Visual Stimulation

Visual stimulation to the greater Indian Harbour Beach,
Satellite Beach, Indialantic, and Melbourne areas.

Visual stimulation is a powerful therapy used to create neurological changes. Visual stimulation may take the form of shining a flashlight into one or both eyes, having the eyes move in specific directions, or giving the eyes specific visual targets to look at or watch. (These stimulations are so varied because each section of the brain plays a different role in the processing of visual information.

The occipital lobe (at the back of the brain) is the primary visual area. The parietal lobe (at the top of the brain) tends to see things that move quickly, have low contrast, and are below us. The parietal lobe also helps us to locate where an object is positioned and allows us to smoothly follow a moving target. The temporal lobe (at the bottom of the brain) tends to see things that move slowly, have high contrast, and are above us.  The temporal lobe also helps us identify the object at which we are looking. The frontal lobe is responsible for the fast eye movements we use when we acquire and look at a new target.  (The frontal lobe can generate eye movements up to 900 degrees per second.) All of these functions are integrated by the brainstem.