ss And Secondary ADHD After Severe TBI And Long-Term Coma Using Event-Related Potentials
This study follows a patient who was in a car accident which led to severe head injury and her being in a coma for almost a month. This left her with significant neurological and psychological deficits, such as amnesia, only talking in the third person, not recognizing her own face, confusion of sexual identity, and problems with executive function. Ten years after the accident, her symptoms had only worsened. She tried behavioral therapy but it did not help.
She then tried 40 sessions of neurofeedback. Neuropsychological testing was done before and after using the Patient Competency Rating Scale, IQ, Frontal Behavioral Inventory, and many more. Neurofeedback led to significant increases across all of these tests, such as IQ increasing by over 30 points. They also looked at physiological changes using ERPs. They did not find any statistically significant changes there, but this does not mean that neurofeedback does not work as a therapy. The behavioral improvements alone are promising for the efficacy of using neurofeedback to treat TBI.
The drawbacks of this study though are that it’s only a case study. Further research using more participants and a control group is needed.
- SILENT EPIDEMIC: THE EFFECTS OF NEUROFEEDBACK ON QUALITY OF LIFE
Https://Www.Tandfonline.Com/Doi/Abs/10.1310/4G2F-5PLV-RNM9-BGGN?NeedAccess=True&JournalCode=Ytsr20Effect Of Neurofeedback On Motor Recovery Of Patient With Brain Injury: A Case Study And Its Implications For Stroke Rehabilitation
This study followed the neurofeedback experiences of a 19 year old girl who had a traumatic brain injury and a brain tumor about seven years before. She still exhibited a significant tremor in the right side, weakness, lack of coordination, and trouble with gait due to the injury. She underwent 40 sessions of neurofeedback over the course of three weeks to fix the prominent asymmetry in her brain activity found by the qEEG. Her progress was measured by testing her coordination and strength via a variety of different activities.
At the end of the neurofeedback sessions, she exhibited an increase in every measure except one. Anecdotal evidence by her family and friends also confirmed that she had significantly improved her coordination and strength. These results support the findings of many other studies that have shown the benefits of neurofeedback in rehabilitation TBI. However, this case is even more promising because it’s showing that neurofeedback still works many years after the injury.
- A Pilot Study of Neurofeedback for Chronic PTSDhttp://www.traumacenter.org/products/pdf_files/Pilot_Study_Neurofeedback_Chronic_PTSD_G0002.pdf
Abstract EEG Biofeedback (also known as neurofeedback) has been in use as a clinical intervention for well over 30 years; however, it has made very little impact on clinical care. One reason for this has been the difficulty in designing research to measure clinical change in the real world. While substantial evidence exists for its efficacy in treating attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, relatively little evidence exists for its utility in other disorders including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The current study represents a ”proof-of-concept” pilot for the use of neurofeedback with multiply-traumatized individuals with treatment-resistant PTSD. Participants completed 40 sessions of neurofeedback training two times per week with sensors randomly assigned (by the study coordinator, who was not blind to condition) to sensor placements of either T4-P4 or T3-T4. We found that neurofeedback signifi- cantly reduced PTSD symptoms (Davidson Trauma Scale scores averaged 69.14 at baseline to 49.26 at termination)
- The effect of neurofeedback training on PTSD symptoms of depression and attention problems among military veteranshttps://search.proquest.com/docview/193497792
This exploratory study examines what effect one may experience in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) induced symptoms of depression and diminished levels of attention