You Can Learn To Regulate Your Brainwaves

Children can learn to regualte their brainwaves by playing a type of video game, but only with their brain. For example, when the brain is producing a healthy pattern, such as reducing the amount of theta-wave activity, balloons move on the computer monitor or a clownlike figure stays out of the water. A brain-controlled Pac-Man game is often a popular and effective reward. Older children and adults are given a simple tone signal when the brain is producing the right waves. Using rewards of sounds and gamelike computer images that provide information about successful brain regulation allows the person to learn what concentration feels like and, better yet, how to sustain that mental state. The field of brainwave-modification therapy, also called neurotherapy, has experienced impressive growth since the mid-1990s. Therapists can now create full EEG brain maps as a simple in-office procedure to help diagnose and design a treatment program for many troubling conditons. Some problems are genetic, others may reflect brain injury, and others may be associated with psychological damage. For the application of brainwave-modification therapies, the origin of the problem is not important. If the condition manifests as an anomaloous pattern of brain signals, then that condition is amenable to neurotherapy. PP. 8-9 Biofeedback for the Brain by Paul G. Swingle Ph.D. Questions? Treatment begins with a brain map qEEG. Call Fort Wayne Neurofeedback to set an appointment and ask questions. PH. 260 432-8777