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How to Survive the Holidays
Posted on November 19, 2019 by Catherine Boyer in Mental Wellness, NeurOptimal®, New York Neurofeedback, Stress managementIt’s time for our annual holiday post. Its usually one of the most viewed posts of the year. Why? I’ll get to that in a minute. It may not seem directly related to NeurOptimal® Dynamical Neurofeedback® – other than that training your brain makes most things in life easier. Benefits from having trained typically mean more ability to […]
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Happy Halloween!
Posted on October 30, 2019 by Catherine Boyer in NeurOptimal®, New York NeurofeedbackHappy Halloween from New York Neurofeedback Have fun and be safe! Catherine Boyer, MA, LCSW-R New York Neurofeedback
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NeurOptimal® Neurofeedback in an Elementary School
Posted on October 9, 2019 by Catherine Boyer in Mental Wellness, NeurOptimal®, New York Neurofeedback, Peak performance, What to expectMy colleagues at NeurAlive Technologies, Inc., in Victoria, BC, Canada, made this terrific video about their use of NeurOptimal® in an elementary school. Parents, teachers and the children themselves describe the difference the training made. To learn more, please visit our website, or you’re welcome to comment here on the blog or email me. Catherine […]
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The New York Neurofeedback Blog is Ten Years Old
Posted on September 10, 2019 by Catherine Boyer in New York NeurofeedbackI wrote the first post for New York Neurofeedback’s blog in September of 2009. That makes the blog ten years old this month. It’s been a lot of fun writing for the blog. Researching and watching for interesting post topics has been educational for me and has led me in directions I wasn’t expecting. It’s also improved my ability […]
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How Many Sessions of Neurofeedback?
Posted on August 6, 2019 by Catherine Boyer in NeurOptimal®, New York Neurofeedback, What to expectAlmost all my clients ask, “How many sessions of neurofeedback will I need?” It’s understandable that it’s one of the first things a new or prospective client asks. The training takes time and money and most of us don’t have an unlimited supply of either. We want to know what to expect. Every brain is […]
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NeurOptimal® Neurofeedback at Home
Posted on July 9, 2019 by Catherine Boyer in NeurOptimal®, New York Neurofeedback, Personal SystemI believe the NeurOptimal® Dynamical Neurofeedback® Personal system is by far the best neurofeedback for your home on the market. It’s so easy to use, you can be running sessions within an hour after you’ve received the box. It comes with everything you need, and you get the same state of the art neurofeedback as […]
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NeurOptimal® Neurofeedback for Performance Anxiety
Posted on June 11, 2019 by Catherine Boyer in Mental Wellness, New York Neurofeedback, Peak performance, Stress managementIn 2016, Science Daily published an article titled, Why your brain makes you slip up when anxious. What makes auditions, performances, giving speeches, just generally being on the spot, so anxiety-provoking? According to previous research, people literally exert more force when they know they’re being watched. The pianist presses harder on the keys when there […]
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Neurofeedback for Stress
Posted on May 8, 2019 by Catherine Boyer in Mental Wellness, New York Neurofeedback, Peak performance, Stress management, What to expectNeurofeedback is one of the best stress-busters I know. Here are the kinds of things my clients say: I have time to respond now rather than react. It takes more to get to me. In the past I would have been up worrying about what happened. I just went to sleep. I had the same […]
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The Brain is not as Simple as We Thought
Posted on April 10, 2019 by Catherine Boyer in NeurOptimal®, New York Neurofeedback, The BrainHow does the brain work? Here is a short quote from a very interesting KU Leuven article titled ‘Brain waves’ challenge area-specific view of brain activty. (KU Leuven is a Belgian research-oriented university founded in 1425. Yes, 1425.) Our understanding of brain activity has traditionally been linked to brain areas – when we speak, the speech […]
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Neurofeedback – What to Expect
Posted on March 12, 2019 by Catherine Boyer in NeurOptimal®, New York Neurofeedback, Peak performance, Sleep, Stress management, What to expectWhen you come for a NeurOptimal® neurofeedback session you’ll be sitting in a comfortable chair watching a graphic (or you can close your eyes) and listening to music. There will be very brief pauses in the music – this is the system giving your brain the opportunity to see what it is doing moment to moment. What do […]
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