Start with an assessment
Your physician comes first, and stays first. Alongside that, the Individualized NeuroDevelopmental Profile reads the autonomic side against the other six systems.
Hypertension and migraines
Both sit on the autonomic side: vascular tension, and the resting speed the body holds when nothing is asking anything of it. Neither is a condition we treat medically, and both respond to how well the system regulates.
The autonomic pair
These two set the body’s baseline tension and the reserve it starts the day with.
Basal ganglia
Regulation of the body’s idle speed, and the anxiety threshold that keeps the system braced.
Deep limbic system
Mood and energy regulation, and the sleep restoration that decides how much reserve the next day starts with.
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What people describe
Both of these track the week, not the moment, which is usually the clue that autonomic regulation is involved.
- A body that stays braced through an ordinary day
- Migraine that waits until the stress is over, then arrives
- Numbers that move with the week, and barely with the medication
- Light, noise and sleep debt stacking into the same outcome
How we work with it
Then the work itself
For this presentation that usually means Dynamical Neurofeedback®, regulation work that lets the nervous system self-correct. We work on the resting speed the body holds, not on the vascular event. That is a supporting role and we will not describe it as more.
Questions people ask
What people ask about a supporting role, and where that role stops.
Will this replace my blood pressure medication?
No. We are not your prescriber and nothing here is a substitute for medical care. Talk to your physician before changing anything.
Why would neurofeedback matter to a migraine?
Because autonomic regulation is one of the inputs. Dynamical Neurofeedback® works on how readily the system settles, not on the vascular event itself.
Is there a free screener for this?
Not for these two. The free screeners cover ACE, anxiety, auditory processing, hearing, trauma and depression.
Take something home with you
Between sessions is where most of the work happens. These are the downloads and the journal we hand to clients, sold through our storefront.
Adult Autogenics Audio
Twelve minutes of autogenics to run before a 33 minute session, which rounds the whole thing out to 45.
$9.95 USD
Package of 3 Neurofeedback Videos, 45 minute
The same three settings cut to 45 minutes, for a session that runs long or follows an autogenics track.
$49.95 USD
Music for Wellness
Ambient soundscapes recorded with violinist Cathy Morris, for quieting a busy mind into a calm focus.
$19.95 USD
Prices in USD, as published in the storefront. Checkout, delivery and support for anything on this shelf run through store.cognitive-connections.com.
Regulation alongside your physician, never instead
Nothing here replaces medical care. What it can do is work on how readily the system settles between the events.