Brain state conditioning™ can be accomplished in the most efficient manner when the training is done intensively. Using Brain State Technologies™ methods, North Shore Brain Training schedules individuals for 1 or 2 week intensives. The intensive includes brain training two times daily – including one brain assessment to begin the intensive. Typically clients sign on for 1 assessment and 8, 1½ hour sessions, all accomplished within a 4 to 8 day period.

Intensives have proven to be one of the best methods to train the brain for new neuro-pathways. For the first few sessions, a brain training session will allow newly created pathways to dominate for a period of time – 24 to 48 hours – and then the older more established pathway will usually return. However, in an intensive, the old pathway does not have an opportunity to regain a dominance and therefore the newly created pathway has an opportunity to extend itself more fully and more quickly than in a training based on a once a week effort. Although, some individuals have seen improvement when doing sessions 2 to 3 times per week. This could possibly mean, from 10 to 30 sessions will be needed to achieve the same intensive results.