Ultimate Peak Performance Training

     Attention, focus, memory, learning and low creativity problems are due to inappropriate brain waves. Bottom line, if your brain can't do its job, you can't do yours.
     The good news...make that great news...is problem brain waves can be discovered and the brain taught to function at much more efficient levels.
A personal trainer starts by evaluating your physical performance capabilities and potential; a professional Neurotherapist begins with an evaluation of your brain's ability to do the job you want or need to do. Where is your brain performing at peak levels, and where and in what way is it not doing its job efficiently?
     The Neurotherapist uses a Continuous Performance Test (CPT) to evaluate your ability to respond and attend to environmental demands; a Quantitative EEG (computerized Brain Wave Analysis) reveals brain wave performance capabilities and incapabilities.
     Inefficiencies found are remediated with Remedial Neurofeedback Training™, a process which teaches the brain to correct its short comings -- to enhance its resources and attentional flexibility.
Before launching into specific brain wave problems, let's look first at how the peak performing brain does its job.

     Performance is enhanced with attentiveness, experience doing the task or job, and, of course, caring about the outcome. Optimum performance, however, requires an extra ingredient: A balanced brain with all the resources it needs to do its job.
     Your brain sends performance signals to specific parts of your body; your body transmits reports back to your brain; your brain responds by sending updated signals to the body. If your brain does not readily receive, accurately interpret, and instantly respond with appropriateness and precision, high performance can not and will not occur. What your brain can't do, you can't do.
     Before Remedial Neurofeedback Training™, the brain could only be trained indirectly. Professional lessons for the serious tennis player, for example, physical therapy for the symptoms from a traumatic brain injury or stroke for another. Now -- along with the physical training -- the brain can be balanced and harmonized directly, resulting in a major increase in learning and execution efficiency.

     The PET scan (positron emission tomography), a special brain imaging process, reveals where and how the brain is performing a task. When PET brain scans comparing new and master Tetris™ players were done (Tetris™ is a video game that requires rapid analysis and strategic placement of a continuing stream of multiple shaped figures), a dramatic and unexpected characteristic of peak brain performance was revealed:
     The PET scans on those who had not played Tetris™ before revealed the brain used a tremendous amount of energy in many areas to do the job. Due to the complexity of the Tetris™ game, this came as no surprise.
The big surprise came when highly seasoned and proficient Master Tetris™ players played. The PET scans revealed the Master Player's ultra experienced and efficient brain used virtually no energy!
     These studies taught us the inefficient brain sucks energy at an unbelievable rate. In sharp contrast, the highly efficient brain uses very little of our precious energy.

Your brain does its job by managing a highly complex and variable mixture of frequencies. If any of these frequencies are deficient, excessive, or not readily accessible to the brain, performance suffers.

Your brain needs the following characteristics and resources to do its job optimally:

Forty Hz (36 - 44 cycles per second activity) is the only frequency group found in every part of the brain. It is therefore assumed that when the brain needs to simultaneously process information in different parts of itself, it uses its 40Hz activity to bind or consolidate the required areas (simultaneous processing).
A good memory is associated with well regulated and efficient 40Hz activity; a 40Hz deficiency creates learning disabilities.

Your brain uses 13Hz, a 12 - 14 cycles per second frequency group, for sequential processing. It is the brain's most important frequency to learn and use information taught in the class room and on the job.
The brain uses 13Hz for "active" intelligence; those with learning disabilities and attention problems may have a relative deficiency of 13Hz activity in certain brain regions.

The ability to easily perform sequencing tasks, math calculations, for example, depends on how well your brain produces and implements 14 - 26 cycles per second Beta activity.
People feeling depressed often show increased Beta activity; learning disabilities and traumatic brain injury may have either a Beta deficiency or a Beta excess.

Delta waves are the brain's slowest frequencies, measuring only 1/2 to 4 waves in a one second period.
Our brain increases Delta waves to decrease our awareness of the physical world, and to access information in our unconscious mind. For example, Delta waves increase when we need to go to sleep. To go deeper asleep, our brain makes our Delta waves larger and stronger, while turning down certain faster frequencies.
Peak performers decrease Delta waves when high focus and peak performance are required. Most diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder, on the other hand, increase Delta activity when trying to focus. The inappropriate Delta response dampens and often severely restricts the ability to focus and maintain attention in the physical world. It is as if the brain is locked into a perpetual drowsing state.

Most people who focus easily on complex tasks produce "Frontal mid Theta," a rhythmic 6.5 cycles per second activity in their brain's frontal lobes.
These peak attenders also have a tendency toward a good mood, see the world truthfully, and have a sense of calmness.