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How Much Sleep do you Need?
Posted on November 12, 2011 by Catherine Boyer in NeurOptimal®, New York Neurofeedback, SleepIt’s well worth reading this recent New York Times article titled “How Little Sleep Can You Get Away With?” I’m going to bottom line it for you here anyway, in case you don’t read it, because I think what it’s saying is so important. This information comes from a four-year research project run by David Dinges, […]
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Neurofeedback — Think Training not Treatment
Posted on October 15, 2011 by Catherine Boyer in Mental Wellness, NeurOptimal®, New York NeurofeedbackThink training — not treatment Why? For me, the word treatment implies a medical model: Something is wrong with you and someone in the health care field is going to give you a diagnosis and recommend treatment. With NeurOptimal® neurofeedback training, you are in charge. NeurOptimal® gives your CNS, the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord), information […]
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Neurofeedback and Sports
Posted on September 19, 2011 by Catherine Boyer in New York Neurofeedback, Peak performance, What to expectA short article published in March of 2012 in the Norwich Bulletin is titled Neurofeedback Training May Enhance Athletic Performance. The article does a nice job of outlining the kinds of peak performance related traits that can benefit from neurofeedback. The author, Dr. Melissa Perkins-Banas,says this: New research continues to demonstrate that sports performance enhancement requires the […]
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Jill Bolte Taylor’s Stroke of Insight
Posted on August 13, 2011 by Catherine Boyer in NeurOptimal®, New York Neurofeedback, The BrainThis is a video of neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor talking about the massive stroke she had at age 37. She watched herself lose functions with all her professional knowledge of what was happening to her. If you think this will be upsetting or depressing to watch, I predict you will have exactly the opposite experience. […]
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Benoît Mandelbrot
Posted on July 16, 2011 by Catherine Boyer in Fractals, NeurOptimal®, New York NeurofeedbackThe images used on this blog and on the New York Neurofeedback website are fractals. Benoît Mandelbrot, who died in 2010, changed how we can view ourselves and our world by introducing us to fractal geometry. It mirrored the complex real world in ways that the pristine and simpler shapes of classical geometry that we […]
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Neurofeedback and the Arts
Posted on June 10, 2011 by Catherine Boyer in New York Neurofeedback, Peak performanceCan neurofeedback be helpful for those who work in one of the arts? In my experience, absolutely. This is often referred to as peak performance training. Some of the positive changes my creative clients have experienced are: Elimination or reduction of stage fright. Increased productivity. Greater understanding of their own creative process. Increased ability to […]
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The Master and His Emissary
Posted on May 27, 2011 by Catherine Boyer in New York Neurofeedback, The BrainMy clients often ask me questions about which hemisphere does what. It’s much more complex than the idea that a particular function is located in a particular area of the brain. For anyone interested in learning more about the functions of the left and right hemispheres – which see the world in intriguingly different ways […]
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Neurofeedback and Your Unique Brain
Posted on April 5, 2011 by Catherine Boyer in NeurOptimal®, New York Neurofeedback, The Brain, What to expectYou are a unique human being, even though you are part of a species that you are very much alike. Why is this important to neurofeedback? More about that in a minute. First, did you know that… The typical adult body has about 50 trillion cells. That’s 50,000,000,000,000 cells. Your genes and mine are 99.99% identical. […]
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Neurofeedback – Think Training not Treatment
Posted on March 11, 2011 by Catherine Boyer in Mental Wellness, NeurOptimal®, New York Neurofeedback, What to expectNeurofeedback – training not treatment. Why? For me, the word treatment implies a medical model: Something is wrong with you and someone in the health care field is going to give you a diagnosis and recommend treatment. With neurofeedback training, you are in charge. NeurOptimal® neurofeedback gives your CNS, the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord), information […]
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When Your Mind Wanders…
Posted on February 4, 2011 by Catherine Boyer in New York Neurofeedback, The BrainAccording to recent research done at Harvard, our minds wander away from what we are doing 47% of the time. That’s almost half of us “wandering” at any given time! People’s minds are most likely to wander during personal grooming and least likely during sex. A really interesting conclusion from the research is that day […]
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