Neurofeedback, Brain Maps (QEEGs) and Training for ADD, ADHD, LD, & Cognitive Enhancement
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Attention and Learning Disorders, Brain Maps, Cognitive Processing and Neurofeedback
Please glance through some references to scientific studies on the effect of neurofeedack upon attention and learning disorders:
Selected scientific references
Please read carefully the following brief abstract from an important medical journal:
Journal of Clinical EEG & Neuroscience, July, 2006
Follow-Up Study of Learning-Disabled Children Treated With Neurofeedback or Placebo
J. Becerra, T. Fernández, T. Harmony, M. I. Caballero, F. García, A. Fernández-Bouzas, E. Santiago-Rodríguez and R. A. Prado-Alcalá
ABSTRACT
This report is a 2-year follow-up to a previous study describing positive behavioral changes and a spurt of EEG maturation with theta/alpha neurofeedback (NFB) training in a group of Learning Disabled (LD) children. In a control paired group, treated with placebo, behavioral changes were not observed and the smaller maturational EEG changes observed were easily explained by increased age.
Two years later, the EEG maturational lag in Control Group children increased, reaching abnormally high theta Relative Power values; the absence of positive behavioral changes continued and the neurological diagnosis remained LD. In contrast, after 2 years EEG maturation did continue in children who belonged to the Experimental Group with previous neurofeedback training; this was accompanied by positive behavioral changes, which were reflected in remission of LD symptoms.
And please read the following quote:
“The literature… suggests that EEG biofeedback therapy should play a major therapeutic role in many difficult areas. In my opinion, if any medication had demonstrated such a wide spectrum of efficacy it would be universally accepted and widely used.”
--- Frank H. Duffy, MD, Associate Editor for Neurology, Neurologist at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, January 2000.
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