The TTC decided to revert to its old 10-minutes-between-trains routine. And the new “improved” numbers-for-names signage at Yonge/Bloor station discombobulated me as it always does. And so I was rather late. (Going from appointment to appointment in this city is always so much fun.) Still, I didn’t feel too anxious when I rushed into the…
Category: Brain Biofeedback
My experiences with brain biofeedback or neurofeedback at the ADD Centre
Wernicke’s Area Connects You in Conversation: I’m Listening
Listening is a skill, an art, can be learned or unlearned due to abuse; but it’s also something your brain is wired to do — unless you have a brain injury. In the last few days, I began to wonder if my listening skills were improving. I decided to test them out during brain biofeedback…
PTSD Hits During HRV in Brain Biofeedback Session
I had a flashback during the HRV screen in brain biofeedback. There I am glorying in an LF number that was higher than my sympathetic system’s number (meaning heart doing better) when boom: I know where I am, but I am reliving the early days of brain biofeedback when I was being trained in the…
Olympics Inspiration for Brain Biofeedback
I’m obsessive about saving files. Every person my age who used computers in the early days knows the horror of watching a computer eat your paper up (putting a new spin on the old, “but Sir, the dog ate my essay”). Today, that sort of thing happens so rarely that people get complacent. With all…
Week two of SMR Training at C4
Week two of C4 SMR training, and things are looking not quite as rosy. Delta-theta is the wandering mind; busy brain the worrying mind on
Return to the ADD Centre: Beta Training at C4
New year, new protocol. C4. No, not the explosive kind, but the electrode to the right of CZ — mid brain — and over my right ear and I think a bit forward of it. And with C4 no more gamma. We’re now training 13-16Hz — SMR with a hint of problem solving. And we’re…
175 Hours and Counting for Brain Biofeedback
I’ve done 175 hours of brain biofeedback, 84 in my first 2 years and 91 in the last 1.5 years for gamma training. (Fewer hours first time around because I missed summers and I became quite ill in the first 3 months of 2007, probably because I’d pushed myself too hard, a horrid time I’d…
Pills are Not the Only Modality of Treating the Brain
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how the medical system treats the “mental illness” aspect of brain injury, that is, moods, thinking styles, that sort of thing. I’ve never been put on drugs for depression or concentration problems, but I know others who have, and my neurodoc has talked to me several times about…
Gamma Re-Assessment Day
Twas a mini re-assessment day. My trainer took 3-minute readings at each of FZ, C4, and PZ. FZ is dead centre at the front of my head and is related to action, executive function. PZ is at the back of the top of my head, dead centre, and is the area we’re training. C4 is…