An introduction to the innovative therapy that restores optimal functioning of the brain after physical or emotional trauma

• Provides an alternative to the more invasive therapies of electroshock and drugs

• Shows how this therapy helps ameliorate anxiety and depression as well as childhood developmental disorders

• Includes extraordinary case histories that reveal the powerful results achieved

According to the Centers for Disease Control, each year 260,000 people are hospitalized with traumatic brain injuries. The Brain Injury Association reports 1.5 million injuries, many of which go undiagnosed but which lead to all kinds of cognitive and emotional impairments. While neuroscience has learned an enormous amount about the connection between brain trauma and personality changes, the methods proposed for resolving these alterations are generally limited to drug therapy or surgeries.

This book explores a much less invasive but highly effective technique of restoring brain function: the Low Energy Neurofeedback System (LENS). Developed by Dr. Len Ochs in 1992, it has had extraordinary results using weak electromagnetic fields to stimulate brain-wave activity and restore brain flexibility and function. The treatment works across a broad spectrum of human activity, increasing the brain’s abilities to adapt to the imbalances caused by physical trauma or emotional disorders--both on the basic level and in the more subtle areas of cognitive, affective, and spiritual processes that make us truly human. While the treatment has had remarkable results with individuals who have experienced severe physical trauma to the head and brain, Stephen Larsen sees it also as an important alternative to chemical approaches for such chronic behavioral disorders as ADHD and monopolar and bipolar depression.

Author: Stephen Larsen
Paperback:  456 pages
Company: Healing Arts Press  (2006-04-21) (2006-05-02)
ISBN: 1594770840
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Neurofeedback has been around a long time, since the 1960s when it was known as EEG biofeedback, and it has become one of the fastest growing segments of the mind-body medicine movement. The Neurofeedback Book is the first true textbook dedicated to this area of healthcare. It is written for peopl at all levels of knowledge in the field and is a must-have for those exploring alternative medicine modalities. This book is written to assist you in understanding the basis of neurofeedback and the fundamentals of how to do EEG biofeedback.

Author: Michael Thompson
Paperback:  457 pages
Company: Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback  (2003-11)
ISBN: 1887114068
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Author: Anna Wise
Paperback:  288 pages
Company: Tarcher  (1997-01-27)
ISBN: 0874778506
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A primer for therapists interested in adding neurotherapy to their practices.

This book introduces the reader to neurofeedback, including its history and scientific basis. Case studies help the reader understand how these techniques are applied to therapeutic situations such as ADD and learning difficulties. Information about training, setting up an office, and neurofeedback equipment are provided. 282 pages, 32-page color insert.

Author: John N. Demos
Hardcover:  282 pages
Company: W. W. Norton & Company  (2004-12-10)
ISBN: 0393704505
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Can you fix your own neurologic problems without resorting to drugs? Science writer Jim Robbins suggests that some such conditions--like epilepsy, autism, and depression--could yield to a recently developed technique called neurofeedback. His book A Symphony in the Brain describes the process, its evolution from the 1970s fad of biofeedback, its practitioners, and some of its success stories. Using computers to quickly provide information on real-time EEG, practitioners train patients to control global or local brain states--or so the theory goes. Unfortunately for its proponents, there are still no rigorous research data showing conclusive results. Robbins makes a good case that the lack of research is due more to scientific turf battles and a drug-dependent medical establishment than to any fault of neurofeedback. Some of the case studies he explores, of children and adults brought out of comas or trained to reduce their epileptic seizure frequency, suggest that we ought to look more deeply and rigorously into the technique. Whether it works can only be determined by controlled studies, which may be forthcoming. In the meantime, Robbins provides contact lists and additional research information for interested readers, as well as the inspiration to pursue a potentially life-saving treatment. --Rob Lightner

Author: Jim Robbins
Paperback:  272 pages
Company: Grove Press  (2001-07-10)
ISBN: 0802138195
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This breakthrough book presents a disarmingly simple idea: The way we pay attention in daily life can play a critical role in our health and well-being. According to Dr. Les Fehmi, a clinical psychologist and researcher, many of us have become stuck in “narrow-focus attention”: a tense, constricted, survival mode of attention that holds us in a state of chronic stress—and which lies at the root of common ailments including anxiety, depression, ADD, stress-related migraines, and more. To improve these conditions, Dr. Fehmi explains that we must learn to return to a relaxed, diffuse, and creative form of attention, which he calls “Open Focus.”

This highly readable and empowering book offers straightforward explanations and simple exercises on how to shift into a more calm, open style of attention that reduces stress, improves health, and enhances performance. The Open-Focus Brain features eight essential attention exercises for improving health, along with an audio CD in which the author guides the reader through fundamental Open-Focus exercises that can be used on a regular basis to enhance our health and well-being.

Dr. Fehmi writes, “Everyone has the ability to heal their nervous systems, to dissolve their pain, to slow down and yet accomplish more, to experience the deeper side of life—in short, to change their lives for the better dramatically.” At last readers can learn the techniques that Dr. Fehmi has offered to thousands of clients—the same drug-free, safe, and effective techniques that have led to remarkable and long-lasting results.The Open-Focus Brain offers readers a revolutionary, drug-free way to:

alleviate depression, anxiety, and ADD

reduce stress-related chronic pain

optimize mental and physical performance

Includes a 60-minute audio CD:

essential attention exercises from the book, led by Dr. Fehmi

listeners learn how to "train the brain" to reduce stress, anxiety, chronic pain, and more

safe and effective techniques used in Dr. Fehmi's clinic for decades

 

Listen to an excerpt from the audio CD online in MP3 format:

Track 1: Introduction

Track 2: Head and Hands

Author: Les Fehmi, Jim Robbins
Hardcover:  176 pages
Company: Trumpeter  (2007-08-28) (2007-08-28)
ISBN: 1590303768
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Author: Robert W. Hill, Eduardo Castro
Paperback:  285 pages
Company: Hampton Roads Publishing Company  (2002-05)
ISBN: 1571742549
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Neurofeedback is a cutting-edge, drug-free therapeutic technique used by over a thousand licensed therapists in North America to treat a range of conditions from attention deficit and hyperactivity disorders to epilepsy, stroke, anxiety, migraine, and depression. First popularized in the 1970s, this naturalistic method is based on the idea that we can control our brain activity and that, through training, the brain can learn to modify its own electrical patterns for more efficient processing or to overcome various states of dysfunction.

In Biofeedback for the Brain, Dr. Paul G. Swingle describes in clear and coherent language how these procedures work. With numerous actual case examples, readers follow the progress of clients from the initial "brain map" that shows the location and severity of the neurological abnormalities to the various stages of treatment. Conditions often considered untreatable by conventional health practitioners respond positively to neurotherapeutic treatment and Swingle describes many of these remarkable recoveries. Other chapters describe the use of neurotherapy for a variety of surprising purposes, including performance training for elite athletes, of which the most famous example is the Italian soccer team who considered the technique to be their "secret weapon" in attaining a World Cup victory.

Despite wide-ranging success stories and the endorsement of the American Psychological Association, many health care practitioners remain skeptical of neurofeedback and the procedures are still not well-known by the public or conventional health care providers. This book provides a thorough, definitive, and highly readable presentation of this remarkable health care alternative that offers millions of individuals a chance for healing.

Author: Paul G. Swingle
Hardcover:  240 pages
Company: Rutgers University Press  (2008-05-30)
ISBN: 0813542871
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Dr. Hardt's Alpha Training has given me more awareness and ability to increase these benefits for my clients and in my own life as well ...
-James Arthur Ray, Speaker, Author, Harmonic Wealth

If you're at all serious about your emotional and spiritual growth, this is going to absolutely blow your mind.
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There's a leap in me
And I must let go
To fall freely into the hands
Of life - To touch the core
Of my being- to be in the flow...
-Excerpt from poem written by Rev. Dr. Michael Beckwith Inspired by Alpha Training at Biocybernaut Institute Reprinted with permission.

From the Introduction:

How would you like to access all of your brain s innate capacity to learn, invent, create and solve problems? Would it improve your life if you could think more clearly, access your intuition, reduce stress and anxiety, and prevent your brain from aging? We ve all heard that we use only a tiny percentage of our brain s natural capacity. If you've ever wondered why, The Art of Smart Thinking will provide some answers and solutions.

Every experience you have is the result of certain brain waves. Unfortunately, most of us are only accessing two of our four brain waves, and the two left out, Alpha and Theta, are actually the most important for exceptional creativity and intelligence! .

You can learn to produce these two types of brain waves on command, which will allow you to:

• Restore your youthful brain wave patterns
• Enhance your creativity, empathy and problem-solving ability
• Improve your personal relationships
• Reduce your feelings of stress, anxiety, anger and depression
• Enhance your special skills and abilities
• Achieve physical and mental peak performance states The Zone
• Improve your mental clarity and memory

Author: James Hardt
Paperback:  350 pages
Company: Biocybernaut Press  (2007-09-01)
ISBN: 0979573009
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Author: Allen C. Bowling
Paperback:  275 pages
Company: Demos Medical Publishing  (2006-11-13)
ISBN: 1932603549
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