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While other clinics offer brain mapping assessments through a QEEG, Brain Advancement Center offers similar yet superior mapping through Brain Trainer’s TQ7. The TQ7 is the best way to maximize effective assessments while minimizing negative responses. Brain Trainer’s TQ7 provides a full QEEG focused on practical questions. The TQ7 distinguishes between useful and problematic variances and the client’s strengths to produce a Whole-Brain training plan and Client Pattern Summary within minutes. With less unnecessary data, there is less chance of negative response, which means fewer processing delays and more reasonable fees.
This system allows us to focus more on critical training issues immediately and cost-effectively in a complete, integrated assessment. It means we don’t perform the assessment and send it away for someone else to evaluate and interpret it. Instead, we perform the assessment and have answers within minutes of completing it. The assessment aims to identify problematic areas and determine the best course of treatment to help people make lasting changes in the areas of life where change is desired. This key distinction made the TQ7 brain mapping assessment the obvious choice for Brain Advancement Center clients. Brain training equipment picks up information from sensors (HEG headset or electrodes) placed on your scalp or forehead about how your brain performs and sends this information to a computer.
Your brain is where the mind and body come together. It is similar to training your body to build stamina, strength, or flexibility so you can train your brain. For thousands of years, people have used meditation and prayer to change the brain by training the mind. For the past 50 years, biofeedback technology has made a much faster and easier option possible: Change the mind by training the brain directly!
When you give your brain real-time information about its energy levels, you can teach it to calm down or speed up, to shift more smoothly and become more efficient. These changes carry over into your daily life. A neurofeedback training program or biofeedback therapy can make this happen.
Each brain develops what we could call stable activation patterns–basically energy habits. Examples are using the right hemisphere to do left hemisphere tasks, establishing very sensitive warning systems, and locking functions together instead of letting them flow. We believe that the brain adopted these energy strategies at times of high stress and often went on for some time. They were survival strategies, and they worked. However, because any chaotic energy system like the electrical brain tends to stabilize around specific patterns, the brain continues to use those strategies long after their need has passed, even if they are extremely counter-productive.
Brain training isn’t psychology. It works with spiritual, physical, mental, and emotional issues. It isn’t about fixing mental disorders but about moving toward greater flexibility and range for the brain. Brain training is about giving the brain greater control with better and more functional energy habits, which effectively leads to changes in function and behavior.
Feedback is like a mirror for the brain. One way we learn to control ourselves is by using mirrors. We did something, and the feedback showed us HOW well we did it. It seems kind of simple, but the reality is that the human brain learns almost everything from mirrors. It responds to sensory inputs by taking action. Then, it sees what happens. Even if we don’t LIKE what we see in the mirror, we can still learn from it. Brain training software tells what specific changes you want to make in your brain’s behavior. It sets targets and provides you with biofeedback, such as music, videos, or games, that start and stop depending on whether or not your brain is hitting its targets. Brain Training doesn’t teach tricks or techniques.
Your brain changes itself. You don’t have to “think about” it, or “try.” Your brain gets the feedback when you pay attention to it and move in the desired direction. Here at Brain Advancement Center, we offer you Brain-Trainer neurofeedback to get the results you want.
There is a great deal of experience and evidence in published studies that “psychological” problems can indeed be resolved both faster and more permanently by changing the activation patterns in the brain and body. The client does not have to discuss, “process,” or remember traumas. Instead, by shifting the way the brain produces and distributes energy (which the client does), problems such as anxiety, depression, addictions, obsessions/compulsions, inattention, poor emotional regulation, and many others simply go away. For most clients, this is much more desirable than digging back through old experiences and feelings to try to find the “source” of a negative habit pattern–still with no assurance that it will change! That is not to say that counseling and coaching are not important parts of helping clients (and support systems) adjust to the change. They can work together very effectively. The goal of brain training is not to make us all fall within specific standards. Rather, it is to give each individual a tool to increase their range of options and provide additional ways to feel more fully like themselves.
Almost any negative symptom can be helped with brain training (bio/neurofeedback). The following is a list of just a few things we have treated successfully with our Brain-Trainer© system:
Chronic Pain
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Memory Issues
Traumatic Brain Injuries
Post-Concussion Syndrome
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Depression
Anxiety
Sleep Issues
Autism
Coordination
Dementia
Body Dysmorphia
Eating Disorders
Dyslexia
Epilepsy
Fibromyalgia
Migraines
OCD
Stroke
Substance Use/Abuse
Vertigo
Vision Issues
Academic Performance
The PFC (prefrontal cortex), the brain’s executive center behind the forehead, controls attention and blocks distractions. It integrates a constant flow of sensory, emotional, and memory material and decides what it means and what to do about it.
It screens outgoing physical, verbal, and emotional impulses. It regulates mood. It’s a key to working memory. It’s the center for motivation, planning, and organizing.
HEG measures changes in the levels of metabolic activity in the PFC. As HEG readings rise during a session, the PFC activates, increasing blood supply and blood oxygen levels.
The busiest neurons in the brain have more of what they need to work (oxygen and glucose). As the distribution system improves, the trainee is better able to control executive functions for longer periods.
We know that if you work out and improve aerobic function in your cardiopulmonary system, that doesn’t mean you HAVE to race around all the time. Similarly, with HEG training, you improve PFC function for longer, but you can still sit quietly and relax when you want. HEG requires no assessment. Training time is an hour or two a week. It’s fast and easy to learn.
Like your heart, your brain operates with rhythmic pulses of electricity. Each level of energy has its strengths and weaknesses.
Low Pulses (Creative/Intuitive)—you are thinking or dreaming inside your head, out of contact with your environment, using images rather than words, and tending to leap to answers rather than going through steps. Being stuck here, you may have attention or learning problems or be depressed.
Fast Pulses (Logical/Rational)—processing with words and using steps and sequences, you may be internally or externally focused. Being stuck here, you may be obsessive, compulsive, addictive, or anxious.
Middle Speeds (Zone states)—these are pure awareness states. They include peak states in sports or performance, the ability to do things on auto-pilot, mental stillness, physical relaxation, and presence. Being stuck here, you may drift through tasks and appear unmotivated.
Ideally, we want our brains to shift from slow to fast states smoothly and easily and stay in each as long as desired. Most of us develop energy “habits” and get stuck at one particular speed. We live with its strengths and limitations.
EEG measures electrical patterns in the brain and can guide it into more functional patterns. By changing patterns and connectivity, EEG can calm an overly excited brain, activate a lazy one, improve communication, and release subconscious material. It can train over the entire head and can train multiple locations at the same time.