bipolar benefits
If you have problems with bipolar disorder or know someone who has, they are very aware of how it may affect your life. Bipolar disorder may experience changes extremes of mood, going from a euphoric state of mind to a state of deep depression very quickly. These mood swings can result in erratic behavior and bad decisions.
A promising new treatment for bipolar disorder is a form of biofeedback for the brain, known as neurofeedback. It is a noninvasive treatment and unnatural that may help change how the brain works in a bipolar patient.
Therapists using neurofeedback can actually see in how the brain of a person is in an EEG machine that reads the electrical activity coming from the brain. When a person with bipolar disorder is in a state depressed, your brain may show edge delta and theta waves, and when in a manic state, their brain activity may be in the range of high beta waves. In analyzing these brain waves, a therapist might say – regardless of the actions of one person – the state in which the brain is in Because bipolar disorder is a brain function neurofeedback can be useful therapy.
During Neurofeedback therapy sessions, a qualified therapist who "hook up the brain" to a machine that reads electrical impulses from your scalp. Not only the machine to read the drives, but also respond to them. Different therapists use different answers but can be anything from videos that play to objects moving on a computer screen. When the brain signals are correct, the machine answers, telling the brain that is doing the right thing. The use of this therapy over time may train the brain to work in the most correct at the time.
With many disorders – including ADHD – Neurofeedback can make a big difference in a person's life. This is not yet the case, however, with bipolar disorder. At this time, no There is no evidence that neurofeedback can be eliminated altogether bipolar disorder, but can significantly help bipolar patients.
What neurofeedback treatment can do is help people with bipolar disorder to stay somewhere between the two extremes of mood that are often in these extremes can affect the behavior of a bipolar person is the way any emotional change is important. In a depressive state, which is likely to have no energy at all and may have trouble crawling out of bed in the morning. In a manic state, are likely to make very risky decisions without thinking things through.
While not eliminating neurofeedback these zigzag entirely emotional, which may help modify the extremes, which in turn may reduce the consequences of the behavior of bipolar disorder. Over time, some people Bipolar can even learn to balance your brain function, so that they remain in a normal state for longer periods of time.
Although treatment of neurofeedback for bipolar disorder is far from being a "cure" and neurofeedback is used mainly to stabilize the patient, may be happy to know that some success with the full cancellation of rapid cycling behavior that affects so many with bipolar disorder.
For more information about Neurofeedback, go to http://www.NeurofeedbackBook.com
Dr. Clare Albright is a psychologist (CA License PSY11660) and a Neurofeedback practitioner and can be reached at (949)454-0996
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