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What is Neurofeedback?
Stress Point Health has created the first app based solution that deals with emotional regulation. Individualised, targeted help to measurably improve stress and anxiety.
A disrupted brain
Your body’s many systems are constantly responding to changes in your internal and external environments. Functions like respiratory rate, heart rate, blood pressure and body temperature are continually adjusted to keep you in a state of balance. Your brain handles all of this subconsciously, but any disruption to this balance through trauma, stress or anxiety can hamper the brain’s ability to do this.
Stress Point Health has developed a proprietary algorithm based on the core principles of Neurofeedback to allow anyone to benefit from this form of therapy by simply using a smartphone
Break the disrupted pattern
To fully understand Neurofeedback, we need a basic understanding of brain waves. Your brain cells generate electricity to communicate with each other and this electrical activity forms patterns called brain waves. Scientists have found five main patterns of brain waves: alpha, beta, delta, gamma, and theta. Each brain wave state corresponds to a different state of awareness. For example, alpha waves occur when you are relaxed. Beta waves are associated with alertness, but when maintained for too long can lead to feelings of fear and anxiety (for example with the “flight or fight” response). So, if you are feeling stressed or anxious, helping the brain to increase alpha waves whilst decreasing beta wave activity can reduce feelings of stress and anxiety. The SPHERE™ technology can help you do this.
Brain waves and patterns
Your body’s many systems are constantly responding to changes in your internal and external environments. Functions like respiratory rate, heart rate, blood pressure and body temperature are continually adjusted to keep you in a state of balance. Your brain handles all of this subconsciously, but any disruption to this balance through trauma, stress or anxiety can hamper the brain’s ability to do this.
More Research
Studies in the 70s through to the early 90s showed promising evidence that it could be an effective treatment for a variety of stress disorders. But with the introduction of pharmaceutical solutions, other treatment approaches were neglected. Although there are a number of published studies around Neurofeedback and its efficacy, at Stress Point Health we are pioneering further research to fully understand its potential to treat a wide variety of mental health issues.