EEG spectral analysis of attention in ADHD: Implications for neurofeedback training?

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Heinrich, Hartmut ^a,b   Busch, Katrin ^a   Studer, Petra ^a   Erbe, Karlheinz ^c   Moll, Gunther H ^a   Kratz, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^b Heckscher Klinikum   (Germany)

^c Practice of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

ADHD; Attention; Brain behavior relationship; EEG; Neurofeedback; Spectral analysis; Subtypes

Indexed keywords

ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BETA RHYTHM; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 84907416493     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00611     Document Type: Article

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