The Healing Power of Neurofeedback

The Revolutionary LENS Technique for Restoring Optimal Brain Function

Stephen Larsen

• Publisher: Healing Arts Press
• Year: 2006
• Print ISBN: 9781594770845
• eBook ISBN: 9781620550915
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Alternative & Complementary Medicine

An introduction to the innovative therapy that restores optimal functioning of the brain after physical or emotional trauma

• Provides an alternative to the more invasive therapies of electroshock and drugs

• Shows how this therapy helps ameliorate anxiety and depression as well as childhood developmental disorders

• Includes extraordinary case histories that reveal the powerful results achieved

According to the Centers for Disease Control, each year 260,000 people are hospitalized with traumatic brain injuries. The Brain Injury Association reports 1.5 million injuries, many of which go undiagnosed but which lead to all kinds of cognitive and emotional impairments. While neuroscience has learned an enormous amount about the connection between brain trauma and personality changes, the methods proposed for resolving these alterations are generally limited to drug therapy or surgeries.

This book explores a much less invasive but highly effective technique of restoring brain function: the Low Energy Neurofeedback System (LENS). Developed by Dr. Len Ochs in 1992, it has had extraordinary results using weak electromagnetic fields to stimulate brain-wave activity and restore brain flexibility and function. The treatment works across a broad spectrum of human activity, increasing the brain’s abilities to adapt to the imbalances caused by physical trauma or emotional disorders--both on the basic level and in the more subtle areas of cognitive, affective, and spiritual processes that make us truly human. While the treatment has had remarkable results with individuals who have experienced severe physical trauma to the head and brain, Stephen Larsen sees it also as an important alternative to chemical approaches for such chronic behavioral disorders as ADHD and monopolar and bipolar depression.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Foreword by Thom Hartmann
• Preface by Len Ochs, Ph.D.
• Introduction: Flexible Brain, Quiet Mind
• 1. The LENS in Clinical Practice
• 2. A Brief History of EEG Neurofeedback
• 3. The Development of the LENS Approach
• 4. Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Spinal Injury and the LENS
• 5. Healing the Mind of Childhood: Cerebral Palsy, Reactive Attachment Disorder, Autism, Asperger’s Syndrome, ADD/ADHD, and Learning Disabilities
• 6. The Twilight Zone: Fibromyalgia, Lyme Disease, and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
• 7. High Anxiety, Deep Depression: Panic, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Anxiety, Phobia, Depression, and Bipolar Disorder
• 8. The Divine Madness: Epilepsy, Explosive Disorders, Tourette’s Syndrome, and Tics
• 9. Life Hurts: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Pain, and Bereavement
• 10. Brain Attack: Aneurysm, Stroke, Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, and Headache
• 11. Alternative Approaches to Evaluation and Treatment Using the LENS Perspective
• 12. The LENS and Other Modalities: Psychotherapy, Conventional Biofeedback/Neurofeedback, HeartMath, Photonic Stimulation, Interactive Metronome, Deep Vascular Relaxation, Nutritional Support, Sudarshan Kriya Yoga, Qi Gong, and Open Focus
• 13. Speculations on Physics, Energy Psychology, Chaos Theory, and Magnetite in the Brain
• 14. The LENS with Animals: Improving the Behavior, Temperament, and Flexibility of Horses, Dogs, and Cats
• 15. Postscript: The Tao of LENS—Positive Psychology and Optimal Performance
• Resources
• Glossary of Acronyms
• Glossary of Diseases/Conditions
• Glossary of Healing Modalities
• Footnotes
• Notes
• Bibliography
• About the Contributors
• About the Author
• About Inner Traditions
• Copyright