Brain Profiling Group (BPG) - Supporting Legal Practice

'Brain profiling' is the latest methodology for assessment of psychiatric, psychological and neurological conditions. It's accuracy and reliability is fast becoming the standard for legal practitioners seeking to establish an unequivocal diagnosis of their client's medical condition.

Objective measurement of Whole Person Impairment
American Medical Association 5 Guidelines for calculating permanent impairment, as endorsed by WorkCover and the Motor Accidents Authority, specify that brain disturbances are evaluated using clinical findings and objective testing including CT scan, MRI, EEG and evoked potentials (AMA, 2001; WorkCover NSW, 2002) .

BPG is in a unique position to offer integration of all objective measures with specialisation in EEG and evoked potential technology.

Unsurpassed Diagnostic Accuracy
The newly developed neurophysiological assessment procedures (EEG/ERPs-evoked potentials) used by BPG, provide unsurpassed levels of accuracy and precision in brain condition diagnosis. This is achieved through the use of a unique bio-behavioral interface that directly measures the functional activity of brain cells during various states of arousal and information processing.

"At present, there is no method of assessing information processing after trauma that is the equal of ERPs" (Duncan et al., 2005).

"ERPs can offer more precision than cognitive and behavioural measures for understanding the extent and timing of information processing difficulties due to abnormal brain activity" (Clark et al., 1992).

"ERPs assess functional brain activity, and therefore, can reveal subtle changes in information processing resulting from diffuse abnormalities" (Duncan et al., 2005; Gaetz & Bernstein, 2001; Rowe, 2005).

Precise differentiation of Psychological & Organic Conditions
Sensitive differential diagnosis is supported by by access to the worlds largest brain function database. This includes over 9000 individual data sets including clinical data sets and over 3000 normal profiles. BPG techniques offer increased differentiation, sensitivity and accuracy, over traditional psychological, neuropsychological and imaging techniques. This represents numbers and measures that are significantly greater and more comprehensive than competing databases (Gordon et al., 2005; Johnstone et al., 2005).

Competitive Advantage - New Brain Testing Technology
We provide advanced neurophysiological assessment (EEG/ERP) in addition to traditional neuropsychological and psychological techniques. Our brain function testing is superior to competing medicolegal methods.

	Summary of how our testing compares to traditional medicolegal.
	Quick overview of brain function and neuropsychological tests.
	Detailed description of brain function assessment technology.

Malingering - impossible to fake
Note that he direct measurement and recording of neural activity during neurophysiological testing makes it impossible to manipulate, falsify or fake results.

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Legal Standing - irrefutable evidence - speedy settlement
Brain profiling has diverse range of expertise in reporting on  psychiatric - psychological and neurological conditions in medicolegal and forensic settings. BPG's brain function assessment technology can provide you with an objective diagnosis and give your case a strong competitive advantage with a view to encouraging a speedy settlement.

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Experience and Clients
We have experience with over 1000 individual cases utilizing neurophysiological and neuropsychological tests.

	Our clients include leading law firms and QCs.

Selected References

AMA (2001). Guides to the evaluation of permanent impairment. AMA Press, Chicago, IL.

Clark, CR, O'Hanlon, AP, Wright, MJ, and Geffen, GM (1992). Event-related potential measurement of deficits in information processing following moderate to severe closed head injury. Brain Injury , 6 (6), 509-520.

Duncan, CC, Kosmidis, MH, and Mirsky, AF (2005). Closed head injury-related information processing deficits: An event-related potential analysis. International Journal of Psychophysiology , 58 (2-3), 133-157.

Gaetz, M and Bernstein, DM (2001). The current status of electrophysiologic procedures for the assessment of mild traumatic brain injury. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation , 16 (4), 386-405.

Gordon, E, Cooper, N, Rennie, C, Hermens, D, and Williams, LM (2005). Integrative neuroscience: the role of a standardized database. Clinical EEG & Neuroscience, 36(2), 64-75.

Johnstone, J, Gunkelman, J, and Lunt, J (2005). Clinical database development: characterization of EEG phenotypes. Clinical EEG & Neuroscience, 36(2), 99-107.

Rowe, DL (2005). A framework for investigating thalamocortical activity in multistage information processing. Journal of Integrative Neuroscience , 4 (1), 5-26.

WorkCover NSW (2002). Workcover Guides: For the evaluation of permanent impairment. WorkCover, NSW.