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https://read.qxmd.com/read/24109716/design-of-an-online-eeg-based-neurofeedback-game-for-enhancing-attention-and-memory
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kavitha P Thomas, A P Vinod, Cuntai Guan
Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) is an alternative communication and control channel between brain and computer which finds applications in neuroprosthetics, brain wave controlled computer games etc. This paper proposes an Electroencephalogram (EEG) based neurofeedback computer game that allows the player to control the game with the help of attention based brain signals. The proposed game protocol requires the player to memorize a set of numbers in a matrix, and to correctly fill the matrix using his attention...
2013: Conference Proceedings: Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
https://read.qxmd.com/read/24111179/eeg-based-upper-alpha-neurofeedback-for-cognitive-enhancement-in-major-depressive-disorder-a-preliminary-uncontrolled-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
C Escolano, M Navarro-Gil, J Garcia-Campayo, J Minguez
Conditioning of the upper-alpha rhythm to improve cognitive performance in healthy users by means of neurofeedback (NF) has been evaluated by several studies, however its effectiveness in people with severe cognitive deficits, such as depressive subjects, remains underexplored. This paper reports on a preliminary uncontrolled study to assess the effects of an upper-alpha NF intervention on patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). The NF effects on the EEG and cognitive performance were assessed. The EEG results showed that patients were able to modulate the upper-alpha rhythm in task-related EEG and during training, in both cases across the executions of the NF sessions, and pre and post within each session...
2013: Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
https://read.qxmd.com/read/24115445/the-potential-of-neurofeedback-in-the-treatment-of-eating-disorders-a-review-of-the-literature
#3
REVIEW
Savani Bartholdy, Peter Musiat, Iain C Campbell, Ulrike Schmidt
Neurofeedback is defined as the training of voluntary regulation of localised neural activity using real-time feedback through a brain-computer interface. It has shown initial success as a potential clinical treatment tool in proof of concept studies, but has yet to be evaluated with respect to eating disorders. This paper (i) provides a brief overview of the current status of eating disorder treatments; (ii) describes the studies to date that use neurofeedback involving electroencephalography, real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging or near-infrared spectroscopy; and (iii) considers the potential of these technologies as treatments for eating disorders...
November 2013: European Eating Disorders Review: the Journal of the Eating Disorders Association
https://read.qxmd.com/read/24167944/neurofeedback-therapy-in-patients-with-acute-and-chronic-pain-syndromes-literature-review-and-own-experience
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REVIEW
Alicja Kubik, Agnieszka Biedroń
Pain management is based mainly on pharmacotherapy which has many limitations. Non-pharmacological techniques, like neurofeedback (EEG-biofeedback) are alternative methods of pain treatment. Data from literature confirm high efficacy of neurofeedback in pain syndromes treatment, chronic and acute as well. Neurofeedback plays an important role in management of post stroke, post traumatic headaches and in primary headaches like tension type headaches or migraine. Literature review and own experience indicate importance of number and frequency of performed neurofeedback trainings on treatment effectiveness...
2013: Przegla̧d Lekarski
https://read.qxmd.com/read/24187537/experiencing-your-brain-neurofeedback-as-a-new-bridge-between-neuroscience-and-phenomenology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Juliana Bagdasaryan, Michel Le Van Quyen
Neurophenomenology is a scientific research program aimed to combine neuroscience with phenomenology in order to study human experience. Nevertheless, despite several explicit implementations, the integration of first-person data into the experimental protocols of cognitive neuroscience still faces a number of epistemological and methodological challenges. Notably, the difficulties to simultaneously acquire phenomenological and neuroscientific data have limited its implementation into research projects. In our paper, we propose that neurofeedback paradigms, in which subjects learn to self-regulate their own neural activity, may offer a pragmatic way to integrate first-person and third-person descriptions...
2013: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
https://read.qxmd.com/read/24211625/better-than-sleep-theta-neurofeedback-training-accelerates-memory-consolidation
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Miriam Reiner, Roman Rozengurt, Anat Barnea
Consistent empirical results showed that both night and day sleep enhanced memory consolidation. In this study we explore processes of consolidation of memory during awake hours. Since theta oscillations have been shown to play a central role in exchange of information, we hypothesized that elevated theta during awake hours will enhance memory consolidation. We used a neurofeedback protocol, to enhance the relative power of theta or beta oscillations. Participants trained on a tapping task, were divided into three groups: neurofeedback theta; neurofeedback beta; control...
January 2014: Biological Psychology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/24231602/replication-of-elite-music-performance-enhancement-following-alpha-theta-neurofeedback-and-application-to-novice-performance-and-improvisation-with-smr-benefits
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
J H Gruzelier, P Holmes, L Hirst, K Bulpin, S Rahman, C van Run, J Leach
Alpha/theta (A/T) and sensory-motor rhythm (SMR) neurofeedback were compared in university instrumentalists who were novice singers with regard to prepared and improvised instrumental and vocal performance in three music domains: creativity/musicality, technique and communication/presentation. Only A/T training enhanced advanced playing seen in all three domains by expert assessors and validated by correlations with learning indices, strongest with Creativity/Musicality as shown by Egner and Gruzelier (2003)...
January 2014: Biological Psychology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/24239853/eeg-neurofeedback-for-optimising-performance-ii-creativity-the-performing-arts-and-ecological-validity
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REVIEW
John H Gruzelier
As a continuation of a review of evidence of the validity of cognitive/affective gains following neurofeedback in healthy participants, including correlations in support of the gains being mediated by feedback learning (Gruzelier, 2014a), the focus here is on the impact on creativity, especially in the performing arts including music, dance and acting. The majority of research involves alpha/theta (A/T), sensory-motor rhythm (SMR) and heart rate variability (HRV) protocols. There is evidence of reliable benefits from A/T training with advanced musicians especially for creative performance, and reliable benefits from both A/T and SMR training for novice music performance in adults and in a school study with children with impact on creativity, communication/presentation and technique...
July 2014: Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
https://read.qxmd.com/read/24266644/plastic-modulation-of-ptsd-resting-state-networks-and-subjective-wellbeing-by-eeg-neurofeedback
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
R C Kluetsch, T Ros, J Théberge, P A Frewen, V D Calhoun, C Schmahl, R Jetly, R A Lanius
OBJECTIVE: Electroencephalographic (EEG) neurofeedback training has been shown to produce plastic modulations in salience network and default mode network functional connectivity in healthy individuals. In this study, we investigated whether a single session of neurofeedback training aimed at the voluntary reduction of alpha rhythm (8-12 Hz) amplitude would be related to differences in EEG network oscillations, functional MRI (fMRI) connectivity, and subjective measures of state anxiety and arousal in a group of individuals with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)...
August 2014: Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
https://read.qxmd.com/read/24321361/the-time-course-of-alpha-neurofeedback-training-effects-in-healthy-participants
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Marian K J Dekker, Margriet M Sitskoorn, Ad J M Denissen, Geert J M van Boxtel
The time-course of alpha neurofeedback training (NFT) was investigated in 18 healthy participants who received 15 sessions of training (eyes open), each consisting of three training periods (data are from Van Boxtel et al., 2012). Here we report on the within- and between-session training effects using multilevel analyses. Over sessions, total alpha power (8-12 Hz) increased up to the tenth session, after which low alpha power (8-10 Hz) remained at the same level, while high alpha power (10-12 Hz) decreased...
January 2014: Biological Psychology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/24407528/mandatory-neurotechnological-treatment-ethical-issues
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Farah Focquaert
What if neurofeedback or other types of neurotechnological treatment, by itself or in combination with behavioral treatment, could achieve a successful "rewiring" of the psychopath's brain? Imagine that such treatments exist and that they provide a better long-term risk-minimizing strategy compared to imprisonment. Would it be ethical to offer such treatments as a condition of probation, parole, or (early) prison release? In this paper, I argue that it can be ethical to offer effective, non-invasive neurotechnological treatments to offenders as a condition of probation, parole, or (early) prison release provided that: (1) the status quo is in no way cruel, inhuman, degrading, or in some other way wrong, (2) the treatment option is in no way cruel, inhuman, degrading, or in some other way wrong, (3) the treatment is in the best interests of the offender, and (4) the offender gives his/her informed consent...
February 2014: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/24590872/loreta-neurofeedback-in-the-precuneus-operant-conditioning-in-basic-mechanisms-of-self-regulation
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Rex L Cannon, Debora R Baldwin, Dominic J Diloreto, Sherman T Phillips, Tiffany L Shaw, Jacob J Levy
Low-resolution brain electomagnetic tomography (LORETA) neurofeedback provides a mechanism to influence the electrical activity of the brain in intracranial space. The aim of this study was to determine the effects of LORETA neurofeedback (LNFB) in the precuneus as a mechanism for improving self-regulation in controls and a heterogeneous diagnostic group (DX). Thirteen participants completed between 10 and 20 sessions of LNFB training in a 3-voxel cluster in the left precuneus. The participants included 5 nonclinical university students, and 8 adults with heterogeneous psychiatric diagnoses...
October 2014: Clinical EEG and Neuroscience: Official Journal of the EEG and Clinical Neuroscience Society (ENCS)
https://read.qxmd.com/read/24644508/effectiveness-of-eeg-biofeedback-on-attentiveness-working-memory-and-quantitative-electroencephalography-on-reading-disorder
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Elnaz Mosanezhad Jeddi, Mohammad Ali Nazari
OBJECTIVE: Cognitive factors are the important correlates of reading disorder and their impairments are established in children with reading disorder. Neurofeedback as an intervention has been reported to be useful in improvement of cognitive deficits. The present study aimed to determine the effectiveness of this treatment on attentiveness and working memory and related electroencephalographic (EEG) changes in children with reading disorder. METHODS: In this single subject study, six children with reading disorder aged 8-10 years old completed twenty 30-minunt sessions of treatment...
2013: Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
https://read.qxmd.com/read/24690579/eeg-neurofeedback-for-optimising-performance-iii-a-review-of-methodological-and-theoretical-considerations
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REVIEW
John H Gruzelier
In continuing this three-part review on validation of EEG-neurofeedback for optimal performance evidence is first provided for feedback influences on the CNS, the integration of EEG with fMRI methodology as well as anatomical correlates. Then whereas Parts I and II reviewed the considerable behavioural outcome gains and evidence for their feedback causation, part III lays bare the not inconsiderable methodological and theoretical conundrums. Cardinal assumptions amongst practitioners about specificity of topography, behavioural outcome and frequency bands are critically examined...
July 2014: Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
https://read.qxmd.com/read/24705203/control-of-nucleus-accumbens-activity-with-neurofeedback
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RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL
Stephanie M Greer, Andrew J Trujillo, Gary H Glover, Brian Knutson
The nucleus accumbens (NAcc) plays critical roles in healthy motivation and learning, as well as in psychiatric disorders (including schizophrenia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). Thus, techniques that confer control of NAcc activity might inspire new therapeutic interventions. By providing second-to-second temporal resolution of activity in small subcortical regions, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) can resolve online changes in NAcc activity, which can then be presented as "neurofeedback...
August 1, 2014: NeuroImage
https://read.qxmd.com/read/24733975/neurofeedback-and-networks-of-depression
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REVIEW
David E J Linden
Recent advances in imaging technology and in the understanding of neural circuits relevant to emotion, motivation, and depression have boosted interest and experimental work in neuromodulation for affective disorders. Real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) can be used to train patients in the self regulation of these circuits, and thus complement existing neurofeedback technologies based on electroencephalography (EEG). EEG neurofeedback for depression has mainly been based on models of altered hemispheric asymmetry...
March 2014: Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience
https://read.qxmd.com/read/24746035/neurofeedback-and-physical-balance-in-parkinson-s-patients
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RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL
Atefeh Azarpaikan, Hamidreza Taherii Torbati, Mehdi Sohrabi
The primary goal of the present research is to study the effect of a neurofeedback training (NFT) period on balance problems associated with Parkinson's disease. Sixteen patients were selected through purposive sampling and were randomly divided into experimental and control groups. The research procedure included eight sessions. Prior to and after training, pre-tests and post-tests of static and dynamic balance were administered using "limit of stability" for the Biodex as well as the Berg scale. The results revealed that, after neurofeedback training, a statistically significant improvement in both static and dynamic balance in the experimental group was achieved...
2014: Gait & Posture
https://read.qxmd.com/read/24755406/the-covariation-of-independent-and-dependant-variables-in-neurofeedback-a-proposal-framework-to-identify-cognitive-processes-and-brain-activity-variables
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REVIEW
Jean-Arthur Micoulaud-Franchi, Clélia Quiles, Guillaume Fond, Michel Cermolacce, Jean Vion-Dury
This methodological article proposes a framework for analysing the relationship between cognitive processes and brain activity using variables measured by neurofeedback (NF) carried out by functional Magnetic Resonance Imagery (fMRI NF). Cognitive processes and brain activity variables can be analysed as either the dependant variable or the independent variable. Firstly, we propose two traditional approaches, defined in the article as the "neuropsychological" approach (NP) and the "psychophysiology" approach (PP), to extract dependent and independent variables in NF protocols...
May 2014: Consciousness and Cognition
https://read.qxmd.com/read/24794517/shutting-down-sensorimotor-interference-unblocks-the-networks-for-stimulus-processing-an-smr-neurofeedback-training-study
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RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL
Silvia Erika Kober, Matthias Witte, Matthias Stangl, Aleksander Väljamäe, Christa Neuper, Guilherme Wood
OBJECTIVE: In the present study, we investigated how the electrical activity in the sensorimotor cortex contributes to improved cognitive processing capabilities and how SMR (sensorimotor rhythm, 12-15Hz) neurofeedback training modulates it. Previous evidence indicates that higher levels of SMR activity reduce sensorimotor interference and thereby promote cognitive processing. METHODS: Participants were randomly assigned to two groups, one experimental (N=10) group receiving SMR neurofeedback training, in which they learned to voluntarily increase SMR, and one control group (N=10) receiving sham feedback...
January 2015: Clinical Neurophysiology: Official Journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/24833254/closed-loop-brain-machine-body-interfaces-for-noninvasive-rehabilitation-of-movement-disorders
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REVIEW
Frédéric D Broccard, Tim Mullen, Yu Mike Chi, David Peterson, John R Iversen, Mike Arnold, Kenneth Kreutz-Delgado, Tzyy-Ping Jung, Scott Makeig, Howard Poizner, Terrence Sejnowski, Gert Cauwenberghs
Traditional approaches for neurological rehabilitation of patients affected with movement disorders, such as Parkinson's disease (PD), dystonia, and essential tremor (ET) consist mainly of oral medication, physical therapy, and botulinum toxin injections. Recently, the more invasive method of deep brain stimulation (DBS) showed significant improvement of the physical symptoms associated with these disorders. In the past several years, the adoption of feedback control theory helped DBS protocols to take into account the progressive and dynamic nature of these neurological movement disorders that had largely been ignored so far...
August 2014: Annals of Biomedical Engineering
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