Completing the ADD Centre Brain
Training Program results in:
Sharper Focus
Improved Attention
Improved Stress Management
Reduced Anxiety
Increased Calm
Better Self-Regulation Skills
Brain
Training, also
called Neurofeedback or EEG biofeedback, uses your brain’s
ability to learn and adapt to improve brain function. This exercise for the
brain uses a computer to give immediate feedback of your mental state and it
results in positive changes due to neuroplasticity, the brain’s ability
to change with new learning.
To achieve improved
brain performance small sensors are placed on the top of the head and on
each ear. These electrodes measure
brainwave activity and relay the information back through a computer. The client knows instantly if they are “in
the zone”, showing a healthy brainwave pattern associated with calm focus. A
trainer sits with them as a coach, providing strategies that promote staying in
the zone. Eventually they learn to produce that mental state of calm focus in
everyday life and become more effective at school or work, in social
interactions and in sports.
When the
brainwave patterns shift into a CALM, FOCUSED, RELAXED state, then the computer
feedback facilitates maintaining that state, and the brain begins to learn.
Here is a
sample feedback screen, the BOWLING SCREEN:
When the client feels calm, focused and mentally relaxed the bowling ball moves down the alley and gets a strike!
Here is another example: SAILBOAT RACE SCREEN:
The AIM is to get the Green Boat to win! This is done without using a keyboard or mouse – only your brain!
The Green boat will move ahead only when the client is calm,
focused and mentally relaxed. The Green
boat is competing against Inattention/Daydreaming (yellow boat) and anxiety and
worry (pink boat). The client can use
their breathing and heart rate at the bottom to help them win the race. Learning to achieve greater heart rate
variability (breathing and heart rate in sync) improves stress management and
helps increase calm, alert brainwave patterns.
Self-regulation
skills are better predictors of success in life than intelligence.
Neurofeedback is a well-researched method that improves self-regulation of
attention and emotions. Better self-regulation skills lead to improved
performance in athletics, studying and employment.
