Mind Form Institute Inc

Mind Form Institute has expanded into the next phase of complete health care. 

We have now become a professional integrative medical corporation:

 Wind Gate Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine.  www.windgatehealth.com

You can also visit our other site at http://www.acupunctureclinicsandiego.com/ 

We still offer the same great cutting-edge Neurofeedback and Sound therapies, in addition we have added Integrative Medicine (which is a combination of western and eastern medicine), Internal Medicine through the use of Chinese Medical Herbs and Formulas.  We also offer Traditional Chinese Medicine: Acupuncture, Chinese Medicine, Chinese Herbs, Formulas, Cupping, Moxa, Gua Sha and Tui Na (Chinese Medical Massage).

• 5230 Carroll Canyon Rd #110
• San Diego Ca 92121
• (858) 442 1488
• (800) 442 0374

Like other forms of biofeedback, Neurofeedback uses physiological monitoring devices to provide real time information to an individual on the state of their physiological functioning.  The characteristic that distinguishes NFT from other biofeedback is a focus on the central nervous system and the brain.  Neurofeedback training (NFT) has its foundations in basic and applied neuroscience as well as data-based clinical practice.  It takes into account behavioral, cognitive, and subjective aspects as well as brain activity.  Thus, it meets the American Psychological Association’s definition of an evidence-based intervention since NFT is “…the integration of the best available research with clinical expertise in the context of patient characteristics, culture, and preference.”   

NFT is preceded by an objective assessment of brain activity and psychological status.  During training, sensors are placed on the scalp and then connected to sensitive electronics and computer software that detect, amplify, and record specific brain activity.  Resulting information is fed back to the trainee virtually instantaneously with the conceptual understanding that changes in the feedback signal indicate whether or not the trainee’s brain activity is within the designated range.  Based on this feedback, various principles of learning, and practitioner guidance, changes in brain patterns occur and are associated with positive changes in physical, emotional, and cognitive states.  Often the trainee is not consciously aware of the mechanisms by which such changes are accomplished although people routinely acquire a “felt sense” of these positive changes and often are able to access these states outside the feedback session. 

NFT does not involve either surgery or medication and is neither painful nor embarassing.  When provided by a licensed professional with appropriate training, generally trainees do not experience negative side-effects.  Typically trainees find NFT to be an interesting experience. Neurofeedback operates at a brain functional level and transcends the need to classify using existing diagnostic categories.  It modulates the brain activity at the level of the neuronal dynamics of excitation and inhibition which underly the characteristic effects that are reported. 

NFT has been found to be a successful intervention in modifying seizures, attention, traumatic brain injury, chronic pain, autistic behaviours, headache/migraine, depression, anxiety, addictions, and sleep problems.  Also, it has been applied effectively in meeting educational goals such as resolving reading and math disabilities.  Moreover, it has been used to help maximize the performance of athletes, artists, and executives.  Lasting positive changes have been documented after successful NFT. 

Being a self-regulation method, NFT differs from other accepted research-consistent neuro-modulatory approaches such as audio-visual entrainment (AVE) and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) that provoke an automatic brain response by presenting a specific signal.  Nor is NFT based on deliberate changes in breathing patterns such as respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) that can result in changes in brain waves.  At a neuronal level, NFT teaches the brain to modulate excitatory and inhibitory patterns of specific neuronal assemblies and pathways based upon the details of the sensor placement and the feedback algorithms used thereby increasing flexibility and self-regulation of relaxation and activation patterns.

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