Neurotechnology and Its Applications for Counselling, Associate Professor Dr Norsiah Fauzan, MICC 2014, 2014.

The development of Neuro technology has opened a window into the brain's neuronal network in real time, showing brain activities in specific areas -of the brain associated with specific functions. The stuJ! of the brain has long been the domain of psychiatrists and the more medically oriented .ra or the mental health spectrum; neuroscience has increasingly made its way into the counseling profession. Immersing into the neuroscience principles and literature and peering into the biain of their clients .rsini assistive technology such as biofeedback will enable the counserors to communicate the fundamentals to their crients. The counselors willbe abie to furnish the empirical eviden"": to ,rrpport their observation and create new neural connections that may tead to targeted behavioraichanges. The advent of Neurotechnology will provide the middlegi*"a to defren-the ties betw.., th. hard science and the art of counseling. with that hus com-e the promise of heretofore unimaginable therapeutic possibilities that, for many counselors, have chipped away if not obliGrated centuries-old beliefs about the distinction between the brain and the mind