How Neurosage works
Playing video games has become a very popular form of entertainment. It is simple to learn and can be a very rewarding pastime. Research identifies many positive effects gaming has on different areas of the brain. It has been shown to activate areas in the brain that deal with semantic memory, visual imagery, and cognitive control.
Neurosage is a noninvasive computer software application that is designed to improve balance and coordination. Light and sound stimulate the brain and have been used for years for their therapeutic benefits. Different frequencies of light and sound produce different effects. For example, alpha range visual and auditory stimulation reduces the perception of pain. Other frequencies induce a parasympathetic or relaxed state. This process is named Systemic Neural Adaptation, which involves the intentional change of the body’s system over time.
The process behind Neurosage
In short, Systemic Neural Adaptation is a noninvasive method and system for creating rapid and sustained neurochemical activation. The process involves the intentional change over time of bodily systems to carefully modulated and applied visual, auditory, and physical stimulus. This systemic change through neural response is achieved through noninvasive, non-pharmacological means, enabling the brain and body to work in harmony.
Over the past forty years or more, the pharmaceutical industry, and particularly the science of pharmacology, has been interested in the physiology of the human brain as it relates to neurotransmitters and the neurons containing monoamines. Research and clinical study have proven that the neurotransmitters dopamine and serotonin control many organs and processes that regulate bodily function. In addition, these neurochemicals are critical components in the processes related to human psychological function. Further, it has been proven and accepted by medical science that raising the internal levels of dopamine and serotonin can have both a recuperative and a restorative effect that can produce dramatic improvements in cognitive ability and physical performance.
Dopamine and serotonin
In the brain, dopamine is released from the dopaminergic neurons and communicates with the brain to ensure that movements and specific emotions are carried out in a controlled context. Likewise, serotonin is released from the serotonergic neurons and communicates with the brain to ensure that processes associated with cognition and mood are carried out in a controlled context. With reduced levels of dopamine and serotonin, this communication is impaired, and commands from the brain to the body are degraded with unpredictable results. With no dopamine or serotonin, this communication ceases and the brain sends messages in an uncontrolled context. This breakdown in communication and loss of the subsequent control function results in a wide array of harmful symptoms. An example is the symptoms associated with Parkinson’s disease. Conditions such as ADHD, anxiety, depression, eating disorders, chronic pain disorders such as Fibromyalgia and Regional Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD), Epilepsy, and Migraines are also examples of the impact of reduced levels of dopamine and serotonin.
The problem of adaptive resistance
Conventional mechanisms for initiating higher levels of these neurochemicals and then sustaining them are, in the majority, problematic, and involve invasive surgical procedures or the introduction of synthetic or pseudo-synthetic pharmaceuticals that may have unforeseen side effects.
A problem in the pursuit of pharmacologic solutions is the anatomical response of adaptive resistance. Over time the human body’s natural response to external influence is to adapt, and then, if the influence is systemically harmful, to resist. An example is the well-documented adaptive resistance that occurs in hormone replacement therapy: as hormones are introduced orally or through injection, the body begins to reduce its natural production as it attempts to maintain a balanced state, and higher doses are needed to maintain the desired results. The introduction of pharmacologic solutions to raise neurochemical levels will often trigger a similar adaptive cycle, which leads to increasingly lower natural production and increasingly higher doses.
There is an obvious need for a new noninvasive means of increasing systemic levels of dopamine and serotonin that encourages the body’s natural production of these neurochemicals.
A viable alternative
In view of the disadvantages inherent in invasive surgical or pharmacologic methods for inducing neurological stimulation, SNA Biotech and our team of scientists bring a viable alternative: the process of Systemic Neural Adaptation and its implementation within the Neurosage application. Through Neurosage we provide an intuitive and effective mechanism ensuring the systematic raising of these vital neurochemicals to sustainable levels. In addition to encouraging neural plasticity, Systemic Neural Adaptation also facilitates a state of neurological and postural balance: a state in which the central nervous system is adjusted into symmetrical tolerance, necessary for optimal brain / body function.
The brain and its critical subcomponents (the Ventral Tegmental Area, the Nucleus Accumbens, the Somatosensory Cortex, the Visual Cortex, the Auditory Cortex, the Primary Motor Cortex, and the Raphe Nuclei) represent the major anatomical components targeted within the process. It is instantiated by the deliberate manipulation of both dopamine and serotonin release. Dopamine sets the “effort threshold” for behavior: the higher the level of dopamine within the brain, the lower the effort required throughout the body. By increasing dopamine within the dopaminergic receptors, motor activity can be radically increased and then deliberately sustained. When increased motor activity is followed by an increased dopamine response, the pathways within the Nucleus Accumbens are altered so that the same response can be achieved faster the next time it is presented.
Figure 3. Learning disorders
Dopamine is critical to frontal cortex functions like situational awareness and attention. Learning disorders such as ADHD are characterized by the distinct reduction or even absence of situational awareness and attention span. The reduction of dopamine release within the mesolimbic system appears to be a key precursor to the symptomatic loss of awareness and attention, and therefore a primary cause of ADHD symptoms.
Sensory adaptation, inside Neurosage
There are additional dopaminergic neurons within the retina of the eye, particularly dense around the cone cells. When activated they greatly enhance cone function, increasing both the eye’s and the visual cortex’s sensitivity to color, creating an excitation loop that encourages increased release of dopamine. Like dopamine, serotonin has widespread and critical effects: the Raphe Nuclei in the brainstem are its principal source, and the function of the serotonergic system has been directly linked to the brain’s ability to regulate mood.
Inherent within Neurosage is the concept of sensory adaptation: a progressive change over time of the body’s sensory systems in response to a constant stimulus. The brain adapts to the stimulus by normalizing it, and will then only react if greater stimulus is applied. This is much like the adaptation that occurs in weight training, where strength increases after a single session through chemical changes in the motor cortex.
Neurosage leverages these concepts through the modulation of visual and auditory stimulus. Contained within the patented technology of the Neurosage application is a self-learning artificial neural network that manages all modulation and, over time, tailors it to an individual’s personal needs, altering rapidity, displayed direction, hue, volume and wavelength to maximize the excitation of dopaminergic and serotonergic neurons.
An optimized and highly functioning brain is a goal most of us share. It is rarely an intuitive process, and often requires specialized professionals and devices that are expensive and cumbersome. The process of Systemic Neural Adaptation, as implemented within Neurosage, achieves these goals within a controlled and disciplined environment.
