Are treatment effects of neurofeedback training in children with ADHD related to the successful regulation of brain activity? A review on the learning of regulation of brain activity and a contribution to the discussion on specificity

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue MAR, 2015, Pages

  Zuberer, Agnieszka ^a   Brandeis, Daniel ^a,b   Drechsler, Renate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MEDICAL FACULTY MANNHEIM HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

ADHD; Learning curves; Learning indices; Neurofeedback; Self regulated brain activity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTOREGULATION; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CROSS SESSION LEARNING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; LEARNING; LEARNING CURVE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROFEEDBACK TRAINING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WITHIN SESSION LEARNING;

EID: 84933670473     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00135     Document Type: Article

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