Bio and Neurofeedback
Improve mental flexibility & performance
Biofeedback
Bring your mind and body into balance and thereby improve your performance.Learn to perceive and control your body more consciously through biofeedback. Improving self-regulation increases physical and mental resilience, with the advantage of better performance. This is a central component in the treatment of various mental disorders, but also physical illnesses.
Biofeedback can be used to measure and report back on physical symptoms impacting on our nervous system. Many of these are not always within our awareness. (e.g. heart rate, muscle tension, skin presentation, body temperature, blood flow and blood pressure). With measuring tools, biofeedback provides information about our body processes and can thus help to connect body and mind. This provides us with the opportunity to learn how to consciously control these processes, thus regulate our body better. This is especially useful when dealing with stressful situations that can lead to emotional and physical distress.
Biofeedback is also effective as a supportive method in the treatment of mental disorders.
In addition to improving physical self-regulation, biofeedback can also be used specifically in the following areas:
- Increase athletic performance (peak performance).
- Improve sleep.
- A treatment for migraines/tension headaches.
- Psychological trauma disorders.
- Anxiety/panic.
- Treatment of depression.
- As part of the treatment of ADHD/ADS.
Where indicated, we combine biofeedback treatment with neurofeedback to achieve even more targeted improvements, these can be defined as:
Neurofeedback
Train your brain – mental flexibility is a factor for success.To cope with the demands of a rapidly changing environment, our brain increasingly needs the ability to adapt and be flexible. This adaptability of our brain (neuroplasticity) gives us the opportunity for growth and change throughout our lives. Our brain is designed to learn and master new challenges. Neurofeedback challenges our brain - and trains it to function better and more efficiently.
Neurofeedback (a form of biofeedback, also called EEG biofeedback) gives us information about the functioning of our brain in "real time". This is done by measuring brain wave activity with sensors (like an EEG). Changes in brain activity can be seen immediately, using sound and audio as a stimulus. If brain activity changes in the desired way, the person receives "reward feedback" (e.g. the stimulus such as a film is better and brighter). The brain then seeks more of this stimulation, can recognize the pattern contained in the feedback and thus changes its activity in the desired direction.
Neurofeedback is a non-invasive, pain free, technically supported and scientifically based brain training. Neurofeedback is a form of computer-assisted learning.
Neurofeedback hopes to improve brain performance in general. It is important for our brain to be able to focus on an activity when necessary, maintain concentration as well as thinking creatively. Furthermore, the brain should remain activatable when necessary, but also be able to recover and regenerate. Through neurofeedback, the brain learns to better switch between these different states, and you learn to control these brain abilities in a targeted manner. This means we are better equipped to master daily challenges. Neurofeedback promotes the ability to self-regulate.
We also use neurofeedback as a supporting and complementary tool in the psychotherapeutic treatment of mental difficulties. Research has shown that mental health issues often correlate with certain brain wave patterns.
In particular with the case of stress-related illnesses (or trauma-related disorders), bio-/neurofeedback can effectively reduce the over-excitation of the autonomic nervous system and thus shorten the duration of treatment.
Neurofeedback is also suitable for supporting the treatment of learning disabilities (such as Dyscalculia and Dyslexia).
Neurofeedback use cases:
- To generally improve brain performance.
- To increase physical (athletic) performance.
- To enhance the treatment of psychological trauma disorders (e.g. PTSD, cPTSD).
- For burnout treatment.
- For dealing with high levels of stress (in cases of chronic stress).
- To improve sleep quality.
- Fort the treatment of depression.
- As part of the treatment of anxiety disorders/panic attacks.
- Additional support for dyscalculia.
- Additional support for reading and writing difficulties such as Dyslexia.
- To enhance treatment of ADHD/ADS.