Why Painful Memories Linger

Memories of traumatic events can be hard to shake, and now scientists say they understand why. Studies on laboratory rats have revealed, for the first time, the brain mechanism that translates unpleasant experiences into long-lasting memories.

The findings support a 65-year-old hypothesis called Hebbian plasticity.(1)

 This idea states that in the face of trauma, such as watching a dog sink its teeth into your leg, more neurons in the brain fire electrical impulses in unison and make stronger connections to each other than under normal situations. Stronger connections make stronger memories.

The new findings are not only an important advance in researchers' understanding of how Hebbian plasticity works, but they also may lead to treatments to help patients forget horrible memories, such as those associated with post-traumatic stress disorder

 (PTSD).The study, by researchers at New York University and Japan's RIKEN Brain Science Institute, appears today (Dec. 8) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [Why You Forget: 5 Strange Facts About Memory

Hebbian plasticity, the thinking goes, works when a brain region called the amygdala allows sensory stimuli to become associated with either rewarding or aversive outcomes, thus producing emotional memories. The saying in the field is that "neurons that fire together, wire together," forming strong connections.

"These processes for triggering aversive memory storage may represent a general mechanism controlling memory formation that is shared across other learning systems in the brain," said Joshua Johansen of RIKEN, one of the lead authors on the study.

Previously, the researchers, led by Joseph LeDoux, director of NYU's Emotional Brain Institute, found evidence for Hebbian plasticity using brain cells that had been removed from animals. The new study represents the first time the process was seen in a working brain with real memories.

In the study, the researchers worked with rats that were conditioned to associate an auditory tone with a mild electrical shock to their feet. Using a new technique called optogenetics, the researchers could both control and track the path of electrical impulses in the rats' amygdalas.

When the researchers weakened or blocked the signaling among neurons, the memory that linked the sound with shock failed to form, supporting the idea of Hebbian plasticity, the researchers said.

Yet the researchers also found that Hebbian plasticity cannot completely explain the process. The scientists used lasers to directly stimulate neurons in the amygdala without actually delivering the shock, and found that the negative memory wasn't formed, despite the strong neural activity. This implies that Hebbian mechanisms are important but not sufficient by themselves to form a memory, and that tiny molecules called neuromodulators seem to be required as well, the researchers wrote.

"Our results not only show that we are able to artificially manipulate memory, but also that this manipulation is correlated with long-lasting changes in the brain," said Lorenzo Diaz-Mataix, a postdoctoral fellow at NYU and also lead author on the report. "Basic findings like this one will potentially help to understand and treat many psychiatric conditions that share aberrant memory processing," he told Live Science.

Remembering scary events, such as an animal attack, clearly has advantages from an evolutionary perspective. But sometimes memories can be too painful. For people who have such memories, the new findings offer hope, Johansen said.

"Because of the importance of forgetting aversive memories for PTSD, many labs, including my own, are trying to understand how these types of memories can be forgotten," Johansen told Live Science. "One possibility is that instead of tapping into 'forgetting' mechanisms, we try to reverse what happened during memory formation. Our findings in this paper are important in this regard and may enable novel approaches to enhance the forgetting or reversal of learning of aversive experiences

BLOOD SUGAR

Elevated Blood Sugar Shrinks the Brain

Studies have demonstrated that there is a direct correlation between changes in size of the brains memory center, the hippocampus, and declining memory function. So it’s obviously in our great interest to do everything we possibly can to preserve the size of hippocampus, which is to say, prevent hippocampal atrophy.

It has become clear that there is a powerful direct relationship between not only fasting blood sugar, but even average blood sugar, in terms of predicting the rate at which the hippocampus will shrink and therefore memory will decline. In a new report, recently published in the journal Neurology, researchers in Germany evaluated a group of 141 individuals, average age 63 years, with memory testing as well as a specific type of MRI scan of the brain to measure the size of the hippocampus in each participant. At the same time they looked at blood sugar levels as well as average blood sugar, by assessing a blood test called hemoglobin A1 c.

What these researchers discovered was really quite profound. There was a perfect correlation between having lower blood sugar as well as lower average blood sugar as measured by an A1c test and several markers of brain function. As the authors stated “lower A1c and glucose levels were significantly associated with better scores in delayed recall, learning ability, and memory consolidation.”

They found that the average blood sugar, the A1c “strongly associated with memory performance.” The authors also were able to draw a conclusion between blood sugar and reduction in size of the hippocampus.

The conclusion of the research stated our results indicate that even in the absence of manifest type II diabetes mellitus or impaired glucose tolerance, chronically higher blood glucose levels exert a negative influence on cognition, possibly mediated by structural changes in learning relevant brain areas. Therefore, strategies aimed at lowering glucose levels even in the normal range may beneficially influence cognition in the older population, a hypothesis to be examined in future interventional trials

These researchers have made it very clear that blood sugar levels are dramatically associated with brain function and brain structure. These are findings that have profound implications, especially in the context of the idea that there are absolutely no pharmaceutical interventions available anywhere on the planet that have any meaningful effect on brain structure or brain function.

This type of information is totally supportive of my raison d’être, my reason to be. This research completely supports the major contention of Grain Brain and that is that sugar and carbohydrates represent a powerful threat to the brain. The take-home message is to cut the carbs, ditch the sugar, and welcome healthful fats back to the table.

Brain Psychobiotics Bacteria

Psychobiotics Bacteria For Your Brain

Every functional medicine psychiatrist has case stories of the'probiotic cure  of a patient with debilitating symptoms, often obsessive compulsive range, whose symptoms remitted completely with dietary change and probiotic supplementation. Is this voodoo or is it based on a growing understanding of the role of the microbiome in mental health and behavior? For two decades now,pioneering researchers have been substantiating inflammatory models of mental illnesses such as depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia. Research has focused on markers that indicate immune distress in an important subset of patients, many of whom are labeled treatment resistant. Through this body of literature, we have identified that depression can be induced, in animals and in humans through inflammatory agents, that it is correlated with blood levels of inflammatory markers, in a linear way (more markers  worse depression, and that symptoms can be reversed through pharmaceutical anti-inflammatories.
Inflammatory Models of Mental Illness The Role for the Gut

Working with this premise, where is the best place to begin when we consider how to modify inflammatory states in the body, naturally? You guessed it, it's the gut. Housing 70% of our immune system, the gut is our interface between the outside and inside world, separated by one-cell-thickness. The resident microorganisms, outnumbering by 10:1 by our human body cells, develop an ecosystem through postnatal exposures, in the vaginal canal, through breastfeeding, and the immediate environment. Disruption to the balance of bacteria through medication exposures, gluten, herbicides, stress, and infection can set the stage for the innate immune system to prepare for attack. Depression, associated with compromised integrity of this intestinal barrier, becomes the swirling storm of inflammation, impairment of cellular machinery i.e. mitochondria, oxidative stress, and inflammation in a carousel-like forward rotation. Specifically, depression is associated with elevated levels of lipopolysaccharide (LPS), a nutrient-binding, inflammatory toxin produced by bacteria that are intended to remain in the gut.

If depression is a downstream collection of symptoms, and inflammation, oxidative stress, and mitochondrial dysfunction are driving these symptoms, what is at the source? It appears, from data in animals and humans, that disruption to our gut ecology may be a major player, and the microbiome has stepped to the forefront of cutting-edge psychiatric research.

Enter psychobiotics a live organism that, when ingested in adequate amounts, produces a health benefit in patients suffering from psychiatric illness. A review by Dinan et al. encompasses the clinical basis for the use of probiotics in mental health with reference to animal studies in which behavioral changes resulted from exposure to bacterial strains such as bifidobacterium and lactobacillus. In placebo-controlled trials in humans, measures of anxiety, chronic fatigue, and depression and anxiety associated with irritable bowel syndrome.

The therapeutic clinical applications of probiotics have been limited to a handful of strains out of the more than 7000 at last count. It appears that colonization is not an expected outcome of probiotic supplementation, and that genomic communication between bacteria and immune receptors may account for anti-inflammatory effects.
Ancient Wisdom

Given how little is known about therapeutic applications of different strains, it may make sense to defer to ancestral practices that confirm the importance of probiotic exposures. In these foods such as lactofermented kimchi, pickles, sauerkraut, and other traditional vegetables, microbes are acting on the food, and the food is then acting on our microbes.

What do bacteria accomplish in the gut? Do they just help with digestion? According to Selhub et al., they:

• Direct protection of the intestinal barrier;

• Influence on local and systemic antioxidant status, reduction in lipid peroxidation;

• Direct, microbial-produced neurochemical production, for example, gammaaminobutyric

acid (GABA);

• Indirect influence on neurotransmitter or neuropeptide production;

• Prevention of stress-induced alterations to overall intestinal microbiota;

• Direct activation of neural pathways between gut and brain;

• Limitation of inflammatory cytokine production;

• Modulation of neurotrophic chemicals, including brain-derived neurotrophic factor;

• Limitation of carbohydrate malabsorption;

• Improvement of nutritional status, for example, omega-3 fatty acids, minerals, dietary

phytochemicals;

• Limitation of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth;

• Reduction of amine or uremic toxin burden;

• Limitation of gastric or intestinal pathogens (for example, Helicobacter pylori);

• Analgesic properties.

Given widespread fermentation practices in traditional cultures, it appears that this dietary wisdom may serve to ameliorate gut-based inflammation and promote optimal nutrient assimilation as described in this review: "Traditional dietary practices have completely divergent effects of blood LPS levels; significant reductions (38%) have been noted after a one-month adherence to a prudent (traditional) diet, while the Western diet provokes LPS elevations ."

In addition to increasing bioavailability and production of minerals, neurochemicals, and fatty acids, fermented foods actually produce methylfolate, an activated form of folate required for methylation brain chemical synthesis, detox, and gene expression.

Because of the complex coevolution of bacterial strains, cultivated through our food supply, and complementary to our inner microbiomes, we have an opportunity to use therapeutic foods to reeducate an immune system that has been drawn off course. Psychobiotics have the potential to modulate multiple different relevant factors at once:


This could manifest, behaviorally, via magnified antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activity, reduction of intestinal permeability and the detrimental effects of LPS, improved glycemic control, positive influence on nutritional status and therefore neurotransmission and neuropeptide production, direct production of GABA, and other bioactive chemicals, as well as a direct role in gut-to-brain communication via a beneficial shift in the intestinal microbiota itself."

It is therefore compelling to consider the power of reconnecting to the natural world through our food communicating through our guts to our brains, that nutrients are plentiful, our bodies are safe, and that our inflammatory systems can be put at ease. It is under these circumstances that the infinite complexity of the endocrine, immune, and gastrointestinal systems can play out, unhindered in support of mental health and wellness.

Yawning

Yawning

All humans yawn. So do most vertebrate animals. Surely it serves some useful function. But what that might be has puzzled scientists throughout the ages.

Now a series of experiments suggests a surprising reason for yawning. It cools the brain, says Andrew C. Gallup, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University.

When you start to yawn, powerful stretching of the jaw increases blood flow in the neck, face, and head.
The deep intake of breath during a yawn forces downward flow of spinal fluid and blood from the brain.
Cool air breathed into the mouth cools these fluids.

Together these processes may act like a radiator, removing too hot blood from the brain while introducing cooler blood from the lungs and extremities, thereby cooling brain surfaces,
The theory predicts that colder outside air should cool the brain better than hot air. The body should therefore yawn more when the air is cool, and yawn less when the air is hot.

 Once in the winter, when it was a cool 71.6 degrees F outside, and once in early summer, when it was 98.6 degrees F.
Sure enough, in the cooler weather 45% of people yawned when they looked at the pictures. But in hotter weather, only 24% of people yawned. Moreover, people yawned more if they'd been outside longer in the cool weather, and yawned less if they'd been outside longer in the hot weather.

The cooling theory of yawning is the only theory that explains all these experimental results. But he has not yet convinced those who prefer another theory.

University of Geneva physician Adrian G. Guggisberg, MD, agrees with Gallup that changes in room temperature can trigger yawning. But he's wary of the brain cooling theory. 

There are other ways to regulate body temperature, such as sweating, and it is unclear why we would need another regulator which fails when it matters.

Your Brain in Love ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥Your Brain in Love♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

You may have heard people say that the most important organ for love is the brain, not the heart. Research on the neuroscience of love has some interesting findings that might surprise you.

When love is a many-splendorous thing
Ever fallen madly in love? Researcher Helen Fisher has spent her academic life trying to figure out what's going on in the brains of those who are in the heady, butterflies-in-the-stomach throes of passionate romantic love. Fisher has scanned the brains of young paramours and found that when they're focusing on the object of their affection, a whole host of brain parts start lighting up. One of the two most important regions was initially a little surprising to Dr. Fisher. First, she found that the caudate nucleus part of the primitive reptilian brain is highly active in these amorous individuals. As expected, she also saw the brain areas associated with dopamine and norepinephrine production light up. Both are brain chemicals associated with pleasurable activities and excitement.

Fisher puts it best when she says, "No wonder lovers talk all night or walk till dawn, write extravagant poetry and self-revealing e-mails, cross continents or oceans to hug for just a weekend, change jobs or lifestyles, even die for one another. Drenched in chemicals that bestow focus, stamina and vigor, and driven by the motivating engine of the brain, lovers succumb to a Herculean courting urge."



Fisher also notes that other parts of the reward system, like the one that activates when you're eating chocolate, plays a role during this phase of love. She supports the hypothesis that like chocolate, being head over heels in love is addictive. Of course, dopamine is what gets released when you take a hit of cocaine, too so it's not surprising that other research suggests that for the brain, a bad break up is like kicking a drug habit.

Love and marriage
Ted Huston, on the other hand, is more interested in studying what happens throughout long-term relationships. One interesting finding over a lifetime of research is that couples who idealize one another can lead to a happier marriage. According to Huston, "Usually, this is a matter of one person putting good spin on the partner, seeing the partner as more responsive than he or she really is." Score another point for positive thinking.

Huston has also found gender differences in what makes for a happy marriage. For example, some of his studies have shown that women are happier in their marriage if they get to spend ample time with their husband and with friends and family, while men who are happy with their finances tend to be happier in the marriage. Both genders are happier when they feel they have "influence" over their spouse and when they are satisfied with their sex lives, but you probably could have guessed that without Huston's years of research.

There are, of course, those people who have been together for decades and still act like two kids in love. If you scan the brain activity of those long-married lovebirds, they look an awful lot like the scans of Helen Fisher's newly smitten sweethearts. In particular, the brain activity looks the same in regions associated with things like motivation, craving, and reward. Researcher Arthur Aron and colleagues note that "…while romantic love is a mystery, and maintaining it may never be fully understood, the study provides evidence and possibly clues to what may be essential activity in the brain for love to last."

The neuroscience of date night
Lots of relationship experts suggest that couples who have been together through the ages can keep the romance alive with regular date nights. A smashing idea! Neuroscience research shows us that date night can, in fact, help keep a relationship fresh and rewarding, but if and only if you go about it in the right way. The key here is novelty; you and your betrothed must engage in fun, exciting, and new experiences so you can get the dopamine and norepinephrine flowing and reward your brain. Remember, back when you first fell in love, dopamine and norepinephrine were a big factor as well. If you've been following the research of Dr. Michael Merzenich, you know that novelty is one of the key factors in driving brain plasticity. Can you change your brain by hitting the indoor rock climbing wall next date night?

If rock climbing isn't for you, maybe you'll appreciate an adjacent body of research from psychologist Richard Slatcher. He studied couples and found that those who hang out with other couples are "more likely to have happy and satisfying romantic relationships." It might have something to do with breaking up the routine and introducing novelty from other sources. So maybe you can still go to the same restaurant every week, provided the reservation is for 4, not 2.

Oxytocin, the love/hate hormone
You may have heard of oxytocin, sometimes called the "love hormone." Human and animal studies have shown that oxytocin plays a role in bonding; when released in your brain during certain types of human contact, it has the effect of bonding you to the other person involved. This makes a lot of sense, because oxytocin is known to be released when a woman is nursing her infant, when two people are hugging, and during sexual activity. It's also thought to be involved in other corollary emotional responses of bonding, like trust-building and empathy. Some early research has suggested that oxytocin could be used therapeutically in people who suffer from disorders like autism or schizophrenia, which hinder bonding and positive relationship development. In studies, applying a dose of oxytocin via nasal spray showed promise in such patients.

However, things are never as simple as they seem, and more recent research on oxytocin suggests a dark side to the so-called "love hormone." While affecting positive behaviors of trust and bonding, it can also affect opposite behaviors like jealousy, envy, and suspicion. This would suggest that contrary to prior belief, oxytocin triggers and amplifies social feelings of all types, not just the positive, feel-good ones. In the words of researcher Simone Shamay-Tsoory of the University of Haifa, "…when the person's association is positive, oxytocin bolsters pro-social behaviors; when the association is negative, the hormone increases negative sentiments". According to psychologist Greg Norman, this shows that "oxytocin is not a love hormone; its effects vary in different people." So maybe we should hold off on that nasal spray thing for the time being.

No room for romance? Try music instead… but not junk food
Does all this romantic mumbo-jumbo make you feel a little queasy? I have good news: a recent study showed that listening to your favorite music has a similar effect on your brain as other pleasure-inducing activities like having sex. Whether you prefer Tchaikovsky or tango, Mozart or Michael Jackson, MRI and PET scans reveal that when you listen to music that excites you, your brain releases dopamine during the most exciting moments of the song and even in anticipation of those moments.

Some things a person does can produce so much dopamine that over time, the dopamine response lessens, which means you can lose the ability to feel any kind of pleasure at all. The usual culprits of this dopamine dulling effect are things like cocaine and heroin, which is good news for the great majority of us who are not addicted to illicit substances. The bad news is that if you're addicted to fatty foods, the same thing could potentially happen to you. If you let rats eat as much cheesecake, bacon, sausage, and other fatty foods as they want, not only will they become obese, but their dopamine responses will start to attenuate over time. So while a small slice of cheesecake once in a while may get your dopamine flowing, overdoing it may have negative consequences on your brain and on your waistline.

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SO LOTS OF LOVE ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Brain is A Tuning Fork

The Brain is A Tuning Fork for Life

Although the existence of the Schumann Resonance is an established scientific fact, there are very few scientists who are aware of the importance of this frequency as a tuning fork for Life. I propose that it is not merely a phenomenon caused by lightning in the atmosphere, but a very important electromagnetic standing wave, acting as background frequency and influencing biological oscillators within the mammalian brain.

At the time when Schumann published his research results in the journal `Technische Physik', Dr Ankermueller, a physician, immediately made the connection between the Schumann resonance and the alpha rhythm of brainwaves. He found the thought of the earth having the same natural resonance as the brain very exciting and contacted Professor Schumann, who in turn asked a doctorate candidate to look into this phenomenon. This candidate was Herbert König who became Schumann's successor at Munich University. König demonstrated a correlation between Schumann Resonances and brain rhythms. He compared human EEG recordings with natural electromagnetic fields of the environment (1979) and found that the main frequency produced by Schumann oscillations is very close to the frequency of alpha rhythms.

How Smart Can We Get?

How Smart Can We Get?

See inside Einstein’s brain, learn how to boost your memory, meet people who became savants after an injury, and more. Airing October 24, 2012 at 10 pm on PBS

PHow do you get a genius brain? Is it all in your genes? Or is it hard work? Is it possible that everyone’s brain has untapped genius–just waiting for the right circumstances so it can be unleashed? From a man who can immediately name the day of the week of any date in history to a “memory athlete” who can remember strings of hundreds of random numbers, David Pogue meets people stretching the boundaries of what the human mind can do. Then, Pogue puts himself to the test: after high-resolution scanning, he finds out how the anatomy of his brain measures up against the greatest mind of the century: Albert Einstein.

Experience-Dependent Epigenetic Modifications in the Central Nervous System

Experience-Dependent Epigenetic Modifications in the Central Nervous System

This mini-review describes recent discoveries demonstrating that experience can drive the production of epigenetic marks in the adult nervous system and that the experience-dependent regulation of epigenetic molecular mechanisms in the mature central nervous system participates in the control of gene transcription underlying the formation of long-term memories. In the mammalian experimental systems investigated thus far, epigenetic mechanisms have been linked to associative fear conditioning, extinction of learned fear, and hippocampus-dependent spatial memory formation. Intriguingly, in one experimental system epigenetic marks at the level of chromatin structure (histone acetylation) have been linked to the recovery of memories that had seemed to be “lost” (i.e., not available for recollection). Environmental enrichment has long been known to have positive effects on memory capacity, and recent studies have suggested that these effects are at least partly due to the recruitment of epigenetic mechanisms by environmental enrichment. Finally, an uncoupling of signal transduction pathways from the regulation of epigenetic mechanisms in the nucleus has been implicated in the closure of developmental critical periods. Taken together, these eclectic findings suggest a new perspective on experience-dependent dynamic regulation of epigenetic mechanisms in the adult nervous system and their relevance to biological psychiatry.

EPIGENETICS AND THE HUMAN BRAIN

EPIGENETICS AND THE HUMAN BRAIN

Throughout our lives, the brain remains flexible and responsive to the outside world. In addition to receiving signals from the outside world, the brain allows us to form memories and learn from our experiences. Many brain functions are accompanied at the cellular level by changes in gene expression. Epigenetic mechanisms such as histone modification and DNA methylation stabilize gene expression, which is important for long-term storage of information.

Not surprisingly, epigenetic changes are also a part of brain diseases such as mental illness and addiction. Understanding the role of epigenetics in brain disease may open the door to being able to influence it. This may lead to the development of new and more effective treatments for brain diseases.

A segment from a June 2008 lecture given by Dr. Moshe Szyf, Professor of Pharmacology and Therapeutics at McGill University. 

Dr. Szyf talks about studies that looked at epigenetic tags in the brains of suicide victims. He describes some of the laboratory methods scientists use to study epigenetics, and goes over some of the evidence that shows an association between certain epigenetic patterns, suicide, and child abuse.


Other connections between epigenetics and behavior:
Scientists are just starting to study how changes in epigenetic tags affect behavior, and how behavior can change epigenetic tags. Some highlights:


People who commit suicide have less-active ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes than people who die of other causes. In people who commit suicide, Methyl levels are higher on rRNA genes in a part of the brain called the hippocampus, which is important for learning and memory. More methyl means less rRNA production, which means fewer ribosomes, which means less protein production.

Child abuse is an environmental factor that leaves an epigenetic mark on the brain. In a comparison of suicide victims who were abused or not, only the abused victims had an epigenetic tag on the GR gene. Interestingly, the GR gene receives a similar epigenetic tag in rat pups who receive low quality care from their mothers.

CBP is a protein that is important for activating genes involved in learning and memory. One of its functions is to add acetyl tags to histones -- an epigenetic modification found on active genes. having one faulty copy of the CBP gene causes Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome, a condition with a variety of characteristics, including mental disability.

The gene for REELIN protein has less methyl (is more active) than normal in schizophrenic brains. Reelin is important for shaping the brain early in development and later on for learning.

One scan of epigenetic markers in the brain identified about 60 genes that are different between psychiatric patients and healthy people. Many of these genes code for proteins that are important for signaling between brain cells.

Some drugs that are used to treat mental illness work by changing gene expression. These changes in gene expression are stabilized through epigenetic mechanisms (DNA methylation and histone modification), reversing the effects of the disease.

Drugs of abuse such as cocaine trigger epigenetic changes in certain brain regions, affecting hundreds of genes at a time. Some of these changes remain long after the drug has been cleared from the system. Research in this area suggests that some of the long-term effects of drug abuse and addiction (including high rates of relapse) may be written in epigenetic code.

Heaven Is Real:..... A Doctor’s Experience With the Afterlife

Heaven Is Real:..... A Doctor’s Experience With the Afterlife 

When a neurosurgeon found himself in a coma, he experienced things he never thought possible a journey to the afterlife.
As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences. I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon. I followed my father’s path and became an academic neurosurgeon, teaching at Harvard Medical School and other universities. I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.
The brain is an astonishingly sophisticated but extremely delicate mechanism. Reduce the amount of oxygen it receives by the smallest amount and it will react. It was no big surprise that people who had undergone severe trauma would return from their experiences with strange stories. But that didn't mean they had journeyed anywhere real.
Although I considered myself a faithful Christian, I was so more in name than in actual belief. I didn't begrudge those who wanted to believe that Jesus was more than simply a good man who had suffered at the hands of the world. I sympathized deeply with those who wanted to believe that there was a God somewhere out there who loved us unconditionally. In fact, I envied such people the security that those beliefs no doubt provided. But as a scientist, I simply knew better than to believe them myself.
In the fall of 2008, however, after seven days in a coma during which the human part of my brain, the neocortex, was inactivated, I experienced something so profound that it gave me a scientific reason to believe in consciousness after death.
I know how pronouncements like mine sound to skeptics, so I will tell my story with the logic and language of the scientist I am.
Very early one morning four years ago, I awoke with an extremely intense headache. Within hours, my entire cortex—the part of the brain that controls thought and emotion and that in essence makes us human—had shut down. Doctors at Lynchburg General Hospital in Virginia, a hospital where I myself worked as a neurosurgeon, determined that I had somehow contracted a very rare bacterial meningitis that mostly attacks newborns. E. coli bacteria had penetrated my cerebrospinal fluid and were eating my brain.
When I entered the emergency room that morning, my chances of survival in anything beyond a vegetative state were already low. They soon sank to near nonexistent. For seven days I lay in a deep coma, my body unresponsive, my higher-order brain functions totally offline.
Alexander discusses his experience on the Science channel's 'Through the Wormhole.'
Then, on the morning of my seventh day in the hospital, as my doctors weighed whether to discontinue treatment, my eyes popped open.

‘You have nothing to fear.’ ‘There is nothing you can do wrong.’ The message flooded me with a vast and crazy sensation of relief. 
There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind my conscious, inner self was alive and well. While the neurons of my cortex were stunned to complete inactivity by the bacteria that had attacked them, my brain-free consciousness journeyed to another, larger dimension of the universe: a dimension I’d never dreamed existed and which the old, pre-coma me would have been more than happy to explain was a simple impossibility.
But that dimension in rough outline, the same one described by countless subjects of near-death experiences and other mystical states is there. It exists, and what I saw and learned there has placed me quite literally in a new world: a world where we are much more than our brains and bodies, and where death is not the end of consciousness but rather a chapter in a vast, and incalculably positive, journey.

I’m not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as human history. But as far as I know, no one before me has ever traveled to this dimension (a) while their cortex was completely shut down, and (b) while their body was under minute medical observation, as mine was for the full seven days of my coma.
All the chief arguments against near-death experiences suggest that these experiences are the results of minimal, transient, or partial malfunctioning of the cortex. My near-death experience, however, took place not while my cortex was malfunctioning, but while it was simply off. This is clear from the severity and duration of my meningitis, and from the global cortical involvement documented by CT scans and neurological examinations. According to current medical understanding of the brain and mind, there is absolutely no way that I could have experienced even a dim and limited consciousness during my time in the coma, much less the hyper-vivid and completely coherent odyssey I underwent.

It took me months to come to terms with what happened to me. Not just the medical impossibility that I had been conscious during my coma, but—more importantly—the things that happened during that time. Toward the beginning of my adventure, I was in a place of clouds. Big, puffy, pink-white ones that showed up sharply against the deep blue-black sky.
Reliving History: The search for the meaning of the afterlife is as old as humanity itself. Over the years Newsweek has run numerous covers about religion, God, and that search. As Dr. Alexander says, it’s unlikely we’ll know the answer in our lifetimes, but that doesn't mean we won’t keep asking.
Higher than the clouds—immeasurably higher—flocks of transparent, shimmering beings arced across the sky, leaving long, streamer like lines behind them.
Birds? Angels? These words registered later, when I was writing down my recollections. But neither of these words do justice to the beings themselves, which were quite simply different from anything I have known on this planet. They were more advanced. Higher forms.

A sound, huge and booming like a glorious chant, came down from above, and I wondered if the winged beings were producing it. Again, thinking about it later, it occurred to me that the joy of these creatures, as they soared along, was such that they had to make this noise—that if the joy didn’t come out of them this way then they would simply not otherwise be able to contain it. The sound was palpable and almost material, like a rain that you can feel on your skin but doesn't get you wet.

Seeing and hearing were not separate in this place where I now was. I could hear the visual beauty of the silvery bodies of those scintillating beings above, and I could see the surging, joyful perfection of what they sang. It seemed that you could not look at or listen to anything in this world without becoming a part of it—without joining with it in some mysterious way. Again, from my present perspective, I would suggest that you couldn't look at anything in that world at all, for the word “at” itself implies a separation that did not exist there. Everything was distinct, yet everything was also a part of everything else, like the rich and intermingled designs on a Persian carpet ... or a butterfly’s wing.
It gets stranger still. For most of my journey, someone else was with me. A woman. She was young, and I remember what she looked like in complete detail. She had high cheekbones and deep-blue eyes. Golden brown tresses framed her lovely face. When first I saw her, we were riding along together on an intricately patterned surface, which after a moment I recognized as the wing of a butterfly. In fact, millions of butterflies were all around us—vast fluttering waves of them, dipping down into the woods and coming back up around us again. It was a river of life and color, moving through the air. The woman’s outfit was simple, like a peasant’s, but its colors—powder blue, indigo, and pastel orange-peach—had the same overwhelming, super-vivid aliveness that everything else had. She looked at me with a look that, if you saw it for five seconds, would make your whole life up to that point worth living, no matter what had happened in it so far. It was not a romantic look. It was not a look of friendship. It was a look that was somehow beyond all these, beyond all the different compartments of love we have down here on earth. It was something higher, holding all those other kinds of love within itself while at the same time being much bigger than all of them.
Without using any words, she spoke to me. The message went through me like a wind, and I instantly understood that it was true. I knew so in the same way that I knew that the world around us was real—was not some fantasy, passing and insubstantial.
he message had three parts, and if I had to translate them into earthly language, I’d say they ran something like this:


“You are loved and cherished, dearly, forever.”
“You have nothing to fear.”
“There is nothing you can do wrong.”
The message flooded me with a vast and crazy sensation of relief. It was like being handed the rules to a game I’d been playing all my life without ever fully understanding it.
“We will show you many things here,” the woman said, again, without actually using these words but by driving their conceptual essence directly into me. “But eventually, you will go back.”
To this, I had only one question.
Back where?


The universe as I experienced it in my coma is ... the same one that both Einstein and Jesus were speaking of in their (very) different ways.
A warm wind blew through, like the kind that spring up on the most perfect summer days, tossing the leaves of the trees and flowing past like heavenly water. A divine breeze. It changed everything, shifting the world around me into an even higher octave, a higher vibration.
Although I still had little language function, at least as we think of it on earth, I began wordlessly putting questions to this wind, and to the divine being that I sensed at work behind or within it.
Where is this place?
Who am I?
Why am I here?
Each time I silently put one of these questions out, the answer came instantly in an explosion of light, color, love, and beauty that blew through me like a crashing wave. What was important about these blasts was that they didn’t simply silence my questions by overwhelming them. They answered them, but in a way that by passed language. Thoughts entered me directly. But it wasn’t thought like we experience on earth. It wasn’t vague, immaterial, or abstract. These thoughts were solid and immediate—hotter than fire and wetter than water—and as I received them I was able to instantly and effortlessly understand concepts that would have taken me years to fully grasp in my earthly life.
I continued moving forward and found myself entering an immense void, completely dark, infinite in size, yet also infinitely comforting. Pitch-black as it was, it was also brimming over with light: a light that seemed to come from a brilliant orb that I now sensed near me. The orb was a kind of “interpreter” between me and this vast presence surrounding me. It was as if I were being born into a larger world, and the universe itself was like a giant cosmic womb, and the orb (which I sensed was somehow connected with, or even identical to, the woman on the butterfly wing) was guiding me through it.
Later, when I was back, I found a quotation by the 17th-century Christian poet Henry Vaughan that came close to describing this magical place, this vast, inky-black core that was the home of the Divine itself.
“There is, some say, in God a deep but dazzling darkness ...”

That was it exactly: an inky darkness that was also full to brimming with light.
I know full well how extraordinary, how frankly unbelievable, all this sounds. Had someone—even a doctor—told me a story like this in the old days, I would have been quite certain that they were under the spell of some delusion. But what happened to me was, far from being delusional, as real or more real than any event in my life. That includes my wedding day and the birth of my two sons.
What happened to me demands explanation.
Modern physics tells us that the universe is a unity—that it is undivided. Though we seem to live in a world of separation and difference, physics tells us that beneath the surface, every object and event in the universe is completely woven up with every other object and event. There is no true separation.
Before my experience these ideas were abstractions. Today they are realities. Not only is the universe defined by unity, it is also I now know defined by love. The universe as I experienced it in my coma is I have come to see with both shock and joy the same one that both Einstein and Jesus were speaking of in their (very) different ways.


I’ve spent decades as a neurosurgeon at some of the most prestigious medical institutions in our country. I know that many of my peers hold as I myself did to the theory that the brain, and in particular the cortex, generates consciousness and that we live in a universe devoid of any kind of emotion, much less the unconditional love that I now know God and the universe have toward us. But that belief, that theory, now lies broken at our feet. What happened to me destroyed it, and I intend to spend the rest of my life investigating the true nature of consciousness and making the fact that we are more, much more, than our physical brains as clear as I can, both to my fellow scientists and to people at large.
I don’t expect this to be an easy task, for the reasons I described above. When the castle of an old scientific theory begins to show fault lines, no one wants to pay attention at first. The old castle simply took too much work to build in the first place, and if it falls, an entirely new one will have to be constructed in its place.

I learned this firsthand after I was well enough to get back out into the world and talk to others—people, that is, other than my long-suffering wife, Holley, and our two sons—about what had happened to me. The looks of polite disbelief, especially among my medical friends, soon made me realize what a task I would have getting people to understand the enormity of what I had seen and experienced that week while my brain was down.
One of the few places I didn’t have trouble getting my story across was a place I’d seen fairly little of before my experience: church. The first time I entered a church after my coma, I saw everything with fresh eyes. The colors of the stained-glass windows recalled the luminous beauty of the landscapes I’d seen in the world above. The deep bass notes of the organ reminded me of how thoughts and emotions in that world are like waves that move through you. And, most important, a painting of Jesus breaking bread with his disciples evoked the message that lay at the very heart of my journey: that we are loved and accepted unconditionally by a God even more grand and unfathomably glorious than the one I’d learned of as a child in Sunday school.

Today many believe that the living spiritual truths of religion have lost their power, and that science, not faith, is the road to truth. Before my experience I strongly suspected that this was the case myself.
But I now understand that such a view is far too simple. The plain fact is that the materialist picture of the body and brain as the producers, rather than the vehicles, of human consciousness is doomed. In its place a new view of mind and body will emerge, and in fact is emerging already. This view is scientific and spiritual in equal measure and will value what the greatest scientists of history themselves always valued above all: truth.

Proof of Heaven by Eben Alexander, M.D. To be published by Simon & Schuster, Inc.. Copyright  2012 by Eben Alexander III, M.D.

This new picture of reality will take a long time to put together. It won’t be finished in my time, or even, I suspect, my sons’ either. In fact, reality is too vast, too complex, and too irreducibly mysterious for a full picture of it ever to be absolutely complete. But in essence, it will show the universe as evolving, multi-dimensional, and known down to its every last atom by a God who cares for us even more deeply and fiercely than any parent ever loved their child.
I’m still a doctor, and still a man of science every bit as much as I was before I had my experience. But on a deep level I’m very different from the person I was before, because I’ve caught a glimpse of this emerging picture of reality. And you can believe me when I tell you that it will be worth every bit of the work it will take us, and those who come after us, to get it right.

THE MIND ALWAYS GROWS

THE MIND ALWAYS GROWS

 “Grams, are you still growing?” my 4-year-old grandson recently asked me. Did his parents tell him that when you get older you stop growing, i.e., that you don’t get taller? Or did he think that because one of his grandparents had passed away a few weeks earlier, he was concerned that if I stopped growing, the same thing might happen to me?

 Of course, as I age I am still growing because my brain and mind are functioning. The two always work in conjunction with each other. As long as we still dream, travel, have desires, hope and spirit, we will always grow, no matter how old we get.
THE BRAIN AND MIND AGING

“The brain is the core of thought and the organ that perceives sensory impulses and regulates motor impulses,” write Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley in The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force (Harper Perennial, 2003). Most importantly, the brain does not cease to function or diminish its capacities due solely to growing older. The brain controls the organ systems of the body. It does this either by activating our muscles or by initiating and emitting body chemicals such as hormones. This centralized control allows for our responses to environmental conditions.
 The mind is housed in the brain and comprises awareness and consciousness that physically influences and interacts with the brain’s functions.
 A more complex definition of the mind includes seeing it as the aspect of intellect and consciousness experienced as combinations of thought, perception, memory, emotion, will and imagination, including all unconscious cognitive processes. The term mind is often used to refer, by implication, to the thought processes of reason. Mind manifests itself subjectively as a stream of consciousness. The mind is awareness and consciousness that physically influences and interacts with the brain’s functions. In this regard, it is one’s volition for a conscious or deliberate decision to be made. Realizing all this provides one reason for maintaining the aforementioned positive attitude.
“Walking in the woods, one’s attention is drawn to a beautiful tree,” Schwartz and Begley write. “The usual human reaction is to set the mind working, ‘what a beautiful tree,’ I wonder how long it’s been here, I wonder how often people notice it.” They further explain the mind being volition. The brain makes connections to realize you’re in the woods as the mind perceives that you are an observer of the tree and see yourself observing it. In this regard, you have an inside thinking and sensing/feeling of the tree, and then an extrinsic awareness of yourself doing that. This happens for older people as well as younger ones.
NEUROPLASTICITY AND AGING

The brain and mind, unless something happens to them, continue to operate until they don’t. Throughout our lives there is constant change in brain/mind function. This is how it works, as Norman Doidge explains in The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph From the Frontiers of Brain Science (2007, Penguin Books). Referencing Pascal-Leone’s 2000 concept of neuroplasticity, Doidge writes, “It’s obvious that the brain is constantly changing. This is due to its varied stimulations and experiences where shaping, reshaping, and more reconfiguration is evident, allowing for changes to occur.” Or, as Neurologist Elkhonon Goldberg says, “[T]he brain’s neuroplasticity is its ability to change under the influence of experience and activities, as well as comprehension of how the brain changes from one moment to the next.”
 And, as related by Lao-tzu (2,500 BC) in the Tao Te Ching, “Everything is in a process of change, and is constantly evolving. If one puts their foot into the river and removes it and then places their foot into the river again—it is now a different river, because the original flow of the river changed, due to the interruption of the foot being originally placed in it.” The plasticity of the brain affects and causes an effect on all experiences with the mind’s volition. According to Kenneth Wesson, “This underlies the brain’s extraordinary capacity to learn, unlearn, and relearn…to create meaning from what one does in the world, as opposed to exposure to its representation.”

THE BRAIN, MIND AND MEMORIES

Much like modeling a piece of clay, the brain changes and the resultant behaviors are altered, but the previous ones experienced may be returned to, although not in exactly the same manner. This ongoing and continual reconfiguring of the brain and mind results in what will be our memories.
 “The brain continually refines its processing capacities to meet the challenges with which it is presented,” write Schwartz and Begley. “This increases the communicative power of neurons and circuits that respond to oft-received inputs or that are trapped for habitual outputs. It is the brain’s astonishing power to adapt and change, to carry with it the inscriptions of our experiences, that allows us to throw off the shackles of biological materialism[,] for it is the life we lead that creates the brain we have, and all of this involves the brain’s and mind’s memory of experiences.”
 All memory involves cognition—the ability of the brain to processes, store, retrieve, and retain information. For example: You receive an invitation to a party—you process the contents of the invitation with its given date, time and directions, as well as a list of those who have been invited, and you store this information until the date for responding is at hand. At that time you retrieve the invitation’s content information, you make a decision as to whether to attend or not, resulting from what you've retained about this upcoming get-together—you retained, processed, stored and retrieved information until it could be put into practice.

MEMORY

“The most fundamental things scientists have learned about memory is that we do not store memories whole and therefore do not retrieve them that way either. When we remember something we actually reconstruct it by combining elements of the original experience,” writes Ron Brandt in “Educators Need to Know About the Human Brain,” an article published in Phi Delta Kappan, 1999. Neuroscientist Antonio Demasio explains in Desartes’ Error (Groset/Putnam, 1994) that a memory “is recalled in the form of images at many brain sites rather than at a single site.” And Michael Gazzaniga writes in The Mind’s Past (University of California Press, 1988): “Evolutionary theory has generated the notion that we are a collection of adaptations—brain devices that allow us to do specific things…Many systems throughout the brain contribute to a single cognitive function.”

The act of remembering occurs in three ways:

1. Attention: The ability to focus on a specific stimulus without being distracted;
2. Orientation: The ability to be aware of self and certain realities and facts, and manipulate information. These are commensurate with the ability of a person to respond to stimuli and interface with everyday life experiences;
3. Decision-making and problem-solving: the ability to understand a problem, generate solutions and evaluate these.
 Each of these, one through three, relies on the brain and the mind working in conjunction with each other. This is accomplished though their separate functions, and with thoughts and feelings imposed by our conscious will.

LIVING WITH MEMORIES:

Because aging people have so many memories, we find ourselves living with them. Any new situation most likely will bring a recalling or reflection on something from the past. Some of these memories are treasured and some give us pain, while others are neither positive nor negative. Nonetheless, we build new meanings with these memories. Aging is not a deterioration of the brain and mind but rather a period of tremendous potential for mind and brain to develop by recognizing different and enthralling situations we can utilize for further growth.
 “The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives,” wrote essayist Norman Cousins. Our lives are what we choose to make them. There is the thought to embrace what we now know: The brain and mind welcome aging. They do the same job as in earlier years, and this process takes a lifetime to complete.
 My mind tell me that the physical signs of aging are simply symbols, reminders or indicators of memories that caused me to be who I am now. “Yes, my dear grandson, I am still growing,” I say. “And, what a joy it is, as I use my conscious will in deciding to have it be that.” 
Bud

IMPROVE YOU BRAIN IMPROVE YOU HEALTH!

Why Brainwave Optimization?

Do you know of anything in life that is NOT at its best when it is balanced and harmonized? The brain and the body that it drives are no exception. If you have ever driven an automobile which had one or more tires greatly out of balance, you know the shimmy and shake that the out-of-balance condition can produce. It is no different in life when the brain has one or more of its areas out of balance. This can result in conditions such as Depression and more. The Optimized brain (in LAS VEGAS) is here to provide treatment at the base of the problem.

Brain balance and harmony treatment in LAS VEGAS is the first step to well-being and optimization. Balance in the brain, is subsequently followed by balance in the body. The condition of balance and harmony for the brain is known as homeostasis. It is a “level playing field” for your brain to respond to thinking, feeling, and healing your body in an optimized state. Your brain acts as the hub of the wheel, your nervous system the spokes and your body the rim. When the hub is out of balance everything else suffers causing Depression and other conditions.

Brainwave Optimization in LAS VEGAS with  (Real-Time Balancing) is a completely non-invasive, individually tailored treatment of balancing and harmonizing the brain. The system balances brain activity from the lobes of one side of the brain to the other, and from the front of the brain to the back. Harmony refers to the way energy patterns function together from low to high in the various regions of the brain. The sole objective of brainwave optimization is to establish balance and harmony in the brain lowering Depression and reducing your syntoms of other conditions.

People all over the world are being treated and discovering the healing powers of their own brain with Brainwave Optimization  (Real-Time Balancing). With  centers in the U.S. and throughout the world (The Optimized Brain in LAS VEGAS being just one), you too can become one of our MANY success stories: people who have harnessed their own brainpower to triumph over addictions, pain, stress, sleeplessness, hight blood pressure, anger and challenges to learning and performance.

Our mission is to help you find a more enjoyable experience of Life.  
We can help in various ways.  Our team is well versed on a wide variety of modalities that can help you get more out of life.  The premiere service that we offer is Brainwave Optimization with Real Time Balancing™  We hope that you’ll take some time to explore this site & see how this amazing technology can help you or your loved one.  Should you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to call  We are here to help because we care.

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Our mission is to help you find a more enjoyable experience of Life.  
We can help in various ways.  Our team is well versed on a wide variety of modalities that can help you get more out of life.  The premiere service that we offer is Brainwave Optimization with Real Time Balancing™  We hope that you’ll take some time to explore this site & see how this amazing technology can help you or your loved one.  Should you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to call 702.210.3383.  We are here to help because we care.

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Art of Attunement, LLC, is located in Las Vegas, Nevada.  Serving clients in our conveniently located Las Vegas office since 2008, we also offer our services on location throughout the world.  Whether you come to us or we come to you, we are committed to providing our clients with the highest level of professional service in order to help you achieve your goals.

 

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Angi Covington

Angi Covington is an author & professional speaker, who has been a lifelong student of human behavior.  She is a member of Mensa and a real go getter who’s been recognized for her achievements in Corporate America.  After leaving the business world, she went in search of the keys to Ultimate Happiness.  She read hundreds of books on everything from the brain to spirituality.  Along her new path she was introduced to Brainwave Optimization with RTB™ by a friend.  “I was completely fascinated by the process!” she says. 

“Personally, I have seen many benefits.  Thanks to all the car accidents in my 20’s I was very quick to fly off the handle and was plagued with anxiety.  I thought it was just my personality.  It would take me 30-60 minutes to fall asleep because my head was so busy.  After 20 sessions, I can still react when I choose to… choose being the operative word.  It is no longer an automatic pattern in my brain.  My sleep and meditations have also improved; now I fall asleep within 5 minutes!  I have a taste for healthier foods.  I lost 20 pounds without dieting.  What woman wouldn’t love that?!” 

Using this system to help others since 2008, Angi and the Art of Attunement team have helped people with sleep, anxiety, depression, focus, addictions, PTSD, clarity, athletic performance and physical or emotional trauma, such as grief, etc.     

In her spare time Angi’s volunteered at Nevada prisons teaching a class based on her book titled 7 Course Meal for the Soul.  Working with inmates is a true passion for Angi, saying “The transformation that takes place in these individuals over a 7 week period is nothing short of amazing!  I am so blessed to witness their growth.”

Greg Marano

Greg, a Las Vegas local, first learned about Brainwave Optimization in 2007.  Throughout his life he’d become aware of his lack of focus, as he had seen the effects in school, his work life & personal relationships.

“I’ve always had a problem keeping my focus on one thing, reading, listening, thinking, etc.  When I heard about Brainwave Optimization with RTB™ I was immediately interested.  After my third session I noticed I was falling asleep with no T.V. and waking in the same position that I’d fallen asleep.  I felt more rested than I ever had.  After completing the 10 session intensive I noticed my ability to focus had become powerful.  All of my thoughts became quiet, except the one that was important to me in the moment.  I could picture the easiest way to get somewhere I’d never been before.  My comprehension improved dramatically.  I only had to read something once for it to register and didn’t have to waste time rereading it.  I was more positive & optimistic too!  Colors became brighter and more vibrant.  I began to have much more patience on the road and started noticing the mountains around the valley as opposed to the traffic.  I am ultimately a calmer, clearer, happier, more focused ME.  I’ve now chosen to help people enjoy life and live more in the now… as opposed to regrets of yesterday, stressing about tomorrow and barely noticing today.  I became a Brainwave Technologist because I know how it’s helped me and now I get to see how it helps others! I am passionate about helping people find a more enjoyable experience in life. The brain seems to respond to this cutting edge technology like a desert tree after a nice rain.  It naturally soaks it up with minimal effort.  We train our children to behave in public, we train our dogs, our muscles, our military, yet we tend to leave out one of the most important resources in life; the brain, because it naturally controls all our functions.”

Joseph Michael Angelo Di Marco

Always an explorer of alternative health modalities, Joseph transitioned from being an athlete in his teens to a professional dancer in his 20’s. He was constantly searching to optimize his mind and body for peak performance and has experienced a wide variety of physical, mental, and energetic modalities.  He is certified in cranial sacral unwinding, polarity balancing, auric healing, and the Oneness Blessing.  He is also trained to run a quantum resonance software program.

“Technology has been advancing at an exponential rate.  Seven years ago I was introduced to this advanced form of Neurofeedback, now known as Brainwave Optimization.  Although I have experienced many different modalities, Brain Wave Optimization is the first scientific, quantifiable technological method of observing and balancing brain wave activity I have seen.  In a word, Amazing!  I’m very excited to be facilitating this technology for better health and well-being for clients desiring a greater physical, mental and emotional life.  After 10 sessions I am calmer, clearer and sleeping better.  I look forward seeing how Brainwave Optimization helps you.”

 

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Art of Attunement's Angi Covington introduces you to Brainwave Optimization, a drug-free solution that offers relief for people experiencing symptoms from depression, anxiety, or sleep issues/insomnia. Feel better, get more restful sleep, have more energy & focus with this drug-free alternative. Call us today (702)210-3383