Alternatives offers individualized neurofeedback, QEEG, and mindfulness/therapy services as well as access to the coolest and most effective brain toys and biofeedback training devices in Los Angeles. A division of Alternatives Behavioral Health, LLC., and located near Beverly Hills, the Brain Institute provides services that help clients who are struggling with anxiety, sleep, stress, depression, attention, ADHD and obsessive thoughts improve their life without medications. We are a qEEG, evidence-based practice meaning we help you look at your brain function and work with you to build strengths and resources, flexibility, and better performance. It's time we started treating the brain and mind like the muscles that we work out, flex, and tune. Just like we look to diet and exercise to improve our physical health, so can we improve our brain function to give us the life we want. Optimal performance and biofeedback/neurofeedback training can benefit brains at any age, and be tailored to specific needs. Individualized programs at the Brain Institute combine cognitive fitness strategies and practices, as well as cutting edge technology. "Neurofeedback" is a form of biofeedback. It's is performed directly on brain activity, usually EEG or other central nervous system activity (frontal lobe blood flow training). When training "brainwaves" (EEG), you gradually make more or less of specific frequency bands (delta, theta, alpha beta) or train for connectivity between two regions. Similarly, with infrared brain training you increase perfusion and metabolic rate of the brain. Quantitative EEG or "Brain Mapping"
The EEG is a way to measure electrical activity in your brain. Your brain is electric. Every thought you think, every emotion you feel, and every sensation you have is due to the electrical firing of neurons. QEEG “Brain Mapping” is an assessment tool that provides an evidence base to guide your individualized training needs. The EEG shows us the brain activity and the coordination of activity of the cortex – the outermost layer of the brain.
