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Neurofeedback
Neurofeedback is a scientifically recognized method for measuring and permanently influencing brain activity. Highly sensitive measuring devices are used to analyze brain waves in real time.
What is Neurofeedback?
The computer-assisted evaluation of the data enables the use of targeted training for specific brain areas and overall brain activity. During the sessions, the brain waves are used by the connected computer to control visual, acoustic and tactile signals on a training screen via measuring electrodes attached to the scalp. This constellation is painless and without time delay. If the respective brain function, e.g. the vegetative tension, changes, the image and sound signal on the training screen also changes immediately.
If the brain activity moves in the desired direction (e.g. relaxation or concentration), the display on the screen becomes more pleasant (higher image sharpness, better sound, better volume, better image brightness, speed, better screen detail). If the brain activity goes in an undesired direction, this causes disturbances on the screen and in the sound. The brain experiences this as irritating and tries to achieve a better result through reflex-like adaptation.
The repeated adaptations of the brain’s reaction and the associated sense of achievement promote learning processes through operant conditioning. This can also lead to new synaptic connections and therefore lasting results. Neurofeedback therefore has the advantage over medication, for example, that the therapy only has to be carried out over a manageable period of time until the therapy effects are automated.
Neurofeedback training therefore leads to a continuous learning process during the treatment period, which has a lasting effect on the ability to perform and concentrate and on the stability of various brain activities. The largely subconscious control of brain activity is thus steered in the desired direction through direct feedback.
Treatment
In principle, the treatment is suitable for all age groups. The training is particularly promising for children from school age or for senior citizens to maintain mental performance.
The treatment is also being used more and more frequently by managers or professional groups in general who are under constant stress.
It is primarily used as support to promote the ability to relax and generally improve attention, concentration and impulse control, and in addition to increasing stress tolerance, the treatment is also suitable for various therapeutic applications. Possible areas of treatment include attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD, ADD), but also learning disabilities or mental illnesses, epilepsy or tinnitus.