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Neurofeedback

BrainBit

The brain sees its own activity and learns to regulate itself.

The technology that optimises brain activity, brought home. A light headband with four dry electrodes, reading the brain's electrical activity from four points, at the back and on the sides. The signal is on the order of microvolts, and the band measures it 250 times a second on each channel. From the raw wave you draw out the brain's rhythms, from delta and theta through alpha, beta and gamma, and from those you read your states: when you are relaxed, when you are focused, when you are drifting towards sleep. The brain feels nothing, the band only listens. Your waves are turned into sound or image on the spot: when you work in the right direction the feedback flows on, when you lose it, it fades. That is how the brain finds the way, from its own activity, without being told.

Channels
4 (O1, O2 at the back, T3, T4 on the sides)
Readings per second
250 on each channel
Frequencies
0-100 Hz (delta-gamma)
Electrodes
dry, no gel
Battery
about 12 hours of sessions

What the band reads

The four electrodes sit on two areas of the head and listen to the electrical activity underneath. Here is what each one picks up and what it helps with.

  • O1 · O2Occipital, at the backThe area at the back of the head, over the visual cortex. This is where the rhythms of relaxation and calm attention read most cleanly.
  • T3 · T4Temporal, on the sidesThe areas on the sides, tied to memory, to language and to the way you keep your emotions in check.

Why it helps

  • With the same headband you can also make your basic BrainMap at home: a few minutes with eyes open and closed, and the map appears in the app and in your account.
  • Dry electrodes, no gel to apply and no hair to wash afterwards. It sits in a few seconds and you can begin.
  • It reads 250 times a second on each channel, a signal clean enough for real training, not just a rough measurement.
  • The training runs straight inside the BrainMap platform, with the protocol set for you, not in a stranger's app that knows nothing about your history.
  • You see each electrode's contact before you start and wait for all of them to turn green, so you don't lose a whole session on a bad signal.
  • You train at home, at your own pace, between the sessions at the institute, and one charge lasts around twelve hours, about two weeks of sessions.

How you train at home

  1. You start from the BrainMap assessmentThe clinic's qEEG scan gives the full map of the brain, and from there the specialist sets the protocol you will train at home with BrainBit.
  2. You get the band ready at homeBefore each session you charge it, turn it on and connect it to the phone over Bluetooth.
  3. You place the band on your headYou adjust it until the electrodes rest well on the four points, at the back and on the sides.
  4. You check the electrodes' contactIn the app you wait for all four to turn green. Only then is the signal clean and you can start in peace.
  5. You start the session and follow the feedbackWhen your waves go in the direction in the protocol, the sound or image flows; when you drift, it fades, and the brain adjusts its own direction. About 20-30 minutes, 2 or 3 times a week.
  6. You review with the therapistAt the next session you look together at what has built up: what progress the data shows and, if needed, how the protocol is adjusted further.

What you work on with it

Clinic
  • ADHD
  • Autism
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Insomnia
  • Speech disorders
Wellness
  • Your Brain Fingerprint
  • Brain Compass
  • Brain Resonance
  • BrainTune
Performance
  • Academic performance
  • Attention and memory
  • Decisions under pressure
  • Focus patterns
The device the institute uses

The device, in detail

A fabric band with four dry electrodes. It listens to the brain's electrical activity and turns it, on the spot, into sound or image.

The ordinary band is the one we use too. The four points it reads are exactly the ones our protocols run on, so what you do at home and what we do in the clinic are the same thing.

It does nothing to you, it only listens

It sends nothing into the brain. It reads the electrical signal already there and shows it to you. Whatever changes, changes because you see your own activity and the brain adjusts itself to it.

Four points, no gel

It reads O1 and O2 at the back, T3 and T4 at the sides, with dry electrodes. On in seconds, and your hair isn't a mess afterwards. Which is why this can be done at home, not only in the clinic.

You see the contact before you start

The app shows whether each electrode sits properly. All four green means you're training on a good signal; without that check you could work half an hour for nothing and never suspect it.

The battery lasts two weeks of sessions

Around twelve hours of use, roughly twenty sessions. The battery comes out and can be replaced, so the device doesn't die with it.

Why it's worth owning

Neurofeedback isn't three sessions. It's dozens, a few days apart, because the brain learns by repetition, like everything else. With the band at home, you keep going on your own between sessions, and the training no longer stops between visits.

The band on its own is a signal on a screen. Which protocol suits you, which waves you work on and for how long: that comes from the BrainMap Investigation and gets adjusted in the guided sessions, where the therapist watches alongside you.

What a guided session is

Fifty minutes with an institute therapist, in the platform's video room, with the band on your head.

What happens in the session

  • You check the contact of all four electrodes together, before anything starts
  • The therapist starts the protocol that suits you and watches what the brain does while you work
  • You leave with the protocol to practise at home and with what we're tracking until next time

What you need

  • A BrainBit band, charged
  • A stable internet connection and somewhere you can sit undisturbed
  • Clean, dry hair: styling products spoil the signal

Which of the two

The same band, in two versions. They differ in how many points they read, and only in that.

Our recommendation

BrainBit Headband

4 channels: O1, O2, T3, T4

This is the one you need

The four points we work on. Dry electrodes, a replaceable battery, on in seconds. For everything we do together, this is the band. The rest is extra.

Manufacturer's price$499See it at BrainBit

Headband Pro

8 channels: adds Fp1, Fp2, T5, T6

If you want wider coverage

It adds frontal and temporal points on top of the usual four, with electrodes replaceable one by one. Worth it if you also work outside our protocols, or if you do research. For sessions with us it adds nothing.

Manufacturer's price$1,199See it at BrainBit

How we go from here

Tell us where you are, so we know what to show you.

Before you start

It is a training device, not a diagnostic one: it does not replace the clinic's qEEG scan. The protocol comes from the specialist.

Where it starts

No home training starts without a BrainMap, because there has to be a starting point. It can be the BrainMap Assessment at the clinic, a qEEG scan of over 80,000 points and 47 brain areas, or the basic BrainMap done at home with the BrainBit headband. The protocol comes from it: what is trained, with what, and in what order. The home devices carry that protocol forward between sessions; they do not replace it.

The device alone is not enough

Which protocol suits you, what is trained and for how long, is decided with a specialist. The device carries on what was decided there; without that, it is a graph on a screen.

Book an online session

These devices do not replace medical advice and are not a treatment on their own. The protocol is set by the specialist, after the BrainMap assessment.

The other devices

BrainMap devices · Institutul BrainMap