North Shore

Brain Training

Licensed Provider of BrainState Conditioning ^TM

on Long Island

Who is NSBT?

NSBT is a company that was developed with a single vision-to help people "Feel Better". We are all unique individuals with different needs.

With NSBT "feeling better" is as simple as sitting in a chair . Using the latest technology  from BrainState Technologies ^tm (BST), Called "BrainState Conditioning ^tm"  

About Brain State Technologies™?

Founder, Lee Gerdes, developed this technology from a personal need to overcome depressive tendencies that surfaced during the creative process. Searching the world over, Lee realized that the world of biofeedback / neurofeedback was ripe for further development. His unique background in physics, psychology and math gave him a unique perspective from which to expand.

As his research took him deeper and deeper, Lee found that he was able to function at a much higher level after only a few sessions. At this point Lee realized he had come upon a new way to help the brain reach optimization.

Why brain state conditioning™?

Do you know of anything in life that is NOT at its best when it is balanced and harmonized? The brain and the body that it drives are no exception. If you have ever driven an automobile which had one or more tires greatly out of balance, you know the shimmy and shake that the out-of-balance condition can produce. It is no different in life when the brain has one or more of its areas out of balance.

Balance your brain and subsequently balance your body and things are at their best at that moment. In other words, brain balance and harmony is the first step to wellbeing and optimization. The condition of balance and harmony for the brain is known as homeostasis. It is a “level playing field” for your brain to respond to thinking, feeling, and healing your body in an optimized state. Your brain acts as the hub of the wheel, your nervous system the spokes and your body the rim. When the hub is out of balance everything else suffers.

Brain State Conditioning™ is an individually tailored process of balancing and harmonizing the brain. Brain function is manifested in electromagnetic energy which can be captured by detecting it – or listening to it – without being invasive. Brain energy can be detected from the outer scalp at specific points on the head using Intellectrodes™. Ultimately, this process produces personalized exercises to balance and optimize your brain.

How is it accomplished?

Our cutting-edge training sessions help you achieve optimal results in real time. Clients of NSBT are greeted in a warm, friendly environment then guided to, relax in a comfortable chair to begin individualized training sessions. During your first visit, NSBT will conduct an introductory review where you can discuss your goals and the areas of life where you would like to see improvement. An assessment is performed on the initial visit to gather brain wave data from different parts of your brain. Brain State Technologies™ proprietary software and processes, gathers assessment and goal data to produce an individualized training plan just for you!

The training involves computer translation of brain waves into sounds that represent optimum patterns for your brain to function at a given location. These sounds vary by note and by volume based on how your brain is functioning. This allows your brain a means of observing itself. You relax in a zero gravity chair and are led through detailed visualizations to assist your brain to find a more balanced state. A Brain State Conditioning™ session usually lasts about 1 to 1.5 hours. Sessions are done every day, multiple times per day, or over weeks, this will depend on the clients integration into an optimized state.

How are we different?

Brain State Conditioning™ is based on many aspects of science in Biofeedback and in Neurofeedback which have been historically used to assist people to over-come pathologies. However, Brain State Conditioning™ should be differentiated from Neurofeedback and Biofeedback.

The basic differentiation of these modalities is based on the following:

1. Biofeedback - is a type of learning used to lessen negative reactions for the individual, based on increasing the awareness of the biological process in order to off-set or stop the pathology as it begins to happen biologically and is applicable during the occurrence of the pathology. For example; panic attacks have biological indicators before the attacks hit, if you can learn the biological indicators you can lessen the panic attack by either degree and/or duration. Biofeedback is oriented to solve diagnosed problems in the client.

 2. Neurofeedback - is a type of learning used to lessen negative reactions for the individual, based on increasing the awareness of the neurological process in order to off-set or stop the pathology as it begins to happen neurologically. For example; training sensory-motor neurological frequencies to be more dominant for some athletic events. Neurofeedback is oriented to solve problems defined by a normative data base or model along with those problems and symptoms diagnosed by practitioner and client. Neurofeedback will usually be provided to clients in a medical model and will require 30 to multiple hundreds of sessions to achieve desired results.

3. Brain State Conditioning™ – is a type of brain optimization based on brain observance. It is based on a Quantum Physics understanding vs. a Newtonian Physics understanding of the individual, and this philosophical difference cannot be too heavily stressed as it makes everything intended different. Brain State Conditioning™ seeks to show the brain itself – be a mirror for the brain in its ever more optimized state. The client is not trained with learned behavior. In fact a client may sleep through a session and still realize results because the brain can view itself without direct client participation. While not optimal, it is always more efficacious to have the client participate, it is not mandatory.

For example, clients adversarial to the training, such as those with adolescent misbehavior or antisocial behavior issues, can still be assisted to balance and harmonize their brain and achieve a greater homeostasis. Brain State Conditioning™ is oriented to solve problems having to do with the balance and harmony of the brain energy and is not based on comparison of the client with a normative data base. It is not based on a diagnosis or the symptoms which are presented. Brain State Conditioning™ is based on the degree of balance and harmony the brain contains and seeks to increase this balance and harmony.

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"Brain state conditioning™

is nearly as profound today

as the internet was in the late

1980s - and more far reaching for

self-awareness and productivity."

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