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Major Differences between Linear Neurofeedback versus NeurOptimal Dynamical Neurofeedback

 

Linear systems require a practitioner to first make a diagnosis in some way, such as using past medical or psychological history, QEEG, (brain maps), or standardized testing to create a protocol-driven program. For this reason, most other systems require the administrator to be a licensed healthcare practitioner. A one-moment in time picture of your brain may also be conducted, that shows the dominant frequencies it is producing in which location at that time. Training usually involves a minimal selection of frequencies in different areas of the brain. The focus of Training will be on one collection of issues for a period of weeks or months until, hopefully, there is resolution. At this point, the Training will be adjusted to address another symptom cluster and so on.  It is a Linear, stepped process, and sometimes the frequencies needed for one set of symptoms can be wrong for another, which can lead to confusion and a trial and error course of Training.

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With NeurOptimal® there is no need for diagnosis. NeurOptimal® is designed to give the brain continual information about what it has just done. The brain then uses this information to organize itself. During a session, the Client usually listens to music or closes their eyes.  As soon as NeurOptimal® detects that the brain is about to make a change, feedback is provided via a very brief pause in the sound. The brain then adapts itself in response to the information, which then provides new and different information for NeurOptimal® to mirror back.

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With NeurOptimal® (or Dynamical Neurofeedback®) the brain is simply interacting adaptively with itself moment by moment, not striving to produce more of some frequency and less of another. While those kinds of changes may be observed, they occur as part of an intrinsic self-organizing principal rather than an artificially imposed constraint. This is the inherent power and safety of NeurOptimal® and how it invites very seamless change.

 

With NeurOptimal® the brain is simply interacting adaptively with itself moment by moment, not striving to produce more of some frequency and less of another. Just designing internal flexibility to respond to both our internal and external environmental conditions.