This 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. […]
Comments Off on Jill Bolte Taylor’s Stroke of Insight Continue Reading...The 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 […]
Comments Off on Benoît Mandelbrot Continue Reading...Can 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 […]
Comments Off on Neurofeedback and the Arts Continue Reading...My 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 […]
Comments Off on The Master and His Emissary Continue Reading...You 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. […]
Comments Off on Neurofeedback and Your Unique Brain Continue Reading...Neurofeedback – 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 […]
1 Comment. Continue Reading...According 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 […]
Comments Off on When Your Mind Wanders… Continue Reading...Neurofeedback got an amazing amount of positive mentions in the press related to Olympic success. Just one example: Neurofeedback was used as in the training programs of the entire Canadian moguls and aerials teams. Peak performance, of course, applies to anything we aspire to in life. Increasing your ability to stay in the moment (which […]
Comments Off on Neurofeedback, Peak Performance and Olympic Gold Continue Reading...This may at first seem a bit off topic for a neurofeedback blog, but… I’ve been writing elsewhere for awhile now on the benefits to mood from getting out into nature. It made my day to read this article about the physical as well as mental health benefits of getting out into nature. It’s by Jane […]
Comments Off on The Benefits of Getting More Green Continue Reading...Dr. John H. Byrne is chairman of the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Medical School. In an interview, he had three recommendations for promoting brain health. All of these are highly complementary with neurofeedback. They may also improve memory. Exercise – more and more studies show that […]
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