“Just as the physical body needs a fitness regimen, the brain also needs exercise to sharpen and strengthen it. One of the ways to boost intelligence or memory is to engage in “neurofeedback,” a form of computer-aided brain therapy that can read a person’s brainwaves. It determines what is over or under-stimulated and then creates a training program to regulate these brainwaves. It is sometimes referred to as “yoga for the brain.”
“We like to think of neurofeedback as a brain exercise, where we are specifically exercising the brain’s ability to manage its own states—to be calm enough, to be awake enough, to be focused enough. To do what you want to do is the goal,” says Tomas Collura, BCIAC, clinical director of Brain Enrichment Center and Founder of Brain Master, a partner of Philippine Neurofeedback Center. BEC Institute in the U.S. is at the forefront of the development of neurofeedback therapy.”