Learned control of slow potential interhemispheric asymmetry in schizophrenia

What is Neurofeedback: An Update

“…Research has shown that it is possible for schizophrenics to participate in neurofeeback training (Guzelier, 2000;Gruzelier et al, 1999;Schneider et al, 1992) and clinical experience with chronic schizophrenics (Bolea, 2010;Cortoos et al, in press;M. Donaldson, Moran, & Donaldson, 2010;Surmeli, Ertem, Eralp, & Kos, in press) provides encouragement that this may be an additional treatment intervention which holds potential.…”

Neurofeedback as a Treatment for ADHD: A Methodological Review with Implications for Future Research

“…We are unaware of any research directly addressing whether it is possible for everyone to learn to alter their EEG via neurofeedback. However, research has shown that healthy individuals (Egner & Gruzelier, 2001;Vernon et al, 2003), those suffering brain injury (Thornton, 2000;Tinius & Tinius, 2000), epileptics (Sterman & Macdonald, 1978;Sterman, Macdonald, & Stone, 1974;Uhlmann & Froscher, 2001) and schizophrenics (Gruzelier, Hardman, Wild, & Zaman, 1999) have been able to exhibit changes in their cortical activity following neurofeedback training. (For a comprehensive bibliography see Hammond, 2001b, available in an updated version at www.isnr.org).…”

The Need for Individualization in Neurofeedback: Heterogeneity in QEEG Patterns Associated with Diagnoses and Symptoms

“…Neurofeedback appears to have potential in treating people who are schizophrenic (Gruzelier 2000;Gruzelier et al 1999;Schneider et al 1992) and this author has obtained improvement in individual cases. However, with not only psychosis but with all of the various psychiatric disorders, it is believed that a unitary neurofeedback treatment approach that does not build on a comprehensive pre-treatment QEEG assessment will be more likely to increase the risk of being either ineffective or in some cases harmful.…”