The Healing Power of Neurofeedback: The Revolutionary LENS Technique for Restoring Optimal Brain Function

by Stephen Larsen, Thom Hartmann (Foreword)

An introduction to the innovative therapy that restores optimal functioning of the brain after physical or emotional trauma

• Provides an alternative to the more invasive therapies of electroshock and drugs

• Shows how this therapy helps ameliorate anxiety and depression as well as childhood developmental disorders

• Includes extraordinary case histories that reveal the powerful results achieved

According to the Centers for Disease Control, each year 260,000 people are hospitalized with traumatic brain injuries. The Brain Injury Association reports 1.5 million injuries, many of which go undiagnosed but which lead to all kinds of cognitive and emotional impairments. While neuroscience has learned an enormous amount about the connection between brain trauma and personality changes, the methods proposed for resolving these alterations are generally limited to drug therapy or surgeries.

This book explores a much less invasive but highly effective technique of restoring brain the Low Energy Neurofeedback System (LENS). Developed by Dr. Len Ochs in 1992, it has had extraordinary results using weak electromagnetic fields to stimulate brain-wave activity and restore brain flexibility and function. The treatment works across a broad spectrum of human activity, increasing the brain’s abilities to adapt to the imbalances caused by physical trauma or emotional disorders--both on the basic level and in the more subtle areas of cognitive, affective, and spiritual processes that make us truly human. While the treatment has had remarkable results with individuals who have experienced severe physical trauma to the head and brain, Stephen Larsen sees it also as an important alternative to chemical approaches for such chronic behavioral disorders as ADHD and monopolar and bipolar depression.

Genres: Nonfiction, Science

456 pages, Paperback

First published April 21, 2006

About the author

H. Stephen Larsen is a psychologist and author who, with Robin Larsen his wife, was on the founding board of advisors of the Joseph Campbell Foundation, and also founded the Center for Symbolic Studies, to carry on with the work of Joseph Campbell. He is best known for his work in Mythology, and for being a pioneer in the field of Neurofeedback.

Reviews

[Erica · Rating 4 out of 5]

Worth looking into if you are wanting something other than a chemical intervention for "whatever" ails you. Full of case studies of individuals with every alphabet soup diagnosis imaginable (ADD/ADHD, OCD, ODD, RAD, etc.), as well as many brain anomalies caused by physical forces (head trauma, aneurism, stroke, etc.). Sounds like a viable alternative to life-long meds that have been proven to have so many side effects and have to continuously be "tweeked" to compensate for resistance from the body itself.

[Rachel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very insightful and well written. Great case studies and experiences. Give a broad view and understanding of Neurofeedback and especially the LENS technique.

[Steve · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book gave me a good introduction to neurofeedback and the LENS technique for treatment of many ailments. The first three chapters cover the history of EEG neurofeedback and the development of the LENS technique. These chapters are at times like a journal, including stories of people who underwent the technique with pictures, sidebars and graphs that augment the narrative. This helps keep the technical side from overwhelming the story. The next seven chapters cover the use of the LENS to heal a variety of ailments, including traumatic brain injury, attention deficit disorder, anxiety, depression, epilepsy, chronic pain, and stroke. I scanned and read bits and pieces of these chapters, as well as the remaining chapters on the LENS and other aspects and forms of healing.

[Libby · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was looking for a more general description of neurofeedback. This one was helpful but most of the time it felt like a tribute to the creator of LENS.

[Laura · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book has all the basic information I was looking for, however I'd have to agree with one of the other reviewers that it goes a bit over the top in its tribute of the creator of LENS, Dr. Ochs.