A Technological Approach To Mental Health
Kelowna Brain Sciences uses proven, state-of-the-art technology to optimize brain function and improve overall wellbeing. All of our treatment protocols are designed and supervised by Registered Clinical Counsellors who prepare an integrated, comprehensive treatment plan to help you achieve your goals.
Neurofeedback
Neurofeedback is a non-invasive, reward-based training of brain function, by which the brain learns to function more efficiently. Chronic imbalance in the electrical impulses in our brains can have severe effects on our day to day life and causing problems such as anxiety, depression, ADHD, behavior disorders, sleep disorders, headaches and migraines, PMS and emotional disturbances. Organic brain conditions such as seizures, the autism spectrum, and cerebral palsy are also affected by the electrical signals in our brain. Neurofeedback is a form of biofeedback that works to change the electrical activity of your brain and teach the brain self-regulation.
Neuromodulation
Neuromodulation (also know as Neurostimulation) is the purposeful modulation of the nervous system's activity using non-invasive means including: Pulse Electromagnetic Field Stimulation (pEMF); Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation (tACS); Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS); Transcranial Random Noise Stimulation (tRNS); Photobiomodulation (PBM).
In neuromodulation, we are retraining brainwave patterns in order to influence the brain in the direction appropriate for the condition at hand. The brain can be stimulated by electricity (tACS, tDCS, tRNS), magnetic field (pEMF) and light (PBM). Through the use of a customised blend of stimulation protocols, neurostimulation leads to increased blood flow, the growth of new blood vessels and capillaries, and neurogenesis (the generation of new dendrites and neuronal connections).
qEEG
A quantitative EEG is a brain map. This is an electrical measurement, analysis, and quantification of the brainwaves. The brainwaves are the brain’s verbing, or the action potentials of the brain. We first gather the raw EEG data then the data in analysed using sophisticated software to identify areas of the brain that aren’t functioning to their full potential.