Therapeutic Applications of Neurofeedback

Neurofeedback is a powerful technique that can train the brain toward better function. Improved functioning means relief for many - i.e. migraine sufferers have no more headaches, insomniacs fall asleep easily, autistic children relate to others. What we've discovered is that disregulation of brain function is a core issue in many disorders.

The following are thumbnail summaries of our own clinical experience, and that of other Neurofeedback therapists, with various conditions. In session, we invite the brain into conversation with itself through our external feedback loops. Then, the brain self-corrects. By doing this, the brain learns and changes. Then, so does our experience of being in the world. Read more...


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Anorexia

Anorexia is one of the most difficult of the eating disorders to treat. Neurofeedback should be part of a comprehensive treatment program, but it should not stand alone. The perplexing misperceptions with respect to self-image do not yield readily to psychotherapy, but they may well respond to brain-training. Traumatic aspects in the chain of causation can also be helped with Neurofeedback. Depressive behavior patterns can be helped, as well as obsessive and compulsive features of the eating disorder. And appetite itself is a self-regulatory response that yields to Neurofeedback training.