Read the University of South Florida's description of Neurotherapy.

Neurotherapy: What Is It?

Neurotherapy is a technique in which we train the brain to better control and regulate a wide number of issues. By training the brain, much as you train your body through physical exercise, we can help your brain learn to function better. You can think of neurotherapy as a very focused kind of behavior modification therapy.

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How Can Neurofeedback Therapy Help?

• Neurofeedback training can improve sleep patterns. When you sleep more efficiently, you are more alert during the day.
• Neurofeedback therapy can help with anxiety and depression, and with syndromes like migraine or chronic pain.
• Neurofeedback therapy can be helpful in managing attention and can achieve remarkable results for children with attention deficit disorder (ADD) or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
• Neurofeedback training can even help you manage emotions.  If the over-emotional behavior is a problem, it's reassuring to realize that neurotherapy can help. If there's a problem with inadequate emotional response, for example lack of empathy, that can also be helped with neurotherapy.
• There are other issues where neurotherapy doesn't actually eliminate the problem, but rather reorganizes your brain to function better in the context of that issue. In this sense, neurotherapy is helpful for autism, stroke, seizures and traumatic brain injury.

Finally, there are some specific issues where the EEG neurofeedback training can be helpful, such as in cases of seizures, traumatic brain injury, stroke, and autism. In these instances the training does not so much get rid of the problem as it simply organizes the brain to function better in the context of whatever injury or loss exists.

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What’s a Neurofeedback Training Session Like?

Neurofeedback training is a learning strategy that enables you to actually change your brain waves. When you have information about your brain waves presented to you, you can learn to change them. Your neurotherapist is like a personal trainer for your brain.

A neurofeedback training is painless and non-invasive. One or more sensors are placed on the scalp and one on each ear. Your brain waves are displayed to you in the form of a video game or other video display, including sound. You control the video game entirely with your brain. As desirable brain activity increases, the video game moves faster, or you achieve some goal in the game. As undesirable brain activity occurs, the game responds negatively. Gradually, your brain responds to the cues of the game and brain wave learning occurs.

Neurofeedback therapy sessions last from 40 minutes to an hour, and are usually done from one to five times per week. Some improvement is usually seen within the first ten sessions. Once goals have been reached, the benefit seems to be permanent in most cases.

Neurofeedback therapy can make a dramatic difference for some people. Contact the Parsippany Counseling Center to find out if it can help you or your child.
 

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