Who Can Benefit?
Everyone can benefit from NeuroFeedBack therapy. It is like going to a gym that is useful for anyone. It is practical for any age, from children who suffer from learning problems to adults who like to be at their peak performance in their work and also for elders who want to keep their brain capacities well. Neurofeedback can be used to improve attention, cognitive abilities, and emotional management. It is used in the treatment of numerous disorders like depression, attention deficit disorder, anxiety, sleep disorders, headaches, migraines, and other emotional issues. It can be used for organic brain disorders, such as autism, cerebral palsy, seizures, stroke, and traumatic brain injury. It can also be helpful for people who struggle with drug and alcohol addiction and conditions like mood swings and PMS.
How Does It Affect the Brain?
Is this like fiction that a person can learn how to regulate his brain waves and promote his functionality? Interestingly, you may have experienced it before, when you first learned how to ride a bicycle! That time, your brain learned how to self-regulate your state of balance during biking, using the feedback that has been received from gravity.
Just as same your eyes that helped your brain learn how to bike, NeuroFeedBack sends feedback to the person about his current brain status when playing games and movies.
It requires no effort from your side, the central nervous system settles to reorganize neural connections to modify the function of those parts.
While you watch a movie or play games, your subconscious brain modifies itself based on the received information during the games or movies.
For clients, it seems like a miracle when they see how symptoms are diminishing in their lives.
It is a power of your brain that is beyond the conscious awareness process.
Impressively, this method has been scientifically and empirically proven to be effective and has been increasingly practiced by specially trained psychotherapists.
How Does It Work?
The therapist provides a proper protocol for you according to your problem. He puts the sensors on a specific location of your scalp to record the electrical activity (known as EEG) of those particular parts of your brain.
You sit in front of a monitor and just watch a movie or play a game with your brain.
