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SKIL 3 DEMO

SKIL TRAINER*
SKIL Trainer

SKIL Trainer Requires:
  • SKIL Folder (06.01.2011) (Unzip to c:\brainm.20\SKIL).
  • Brainmaster software for Atlantis or Discovery installed.

    NeuroNavigator Acquistion software *Win98/XP only; msfrt40.dll (\System32)

    SKIL EDF Converter v1.2 - converts EDF/+ to SKIL ASCII

    • REPORT GENERATION

    How to Start

    Example Report Report Template Family ReportTemplate
    Brodmann Atlas, Blank map, 10-10 image, Concepts review

    ANALYSIS SOFTWARE

    Flash How-to Video, Part 1 Flash How-to Video, Part 2 User Manual
    Slides Embed Figures in Word
    Practicum 2006-1, 2, 3, 4, 5; 2007-1, 2, 3

    OTHER ASSESSMENTS
  • Jaynes' Faces,
  • Street Test,
  • Closure Test
  • Handedness
  • Neurotherapy Protocol Summary Sheet
  • Operant Conditioning Summary Sheet

    INTERPRETATION
    Workshop Powerpoints
  • Rutland MA 1 hr intro, 2-day principles
  • Quebec City Pre-SABA, BA database
  • San Diego Intro Analysis, Advanced
  • Northampton MA Intro of nEEG - PPT, PDF
  • New York Connectivity 3
  • Riverside CA Kelly/Frye,
  • Stonington CT Brain Function for NFT,
  • Boston Trauma,
  • Rochester NY iCardiac,
  • Glendale CA CIC,
  • San Antonio TX ISNR ,
  • Daytona Beach 1-day Intro,
  • Stonington CT Hemispheric Unity
  • Tampa Bay 2-day Intro,
  • Chicago Basic concepts
  • San Diego Connectivity
  • Monterey CA Homologues
  • Rochester NY History of SMR

    Principles of Evidence-Based Neurotherapy (2-day workshop)

    DAY 1: Clinical Behavioral Neuroscience

  • Brain evolution
  • History of Neuroscientific Care
  • Cerebral Hemispheric Differences
  • Cortical Lobes & Brodmann Areas

    DAY 2: Introduction to Normative EEG

  • History of EEG analysis
  • Montages
  • Artifact Management
  • EEG Activity and Connectivity
  • Normative Analysis and Databases
    (DAY 2 usually includes practicum on SKIL analysis software; and a powerpoint similar to one we may use: http://www.skiltopo.com/skil3/northampton-jan2010.ppt)

    For educational purposes only. If you need images for commercial use, contact David Kaiser for which images are free to use.

    • Children's protocol Translate!

    * Uses Microsoft .Net framework. Upgrade HASP (dongle) for Vista/7

    No warranty is provided nor is SKIL, Inc. liable for use of our software. Brodmann montage and associated images are copyrighted (c) 2010, Sterman-Kaiser Imaging Laboratory, Inc.. All sales are final. We provide 2 hours of technical support to install SKIL software and troubleshoot any problems. Additional hours will be invoiced at $125/hour unless the error is determined by us to be a SKIL coding or implementation error for Windows Vista or Windows 7.

    		EEG REPORTS using SKIL analysis software and Brodmann area function database and other professional services.

    For more information about normative EEG reports, contact :
    David Kaiser PhD (CV) [Example report], Online courses
    Barry Sterman PhD (CV) [Example report]

    Kaiser Services


    SKIL ANALYSIS allows normative analysis of an individual's EEG to healthy, motivated adults, teens, & children. We use advanced , artifact management, task comparisons, , single-Hz, customizable bands, with both background and transient analysis, on numerous parameters (e.g., coherence, phase lag, magnitude unity, and comodulation) in Referential, Laplacian, and Brodmann montages. File formats include Lexicor, NeuroNavigator, selected Grass-Comet, and ASCII.

    Cost: $4,750.00 (For XP/Vista/7)



    SKIL TRAINER allows operant conditioning of magnitude, comodulation, and bimodulation of Brodmann areas. For more information, see info page

    Beta Release Price: $2,900.00
    (For Win XP/Vista/7).

    Trainer Manual, Checklist, Discovery software, Lexicor (.DAT) file creation, Configuration of jumpers, Guide

    Sterman-Kaiser Imaging Laboratory
    2934 1/2 Beverly Glen Circle
    PMB Box 26
    Bel Air, CA 90077

    David Kaiser
    PO Box 374
    Churchville, NY 14428

    To order or questions, contact David Kaiser PhD or Barry Sterman PhD

    Software and Services

    History of SKIL software SKIL software began with DOD- and NASA-sponsored research at UCLA, VA, and USAF facilities in the 1980s and grew into product used by a community of clinical professionals and scientists from around the world who perform neurobehavioral interventions to treat patients and clients under multiple care classifications including psychiatric, neurological, psychological, primary, and academic. SKIL Analysis provides inferential brain analysis which, which interpreted in the context of150 years of empirical peer-reviewed investigation into brain function, provides a powerful tool for professionals to evaluate individuals on health and functioning. An individual's brain waves (EEG) are compared to desired ideals and goal groups or populations. Therapists can use this knowledge to adjust cerebral function towards ideals with operant conditioning, counseling, and neuromodulation.

    SKIL Analytics divides the lifespan into maturational stages to improve accuracy, and allows statistical comparison to both high and low challenge conditions, four in all (eyes closed rest, eyes open rest, reading, and math) in 18 different montages including signals associated with 55 Brodmann areas (more information here). It incorporates more spectral coefficients from Kaiser's Periodicity Table than any other time-series software, and includes activity as well as functional connectivity trend analysis along with comma-delimited export of 21 different spectral parameters for use in clinical and neuroscientific research (for Excel, SPSS, etc). Among its unique features include a dominant frequency analysis for each Brodmann area, spectral entropy, site-centered connectivity, bispectral analysis, customizable frequency bands, and an advanced, automatic artifact management system.

    List of Features

  • Spectral Activity: Spectral magnitude, entropy, and relative magnitude (export). (We do not include spectral power although many groups use it. Spectral power is a suboptimal measure of rhythm central tendency, and often a legacy from 1965 when computers were slow and floating point operations took a long time to do (i.e., square root of magnitude vector in FFT). Power is not nearly as useful as spectral magnitude for estimating central tendency of EEG rhythm activity. Spectral power amplifies contributions of outliers considerably and is a better measure of magnitude variability than central tendency.)
  • Connectivity: comodulation, coherence, phase lag, and (absolute value) asymmetry which we call "unity", a sensitive measure of asymmetry, computed as 1- |A-B|/(A+B). Also Corticality (comodulation - coherence on z-score). We also have site-centered connectivity indices and trending capability of comodulation and coherence and we use a Fisher-z transformation for normalization.
  • Reliability: Replication comparison with lowest z-score presented, a very nice graphical feature!
  • Trends: Magnitude, entropy, comodulation, coherence; 1-site x 5 frequencies or 5-site x 1-frequency, with overlap, relative %, and smoothing.
  • Bispectral Analysis: band ratio, bicoherence, and bimodulation analysis.
  • Peak Frequency analysis: Up to 0.125 Hz frequency resolution.
  • Task/Baseline comparisons: EC, EO, Reading, Math
  • Frequency Range: 0-64 Hz descriptive, 1-45 Hz inferential (2-38 Hz for all amplifiers).
  • Lifespan Divisions: Three maturational stages (cf. Tanner sexual maturation scale) in terms of brain maturation (child, teen, adult). Two more stages to be added in the near future (tween, young adults).
  • Normative Databases: Replicated recording conditions for each member's values -- this increases statistical power and reliability significantly. For z-score comparisons, 30 representative samples from a population are all that are typically needed for accurate estimation of the population mean and variance. In fact we provide new database inclusion, allowing for specialized databases. Collect EEG from 30+ individuals who are drawn from a reasonably homogeneous population (e.g., engineering students, artists, peak performers), and we can install this into the software to provide statistical comparisons to this group, allowing for differences in brain organization due to cultural and linguistic differences to be realized and not viewed as atypical or pathological. We have ongoing development of a few very interesting databases -- aviators, artists, death row inmates (for murder), and Carmelite nuns (from a Montreal research group).
  • Source imaging:, we use our own heteromorphic solution (Brodmann montage), which is similar to isomorphic solutions (e.g., VARETA, LORETA) though we believe more accurate, allowing us to take into effect the knowledge of both structural and functional individual difference in brain organization.
  • Reports: We use an open format (HTML) which can be amended in MS Word or OpenOffice and other programs; and we provide templates including information from the Brodmann Atlas to create comprehensive functional evaluation reports.
  • Usage/popularity- Google indexing information for July 2011: SKIL 75,000 sites; DA Kaiser 300,000+ webpages; 6,370 Google Scholar citations; MB Sterman 78,600 webpages; 3,800 Google Scholar citations

    The Society for the Advancement of Brain Analysis annually includes some of the most exciting speakers in clinical neuroscience and related fields and has been sponsored by SKIL for a decade.

    Pre/post and other data comparisons

      There are four ways to compare spectral results in our software.
    • 1. Subtraction can be performed in data and statistical views. Two recordings (e.g., pre and post) can be compared by subtracting the values of one recording from the other. This can be performed so we get a z-score change due to intervention in the case of pre/post recordings.
    • 2. Stereoview (Conservative view) combines two recordings into a single graphic, showing the more conservative z-score at each site, the closer to zero z-scores of the two files.
    • 3. Topometric presents up to 20 recordings on a single graph. It is limited to Activity parameters (Magnitude, Variability, and Entropy).
    • 4. Export/import functions allow us to send out the raw values for all EEG parameters in comma-delimited text files which can be readily opened in Excel or SPSS for data reduction (e.g., mean, median, correlation). Any number of files can be handled this way. Once a summary of the parameter is made, these values can be inputted into SKIL graphics to display the data as a brain, Brodmann, or network map.