Neurofeedback is training your brain to self-regulate. Self-regulation allows your brain perform smoothly and function efficiently.  This helps your nervous system to shift to appropriate states, stabilize uncomfortable and dysregulated physiological symptoms, and strengthen appropriate brain performances.  Neurofeedback is also called EEG Biofeedback because it looks at brain activity via the EEG or electroencephalogram and gives feedback to your brain regarding activity and performance.   Neurofeedback trains your brain for optimal health and performance.

The Benefits Infraslow Fluctuation (ISF) Neurofeedback

Neurofeedback is an alternative to more traditional methods of treatment.

In a nutshell, it is a type of biofeedback. Biofeedback is a method of gaining information by monitoring body conditions (such as skin temperature, blood pressure, heart rate, etc) to help promote control over normally involuntary bodily processes through conditioning.

Neurofeedback monitors brainwaves, or electrical patterns in the brain. These brain waves can be recorded, measured, and displayed in digital form. Neurofeedback uses the process of recording and measuring brain waves to create a signal called feedback. This feedback helps the brain learn self-regulation.

Infraslow fluctuation (ISF) neurofeedback training is a type of neurofeedback that focuses on observing the lowest frequencies in the brain.

The earliest research on these ultra-slow waves suggests ISF works by regulating autonomic nervous system function, the flight, fight or freeze response.

More importantly, ISF regulates the activation of brain areas linked in chronic autonomic stress by helping the brain communicate between the autonomic and emotional networks.

This in turn helps separate regions responsible for emotion from the autonomic distress signal.

Simply put, ISF training impacts the brains flexibility to move from fight, flight or freeze to rest and repair.

ISF coordinates processes in the brain with processes in the body.  The heart, the blood, the digestive system, and the Autonomic Nervous System are all coordinated at these very slow frequencies.

This synchronizing effect works to produce a brain and body that has the flexibility to respond appropriately to the environment.

The goal of ISF training is to reach a condition of homeostasis in mind and body that simultaneously promotes a calm and alert state.

This more flexible state helps to treat a variety of mental health illnesses and bothersome conditions.

Moreover, ISF training allows an individual to sleep better, attend more fully, feel more in charge of his or her emotional life, and changes a host of troublesome behaviors.

In plain English, when young Johnny is presented with new material in Algebra, he focuses on the lesson and not the distracting noise out the window.

At work, Betty is able to remain relaxed and centered rather than anxious in the face of stress producing moments.