What are the therapeutic applications of neurofeedback?
Neurofeedback is a powerful technique that can train the brain toward better function. Improved functioning means relief for many - i.e. migraine sufferers have no more headaches, insomniacs fall asleep easily, autistic children relate to others. What has been discovered is that disregulation of brain function is a core issue in many disorders.
The following biofeedback studies are summaries of a collective of neurofeedback experience of Neurofeedback therapists, with various conditions. The collective message is one of profound brain plasticity that allows us to teach the brain improved self-regulation. Whereas life for many of us has been a matter of accommodating to the limitations of body and mind, many of them getting worse as we age, through Neurofeedback we are discovering how much our own behavior, and our own capacities, can be placed under our own control and subject to systematic improvement.
Our capacity for the enhancement of brain function is in many ways greater than our capacity for enhancement of physical skills through exercise and training. The unused potential of our brains is vast by comparison to the improvement that might be in store for us through determined physical exercise. Much of this is a skill that just needs to be acquired once. From then on, the brain owns the skill even without continued Neurofeedback sessions. Then life, itself, becomes the reinforcer of good brain function as improved behaviors, moods and thoughts self-perpetuate.
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Does neurofeedback cure symptoms or conditions?
In the case of organic brain disorders, it is a matter of getting the brain to function better rather curing the condition. When it comes to problems of disregulation, we would say that there is not a disease to be cured, and self-regulation may very well be a complete remedy.
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The material to be presented in this page and all subsidiary pages at this site includes many results which have been obtained in a clinical setting, and they do not yet have grounding in research under more controlled conditions. They must therefore be regarded as preliminary and experimental.
The techniques discussed herein should be employed only by professionals who are appropriately trained, and who are operating within the scope of their present license to practice. The presentation of these results is intended for educational purposes, and to serve as a quick source of information to provoke the interest of researchers within the mental health community who are involved with these conditions. Other terms for EEG biofeedback include "neurofeedback" and "neurotherapy".
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