NEUROTHERAPY AND BRAIN FUNCTIONING

NEW RESEARCH CAN DOUBLE THE RECOVERY RATE FOR DRUG ADDICTION*

UNLOCK YOUR BRAIN’S POTENTIAL

PERSONAL TRAINING SESSION FOR THE BRAIN

Training the brain to function at its maximum potential is similar to the way the body is exercised, toned and maintained.  Neurofeedback, also known as neurotherapy, is a ground breaking technique that challenges the brain to better function.

The brain is amazingly adaptable and capable of learning.  It can also learn to improve its own performance, if only it is given cues about what to change.  By making information available to the brain about how it is functioning, and asking it to make adjustments, it can do so.  Gradually, the brain learns, just like it learns anything else.  And like with other learning, the brain tends to retain the new skill.

Over the course of your treatment, areas of your brain that have been impaired by repeated drug and alcohol abuse are retrained to function at a higher, more efficient level, resulting in better decisions for your life.  Combined with proper nutrition, brain training and cognitive therapies, our program yields lasting benefits and healing.

This ultimately decreases or eliminates your reliance on drugs and your response patterns are changed allowing us to teach your alternative ways of responding to and coping with life’s stressors, ultimately ending your dependence on drugs and alcohol.

This life changing technique involves learning by the brain to bring order out of disorder.  The brain will continue to use its new capabilities, and thus reinforce them.

Another unique aspect of New Seasons individualized treatment is the emphasis on improving brain functioning through a combination of Cognitive Rehabilitation and Neuro-Feedback Training (sometimes called EEG training). EEG is short for an Electro Encephalogram, which measures a range of brain frequencies from near zero to more than 100 hertz (Hz).

Drug and alcohol abuse commonly can cause dysregulation of brain functioning which shows up in irregular EEG patterns.

            A person may be stuck in high arousal and have difficulty calming down, difficulty falling asleep, problems with concentration, and they are more likely to become irritable or anxious.
           
            A person may be stuck in low arousal, and have difficulty waking up and being motivated, or feeling lethargic or depressed.

Neurofeedback assists the brain to self-regulate and return to normal healthy EEG patterns.  Neurofeedback also helps with many regulatory processes:

• Helping a person to sleep better, pay attention better, and calm down better.
• This helps individuals to regulate their emotions better, which assists with the work they are doing in psychotherapy.
• Neurofeedback has been demonstrated to be helpful in the treatment of addictions, depression, anxiety, ADD, PTSD, OCD.
• Recent research has demonstrated that individuals utilizing Neurofeedback are twice as likely to maintain long-term sobriety compared to similar groups without Neurofeedback training*.

Cognitive Rehabilitation involves treatment of such skills as attention and concentration, short-term memory, long-term memory, problem-solving and other executive functioning.

Neurofeedback combined with Cognitive Rehabilitation is actually a process of exercising the brain, which assists the brain to function at a higher, more efficient level.

New Seasons also teaches additional principals for achieving and maintaining better mental performance by adapting Dr. Daniel Amen’s program of “Making a Good Brain Great”.

*Effects of an EEG Biofeedback Protocol on a mixed substance abusing population
William C. Scott, BSW, CCDP1, David Kaiser, Ph.D.2, Siegfried Othmer, Ph.D.3 and Stephen I. Sideroff, Ph.D.4
The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse 31:455-469, 2005