To Be Young: Anxiety in Adolescence Can swLORETA Neurofeedback Training Help?
The State of Our Teenagers is among our most frequent subjects of handwringing by the media, from amusingly out-of-touch stories on the novel interests spreading amongst the youth (as often as not, completely fictional) to gaudy spectacles dramatizing the unique degree of emotional intensity inherent to high school students.
What Is Peak Performance, Anyway?
The word “peak” has made a roaring entrance into the lexicon of English slang over the last few years, especially here on the internet. Sensibly employed to mean “the best” or “the most,” nowadays you’ll hear it used to describe anything but the mise-en-scene of an arthouse film to the flavor of a baseball or music performance.
Neurofeedback Training: You Are What You Are Fed
As it turns out, research into biofeedback (including neurofeedback) reaches back more than 60 years in time. Biofeedback refers to techniques that rely on real-time measurements of electrical responses of the body (such as one’s heartbeat) to trigger an external stimulus that acts to modulate that bodily response.
Too Much Sense? Attention and Sensory Processing
In our ever-increasingly stimulus-saturated world, many hands are wrung over the question of how to engage and steward our adolescents’ sustained attention, or the ability to stay focused over long periods of time.
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) Today
Many forms of cognitive impairment are associated with mTBI events, and among those that has been studied the most closely is attention deficit. Diagnoses of attention deficit disorders have been on the rise across all age groups, and as our understanding deepens, our approaches to treatment continue to evolve.
Dyslexia Treatment and Advanced Aspects of Dr. Alfred Tomatis’ Method
The key insights today come from recent research into what’s called the Temporal Sampling, or TS theory of auditory processing. Put simply, TS theory posits that speech is processed by the brain as a rapid series of “amplitude rises,” or sudden changes in volume.
How to Engage Neuroplasticity to Reduce Stress and Anxiety
There are as many different responses to stress as there are individual personalities on our planet, if not more, and their relationships to our health and health outcomes are even more numerous.
Sensory Processing Sensitivity: You Mean You Don’t Hear That?
In psychology, the term “disorder” is typically reserved for describing cases where the manifestations of a particular condition have reached a point where they directly impair a person’s everyday functioning.
We Are Driven to Communicate
Indulge us, if you will, with a simple analogy: communication is in some ways similar to driving a car.