Can You Try Brain Brightening at Home?
by AnnBanks
According to the clinicians I consulted, the answer is yes, with qualifications. Equipment for home neurofeedback use is readily available, as a quick web search will confirm. Some of it is more silly than serious, but a number of reputable companies are marketing effective neurofeedback machines that meet professional standards.
The clinicians strongly advise that before setting off on a do-it-yourself adventure in brain brightening, it is important to be evaluated by a professional in possession of an EEG machine. Everyone's brain is different and any program you undertake should be especially tailored to your particular issues. Take care in choosing a clinician. Many states allow just about anyone to set up shop in the field, warns the Biofeedback Certification Institute of America. On its website, the Biofeedback Institute maintains a list of certified providers who have passed an examination and had enough mentored clinical training to meet its standards for certification. The organizations named below also offer providers lists, but these are open to anyone, so special care should be taken in using their directories. They are: The Applied Association of Psychophysiology and Biofeedback and the International Society for Neurofeedback and Research. Any qualified practitioner can direct you to the most appropriate neurofeedback equipment on the market, but several companies have been recommended to me. Some of these websites are complicated enough that you may require professional advice to navigate them. Have Something to Say? |



Posted: Sep 18, 07 4:32am
There are a lot of brain stimulating games people can play. At art school years ago we would pay a game at lunch, that was a word disassociation game. It was fun but to people that came in half way through they were bewildered.
its goes like this.
one person thinks of a word (usually something descriptive of an object). and the other person says a word that describes something opposite to or very different from the first word, then try not to repeat a word.
e.g. elephant - pebble - tree - mouse and so on. try and get faster as you go with practice it becomes easy and GREAT FUN!
it can get kind of weired after a while but it certainly gets the brain a buzzin'
For a variation try working to a theme like holidays.
Posted: Nov 20, 07 3:14pm
Good old electronic meditation. First ran into it in the 70s. Never could control the machines, don't do a very good job of meditating either.
Not sure most of us really need to either. Keeping the brain active - learning - seems to do the job just fine for most.
Now, does anyone know where I put my Hyperdrive CD?
Posted: Aug 10, 08 4:29pm
That sounds cheaper, more practical for a gal in Alberta & more fun than hooking up to a machine. Thanks!
Posted: Jun 23, 08 10:25am
There is new technology called Brain State Conditioning. BSC allows you to train your brain to accomplish what you desire. BSC stresses total individuality in a holistic context, and based on the ratio of brain waves within the individual brain, this allows you to measure success against personal ratios, not that of an expected norm. BSC looks at the degree of balance and harmony your brain contains and provides you with the tools to accomplish an optimum state. This is how Brain State Comditioning is different then Biofeedback and Neurofeedback.
How Are We Different?
Brain State Conditioning™ is based on many aspects of science in Biofeedback and in Neurofeedback which have been historically used to assist people to over-come pathologies. However, Brain State Conditioning™ should be differentiated from Neurofeedback and Biofeedback.
The basic differentiation of these modalities is based on the following:
1. Biofeedback - is a type of learning used to lessen negative reactions for the individual, based on increasing the awareness of the biological process in order to off-set or stop the pathology as it begins to happen biologically and is applicable during the occurrence of the pathology. For example; panic attacks have biological indicators before the attacks hit, if you can learn the biological indicators you can lessen the panic attack by either degree and/or duration. Biofeedback is oriented to solve diagnosed problems in the client.
2. Neurofeedback - is a type of learning used to lessen negative reactions for the individual, based on increasing the awareness of the neurological process in order to off-set or stop the pathology as it begins to happen neurologically. For example; training sensory-motor neurological frequencies to be more dominant for some athletic events. Neurofeedback is oriented to solve problems defined by a normative data base or model along with those problems and symptoms diagnosed by practitioner and client. Neurofeedback will usually be provided to clients in a medical model and will require 30 to multiple hundreds of sessions to achieve desired results.
3. Brain State Conditioning™ – is a type of brain optimization based on brain observance. It is based on a Quantum Physics understanding vs. a Newtonian Physics understanding of the individual, and this philosophical difference cannot be too heavily stressed as it makes everything intended different. Brain State Conditioning™ seeks to show the brain itself – be a mirror for the brain in its ever more optimized state. The client is not trained with learned behavior. In fact a client may sleep through a session and still realize results because the brain can view itself without direct client participation. While not optimal, it is always more efficacious to have the client participate, it is not mandatory.
For example, clients adversarial to the training, such as those with adolescent misbehavior or antisocial behavior issues, can still be assisted to balance and harmonize their brain and achieve a greater homeostasis.
Brain State Conditioning™ is oriented to solve problems having to do with the balance and harmony of the brain energy and is not based on comparison of the client with a normative data base. It is not based on a diagnosis or the symptoms which are presented. Brain State Conditioning™ is based on the degree of balance and harmony the brain contains and seeks to increase this balance and harmony. If you would more information go to
www.neurofitcenter.com
Posted: Jun 23, 08 10:38am
Brain brightening?
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Posted: Jun 23, 08 3:47pm
Tried it. Brain still came out a dingy gray :-(
Posted: Jul 14, 08 7:21pm
Try Calculus
Posted: Aug 10, 08 4:36pm
Theresa, that's how I broke my brain to begin with Thanx. LOL