Quantitative EEG and Neurofeedback in Children and Adolescents. Anxiety Disorders, Depressive Disorders, Comorbid Addiction and Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, and Brain Injury

Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 427-464

  Simkin, Deborah R ^a,b   Thatcher, Robert W ^c   Lubar, Joel ^d,e  

^a American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Applied Neuroscience Research Institute   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^e Southeastern Neurofeedback Institute Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; ADHD; Anxiety disorders; Brain injury in children and adolescents; Depression; LORETA; Neurofeedback; Quantitative EEG

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALPHA RHYTHM; ANXIETY DISORDER; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUDITORY FEEDBACK; BRAIN CONCUSSION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN REGION; CANNABIS ADDICTION; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; DEPRESSION; DIFFUSE SPECTRAL IMAGING; DOWN SYNDROME; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; LOCAL FIELD POTENTIAL; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NEUROFEEDBACK; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROMODULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SENSOR; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE; THETA RHYTHM; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WAVEFORM; ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; BRAIN INJURIES; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; BRAIN INJURIES; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; NEUROFEEDBACK; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84903380637     PISSN: 10564993     EISSN: 15580490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chc.2014.03.001     Document Type: Review

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