• NeurOptimal was created by clinical psychologists Drs. Valdeane Brown and Susan Dermit Brown, the founders of Zengar Institute Inc.

    It uses a special neurofeedback algorithm developed by the founders themselves, which only NeurOptimal has.

    Neurofeedback is a way of training the brain. It is not a medical treatment. NeurOptimal does not require any diagnosis, but instead it works together with your brain, giving it the information it needs to reorganize and regulate itself better. When your brain does this, many issues and problems can go away. You may feel calmer, clearer, happier and able to function better in life.

    NeurOptimal is an advanced brain technology that trains your brain to work at its best. It is designed to directly communicate with your central nervous system. Some call it "the most effective bio-hack on this planet", though this may be an exaggeration. However, NeurOptimal does have a long history of over THREE MILLION HOURS of safe and effective use.

    It does not matter what state your brain is in - EVERY brain can benefit from reaching its own optimal state. And the training requires no effort at all. You can relax with eyes closed or even zone out. Or if you prefer, you can stay active - it's fine either way! NeurOptimal is incredibly simple to use, with all the expertise built right into the program. No special qualifications are needed to operate it.

    NeurOptimal is used by organisations, professionals in their practices and businesses, as well as families using it at home. Together, these users form a large community across multiple continents. Zengar is committed to outstanding user support, as well as ongoing research and development to improve NeurOptimal into the future.

  • We're often asked: "Who uses NeurOptimal®?" Our answer: "Anyone with a brain."

    This is because training your brain with NeurOptimal® will help you function at your best, WHATEVER THAT BEST IS. It's used by top athletes, artists and business people who want to achieve and maintain their edge. It's also used by people who feel they're not functioning at their best, including many adults and kids with severe impairments, who want a drug-free approach to feeling and functioning optimally.

    How is it possible that one tool can work for such different brains and purposes? It's all to do with brain optimisation. The various issues we all suffer can be considered signs the brain isn't functioning at its optimal level. Training with NeurOptimal® can change that. And it doesn't matter if you're looking for changes on a physical, emotional or mental level — you only have one brain and it affects everything in your body. While you may have one reason for using NeurOptimal®, positive changes can show in ALL areas of your life. You CAN have it all!

    Many NeurOptimal® users report life-changing results. Elite athletes have used it, reporting improvement in their physical performance and mental stamina. People with sleeplessness report improved sleep. Veterans use it, stating it helps relieve the extreme challenges they face returning home from a war zone. People with mental cloudiness, due to injury or life circumstances, tell us how after using NeurOptimal® they've rediscovered clarity to an extent they and their loved ones once believed unattainable. Brain training with NeurOptimal® has helped improve the lives of kids struggling with communication, social challenges and general difficulties focusing at school. And many stress-related issues commonly fall away when the brain is trained for optimal function.

    Although you can be up and running soon after getting your NeurOptimal® system, we also offer comprehensive courses for support and further education. You can get started very quickly after receiving it. NeurOptimal® is also very easy to use in your office. You don't need to spend time assessing clients — ever! We call this "diagnostically agnostic", your label isn't significant for using NeurOptimal®. Your clients will love it because they don't have to do anything except sit in the chair and relax. Yet despite being so easy, the change clients experience is comprehensive, not just in the area they're hoping for. The benefits manifest across many areas of functioning. No more plugging away at individual symptom relief. Practitioners also love the support they receive from Zengar®, as well as the feeling of being part of a warm, innovative, committed community who are passionate about what they do. Finally, we all love NeurOptimal® for its record of safety. And we haven't even mentioned yet the many features that make NeurOptimal® the most advanced brain training option on this planet! Rest assured, whatever your situation, you can probably significantly upgrade your quality of life by training your brain with our unique system of Dynamical Neurofeedback®.Item description

  • NeurOptimal® brain training works like a "detection and monitoring" system that picks up on changes in brain patterns. It mimics how your central nervous system communicates by "reflecting" brain activity that may be impacting optimal function.

    You can picture NeurOptimal® training as holding up a mirror to your brain. Imagine not seeing your reflection for a long time. Once you do, you'd naturally adjust yourself - maybe stand taller, fix your hair, and so on. The mirror provides the information you need to correct and tweak things. It works the same way with the brain.

    The brain has an innate ability to self-correct when given the right information, and NeurOptimal® is designed to provide that information to allow the brain to make its own adjustments. Inconsistencies or abrupt shifts in the brain's electrical activity undermine optimal functioning.

    NeurOptimal® detects these sudden changes and alerts the brain through tiny pauses in the sound you're listening to. These almost imperceptible interruptions invite your central nervous system to veer away from the less-than-ideal path it was on. This happens repeatedly until self-correction becomes your new normal and your brain operates more efficiently, effectively and comfortably. When this happens, you'll likely sleep better, feel less stressed, concentrate more easily and enjoy life's ease despite external challenges.

    This training approach is unique to NeurOptimal®. Training with it allows your brain - and you - to become more flexible and resilient. And a better-functioning brain means a better life overall.

  • Your Brain: The Command Centre

    Your brain is the core of your central nervous system - a sophisticated command and control hub responsible for every system in your body. Whether it's physical, emotional or mental, your brain is in charge of it all. It receives and processes information from your body and environment, enabling you to process that info, store it, and formulate responses, mostly without you being consciously aware.

    This is all thanks to a vast neural network called the central nervous system (CNS). The human brain contains an estimated 15-33 billion neurons, each potentially having up to 100,000 synaptic connections. That's vastly more complex than the entire worldwide web, yet it's all contained within your head! These neurons communicate across this enormous network using electrical signals that can originate within individual neurons but also dynamically emerge from groups of neurons.

    These larger groups oscillate or pulse at specific frequencies, like a strobe light. The groups then engage in an almost magical dance across groups of groups. It's this larger dance that is reflected in the electrical changes measured on the scalp. It's quite mind-boggling, so let's use an analogy.

    Imagine each grain of sand on a beach is a tiny flickering strobe light, pulsing on and off in a seemingly chaotic dance with no pattern or rhythm. Each flash influences many others to turn on or off, sometimes in sync, sometimes conflicting, sometimes totally independently. Small changes in this overall complex interweaving light symphony can alter the entire landscape - just like a tiny sound can trigger an enormous avalanche.

    Inside your brain is a vastly interconnected network of these little pulsing points, ready to cascade in countless different ways - like snow ready to avalanche - except these pulses are electrical. Patterns within them can be determined from the ongoing electrical activity changes measured on your scalp. These tiny voltage fluctuations are minuscule compared to the surrounding electromagnetic "ocean" of electrical currents, radio waves, microwaves, X-rays and more.

    Traditionally, these scalp voltage changes were simplified as "brainwaves" represented by squiggly lines. But the reality is far richer, more complex and useful than that classical "brainwave" description implies. At NeurOptimal®, we refer to it as cortical activity.

    The Road to Greater Ease

    These voltage fluctuations are measured in cycles per second (Hertz or Hz). 1Hz reflects very slow, large-scale brain activity, while 40Hz is considered relatively small and fast. Researchers have historically grouped some frequencies and given them names in the order they were discovered, like Delta for the slowest 1-2Hz waves dominant in sleep.

    However, with modern digital precision compared to old analogue equipment, those definitions are now imprecise. At NeurOptimal®, we use precise frequency labels like 3Hz instead of broad terms like Theta. But the names persist, so here's a quick overview:

    Delta (1-2Hz) dominates sleep. The problematic 3Hz and 5Hz "bad Theta" carries emotional/cognitive reactivity and old traumas. But the 7Hz "good Theta" brings tremendous healing potential.

    Alpha (8-13Hz) is present when relaxing with eyes closed, bringing a sense of well-being and peace. But you want it to reduce when eyes open. We call 10Hz problematic if present with eyes open.

    The 14Hz Sensory Motor Rhythm (SMR) is the "cat frequency" - physically still yet fully aware, but not actively thinking about it.

    15-18Hz Beta reflects very focused narrow external attention. But it's also the stress response, so while improving focus, it can bring unpleasant anxiety and headaches.

    Rather than increasing some frequencies while decreasing others like traditional linear neurofeedback, NeurOptimal® simply provides information to your brain about its entire frequency range. We don't push it in any direction - your brain sorts out the rest, knowing exactly what to do.

    We've found this innate intelligence to be true no matter the severity of symptoms. Every brain can naturally "defrag" and reorganise itself once it can metaphorically "see itself in the mirror" that NeurOptimal® provides. Aided by our unique thresholding technique and progression through training levels, NeurOptimal® offers unprecedented possibilities for safe, natural and lasting change towards greater ease in your life.

  • NeurOptimal® - A Life-Changing Brain Technology

    NeurOptimal® is not a passing fad or gimmick - it's a powerful, scientifically-grounded technology designed to significantly enhance human experience and potential.

    Solidly rooted in fields like neuroscience, non-linear dynamics, mathematics, neurology, psychology and electrical engineering, NeurOptimal® represents the cutting edge of brain technology available today. Designed by clinical psychologists to work with the brain's non-linear dynamical nature, it builds all required expertise into the system itself for unsurpassed ease of use.

    With over three million hours of experience showing it to be safe and effective, NeurOptimal® is the choice for professionals and home users worldwide seeking to get the most out of life - from Paris to Perth, Manhattan to Madrid, Amsterdam to Montreal, and now in Thames, Coromandel, part of the Waikato district of New Zealand.

    User-Friendly Simplicity

    Despite its complex internal design, NeurOptimal® is truly "plug-and-play" with no complicated setup or expertise needed from the user. This ease-of-use gives it a significant advantage.

    Non-Invasive Approach

    During NeurOptimal® training, no electricity, vibration or external signal enters your brain. It doesn't target specific brain areas or push your brain towards expert-decided goals. This globally effective yet non-invasive approach remarkably avoids undesired side effects.

    Diagnosis Not Required

    Rather than targeting specific symptoms, NeurOptimal® optimizes overall brain function. This naturally alleviates most issues, whatever their source, without needing a diagnosis.

    100% Natural Process

    Every brain is unique and knows how best to self-correct for improved efficiency. NeurOptimal® simply provides your central nervous system with information about its own activity. Given the right data, your brain can naturally optimize itself.

  • Differences:

    • Diagnosis required: Linear neurofeedback usually relies on a medical expert diagnosis of a particular medical or mental health condition, such as depression, and the development of a neurofeedback protocol to "uptrain" through a reward-system or "suppress" through a negative feedback system, certain frequencies in the brain. In contrast, non-linear neurofeedback does not require a diagnosis.

    • Protocols: Linear neurofeedback is protocol-based, meaning that it relies on a predetermined set of protocols based on statistical norms. Non-linear neurofeedback, on the other hand, does not require the trainer to set protocols.

    • Real-time feedback: Non-linear neurofeedback interacts with the brain in real-time to give it feedback so that the individual's brain can register [4]. Linear neurofeedback, on the other hand, often conflicts with regular brain processes and overrides normal function to achieve desired results, which can cause undue stress and exhaustion on the brain.

    • Adaptive feedback: Non-linear neurofeedback is adaptive, meaning it adjusts based on the brain's response, allowing for a more dynamic and personalized training experience [2]. Linear neurofeedback, on the other hand, is a linear, stepped process, and sometimes the frequencies needed for one set of symptoms can be wrong for another, which can lead to confusion and a trial

    • Mathematical formula: The design of non-linear neurofeedback is referred to as non-linear due to the mathematical formula used, which mirrors how the brain naturally creates change. Linear neurofeedback, on the other hand, is based on statistical norms.

    For a summary please review the table below our FAQs.

  • Dynamical Neurofeedback® is a technology developed by Zengar Institute and used in its NeurOptimal® neurofeedback training systems. It is designed to monitor the brain's electrical activity and notify the brain when it needs to change through audible feedback interruptions.

    • Brain training: Dynamical Neurofeedback® is a type of brain training that encourages the brain to correct itself.

    • Real-time feedback: Dynamical Neurofeedback® provides real-time feedback to the brain, allowing it to adjust as needed.

    • Non-directional: Unlike other types of neurofeedback, Dynamical Neurofeedback® does not provide specific "direction" to the brain. Instead, it takes advantage of the brain's natural ability to perceive information and adjust to incoming stimuli in a dynamic of ceaseless, perpetual processes.

    • Brain dynamics: The brain is a non-linear, dynamical system that perceives information and adjusts to incoming stimuli in a dynamic of ceaseless, perpetual processes.

    • Adaptive feedback: The feedback provided by Dynamical Neurofeedback® is adaptive, meaning it adjusts based on the brain's response, allowing for a more dynamic and personalised training experience.

    • Longevity of clinical effects: Neurofeedback training, including Dynamical Non-Linear Neurofeedback®, offers the client lasting positive change. While ongoing training is recommended, the client is able to discern when additional sessions would be beneficial for their unique circumstances.

    Dynamical Neurofeedback® is unique to NeurOptimal® and has been found to be effective in addressing a broad range of concerns across a wide range of settings.

  • For a scholarly discussion about how NeurOptimal evolved from a Linear Neurofeedback system to Non-Linear please refer to the NeurOptimal FAQ Page that discusses this topic.

    You should also review the table below that itemises the difference between linear neurofeedback and non linear feedback.

  • NeurOptimal® Dynamical Neurofeedback® is believed to be the world's most advanced brain training system available today.

    Why can we confidently make such a bold claim? It's because of NeurOptimal's many groundbreaking and unique features. While describing all of them can get quite technical, here's an overview of some of the major ones.

    NeurOptimal® Provides Information to Your Brain

    From the ground up, NeurOptimal® has been designed to give your brain information about its constantly shifting electrical activity patterns moment-by-moment. Because it tracks your brain so precisely and rapidly microsecond-by-microsecond, you don't need any evaluation or diagnosis beforehand. In fact, it's completely irrelevant! This is a key reason we're clear that NeurOptimal® is a training tool, not a treatment.

    The trainer's role is to share the journey as the information and your experience unfold. And since it's not a treatment, it's safe enough for home use, opening up possibilities for professionals and home users alike. NeurOptimal® simply offers your brain the information it needs to organise and reorganise itself.

    As it does, issues drop away and new capabilities emerge, resulting in greater flexibility, resilience and improved quality of life - easily, simply and naturally.

    Incredibly Easy to Use

    While the underlying non-linear dynamics theory is complex, NeurOptimal® itself is incredibly simple to operate. Just place the sensors and start your session. NeurOptimal® automatically provides the right level of information for your brain moment-by-moment through its exclusive auto-navigation feature. No guesswork or worries about making mistakes - the expertise is built-in. You can get up and running quickly rather than learning a complex system. And individual sessions require no upfront assessments or planning.

    Working With Brain Instabilities

    NeurOptimal® works with brief instabilities in your brain's functioning, not overall brain wave amounts like linear systems. As your brain starts heading into one of these temporary instabilities, the audio briefly pauses. Your brain immediately pulls back from those instabilities. Over time, your brain learns to navigate around them instead of getting stuck, resulting in improved functioning - what we call increased flexibility and resilience.

    A Permissive, Non-Directive Approach

    NeurOptimal® respects your brain's own process and doesn't push it forcefully towards any specific outcome during a session. Your brain does its own gentle, natural reorganising. While pushing the brain can sometimes produce dramatic effects like linear neurofeedback systems, it can also destabilise the brain leading to unpleasant side effects.

    NeurOptimal® has also moved beyond training specific brain states like beta for focus or alpha for relaxation. Instead, it allows your brain to flexibly and effortlessly shift through multiple states of consciousness rapidly as appropriate, without getting "parked" in one state. This fluid state-shifting, without triggering instabilities, leads to powerful yet natural transformations.

    Effortless for the Recipient

    Unlike linear systems requiring conscious user effort to achieve set goals, NeurOptimal® needs absolutely no effort at all from you! You can listen to music, watch a movie, relax with eyes closed, or for restless kids, play, read or do homework during sessions. It doesn't matter.

    You can also listen to the specially composed Grammy award-winning music. Or create your own multi-media experience for each session.

    Adaptive Noise Removal

    A key advantage of working with brain instabilities is that muscle movements and other signal "noise" are much less disruptive for NeurOptimal® than linear systems. NeurOptimal® continuously eliminates this noise, making effective training much easier and more reliable. This unique adaptive de-noising means not worrying about signal quality.

    As long as there's scalp contact, NeurOptimal® will actively remove electrical noise for superior feedback quality. It also allows NeurOptimal® to run reliably in high electrical noise environments like older buildings that would be impossible for other systems.

    Real-Time High-Precision Analysis

    NeurOptimal® uses an extremely high sampling rate and extraordinary filtering precision, coupled with state-of-the-art real-time joint time-frequency analysis. This allows accurate capture of brief "events" in your brain's electrical activity patterns. No other system offers this non-linear analysis capability, even if claimed. NeurOptimal®'s adaptive de-noising also enables feedback up to 64Hz, including unique time-frequency envelopes invented by Zengar®.

    While technically complex, rest assured incredible attention has been paid to optimizing every detail over hundreds of thousands of hours of testing and development. And Zengar® continues investing substantially in research to assuredly take NeurOptimal® into the future.

    True Dynamical Thresholding

    Dynamical thresholding, which gives Dynamical Neurofeedback® its name, is how information is actually provided to your brain. But beyond that, it also actively interacts with your brain to powerfully release "stuck points", assuring superior possibilities for change - not just typical thresholding.

    Two other key implications: First, NeurOptimal® adaptively works with wherever your brain is at that precise moment, so you don't need an upfront diagnosis or symptom assessment. In fact, a diagnosis from minutes, hours or days ago is too crude by NeurOptimal®'s high standards.

    Second, when your brain fatigues (even if you're unaware), NeurOptimal® responsively works with your new "tired" levels, preventing over-training. The recommendation notwithstanding this feature is to not exceed two sessions per day.

    In essence, NeurOptimal®'s unique dynamical thresholding and targeting powerfully yet safely supports your brain's own reorganisation for unprecedented personal transformation.

    An Information-Rich Matrix

    NeurOptimal® version 3.0 works across an incredible 0.001-64Hz range, utilizing 20 different targets that are always "in play". This allows broad-based transformation possibilities no matter your goals and issues. No limited toolbox chipping away at challenges like traditional systems. The high-precision technology provides flexible options today while Zengar® continues research and development for an even brighter future.Item description

    • Scary device: A reviewer on Amazon reported that NeurOptimal is a scary device. However, this is the only negative review found on Amazon.

    • Reducing the number of therapists: A blogger reported that the program is so easy to use that it is reducing the number of therapists.

    It is important to note the following:

    • These negative reviews are very limited and do not reflect the overall effectiveness and safety of NeurOptimal Neurofeedback.

    • Most of the reviews found are positive and report significant improvements in various conditions such as stress management and engagement with the present moment.

    You should do your own research and there are many impressive and positive testimonials on YouTube.

    • NeurOptimal is not a replacement for therapy or any other form of mindfulness based help. If you are under the care of a therapist we recommend that you continue with therapy and inform them of your intention to start and we will be happy to answer any questions they may have.

    • Feeling more relaxed, happier, alert, and better self-regulation: NeurOptimal clients report feeling more relaxed, happier, alert, and have better self-regulation.

    • Noticeable improvement: A reviewer reported noticeable improvement in personal and professional situations after using NeurOptimal.

    • Effective treatment: Neurofeedback, including NeurOptimal, has been found to be an effective treatment for various conditions such as depression, anxiety, and ADHD.

    • Amazing and effective: A reviewer reported that their Neurofeedback sessions were amazing and much more effective than anticipated.

    • Easy to receive.

    • Dynamic and effective: A reviewer reported that NeurOptimal Neurofeedback is dynamic and works millisecond-by-millisecond with their current state and brain patterns.

    If you search YouTube for NeurOptimal, you will find many positive and amazing testimonials about NeurOptimal from all around the world.

    The Roomy Brain is located in Thames, New Zealand and offers sessions in the comfort of a relaxed and private environment.

    You can book online.

  • According to the search results, there are very few reported negative side effects of using NeurOptimal Neurofeedback.

    Each person’s brain is different.

    Rarely people report tiredness or a change in emotional state that hey are not used (for the better).

    These are not considered dangerous and eventually subside.

  • As NeurOptimal is a wellness device that does not diagnose or treat, there are no studies that will conclude “NeurOptimal is a cure for x, y or z.”

    It is not how the underlying premise of the technology works since it is your own brain training itself.

    There are studies that examine the efficacy of NeurOptimal Neurofeedback in improving markers associated with conditions or ailments, where “success” is viewed as a positive change (reduction) in the duration, frequency and intensity of undesired experiences, feelings or mindsets.

    Depression and anxiety : A study found that NeurOptimal Neurofeedback was effective in reducing symptoms of depression and anxiety.

    ADHD and ASD: A meta-analysis found that NeurOptimal Neurofeedback was effective in reducing the negative impacts of ADHD.

    Tinnitus: a study reported that sufferers of tinnitus experienced overall increased well being and improved mental health as a result of having NeurOptimal Neurofeedback.

    Other studies include the impacts of NeurOptimal on Cancer Survivors, Insomnia, neuro-cognitive processing, mentally disordered offenders.

    If you are interested in https://neuroptimal.com/discover-neuroptimal/reading more about research on NeurOptimal, the corporate website has a page dedicated to academic papers, peer reviewed paper, conference presentations and more.Item description

  • The Roomy Brain is a certified NeurOptimal Practitioner, having completed the education and requirements to have this qualification.

    A crucial part of tracking the beneficial results of your sessions is to complete a few quick forms online that are used to help you measure your progress.

    Please note that diagnosis and evaluation of specific symptoms is completely unnecessary for NeurOptimal® to work effectively. This saves you both time and money.

    You will sit in a comfortable chair and simply relax. Two tiny sensors are applied to your scalp and earclips to your ears. These sensors allow NeurOptimal® to read the delicate electrical activity of your brain, much like an EKG reads your heart. You then listen to music and watch an ever-changing visual display, although you can close your eyes and tune out if you prefer.

    Children sometimes like to play a quiet game or read a book. There are very brief pauses in the music indicating NeurOptimal® is at work, invisibly guiding you through a complex mathematical dance during which the challenge to your brain is varied.

    Despite the complexity of the programming technology, no effort is required from you during NeurOptimal sessions.

    Simply relax and enjoy the 33 minute Session while your brain re-organises its

  • Because everyone’s central nervous system is different, it is not possible to predict exactly how your brain will respond to the information NeurOptimal® provides.

    But because there are over three million hours of experience with NeurOptimal®, we can make some predictions.

    The good thing is you will know pretty quickly when it is helping you. And The Roomy Brain in Thames-Coromandel NZ has digital progress tracking tools to help you document your training. Just it takes everyone a different amount of time for people to learn new skills, it is an individual process and everyone learns differently.

    How many Sessions will it take to “complete” your training?

    This depends partly upon your goals. If you are training to feel better quickly, you might decide after 10-12 Sessions that you have made enough gains and stop.

    On the other hand, if you are looking for lasting changes, 20-30 Sessions is a better ballpark.

    The good thing is you can stop at any time and always pick it up again later if you so choose. Any training you have done in the past will always be with you so no Session is ever wasted.

    In our direct experience at The Roomy Brain, training the brain is like training the body.

    To function at our best throughout our lifetime, and to maintain that “best” even when life presents its inevitable day to day knocks and bruises, we do recommend top up sessions after your initial block.

    After a period of initial training that may perhaps be weekly, we recommend monthly Sessions to give your brain a regular opportunity to “debug” itself.

    You can also just do a Session when you feel you need it.

    In the end, it is always up to you, because it is YOUR brain that is doing the training and it knows what it needs.

  • NeurOptimal® is a learning task, like learning to ride a bike or learning how to read: Once you know, you can’t “not know”, so the effects do remain with you.

    But your brain is also living tissue, and it can get “knocked off” by challenges, by hormonal changes, pollutants in the environment and the stresses of our everyday lives.

    When this happens, a Session or two can help you get back on point, working at your optimal efficiency.

    Even if you come back many years later, the brain recognises the NeurOptimal® process and is reminded of the earlier shifts. It can find its way back relatively rapidly – much more quickly than the first time you did the training.

    So, if you did a fairly comprehensive initial training (say 20-30 Sessions), and then have a major challenge like an illness, the loss of a job or a relationship, or even a head injury or anaesthetic, your brain can quickly and efficiently use the information it receives from NeurOptimal® to reorganise itself and “find its way back”.

    Author’s Note:

    Having experienced the effects of childhood trauma and depression in adult years, NeurOptimal was essential in my return to wholeness and well being.

    On the outside, it may not appear that anything changed buy my interpersonal relationships were deeply changed for the better.

    Since owning a system I have taken long breaks from training just because life got busy, we moved countries and my corporate work life became all- consuming.

    It is easy to get out of a good habit. And I certainly felt the effects of not having the regular “brain reboots”.

    With NeurOptimal training it is a lot easier to get back into good habits, whatever that means for you.

    I see NeurOptimal Neurofeedback as an essential wellness tool for optimal well being and performance.

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Differences between NeurOptimal Dynamical Neurofeedback and Linear Neurofeedback

NeurOptimal® Dynamical Neurofeedback

Linear Neurofeedback

Why is this important?

No expertise required.

Expertise needed throughout process.

Expertise, if you can find it, can be expensive.

No diagnosis.

Diagnosis required.

You shouldn’t need something to be wrong with you to train your brain.

No check of signal integrity needed because NO recognizes and automatically removes unwanted signal.

Careful hookup needed to minimize impedance, often involving scrubbing site. May use impedance meter to confirm signal integrity.

You do not need to be an expert to get expert training.

Training, not treatment; no protocols.

Use of treatment protocols.

Your diagnoses may require contradictory protocols; your practitioner must get choice right.

No monitoring needed. AutoNavigation takes care of everything.

Careful monitoring of session while it is occurring; parameters may need to be changed.

Effortless sessions.

Does not tell the brain what to do.

Use of augment frequencies and suppress frequencies, instructing the brain what to do.

If practitioner makes wrong decision, effects can be very unpleasant.

Offers feedback on 20 different “targets” at once.

Work with limited frequency bands.

Limited frequency bands can produce side effects. Training with limited bands = limited training NO’s 20 targets naturally balance each other. Positive effects seen in many areas of life.

No states are trained.

Training is state based.

Excess training in any state can lead to unwanted side effects.