Mind & Wellness

Achieving optimal mental and emotional well-being goes beyond symptom management—it’s about cultivating resilience, balance, and long-term cognitive health. This category explores strategies for reducing stress, improving mindfulness, enhancing emotional regulation, and adopting healthy lifestyle habits that support overall brain function. Whether through neurofeedback, mindfulness techniques, or holistic wellness practices, these insights help foster a healthier mind and a more fulfilling life.

Recovering the Creative Response after PTSD with Neurofeedback

Post-traumatic stress can lock the brain into rigid, reactive patterns. Through neurofeedback for PTSD, clinicians help clients regain emotional balance and rediscover their natural capacity for calm, focus, and creativity. Dr. Richard Soutar explains how re-training the Default Mode Network and strengthening prefrontal control can reduce reactivity and restore what he calls the creative response—the ability to meet life’s challenges with awareness instead of fear.

NewMind Technologies2025-10-28T16:37:26-04:00Neurofeedback and Mental Health, PTSD, Stress & Emotional Resilience, Trauma|

Delta Waves and Sleep: How Neurofeedback Enhances Deep Rest

Sleep is crucial for maintaining health, but many people have difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep or getting good quantity or quality sleep. In qEEg brain maps, poor sleep is associated with abnormal delta wave activity. Learn about how delta waves and sleep quality are connected and how neurofeedback training can alleviate the burden of sleep deprivation.

Amber O'Brien2025-05-14T12:51:09-04:00Brain Science, Brain Science and Research, Sleep and Cognitive Health|

Decoding the Stressed Brain: How Oxidative Stress Manifests in qEEG Patterns

Chronic stress leaves a deeper mark on the brain than most people realize. Beyond temporary feelings of anxiety, it sparks a cascade of biological changes that, over time, can fundamentally alter brain function. One of the most significant contributors to this hidden damage is oxidative stress—a harmful imbalance between free radicals and the body’s ability to neutralize them. Because the brain is rich in lipids and demands high levels of oxygen, it’s particularly vulnerable to this process. This blog post explores how oxidative stress damages the brain’s electrical activity, how Quantitative EEG (qEEG) can detect these changes, and how NewMind Technologies' frameworks, including Dr. Richard Soutar's model of stress-related qEEG patterns, offer clinicians a new way to recognize, assess, and intervene in these early stages—empowering better brain health and resilience before more serious issues take hold

Dr. Lynn Langmade2025-05-30T16:37:42-04:00Brain Science, Brain Science and Research, Memory and Cognitive Decline, Sleep and Cognitive Health|