Neurofeedback
Neurofeedback is a form of biofeedback training that uses your EEG (electroencephalogram), also known as "brain waves," as the signal that controls the computer feedback. Sensors are applied noninvasively and painlessly to the surface of your scalp to detect your brain waves, which are then amplified and filtered. The EEG signals from your brain are transformed and analyzed by a computer, which then automatically gives you feedback when your brainwaves are in the right zone. Neurofeedback does not send any electrical signals to you, but just gives you and your brain information that helps you to learn and your brain to make adjustments. The feedback is typically a combination of sounds or music the computer plays, and points, graphs, or pictures that are shown on the computer monitor, in a way that is similar to what happens with a computer game. This rapid and precise feedback provides the brain with information that helps your brain to shape its activity to become more and more close to the conditions that are defined for training.
Neurobiofeedback has been used very successfully with veterans suffering from PTSD. The objective with Neurofeedback training for PTSD is to come to terms with the trauma. The difference is that Neurofeedback offers a way to do this without having to talk about uncomfortable feelings or reliving them. Neurofeedback training for PTSD starts with a training protocol to calm the client physically and mentally. We then move onto what we call Alpha-Theta training which encourages the client to enter a very relaxed state. In this state, any images of the trauma do not normally have the emotions usually attached to them, and the memory is ‘reprogrammed’ as a historic one. Neurofeedback also has been found to be very helpful with insomnia, anxiety, and irritability.
Neurofeedback is a form of biofeedback training that uses your EEG (electroencephalogram), also known as "brain waves," as the signal that controls the computer feedback. Sensors are applied noninvasively and painlessly to the surface of your scalp to detect your brain waves, which are then amplified and filtered. The EEG signals from your brain are transformed and analyzed by a computer, which then automatically gives you feedback when your brainwaves are in the right zone. Neurofeedback does not send any electrical signals to you, but just gives you and your brain information that helps you to learn and your brain to make adjustments. The feedback is typically a combination of sounds or music the computer plays, and points, graphs, or pictures that are shown on the computer monitor, in a way that is similar to what happens with a computer game. This rapid and precise feedback provides the brain with information that helps your brain to shape its activity to become more and more close to the conditions that are defined for training.
Neurobiofeedback has been used very successfully with veterans suffering from PTSD. The objective with Neurofeedback training for PTSD is to come to terms with the trauma. The difference is that Neurofeedback offers a way to do this without having to talk about uncomfortable feelings or reliving them. Neurofeedback training for PTSD starts with a training protocol to calm the client physically and mentally. We then move onto what we call Alpha-Theta training which encourages the client to enter a very relaxed state. In this state, any images of the trauma do not normally have the emotions usually attached to them, and the memory is ‘reprogrammed’ as a historic one. Neurofeedback also has been found to be very helpful with insomnia, anxiety, and irritability.