment is not a diagnosis and does not include treatment recommendations.
Educational programs
Instruction and educational assessment in music and cognitive skill development, drawing on research in attention, memory, and motor learning alongside long practical experience in performing arts education.
About
The ACN is owned and operated by Mark Zinn, PhD, a research psychologist whose published work examines brain function in ME/CFS and other post-infectious illness, conducted in collaboration with the Center for Community Research at DePaul University.