Drs. Jay And Jacqueline Gattis

read moreDr. Jay Gattis graduated from the Rosemead School of Psychology in May of 2001. After working for the Meier New Life Clinics for several years Dr. Jay joined his friends and colleagues Drs. Paul Sullivan and Stacey Aoto-Sullivan in opening a private practice in Costa Mesa in 2004. Dr. Paul and he ran an ADHD neurofeedback "summer camp" each summer together. Dr. Jay has focused his practice around helping clients resolve the neurological problems underlying their struggles as well as the psychological underpinings.

read moreNeurofeedback (also called EEG Biofeedback) is a non-invasive treatment using equipment based on hospital technology to monitor brainwaves (electroencephalography or EEG) using sensors placed on the scalp and earlobes. Then feedback on the brainwaves is provided to the patient via a computer running specialized software. Neurofeedback was developed over two decades ago and is becoming increasingly available due to advances in affordable computer technology and feedback equipment. The feedback is tailored to selectively reinforce the brain for producing brainwaves we want to increase and to not-reinforce the brain for producing brainwaves that we want the brain to make less of.

read moreWith the advent of neuroimaging technologies like quantitative electro-encephalography (QEEG), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and functional-MRI (fMRI), positron emission tomography (PET) and single photon emission cranial tomography (SPECT) neuroscientists have been able to plumb the neurological depths of our psychological troubles for the first time in history. Finally we could begin to see what happens in the brain when you struggle with inattention, depression or anxiety, leading to many significant discoveries about the brain basis of these, and many other, mental 'illnesses'.