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8/12/2019 Mar14 Mental Health
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/mar14-mental-health 1/1Page 26 — Healthy Cells Magazine — Peoria — March 2014
T he human brain controls all of our physical and psychological
functions. When it fails to function properly, we experience a vari-
ety of mental and behavioral health problems. In simple terms,
neurological dysregulation results when the brain is using the wrong
brainwave, at the wrong time, for the wrong task. This results in a state
of neurological over-arousal, under-arousal or unstable-arousal.
Many things can cause the brain to become dysregulated. These
include genetic factors that we inherit from our parents and grandpar-
ents; prenatal exposure to maternal stress; substance abuse; environ-
mental toxins such as lead or mercury; and birth complications, such as
oxygen deprivation and birth trauma. The causes of brain dysregulation
do not stop at birth. Disease, infection, and high fever can also dysregu-late brain function. Head injury from sports or car accidents, poor diet,
and inadequate exercise also dysregulate the brain. Emotionally sup-
pressive psychosocial environments such as abuse, neglect, and lack of
maternal emotional stability can also cause neurological dysregulation.
Life stress, over-use of medication, substance abuse, and chronic pain
also contribute to brain dysregulation. In addition, repeated exposure to
surgical anesthesia, chemotherapy, and even the process of aging also
dysregulate the brain’s normal neurological activity.
It is any wonder that any of us can make it through life, without
encountering some insult to our brain’s neurological functioning? Even
more disheartening are the physical and mental health symptoms that
follow. Neurological dysregulation leaves us more vulnerable to stress
and depression. Stress and depression exhaust our bodies and con-
tribute to such stress-related illnesses as obesity, insomnia, cognitivedecline, high blood pressure, diabetes, migraine headaches, digestive
problems, and fibromyalgia. Most doctors will treat your symptoms
with medication in hope of diminishing their impact. Most mental health
therapists will treat your thoughts and feelings to help you better cope
and change the problems in your life that worsen your symptoms. A
neurotherapist, however, will treat the neurological basis of your brain’s
dysregulation. They go directly to the heart of the problem and with
EEG (electroencephalographic) biofeedback, teach your brain how to
re-regulate its normal neurological functioning.
Neurological Dysregulation is at the
Heart of Mental Health DisordersBy Ted Chapin, PhD, Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Trained Neurotherapist
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Ted Chapin, P
Neurofeedback uses behavioral principles to reinforce healthy
activity and inhibit or reduce unhealthy brain activity. After 20 t
sessions, clients can experience significant and lasting relief from ety, depression, bipolar disorder, emotional trauma, substance ab
autism spectrum disorders, insomnia, seizures, attention deficit hy
activity disorder, pain, migraine headaches, cognitive inefficiency
an array of stress-related physiological disorders.
To learn more about neurofeedback and its ability to improve
neurological functioning, call “The Neurotherapy Institute of Ce
Illinois,” a division of Chapin & Russell Associates, at 309-681-585
visit ChapinandRussell.com/neurotherapy.asp for more informatio
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