is a Consultant Psychologist and Neuropsychologist providing specialist psychological and neuropsychological assessments and treatments. She also provides Electroencephalogram (EEG) recording and interpretation of individual neurophysiological profiles as they relate to health and functioning.
Dr. Monica Berntsen
She helps people recover from stroke, brain injury and neurodegenerative disorders by helping the brain repair itself and regain functioning.
She also assess and treat children and adults with mental health problems.
For more information about therapies, go to https://drmonicaberntsen.com/
More about her research on:
Mental Health
Neurorehabilitation
People that have experienced a stroke, traumatic brain injury or neurodegenerative disorder may lose functioning, for example:
Regaining or improving function
Abilities depend on dedicated neural networks in the brain.
When a network is damaged, the function it contains can be damaged too.
Abilities can be improved by strengthening the neural network that has been damaged.
This can be achieved by helping the brain regenerate neuronal connections and targeting the brains effort to the region that is damaged.
Non-invasive brain stimulation and targeted training can help the brain target its repair work in specific regions that may help improve a specific function.
Behavioural control
is the ability to control behaviour intentionally. Thoughts and feelings impact our behavioural control, and some people are better than others at regulating the impact these can have on behaviour.
If you have poor behavioural control, you may struggle with:
Improving control
Behavioural control can be improved with training and effort in interventions such as
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
and Mindfulness, which both depend on conscious control of attention and that ultimately trains the ability to make conscious decisions about behaviour, thoughts and feelings.
Since behavioural control can be weak as consequence of neurophysiological patterns, Neurofeedback is a training based approach to regulate these patterns which enables people to feel more in control of themselves.
