Restorative Neurofeedback

What is Neurofeedback?

 Neurofeedback is the process of providing a person with information on how their brain is functioning.  We collect brain waves with EEG sensors and in real time provide auditory and/or visual feedback to an individual giving them  the ability to re-train their brain waves towards a normal baseline and  in the process resolve neuro psychological and psychosocial  issues. 

 Neurofeedback training over time allows the brain to learn new patterns and behaviors and with repeated training, reinforces these new patterns. 

Neuroplasticity

Long lasting functional changes in the brain occur when we learn new things or memorize new information. Neuroplasticity describes how experiences reorganize neural pathways in the brain.

Up until the 1960s, researchers believed that changes in the brain could only take place during infancy and childhood. By early adulthood, it was believed that the brain's physical structure was permanent. Modern research has demonstrated that the brain continues to create new neural pathways and alter existing ones in order to adapt to new experiences, learn new information and create new memories. We now understand that the brain possesses the remarkable capacity to reorganize pathways, create new connections and, in some cases, even create new neurons. We realize now with the enormous amount of research that has been done that the brain never stops changing and adjusting.

To have the unique ability to utilize neurofeedback as a tool to change the way that our brains function is nothing short of amazing ..

Biofeedback 

People experience biofeedback continuously throughout life. Information from our environment is constantly fed to us through our five senses; touch, sight, hearing, taste and smell.  We alter our behavior continuously while attending to these senses. 

It won’t take long for us to come up with countless examples of biofeedback in action.  Your parent says, “Don’t touch that it’s hot!”  The closer you get to that object, the more you understand the concept of hot.

Climbing a set of stairs is a learned experience that requires a lot of biofeedback.  We learn just how much to raise or foot with each step by watching and feeling while we perform the task. Our inner ear is giving us constant information on our balance, or lack there of. At first it is difficult, as many have experienced while holding the hand of a toddler unfamiliar with the process, or when we experience a set of stairs that are a bit “unconventional”.   After a while we learn to take the stairs at a fast pace, sometimes two at a time and without the use of a handrail. 

Almost everything we learn, we can attribute to some form of biofeedback. 

Neurofeedback is exactly the same process except we are using state of the art technology that allows us to capture the current brain waves of the patient and retrain them.