Neurofeedback Guide. What it is and how it works

September 5, 2024 | 4 min read

Did you know that there are areas in your brain responsible for resting and recharging the mind when you’re doing nothing?

However, in order to be able to recharge even without sleep, just by sitting quietly for 5 minutes, these areas need to be synchronized within alpha, theta, and gamma frequencies.

The habit of maintaining constant, long-term stress leads to desynchronization of these areas and to a significantly reduced ability of the brain to recharge throughout the day. The result? A prematurely fatigued brain, incapable of sustained performance. Inefficient in completing daily tasks.

At Neuralyst, such aspects are given top priority when configuring neural training strategies, because they form the foundation of a healthy brain capable of performance. Think of Formula 1 races—what would happen if the drivers didn’t periodically stop at the pits to change their tires…

Did you know that the habit of scrolling on your phone, tablet, or laptop through apps with images like Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok overstimulates the visual cortex to the point where it begins to seek help and energy from other brain areas? Moreover, the primary areas that will be deprived of their energy are those involved in… attention and motivation. From that moment, the gradual development of attention deficit symptoms begins, leading to an inversion in the brain’s electrical functioning. Essentially, the brain, in an effort to help you, the owner, sacrifices executive functions to support facial recognition and video processing activities required by scrolling on such apps. Once this habit is built, the first things that are affected are:

  • the ability to focus in real world
  • the capacity for empathetic connection with others
  • short-term memory
  • motivation to be productive in what you do
  • libido and attraction to others
  • the ability to fall asleep and to maintain quality sleep
  • connnection with your own body and feelings

This is precisely why at Neuralyst, we carefully analyze such emerging patterns of electrical inversion to correct them during neural training sessions.

There are currently several types of neurofeedback technologies on the market.

However, their effectiveness depends on the experience and seriousness of the team applying the electrodes at the correct points, the technical precision ant expertise required to support the delicate process of neural relearning, and the configuration of effective intervention and support strategies.

The technologies used at Neuralyst allow us to create a precise brain map and configure advanced neural training algorithms. All this is backed by professionals with years of expertise in neurofeedback.

Our neurofeedback technology determines the brain’s electrical functioning patterns with the help of electrodes placed on the scalp in very precisely determined points. It analyzes characteristics such as synchrony, connectivity, frequency, amplitude, and brainwave coherence, extracting cues for the strategy of subsequent neural training sessions.

Even the simple report generated from brain mapping provides extremely valuable information that can explain why a person exhibits certain behaviors in daily life.

We then identify the most effective neural training paths and technologies, considering the dynamic functioning of the entire brain, not just problem areas. During the training sessions, the brain learns to produce healthy waves that are integrated across the entire cortical and subcortical sphere.

In these sessions, the computer “listens” to brain activity through the electrodes placed on the client’s head and, based on the learning strategy configured by Neuralyst specialists, provides feedback to the brain both visually (the client watches a special screen with extremely fast response times) and audibly (the client also wears a pair of headphones). This guides brain activity toward producing a healthy, complex wave.

During a single session, we help the brain learn multiple healthy, complex waves, designed synergistically and coherently for each meeting.

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