Who It Helps

ADHD

While medication and behavioral interventions can do a good job treating the symptoms of ADD or ADHD, neurofeedback retrains the brain to regain better control and focus. This method is about building up the person, focused on the qualities they possess. Neurofeedback can significantly promote focus, alertness, calm and attention. Results vary from person to person. An average of 20 sessions are optimal to adequately assess results.

Addictions

Anyone affected by addiction might benefit from Neurofeedback. Addiction is a disease of the brain. If neurofeedback can help retrain the brain to be calmer, to forget or manage painful memories, to focus and concentrate or to prevent seizures, it subsequently helps addicts to resist cravings for drugs or alcohol.

The good news is that neurofeedback is already being used by addiction treatment centers. Some facilities using this therapy for addicts report relapse rates as low as 25% as opposed to 75% in traditional addiction therapy. The difference is significant. There's a lot of evidence to support the success!

For anyone suffering from a disorder of the brain, whether addiction, epilepsy, ADHD or another condition, neurofeedback is a promising therapy. With more attention and more research time and money devoted to it, we are starting to see more people healed and treated with this innovative technique.

Results vary from person to person. An average of 20 sessions are optimal to adequately assess results.

PTSD

Neurofeedback treatment is helping veterans, recovering addicts and everyone in between find peace from the noise within.

"I'm a Viet Nam vet who had a violently physically abusive dad. For most of my adult life I dealt with it by drinking a fifth or two a day. Needless to say, I was a very angry human being. I was angry about the war and unconsciously angry about my childhood. Within four or five neurofeedback sessions, I began experiencing a dramatic change. I started becoming more mentally stable and I started coming out of my shell. I stopped drinking. Completely. I noticed I wasn't angry on the job any more. Actually, my workers noticed it first. Then I noticed that things that used to make me explode no longer existed. Tomorrow I'm on my 40th session and my life has changed completely. In six months, I've shed 40 years of anger, anguish and pain. For the first time in my life – my entire life – at age 60, I am a genuinely happy human being. My friends and family have noticed a major difference and because I finally became my true self, I finally found true love and happiness. I can honestly say that I am a whole human being and I will be forever grateful to Sue and Siegfried Othmer and Roxana Sasu for making this possible. If not for the EEG Institute's generous program for veterans, I would never have reached this point." - Viet Nam Veteran

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Results vary from person to person. An average of 20 sessions are optimal to adequately assess results.

Emotional Regulation (Anger, Fear, Worry)

Neurofeedback has been shown to have a profound affect on calming emotional reactivity and enhancing empathy in attachment and personality disorders. It reduces aggressive behavior, rages, paranoia and hyper-vigilance. All of these behaviors reflect a natural attempt to defend ourselves and stay alive in a dangerous world. Our need to matter, be loved and be safe take precedent in our brains and neurofeedback can help brains to reduce presumed threats and dangers in our environments as well as in our relationships. It can also reduce thrill-seeking behaviors - another attempt to achieve some reward by those who lack feelings of positive reward from normal life activities.

Results vary from person to person. An average of 20 sessions are optimal to adequately assess results.

Sleep Disorders

With our modern lifestyle, many people are sleep deprived. Neurofeedback has been shown to significantly reduce insomnia - meaning difficulty falling asleep or falling back to sleep during the night. Physical calming helps people relax and fall asleep. Neurofeedback calms physical restlessness and muscle tension including teeth grinding (bruxism). It also calms anxiety-related nightmares or vivid dreams during sleep. When starting neurofeedback, people often report an increase in dreaming. Neurofeedback can allow a rebound of dreaming that settles down again within a few sessions. As sleep becomes more organized with training, dreaming also occurs later in the sleep cycle and is more likely to be remembered on awakening.

Results vary from person to person. An average of 20 sessions are optimal to adequately assess results.

Physical Instabilities including Migrain Headaches

Symptoms of instability are recognized by their sudden onset and predictable course. Migraines, for example, might begin with a characteristic aura and then progress to head pain and nausea in a familiar sequence with each event. These symptoms are explosive, and typically quite disabling. They are very different from chronic symptoms related to high arousal.

With infra-low frequency neurofeedback we address instabilities most effectively with left-right temporal lobe placements (T3-T4). This gives the most stabilizing effect across the whole brain. It also addresses the particular vulnerability of the temporal lobes to hyper-excitability and resulting symptoms of instability.

"In the fall of 2009 our 14-year-old son began having migraine headaches. He would have one to two per week accompanied by vomiting and followed by 24 hours of sleep. Between the last week of October and the 19th of December, he missed 17 days of school. On January 4, 2010, he had his first appointment. He has had a weekly session since that time and has not experienced a single migraine since he began the therapy. It is an incredible relief to have found a way to help our child when he was in such debilitating pain. The healing that my son has experienced is nothing short of a miracle. We cannot recommend it highly enough."

Parents of child who suffered with migraines

Results vary from person to person. An average of 20 sessions are optimal to adequately assess results.

Trauma

Brains that are formed during trauma experiences often prioritize safety and are quite hyper-vigilant. This makes relationships and basic life functions more difficult. Maintaining a feeling of safety and calm is one of the many benefits of Neurofeedback. Individuals who have experienced trauma report some of the most dramatic testimonials after Neurofeedback.

Results vary from person to person. An average of 20 sessions are optimal to adequately assess results.