Drake’s Neurophysical Training Program - N.P.T.
The Neurophysical Training Program reflects what has been learned after 25 years and 9000 patients. Unlike programs based on temporarily regulating brain patterns that are needed for required levels of attention, we are looking for long term change without ongoing treatment. Drug therapy is clearly temporary symptom relief. What may be less obvious is that some other treatments that appear to be similar to ours can often be temporary as well.

We seek long term change in the brain’s capacity, without side effects. To accomplish this we have our N.P.T. program which includes all the necessary factors required to meet this goal in the least amount of treatment time possible, with the best results. This is possible because of the details you will find below that are included in our tailor made program, based on all of our successes and limited failures.

The program’s core is the neurofeedback learned response treatment / training that challenges the areas of the brain not functioning correctly. With most ADD patients a commitment to thirty individualized, fifty minute training sessions will be sufficient. Hyperactive ADHD and Autism patients will require more treatment, based on the patient’s specific symptoms. What is most essential is to integrate this new ability into the patient’s world. For that, we have our NPT assimilation process and that is where we begin to ensure long term change. To ensure the best chance for success, we require the thirty session minimum, unless there are additional treatments necessary based on the evaluation. But that is not all we do in our NPT Program. The following list encompasses the components that assist neurofeedback learned response in becoming a new and available resource for our patients. Before we discharge any patient we review their new abilities and skills that will need reinforcement through application. Successful integration of the neurofeedback learned response by usage will improve and strengthen the brain functioning. It will also strengthen, and make available, a more complete response to outside demands, which previously have been a source of failure and frustration.

The Neurophysical Training Program includes these supportive services:
• Personal Program Coordinator
• Behavior Modification class and support
• School contact
• Education on rights through schools
• Medication consults
• Time management class (for adults)
• Self-esteem building
• Progress tracking and ratings
• Parent/patient education
• Involvement of whole family
• Spousal support and involvement
• Complete analysis of previous evaluations
• Recommendations for further treatment

As mentioned before, our experience tells us a thirty session treatment program for inattentive ADD (not Autism or hyperactive ADHD) is likely to be enough to teach the neurofeedback learned response. However, the NPT Program is absolutely necessary to assimilate the response into the patient’s world. If more than thirty sessions are required, you are charged for the additional neurofeedback sessions at a discounted rate.

The Drake has a special agreement with the leading manufacturer of the most advanced equipment available. The Drake protocols have been worked out in conjunction with this company so as to limit the amount of time and the number of sessions required to achieve the goals we set and to attain new neurofeedback learned response capability. Many of Drake’s protocols are Drake specific, not generic. As a result, the Drake neurofeedback session is optimal, therefore, fewer of them are necessary and success comes more easily for the patient.

The Neurophysical Trainer administers the neurofeedback treatment. Each Trainer receives specific and specialized training at Drake; they are then certified by Drake to implement individualized neurofeedback protocols, often guided by the results of a Brain Mapping assessment. The efficacy of each treatment session, as ordered by the Medical Director, is reviewed to determine if normal progress is occurring. If not, adjustments are made. In addition, sessions are also reviewed for progress and overseen by the Drake Clinical Management Team; when anomalies are observed, we require our best and most experienced judgments to ensure that neurophysical progress is maximally occurring for each patient.

We are seeking long term, deep neurological change and we have set up our Neurophysical Training Program to that end. We have 25 years of experience to address your unique needs.