Neurofeedback in children with ADHD: Specific event-related potential findings of a randomized controlled trial

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 942-950

  Wangler, Susanne ^a   Gevensleben, Holger ^b   Albrecht, Björn ^b   Studer, Petra ^a   Rothenberger, Aribert ^b   Moll, Gunther H ^a   Heinrich, Hartmut ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c Heckscher Klinikum   (Germany)

Author keywords

ADHD; Contingent negative variation (CNV); Event related potentials; Neurofeedback; Prediction; SCP training; Theta beta training

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BEHAVIOR; BETA RHYTHM; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROFEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHOOL CHILD; THETA RHYTHM; TRAINING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; BRAIN; CHILD; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROFEEDBACK; NEURONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78650296204     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2010.06.036     Document Type: Article

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