Well-being Technology
"Anyone can learn brain exercise; it is easy, simple and as real as the ground we stand on".
Hershel Toomim Sc.D, Neuroscientist, Innovator, Giant Psychophysiologist at 90 (6/19/1916-7/19/2011).
The Science
What Is Neurofeedback?
A Self-Awareness-Self-Control Feedback Loop
Brain exercise relies on a process known as neurofeedback. Neurofeedback trains your brain in the same way you learn any other skill; practice and feedback.
Brain Wave Amplifier
How Is Brain Training Done?
Neurofeedback uses advanced signal processing to translate your brain activity into instant information that you can recognize, such as line graphs, or some other video or audio cue.
Several times a second your brain activity is compared to your goal.
The software rewards movement in the right direction and it also lets you know when you've become distracted.
Over time, training helps you learn how to influence your brain activity and move closer to your target.
How Does Brain Training Work?
Information about your perceptions and sensations, behaviors and actions, is transmitted by way of the billions of cells or neurons in your brain. These brain cells communicate using electrical impulses or currents in your brain. These communication pathways transmit information that helps you think, feel, and experience life. When this neuronal highway is active, pulses, or synchronized interacting brainwaves are created. Sophisticated software is used to amplify and analyze the wave patterns. The frequency and amplitude of the brainwaves are categorized and visually displayed on an electroencephalograph, or EEG.
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Neurofeedback monitors changes in your brain's energy consumption using simple reflected red light.
Just like any muscle, the blood supply increases in brain regions you exercise.
Map And Train Your Nervous System With Biofeedback
Read The Research
Anxiety, Anger, Depression
Anxiety, Anger, Depression, TBI and HEG
Hershel Toomim and Robert Joneson, 2000.
The "Thinking Cap"
Clinical Observations with Brain Blood Flow Biofeedback - the “Thinking Cap”
Hershel Toomim, Sci.D. and Marjorie Toomim, Ph.D.
Autism & ADD
Neurofeedback using Hemoencephalography: An Additional Treatment for Autism and A.D.D.
Penkhae Limsila M.D., M.Sc. (About 65% Thai, 35% English)
EEG or HEG?
Traumatic Brain Injury
Passive Infrared Hemoencephalography for Traumatic Brain Injury: A Preliminary Investigation
Near Infrared Hemoencephalography for Right Frontal Dysfunction,
Robert Coben, Ph.D., BCIA EEG, D- qEEG
HEG Therapy
Intentional Increase of Regional Cerebral Blood Oxygenation Using Hemoencephalography (HEG): An Efficient Brain Exercise Therapy
Hershel Toomim, PhD, William Mize, MD, Paul Yeekwong PhD, Marjorie Toomim, PhD, Robert Marsh AA, Gerald P. Kozlowski, PhD, Mary Kimball PhD, Antoine Remond MD, 1993
100 Migranes Later
PASSIVE INFRARED HEMOENCEPHALOGRAPHY, 4 YEARS AND 100 MIGRAINES LATER
Jeffrey A. Carmen Ph.D.