Wall Street Journal article on Neurofeedback Brain Training

The Wall Street Journal has an article on how athletes, executives, and performing artists are more and more training there brains with neurofeedback to improve their performance.  It is the pressure that all these folks get under in competitive environments that causes them to lose focus and perform poorly.

And this article gives a brief look into how the classical neurofeedback approaches produce change.  They all mostly do a QEEG (brain analysis) and then based on that ‘picture of a moment in time’, they decide what they think that the brain needs, all based on etrial and error, and then push and or inhibit certain braiwaves areas.

Now, we use the same technology, but in an entirely different way.  So we do not push nor inhibit but we provided the brain with comprehensive information about its own functioning and the brain takes that information and makes its OWN changes.

 

Neurofeedback Brain Training article: Wall Street Journal LINK

Brain-Mind: Society of Neuroscience, Dali Lama’s 2005 attendance…

Learn to function from the ‘inside-out’!

 

 

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Your Complicated Amygdala: Why Brain-Imaging Work Is Misleading

Brain Imaging seems to be an up and coming diagnostic tool; seems is the key word here.  Thus article talks about how these imaging techniques paint an over simplistic picture of how your brain works.  Modern physics has helped us let go of simplistic, reductionistic point of view that wants to ascribe certain functions to certain brains structures.  But our brain is much more like the world wide web, and of course, much more complex and sophisticated.  We are more taking a holistic or ‘holonomic’ view of brain function where the entire brain in involved as a unity in all functions rather than the ‘parts’ point of view of the past.

 

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