Neurofeedback in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma Quotes

“After years of neurofeedback, I no longer see these disorders as distinct, but as individual manifestations of overwrought, amygdala-driven and dysregulated nervous systems. Just as emotion”
― Sebern F. Fisher, Neurofeedback in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma: Calming the Fear-Driven Brain

“We tend to think of the brain in terms of its other critical physical and chemical domains. But its plasticity, its ability to change and to learn, seems to lay primarily in its electrical, oscillatory properties—in short, in the way it fires. As”
― Sebern F. Fisher, Neurofeedback in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma: Calming the Fear-Driven Brain

“it can be easy to lose sight of the fact that a child need not be abused to be in trouble; he needs only to experience himself as abandoned by the mother.”
― Sebern F. Fisher, Neurofeedback in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma: Calming the Fear-Driven Brain

“Without the felt experience of the self-regulated mother, the baby is so overtaken by fear for her survival (and perhaps for the mother’s too), that she has no capacity to organize a felt, coherent sense of self and other. Schore’s work further elucidated the dilemma that was Carl. In the absence of his mother or another caregiver who could “mother” him, Carl had not developed the brain structures that serve to inhibit the subcortical emotions of fear and rage. In the absence of his mother, Carl was absent a self.”
― Sebern F. Fisher, Neurofeedback in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma: Calming the Fear-Driven Brain