Addiction: Addiction Treatment Options
Addiction: Treatment Options
*Clients must be clean and sober for a minimum of 30 days prior to treatment with Neurofeedback. If you need inpatient rehabilitation or detox, we can facilitate.
Neurofeedback is a safe and effective treatment to greatly reduce or eliminate symptoms associated with Addiction and many other disorders. Clients typically respond to neurofeedback rapidly, with significant results noted within a few months of starting treatment.
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Traditional Treatment options:
Medication:
There are a myriad of medications available for treating addiction and the other disorders associated with addiction, including depression and anxiety. Unfortunately, many of these have numerous side effects. Your physician would be the resource for more information about this option. Medication treats the symptoms, but does not address the true cause of the disorder. Effects are typically short-term; thus, medication for addiction is often on-going, with mixed results.
Nutrition:
Many health experts agree that improved nutrition often plays at least a limited role in relieving some symptoms in many disorders, including addiction, and should be included in treatment options for most people. Dallas Brain Changers can assist you in finding healthier nutritional choices and/or can guide you to an appropriate nutritional professional.
Counseling/Psychotherapy:
When performed alone or practiced in conjunction with medication intervention, counseling and psychotherapy is a popular and well-known addiction treatment. However, this form of intervention may become a long-term and expensive endeavor, often spanning many years, with widely varying results.
Dallas Brain Changers Treatment Option:
When an integrated approach is utilized, involving both counseling and neurofeedback, results are achieved exponentially, often within a few months, and are proven to be more effective and long-lasting.
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Neurofeedback Addictions Treatment:
*Neurofeedback is an effective, non-drug, non-invasive treatment option that has been proven to permanently reduce or eliminate symptoms associated with many disorders, including Addiction. It is a technique of operant conditioning which directly changes brain function. Neurofeedback dramatically affects arousal regulation. In so doing, this ‘brain training’ can normalize the propensity to high or low arousal as seen in the qEEG or Brain Map of those with Addiction. Furthermore, neurofeedback directly acts on specific brain activity known to be altered in Addiction. Neurofeedback is an option for those seeking treatment without medication.
Alpha-theta brainwave neurofeedback training: an effective treatment for male and female alcoholics with depressive symptoms.
Saxby E, Peniston EG.
Source
Biofeedback Center, Pacific Grove, CA 93950, USA.
Abstract
This was an experimental study of 14 alcoholic outpatients using the Peniston and Kulkosky (1989, 1991) brainwave treatment protocol for alcohol abuse. After temperature biofeedback pretraining, experimental subjects completed 20 40-minute sessions of alpha-theta brainwave neurofeedback training (BWNT). Experimentally treated alcoholics with depressive syndrome showed sharp reductions in self-assessed depression (Beck’s Depression Inventory). On the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-I, the experimental subjects showed significant decreases on the BR scores: schizoid, avoidant, dependent, histrionic, passive-aggression, schizotypal, borderline, anxiety, somatoform, hypomanic, dysthmic, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, psychotic thinking, and psychotic depression. Twenty-one-month follow-up data indicated sustained prevention of relapse in alcoholics who completed BWNT.
*Interested clients are advised to make an informed choice regarding Neurofeedback therapists, since there are several treatment options available. It is advised to look for a provider who is board certified by BCIA and a member of AAPB.
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