Thread by @CraigZengar

#ProTips on how to talk about NeurOptimal®. 🙂

1. How to pronounce NeurOptimal®: Neur Optimal (no double “o”).

2. Avoid using the terms “neuroplasticity,” or “neurological pathways” as that is not language that is appropriate for NeurOptimal®. 1/

3. NeurOptimal® only provides information to the brain about its own electrical activity. It does this by measuring your brain’s electrical activity at the scalp, through the sensors and the zAmp (one way measurement only and nothing is input into the brain). 2/

It is Training, it is not treatment. 3/

4. The signal is amplified (brain electrical activity is measured in microvolts), converted from analog to digital via the zAmp and a first pass at the proprietary inline adaptive denoising by attenuating the powerful electrical mains current - 110-120 volts, 60 Hz in Canada… 4/

…and the USA, 220 to 240 volts, 50 Hz in other international locations. 5/

5. The information is then processed by the mathematical algorithms that are unique to NeurOptimal® - Joint Time-Frequency Analysis - JTFA and Nonlinear Dynamical System - NDS - Control Processes - which “speak” the language of the brain/CNS in terms of perception and memory… 6/

…and involves information processing. 7/

6. EEG is not a sine wave, it is a 4-Dimensional phasor and NeurOptimal® uses a corresponding 4-Dimensional process in providing feedback in the form of interruptions in the audio stream by measuring the Duration, Intensity, Frequency and Shifts (DIFS) noticed within the… 8/

…signal. NeurOptimal® does not Train states and brains don’t “wave.” 9/

7. “Flutter” (think of the flutter of a hummingbird as it is about to change position) noticed in the electrical signal of the brain by NeurOptimal® precedes the initiation of a change in phase-state and can trigger an interruption in the audio stream. 10/

8. Sidebar: “Flutter” is neither good nor bad and NeurOptimal® does not seek to minimize it. 11/

Also, “Flutter” precedes a change in the phase-state in all Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and the brain is a Nonlinear Dynamical System that is self-organizing based on information value. 12/

9. The brain then notices the interrupt as a difference in the information provided to it (pause or interrupt in the audio) that is in response to its own electrical activity (offering the orienting response to the brain). 13/

This allows it to make a decision on whether to continue the phase-state change or re-organize back to the previous state. 14/

10. The brain/CNS is the most marvelous Nonlinear Dynamical System in the known universe and processes information from both the internal environment and the external environment constantly and responds to that information in order to minimize discomfort. 15/

11. So, NeurOptimal® acts like a “mirror” to the brain and gives it the choice to do what it does best. 16/

12. If this response to the potential phase-state change leads to a decrease in overall discomfort to the brain, it will continue to use that comprehensive behavioral repertoire. 17/

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