Biofeedback and Neurofeedback for Anxiety Disorders: A Quantitative and Qualitative Systematic Review

Tolin, David F.; Davies, Carolyn D.; Moskow, Danielle M.; Hofmann, Stefan G.

doi:10.1007/978-981-32-9705-0_16

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“…Increasing alpha magnitude can produce a calming effect in high‐anxious individuals (Hardt & Kamiya, 1978). Frontal alpha asymmetry is assumed to be associated with psychopathology and individual differences in emotional responding (Tolin et al., 2020). In the recent past (Dias & Deusen, 2011; Kerson et al., 2009; Wang et al., 2013), induction of healthy alpha asymmetry and regulation of alpha power bands have been successfully used to treat anxiety and depression.…”

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Neurofeedback training improves anxiety trait and depressive symptom in GAD

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Zhang

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Brain and Behavior

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Neurofeedback training improves anxiety trait and depressive symptom in GAD

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“…People are usually not conscious of their autonomic physiology, let alone able to regulate it (Price and Hooven, 2018). Biofeedback reveals internal physiological processes and provides guidance on how to change them, which can reduce anxiety and facilitate coping with stress (Yu et al, 2018;Tolin et al, 2020). In the following, we discuss how a conventional biofeedback application works and then show how it can be adapted for stress-exposure biofeedback.…”

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“…To account for the trainee's divided attention during stressexposure biofeedback, their control of the biofeedback parameter should be as easy and direct as possible. A variety of physiological modalities are related to stress and can serve as a basis for a biofeedback parameter, such as electroencephalography, heart rate variability or breathing (Yu et al, 2018;Tolin et al, 2020). These modalities differ in terms of their controllability and one of the easiest-to-control physiological modalities is breathing (Nacke et al, 2011;Parnandi and Gutierrez-Osuna, 2019).…”

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Breathing Biofeedback for Police Officers in a Stressful Virtual Environment: Challenges and Opportunities

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As part of the Dutch national science program “Professional Games for Professional Skills” we developed a stress-exposure biofeedback training in virtual reality (VR) for the Dutch police. We aim to reduce the acute negative impact of stress on performance, as well as long-term consequences for mental health by facilitating physiological stress regulation during a demanding decision task. Conventional biofeedback applications mainly train physiological regulation at rest. This might limit the transfer of the regulation skills to stressful situations. In contrast, we provide the user with the opportunity to practice breathing regulation while they carry out a complex task in VR. This setting poses challenges from a technical – (real-time processing of noisy biosignals) as well as from a user-experience perspective (multi-tasking). We illustrate how we approach these challenges in our training and hope to contribute a useful reference for researchers and developers in academia or industry who are interested in using biosignals to control elements in a dynamic virtual environment.

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“…For instance, lower mood and elevated anxiety are often observed in patients suffering from dementia and may impact disease trajectories (Paterniti et al, 2002). Previous work has demonstrated substantial therapeutic effects of neurofeedback training to treat mood or anxiety (Tolin et al, 2020;Trambaiolli et al, 2021), partly based on protocols that employed memory based self-regulation strategies (Young et al, 2017) or entrained areas of the hippocampal formation (see active control group in . Noteworthy, mood and anxiety influence cognitive performance, and may hence mediate observed effects (McDermott and Ebmeier, 2009;de Vito et al, 2019).…”

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Neurofeedback and the Aging Brain: A Systematic Review of Training Protocols for Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment

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Mehler

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Dementia describes a set of symptoms that occur in neurodegenerative disorders and that is characterized by gradual loss of cognitive and behavioral functions. Recently, non-invasive neurofeedback training has been explored as a potential complementary treatment for patients suffering from dementia or mild cognitive impairment. Here we systematically reviewed studies that explored neurofeedback training protocols based on electroencephalography or functional magnetic resonance imaging for these groups of patients. From a total of 1,912 screened studies, 10 were included in our final sample (N = 208 independent participants in experimental and N = 81 in the control groups completing the primary endpoint). We compared the clinical efficacy across studies, and evaluated their experimental designs and reporting quality. In most studies, patients showed improved scores in different cognitive tests. However, data from randomized controlled trials remains scarce, and clinical evidence based on standardized metrics is still inconclusive. In light of recent meta-research developments in the neurofeedback field and beyond, quality and reporting practices of individual studies are reviewed. We conclude with recommendations on best practices for future studies that investigate the effects of neurofeedback training in dementia and cognitive impairment.

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Biofeedback and Neurofeedback for Anxiety Disorders: A Quantitative and Qualitative Systematic Review

Cited by 65 publications

References 42 publications

Neurofeedback training improves anxiety trait and depressive symptom in GAD

Neurofeedback training improves anxiety trait and depressive symptom in GAD

Breathing Biofeedback for Police Officers in a Stressful Virtual Environment: Challenges and Opportunities

Neurofeedback and the Aging Brain: A Systematic Review of Training Protocols for Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment

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