Neurofeedback Study

Through Neurofeedback Centers for Success, we have arranged a barter system. My family trains for free and I create promotional videos for them. Besides John, my Granny, husband, daughter, and myself will begin brain training (and possibly my dad). Each person will be dealing with different areas, but for the most part, the goal is to become more calm, alert, and focused. Granny has restless legs syndrome and is hoping that she can go off medication once her brain learns to 'self regulate'. Every 10 sessions for people over the age of 6, they administer a test, which monitors how your brain performs under low and high demand, how it reacts/recovers when a mistake is made, and tracks progress throughout brain training. So, we are doing our own little research study for anyone interested. Every once in awhile I will report back on this site on how each person reacts and feels about "brain training".

So far, John's in home teachers have noticed better posture, the psychitrist mentioned to my mom that John seems calm while in class, he seems to fall asleep better, he is socializing with Katie better, rarely bites his shirt anymore, no self stimulating behavior, and his vocabulary has increased dramatically. Things that haven't changed: clumsiness while walking, sustaining sleep thorughout the night (off/on), still in constant motion, still has limited eye contact, resists socializing with peers, and attention span is still pretty short. John has had 35 sessions. There were about 10-15 sessions in the middle that were unproductive, due to a switch in "protocals", causing agitation and pulling off the wires. The last week of sessions have been amazing and probably John's best sessions. He has remained calm, fairly still, and rarely pulls the wires off. They were able to move him into the 'big room', as opposed to the private room since he doesn't make as much noise as he used to (he'd sing, talk, babble, etc) I would say that since John is sooo young and doesn't understand what he's doing, as well as having "busy hands", pulling off his wires, many sessions were unproductive. I would say, he's more likely at 20 good sessions, than 35.

Tonight Bill had his first session and felt that it did make him feel more relaxed, less tense, and more attentive. He was skeptical going into it (and still is), but admitted it did make him feel better. My dad went once and felt like he experienced no change in how he felt, nor did it make him sleep better that night. He also admits he's not that self aware, but didn't feel like it did anything.

Granny had her first test after completing 10 sessions and her scores went up dramatically. It showed her alertness and reaction time have improved. Retless legs still bothering her...

I will continue to post updates on this site regarding our personal testimonials.

Here is the 60 second promo I edited for them. You can see a higher quality video, by going directly to You Tube, clicking on the video, and clicking "play in high quality". My portfolio on YouTube is HERE.