Neurofeedback treatment of two children with learning, attention, mood, social, and developmental deficits.
Background. Neurofeedback is biofeedback training of EEG activity through an operant conditioning process by which the individual is trained to increase or inhibit the brain's production of electrical activity in specific frequency ranges. Studies have demonstrated efficacy with a variety of disorde...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Neurotherapy Vol. 9; no. 4; pp. 55 - 71 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2005
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