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SERVICES: EEG NEURO- FEEDBACK
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Neurofeedback is biofeedback for the brain. Biofeedback senses patterns of imbalance in your body, and gives you feedback that lets you make yourself better. Neurofeedback senses patterns of brainwaves and gives you feedback to make yourself better. As your brain works, the neurons send tiny electrical impulses back and forth. These impulses come and go, usually in a regular and orderly manner.
Specific ranges of brainwave frequencies natuarally occur while you are in certain states of mind. Some frequencies occur when you are sleepy, others when you are concentrating on something, still others when you are angry and so on. Neurofeedback lets you know whether certain brainwave frequencies are strong enough or too strong. This gives you a chance to strengthen or lessen them yourself. You can teach yourself how to keep the frequencies, or states of mind, that are helpful for you, and to lessen those that are not helpful.
Neurofeedback equipment is actually the same EEG equipment used by medical professionals. When you get an EEG, they put sensors on many places on your scalp and record your brainwaves on a chart for a doctor to read and interpret. Neurofeedback uses the same sensors, but in just one or two specific areas, and for one or two frequency ranges. And instead of a doctor reading the chart, you see your own results immediately on a computer screen. The "feedback" part is when the computer senses that the strength of the particular frequency range is at the optimum for peak functioning, you can see it on the computer screen or hear a tone. When you see or hear your optimum functioning, your brain works to keep it there. You don't need to continue neurofeedback sessions forever. What you learn in neurofeedback sessions can have long-term benefits.
Neurofeedback is especially helpful to people who cannot or do not want to take medications, whether the reason is severe side effects, ineffectiveness of the drugs, or simply an antipathy to taking drugs. On the other hand, neurofeedback can be a very effective addition to medication when the drugs do not fully help the patient function optimally.
For more information or a consultation, please contact Lynn Johnson.
Page Last Updated: November 2001 |
