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NEUROFEEDBACK
Are you searching for help with…
- Attention
- Anxiety
- Cognitive Skills
- Executive Functioning
- Behavioral Problems
- Developmental Delays Due to Problems Connecting Brain Regions
- Learning Disabilities Due to Brain Imbalances
- Auditory / Visual Processing
- Certain Headaches
- Pain Modulation
- Certain Behaviors Found in Autism
- Birth Trauma
- Acquired Brain Injury
- Sensory Processing Disorder
Neurofeedback Training
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Neurofeedback and biofeedback training teach learned skills to create accountability of the body and mind. It is successful in 80% of people with the problems listed here, and depends on patient engagement.
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How It Works
Neurofeedback is the direct training of brain function, by which the brain learns to function more efficiently. This technique uses monitoring devices to provide moment-to-moment feedback to an individual on how their brain is functioning to help a person learn more efficient and comfortable strategies.
We all have five primary brainwaves that govern our brain activity. Alpha waves help with physical and mental relaxation, Beta waves influence critical thinking skills, Delta waves manage sleep, Gamma waves help with cognitive processing, and Theta waves help with creativity and insight. When these brainwaves operate too quickly or too slowly, it can disrupt our normal functioning. Without intervention, this imbalance can lead to symptoms such as depression, stress, ADHD, and sleep problems.
Training Process:
- Sensors are placed on the scalp and connected to sensitive electronics and computer software that detect, amplify, and record specific brain activity.
- The resulting information is fed back to the patient once training has started.
- Changes in the feedback signal indicate whether or not the patient’s brain activity is within the designated range.
- Based on this feedback and practitioner guidance, various principles of learning occur, which cause changes in brain patterns that are associated with positive changes in physical, emotional, and cognitive states.
- Neurofeedback is training in self-regulation, allowing the central nervous system to function more appropriately and efficiently.
What to Expect:
- Initial Scan: 1 hour
- Simple Cases: 10 x 45-minute sessions
- Complex Cases: Up to 60 x 45-minute sessions
Key Areas of Expected Improvement:
- Attention & Focus: Has improved success in school in our current and past patients. Inability to pay attention and stay focused can result in reduced grades and inappropriate behavior.
- Endurance & Resilience: Helps provide the drive to complete school assignments. Difficulty in this area can lead to unfinished assignments, poor grades, and negative reports from teachers.
- Discrimination Processing: Ability to filter out external noise and distractions to stay focused on primary stimuli.
- Short-Term Memory: Can help organize the brain to allow the patient to remember simple facts long enough to transfer them into long-term memory. Problems in this area can lead to an inability to fulfill simple multi-step tasks.
What Our Patients Say...
"The neurofeedback was absolutely life-changing. I will never forget the day he came home after a session, and now all of a sudden he could remember things. It is almost impossible to learn how to read if you can’t remember what you learned yesterday or the day before that or the week before that. Now his memory and recall are phenomenal. Of course, that comes from a lot of practice, but your treatment was the catalyst." - Age 12
Research on Neurofeedback
Bibliography of Neurofeedback Research - ISNR
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Towards the utilization of EEG as a brain imaging tool (naturalhealthtucson.com)
Neurofeedback as a Treatment Intervention in ADHD: Current Evidence and Practice - PMC (nih.gov)
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