NEUROFEEDBACK

Neurofeedback training can therefore improve cognitive, emotional or physical disorders.

Both later worked on a project for NASA to test the effects of exposure to lunar landing gear fuel. They used the cats from their laboratory again. In most cases, as toxic smoke levels increased, the cerebral instability of cats increased, leading to convulsions and even death. However, some of the cats seemed to be immune. The cats that were immune were the ones that had been used in the brain training experiment a few years earlier. The RMS training had given these cats resilient brains to resist toxic fumes. They then trained many astronauts with feedback parameters to improve the brain's adaptation to the external atmosphere. Even today, neurofeedback is still part of astronaut training. A little later, they used the feedback approach to reduce seizures in patients with epilepsy. 60% of his subjects reduced their seizures by 20 to 100% with lasting results over time. 

In the 1970s, given the cultural movements of the time, neurofeedback moved away from medical vision, it became more holistic and acquired a dubious reputation as a tool for meditation and spiritual development. As these practices were generally applied by monks, yogis and healers, this approach was in opposition to the scientific beliefs of the time. 

Thus, neurofeedback was ruled out by many researchers. Yet empirical research showed that neurofeedback was working and that it was not "phantasmagorical medicine". It was a method of change and hope for people. The research therefore continued.

In the 1980s, neurofeedback was applied to attention deficit disorders and in the 1990s to other psychological conditions and conditions related to central nervous system deregulation. For the past ten years, thanks to neuroscience, we now know that there is a correlation between the central nervous system, the immune system, emotions, physical and mental health. We also know that new neurons are created throughout life and that the brain can change at any age: this is called neuroplasticity.

  

"The brain can change physically, chemically and functionally. Stimulating these complex natural processes makes it possible to achieve a much greater change than with any drug. » 

Dr. Michael Merzenich, neuroscientist.

For most doctors, neurofeedback is still unknown. However, brain wave monitoring is no longer at the experimental level. Many scientific studies have assessed how people's brains work in various states such as stress or mental difficulties. Thanks to advances in computer science and half a century of development of brain wave observation equipment, neurofeedback practitioners now have sophisticated and highly effective affordable precision tools.

The principle of Neurofeedback is to detect the electrical activity of your neurons using sensors placed on your head. These sensors are connected to an encoder that amplifies the signal and transforms it into a digital signal that can be read by sophisticated software. When the software detects "an incipient disturbance" it informs the brain by feedback. This feedback allows the brain to correct itself in order to function more effectively.

Today, neurofeedback applications are multiple and the implementations are very varied. This ranges from the medical community using complex normative or 3D neurofeedback systems to target symptoms specific to the single automated system that cause the brain to self-regulate and function better as a whole.

William Ross Ashby, English psychiatrist-engineer and lʼun of the fathers of cybernetics also took part in the design of this unique Neurofeedback system. It is the most successful to date.

Neuroergonomics is a discipline that prevents our brain from suffering (stress, burn out, sadness, anxiety, ...) and seeks to optimize the functioning of the brain in its environment. Neuroergonomics focuses on performance and well-being (For more information you can read Parasuraman's book published in 2006: Neuroergonomics - the Brain at work).

In a traditional neurofeedback system, a "neurological snapshot" of a subject's brain is taken at a "T" moment during an initial session, and then, during subsequent sessions, real-time neurofeedback is used to force the amplitude of signals to decrease or increase in order to reach a predefined state, determined by an operator (usually a doctor or other neurofeedback expert).

NeurOptimal® is the most advanced form of second-generation neurofeedback on the market. The software works in real time in 8 frequency bands and on 20 targets at a time for each cerebral hemisphere. This simultaneous work avoids the side effects that occur when focusing on a single target or when forcing signals to reach a specific amplitude. NeurOptimal® is interested in sudden changes in amplitude. Thanks to 5 sensors, neural activity is measured 256 times per second. This electrical activity recorded in real time is associated with music or animation. When a sudden change in the amplitude of the nascent signal is detected, the software immediately informs the brain in return by an auditory or visual interruption (negative feedback). 

It is the simultaneous association of this sudden variation in nascent amplitude and this interruption that triggers the mechanisms of neuroplasticity, a natural characteristic of the brain that consists of permanent modification. This feedback has a meaning specific to your brain, since it is your brain itself that causes these interruptions. 

As the sessions prowesses your brain reorganizes itself and learns to function better. For the user, learning requires no effort because it works on the subconscious level unlike conventional equipment where the user must make a conscious effort to achieve a specific objective and obtain a reward (positive feedback). 

A NeurOptimal® session is a real moment of relaxation.

This technology has no side effects and requires no effort on the part of the customer. It is a non-medical approach that does not require a diagnosis. 

It is not a treatment but a training that teaches the brain to optimize its functioning.

Although not a treatment, Dynamical Neurofeedback® can improve a variety of physical, cognitive or emotional issues. It can improve your personal, professional, academic, athletic or artistic performance, providing you with general well-being, a better sense of organization, better performance, better concentration, achieving your goals, or surpassing yourself.