California Medical Doctor Uses Different Approach When Addressing Brain-Based Problems
Dr Margaret E. MacDonald Uses Neuro-Behavioral Rehabilitation To Address Brain-Based Problems In Patients

VALENCIA, CA, January 26, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Using in-depth assessments, such as mind/body awareness indicators, physiological stress response tests, and real-time brain-function analysis under different conditions, the sources of many conditions are able to be identified and subsequently re-trained. Through a holistic approach based on self-knowledge and learned self-regulation, counseling, and non-medication management (where possible), problems such as ADHD, learning disorders, epilepsy, mild brain injury, anxiety, depression, and chronic pain syndromes have been remediated by many of Dr. MacDonald's patients.

Dr. MacDonald is an expert in real-time assessment of brain function using quantitative electroencephalography, or qEEG brain mapping. She is certified by the Biofeedback Certification Institute of America and is an active member of many national societies promoting research and high practice standards in this nacent field.

According to Dr MacDonald "I specialize in using biofeedback and particularly EEG biofeedback to help people to understand, become more aware of, and to gain more control of body/mind processes. I also use other mind/body medicine techniques such as cranial electrotherapy stimulation, meditation, guided imagery, and self-discovery."

Dr MacDonald has recently been collaborating with an international group who are using this technology to train business executives and school students for performance enhancement and stress management in Asia.

When asked what attracted her to this current type of practice, Dr MacDonald acknowledges that it was her son. She states that "my own son was struggling with problems related to attention deficit disorder and his child psychiatrist seemed able to offer him only medications, which did not really help much and caused other problems."

As a medical professional, Dr MacDonald discovered that there was a lot to learn about EEG Biofeedback and that it was a whole field of science unto itself. She began taking courses and studying the field on her own, and eventually decided that she could use these techniques to truly help her patients as well, so she left her clinic job and started her own practice.

The programs that Dr. MacDonald conducts work from the inside out, rather than outside in. Individuals struggling with traditional rehabilitation and those facing difficulty in integrating successfully into their community, could benefit from this mode of rehabilitation. Biofeedback provides an experiential window into
productive, relaxed, or pain-free mental states, rather than mere explanations. Conscious and unconscious learning takes place. It is a non-invasive and drug-free therapy in which the individual takes an active role in the rehab process, and hence there are no negative side effects. Contrast this to the passive role that much of modern medicine gives to the patient, where treatments are done to them, and side effects are a constant problem.

According to Dr MacDonald "being constantly pushed in my old job to see people in less time left me feeling frustrated and unable to really help my patients and give them the explanations they needed to fully understand the source of their problems so that they could take some control over their own wellness. The kind of healing I am able to help my patients accomplish now is the real reason I became a doctor".

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