Learning how to read Brain Waves

[Sangeeta]

Hello

I am totally new to this world of reading brainwaves and I'd be so grateful if there is an instructional video on how to interpret the data. I did all the basics, recording the data, sent to dropbox and then converted the .CSV... now with all this wonderful data, how can I use it and how can I understand it?

Thank you in advance for your help!
Sincerely,
Sangeeta

[James]

The best place to start learning about brain waves is probably the wikipedia article on Alpha waves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_wave

From that page there are many many links to other articles.

So far as identifying relaxation goes, the best place to start would be the research paper "My Virtual Dream: Collective Neurofeedback in an Immersive Art Environment" by Natasha Kovacevic, Petra Ritter, William Tays, Sylvain Moreno, Anthony Randal McIntosh: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/articl ... ne.0130129

According to this paper, relaxation can be determined as an increase in relative spectral power of Alpha. Doing a quick Google search for "EEG relaxation" will bring up many similar papers mentioning Alpha. You should note however that none of these theories are proven. Currently neuroscience is very much in it's infancy; there is a lot we do not understand and there is no simple guide which says frequency X means Feeling Y.