New DVD "Unlock your Brain's Potential”

I now have copies at my office of the newly released DVD brochure "Unlock your Brain's Potential". It features two powerful and compelling new case studies regarding autism and addictions.This new release also includes the original video case studies of people who have successfully used neurofeedback for migraines, ADD/ADHD, autism, peak performance and PTSD.

This DVD describes the basics of how and why neurofeedback works and answers some common questions such as:

· "How does this work?"
· "What is it doing to my brain?"
· "What will happen during a session?"
· "How many sessions will I have to do?"

If you would like a free copy of this DVD, you can stop by my office or contact me by phone or email to request that I mail you one.

Neurofeedback improves autism spectrum disorders

In two recent 2009 editions of Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, a group of researchers from The Netherlands reported on the effectiveness of neurofeedback in improving executive functioning in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and its long-term positive effects.

Seven autistic children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders received a neurofeedback treatment that aimed to improve their level of executive control. After 40 training sessions, the children's executive capacities were found to have improved greatly relative to pre-treatment assessment on a range of executive function tasks. Additional improvements were found in the children's social, communicative and typical behavior, relative to a waiting list control group. These findings suggest a basic executive function impairment in ASD that can be alleviated through specific neurofeedback treatment. A 12-month followup showed that the improvement of executive functions and social behavior were maintained.

Neurofeedback helps surgeons improve skills

A team of researchers has found that trainee eye surgeons can significantly improve their surgical skills by regulating their own brainwave activity, using a process called neurofeedback.

Published in BMC Neuroscience (August 2009), the study, led by Tomas Ros and Professor John Gruzelier, both from Goldsmiths, University of London, specifically looked at the effects of self-regulating brainwaves on National Health Service trainee ophthalmic microsurgeons.

Neurofeedback is a kind of "brain training" which involves monitoring brain activity with sensors, so that individuals can see the activity on a screen. The individual being monitored can then see his or her brain activity in real time and can then try to affect the activity (self-regulation). The idea is that the individual can then "train" his or her brain to perform a specific task more efficiently.The study found that neurofeedback training provided significant improvement in surgical technique in the trainee eye surgeons while also considerably reducing the time they spend performing the surgery.