Neurofeedback in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma: Calming the Fear-Driven Brain (10th Anniversary Edition)

What we know nowadays is that persistent childhood trauma interferes with the natural process of learning how to manage consciousness and self-consciousness; creating, if you will, programming problems in the brain that affect the way individuals learn to process information and organize the self and the mind.

Alpha waves (8–12 Hz) are accompanied by a sense of peace and calm.13 They are familiar to anyone who has learned mindfulness meditation. (A patient once told me that neurofeedback worked for him “like meditation on steroids.”)

downregulate our threat reactions through the neuroception of safety.