FAQs – Sleep Disorders
Some common questions you might have about the Montreal Neurotherapy Center.
Neurofeedback helps you to restore your natural sleep rhythms. Neurofeedback training help You to tap in ability of the brain to be conscientiously control. You will learn to activate the smooth transition of the central nervous system from activation to rest naturally. Several studies have demonstrated how Neurofeedback can be used to improve sleep quality.
How does it work?
Training brain patterns using neurofeedback to decrease or increase brainwave activity appears to help the brain normalize sleep.
What else is offered, concerning Sleep, at Neurotherapy Montreal?
We also used Light therapy (or phototherapy). Phototherapy involves exposure to specific wavelengths of light for a prescribed amount of time at a specific time of day.
Our Special device, Re-Timer naturally helps you adjust back to your preferred sleep time. Thirty minutes of Re-Timer in the morning will assist you in falling asleep earlier.
This is some of the numerous sleep issues we treat at the Montreal Neurotherapy Center:
- Insomnia – Difficulty falling asleep or maintaining sleep during the night
- Difficulty waking from sleep
- Difficulty getting to bed
- Not feeling rested after sleep
- Sleeping too long
- Physically restless sleep
- Bruxism – Teeth grinding during sleep
- Sleep terrors – Abrupt arousal with intense fear, no dream recall or memory of event
- Narcolepsy (tendency to fall asleep whenever in relaxing surroundings)
- Dysregulated sleep patterns/cycles (Circadian Rhythms)
Our levels of Melatonin, a hormone produced in our brain, vary over a 24-hour cycle and increase at night causing us to feel sleepy. Modern lifestyles and other factors, however, interfere with this natural cycle. Light exposure regulates the body clock. The light suppresses the body’s production of Melatonin, enabling us to change the time we feel tired and therefore change our sleep.
Light Therapy (or Phototherapy) involves exposure to specific wavelengths of light for a prescribed amount of time at a specific time of day.
Our Special device, Re-Timer naturally helps you adjust back to your preferred sleep time. Thirty minutes of Re-Timer in the morning will assist you in falling asleep earlier.
