Epilepsy is the occurrence of two or more seizures that are not provoked by
reversible causes such as very low blood sugar or a fever. Epilepsy means that there is a tendency to have
recurrent seizures.Epilepsy treatment using EEG biofeedback or
Neurofeedback is a promising approach for the treatment of children with
Epilepsy and many Special Needs.
EEG
biofeedback or Neurofeedback is a learning strategy that works to
improve the brain's ability to produce certain healthy brainwaves. You can think of it as exercise therapy for the brain. EEG
Assessment records a patient's brain wave activity. In patients with epilepsy, the electrical activity of
the brain is disturbed. That disturbance may be detected by EEG. The pattern of brain wave activity may help
physicians diagnose seizure type. In patients with partial epilepsy, EEG may also help physicians pinpoint the
area of seizure onsetWhen information about a person's own brainwave characteristics is made available to him/her,
they can learn to regulate them.
Neurofeedback instruments show the kind of waves a person is producing, making it
possible for the individual to learn to change in ways to improve attention. It is essentially self-regulation
training. It is ideally suited to those with Epilepsy.
Neurofeedback may be the natural
alternative to medication such as Ritalin. Neurofeedback may the answer for
children and adult with Special Needs such those mentioned above.
Neurofeedback is a process of brain wave
therapy to modify the trainee's own brain waves activity so that this gradual learning process can train the brain
to function with better control and stability.
Neurofeedback is based on the work of Professor M. Barry Sterman of the UCLA
School of Medicine, Departments of Neurobiology and Behavioural Psychiatry. Professor Sterman recognised how brain
function can be altered and normalised by operant conditioning of the EEG. QEEG and neurotherapy has been endorsed
by the American Psychological Association as within the realm of psychologists with
appropriate training. Neurofeedback or Neurotherapy training to decrease slow wave activity and
increase fast, desynchronised EEG activity has been used for over twenty years to ameliorate Epilepsy is well
documented in medical literature.
it enhances the ability of th c individual to access and
maintain different states of physiological arousal
it enhances and supports the mechanisms by which the brain
manages cortical hyperexcitability
it reinforces equilibrium states i.e.
homeostasis
Thus, Neurofeedback training can
be seen as brain training or brain learning i.e. harnessing the brain's intrinsic ability to learn about
itself!
Neurofeedback is a painless, brain
therapy approach for Epilepsy that allows the individual to gain information about his or her brainwave activity
and use that information to produce changes in brainwave activity during brain wave training session. NO
Electricity is input into the brain. Hence, Neurofeedback Therapy is safe and may be fun too!
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