Hello and welcome back to the Unleashed Podcast, I am your host, Kristina Sjolund. I am thrilled today to share with you my conversation with Becky and Kelsey Bingham as they share about Neuro Feedback and how it helps with ADD, stress, depression and various other disorders. Ready to learn more? Let's go...
Research has emerged showing that the brain is not fixed but is instead very plastic and adaptable. After serious injury, people are able to relearn how to walk, talk, and reason. Brain scans show that neighboring regions of the injured brain have assumed new roles formerly performed by the injured regions. Neuroscientific research has proven that the brain can change.
Many neurological disorders of the brain are indicative of brain dysregulation, and similar research into Neurofeedback has shown that brain activity can be modified to alleviate symptoms of these and other disorders in a safe, accessible, and cost effective way.
Neurofeedback is a proven, non-invasive, non-medicated and permanent solution for ADHD, autism, anxiety, depression, and more. Neurofeedback works to dramatically reduce the symptoms of these disorders, leading to more consistent, focused, and successful work, school, and social performance. Working with their physicians, many of my clients have dramatically reduced and even stopped taking medications.
SHOWNOTES:
• I'm a registered nurse with a Master's degree in psychology, and so to me, I was like, Well yeah, we go to the medication, let's go do the stimulants, and we did that. It took three, maybe four different medications because each one of them made him so sick, we finally found one and it did the job, he could focus, he was able to function in school, and then we went to the yearly physical and found out that he'd stopped growing, so one of the side effects of stimulants can be a decreased appetite, and in his case, it severely impacted his ability to grow normally. (4:32)
• I'm not at all anti-medication, but I just felt like I was empowering people to go and accomplish what their life dreams were, it's like if I can help them get their brain working well, then they can do the hard work and accomplish what they want, so that kind of jumped me into it. (6:21)
• Neurofeedback, at its core is a learning process, so it is based on operant conditioning, which is the idea that if you reward behavior, then that behavior is likely to continue. And so the neuro-feedback we are able to track brain waves in real time, and we are able to essentially give your brain a cookie every time it's doing something that we want it to do. We have different parameters based on what we see in a brain map, which I'll talk about in a second, but we are able to reward your brain when it is doing what we want it to do. (12:49)
• I just feel for people, I just feel for them because this has been an overwhelmingly stressful event and it's been essentially a chronic event that has gone on a year. And all changes all the time, there's no consistency, it's that lack of control and appropriate concern on all different levels, whether it's your own health, whether it's your job, this is a profound experience, and certainly people are having different levels of that experience. (17:24)
• We see a lot of kids who, with the pandemic, we're seeing a lot of behavior issues that are cropping back up. Some of the behaviors were done and gone, then they had improved with training, and now there's a little bit of a regression because of all the stress, but in general, we do tend to see a lot of improvement with kids with our feedback training at a base level. Whatever they're coming in with, usually ADHD or a learning disability of some kind, often they respond better to neuro feedback. (23:07)
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• Kristina's Website: https://kristinasjolund.com
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LEARN MORE ABOUT TODAY'S GUESTS:
• Website: https://www.neurosolutioncenter.com
WHEN DOES IT AIR...
MARCH 10, 2021