First clinical trial of tomographic neurofeedback in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: Evaluation of voluntary cortical control

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 123, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1989-2005

  Liechti, Martina D ^a   Maurizio, Stefano ^a   Heinrich, Hartmut ^b,c   Jäncke, Lutz ^a   Meier, Lea ^a,d   Steinhausen, Hans Christoph ^a,e,f   Walitza, Susanne ^a   Drechsler, Renate ^a   Brandeis, Daniel ^a,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c Heckscher Klinikum   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate cortex (ACC); Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); Contingent negative variation (CNV); Resting EEG; Slow cortical potential (SCP) and theta beta neurofeedback training; Standardised low resolution electromagnetic tomography (sLORETA)

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BETA RHYTHM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROFEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; THETA RHYTHM;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROFEEDBACK; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84865746450     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2012.03.016     Document Type: Article

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