Category Archives: The Brain
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Iain McGilchrist’s Animation about Two Hemispheres of the Brain
Posted on July 2, 2012 by Catherine Boyer in New York Neurofeedback, The BrainPeople who are interested in neurofeedback are often fascinated by how our brains function. If that’s you, you’re in for a treat. Watch London psychiatrist and author Iain McGilchrist’s animation about the two hemispheres of the brain. You’ll hear that much of popular understanding of left and right hemisphere functions is incorrect. Language, for example, does not reside solely […]
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Brain Benefits from Aerobics
Posted on June 12, 2012 by Catherine Boyer in Mental Wellness, NeurOptimal®, New York Neurofeedback, Peak performance, The BrainMayo Clinic neurologist J. Eric Ahlskog, MD, PhD, spoke about a recently conducted review of the research on aerobic exercise and benefits to the brain. They concluded that “you can make a very compelling argument for [aerobic] exercise as a disease-modifying strategy to prevent dementia and mild cognitive impairment, and for favorably modifying these processes […]
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How Does Neurofeedback Work?
Posted on January 10, 2012 by Catherine Boyer in Mental Wellness, NeurOptimal®, New York Neurofeedback, The BrainYour brain is the most complex system on Earth. It is masterful at taking in information and using it to reorganize itself to maximize efficiency and minimize discomfort. If you give it the right information, it will use it to meet those goals. The type of neurofeedback I use does just that, it gives it […]
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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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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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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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Three Ways to Keep Your Brain Healthy
Posted on November 2, 2010 by Catherine Boyer in New York Neurofeedback, The BrainDr. 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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The Brain and Neuroplasticity
Posted on September 10, 2010 by Catherine Boyer in New York Neurofeedback, The BrainNorman Doidge, author of The Brain That Changes Itself, believes that the idea of neuroplasticity – the brain’s ability to change itself – is the most revolutionary new understanding of the brain in 400 years. The brain is able to change how it functions and to change its own structure. We are not limited to the […]
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Your Brain Needs a Break
Posted on June 21, 2010 by Catherine Boyer in New York Neurofeedback, The BrainThis is an interesting recent article in the New York Times about the brain’s need for downtime. Many of us now fill all those small moments waiting… For an elevator On line in the supermarket On a bus or subway Integrate learning Remember information Have new ideas …with activities on our smartphones. The article suggests that […]
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