How Neuroengineering is Helping People with Brain Fog and Addiction Battles in Houston

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) – Doctors at J. Flowers Health Institute say they can fix your brain fog, and more importantly, your addictions by combining neuroscience and medicine with technology.

Neuroengineering is known to correct deficiencies in your brain. Right now, Houston is the only city in the country where you can get standalone brain mapping used by NASA, professional athletes, CEOs, and Olympians.

People with brain damage, children with severe autism and even those struggling with addiction find hope.

“Even having a conversation with you, looking you in the eye, is something I never could have done six years ago,” said Julia Soloman.

Looking at the 30-year-old, one would never know that Soloman has spent more than a decade battling addiction.

“I guess my first drink was actually at age 14,” she said. “Towards the end, it was a lot of stimulants, so cocaine and Adderall.”

Soloman also told ABC13 presenter Chauncy Glover that she lived the typical “two good shoe” life growing up. However, at 17, her Lyme disease resurfaced and doctors gave her OxyContin for the pain.

“Within two weeks of his prescription, I was crushing and sniffing him in the back of the toilet at work, which is disgusting, and that made perfect sense at the time,” Soloman said.

She got out of control and at 21, she made her first stint in rehab. It started Soloman’s cycle of being in and out of treatment programs, relapsing constantly.

“I wasn’t ready. My brain just wasn’t functioning at a level that would allow me to stay sober,” she said.

Soloman’s brain is where his parents asked for help. Karen Odell-Barber, President of Neurologics, took his case.

“Her family were extremely worried about her (…) whether she overdosed or died,” said Odell-Barber.

Soloman underwent brain mapping in Houston at the J. Flowers Health Institute.

“I want to help people from an addiction standpoint and from a mental health standpoint, so they don’t end up like my family,” said James Flowers, the institute’s founder.

For Flowers, it’s personal.

“I had a sister who died of addiction, who fell from an eight-story balcony, on cocaine. She had been in 19 treatment centers and had failed because no one ever really took the drug. time to figure out what her comorbid diagnoses were, “said Fleurs.

That’s why Flowers uses neurological products. It combines neuroscience and medicine with technology to bring mapping.

Technicians use a cap and tie it to your scalp to pick up impulses from your brain. After a two-hour exercise to test a person’s memory and learn more, a report is generated, highlighting areas of dysfunction.

“When I got my brain map back it showed that I had just had zero impulse control. When I was stressed my IQ dropped by 50 points, so when I felt stressed, in those times where you’re about to drink or use, I just wasn’t functioning properly. I wasn’t able to make good decisions, “Soloman said.

But thanks to neuroengineering, which solves your brain’s problems through months of hands-on training and exercise, Soloman was able to increase his IQ during times of stress. In turn, this helps him make better decisions about drugs and alcohol.

“Being able to produce that kind of evidence and hand it over to someone is powerful in a different way,” said Odell-Barber.

Sessions last about 50 minutes and it can take up to four months for your brain to regain peak performance. For someone with a head injury, it can take six months and 12 months for children with severe autism.

“I wouldn’t trade my life right now for the world,” Soloman said.

She’s been sober for six years and has sort of become the star of brain mapping and neuroengineering.
She graduated from college in illustrations and is now in Los Angeles making movie posters. She said she now wanted to help others deal with their addictions.

“I’ve seen it helping so many people, and it sounds like magic when you say it. I think we’re now at a point where science can really help addicts,” she said.

ABC13’s Chauncy Glover also passed the test. Doctors found a dysfunction in his short-term memory, which the doctors said could be related to the fact that he had COVID-19.

Glover overcame the virus in March 2020 and lost his sense of smell for weeks. Glover has started its neuroengineering optimization and is expected to update in November.

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