The NeurOptimal® Approach to Neurofeedback
Brain training based on your nervous system’s innate capacity for self-regulation, self-organization, and self-correction.
Welcome to your Nervous System.
Your nervous system is designed to process massive amounts of information. Its job is to take in and integrate information and then organize a response to that information in a way that minimizes discomfort for you. In turn, NeurOptimal® is designed to work seamlessly with your nervous system. It elegantly communicates in the same way your brain takes in and processes information.
NeurOptimal® simply provides information to your brain about what your brain is doing; it doesn’t force your brain to respond to that information in a certain way. Quite powerfully, it puts your brain in charge of determining what’s best for it. After all, since your brain is a self-organizing, self-correcting system, there is no human being capable of making better decisions for your brain than your brain itself.
This system is going to provide your brain with comprehensive, adaptive information about what it’s doing and let your brain determine how best to respond to that information. NeurOptimal® assumes that each individual nervous system, when presented with accurate and timely information about its own activity, will make adjustments on its own behalf more efficiently than any predetermined ‘treatment’ we might impose on it from the outside.
Train your Brain.
Similar to how we develop habits in our external lives, our brains develop habits. These brain habits are electrical patterns of activity generated in response to incoming information. Habits help your brain organize itself and respond efficiently to the vast amounts of information it receives. The ways that we think, feel, behave and perform in our external lives are outgrowths of our brain’s habits.
Over time and in different environments, habits can lose their effectiveness and/or become counter-productive. Like a mirror, NeurOptimal® neurofeedback presents information to your brain about what it’s doing, which allows your brain to self-correct, if needed. Brain training can help your brain break old habits that no longer serve you and respond in new ways.
NeurOptimal® neurofeedback helps you move away from discomfort, no matter what that discomfort is. Struggle and strain are simply signals that your brain is not functioning at its best. You may describe it as a diagnosis, a symptom, or a pattern of behavior. The symptom doesn’t matter; a diagnosis is immaterial. If your brain is involved in the task, process or function, neurofeedback training can potentially help.
NeurOptimal®:
A Scientifically Customized Approach
NeurOptimal® adapts itself moment by moment to the user’s nervous system. Each brain works differently, for it has developed in tandem with a specific environment and your own unique experiences. NeurOptimal® doesn’t compare you to an outside ‘norm’ and direct your brain to match those arbitrarily set frequencies of activity. It only compares your brain to itself, moment by moment.
NeurOptimal® neurofeedback monitors your brain’s electrical activity and alerts you when it detects sudden changes in activity patterns. These sudden changes extend beyond the thresholds that have been auto-tuned to you by the software and are constantly being recalculated based on your brain’s activity. The thresholds are not predetermined, rather, they change with you, as you learn. THAT’S where the sophistication lies. This is personalized brain training. How your nervous system responds to this information is unique to you, which is why it can have wide-ranging benefits for different people.
Why a Nonlinear, Dynamical® Approach Matters.
NeurOptimal® adapts itself moment by moment to the user’s nervous system. NeurOptimal® takes a very different approach to neurofeedback training than any other system available today. It is the only nonlinear, dynamical® neurofeedback system on the market. This chart summarizes why these qualities are important:
