New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London has suggested that using neurofeedback to address self-blame in people experiencing non-anxious major depressive disorder (MDD) can help to lessen key symptoms. While the study, published in Psychological Medicine, didn’t explicitly find neurofeedback to be a …
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Using Neurofeedback to Help Depression
New Study: Neurofeedback VS. Methylphenidate
In a small study of 40 children with ADHD, teachers, and parents reported that patients undergoing neurofeedback treatment experienced a decrease in inattention similar to that of patients taking methylphenidate ADHD medication. For decades, medication has been thought to be the standard in ADHD treatment. Study after study has examined …
Neurofeedback Training & Psychological Disorders
In recent years, researchers have begun using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) not just for a better understanding of the neural bases of psychiatric illness, but also for experimental treatment of depression, ADHD, anxiety, PTSD, substance use disorder, and schizophrenia with a technique called real-time fMRI neurofeedback. A team of …
How to Enhance ADHD Therapies
Life is hard with an ADHD-style nervous system. If you are over-aroused and disorganized most of the time, you may not always enjoy neurotypical people in a neurotypical world. Symptom treatment is hard work that’s best started early — before bad habits and low self-esteem set in. The earlier we …
Neurofeedback & Self-Esteem Training
A study published in the journal Neuroimage: Clinical found that patients with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), who had recovered from symptoms, were able to strengthen some of their brain connections whilst thinking about guilt-evoking memories, thereby increasing their self-esteem. The research showed that connectivity between certain brain regions – previously …
