Insomnia is a sleeping disorder, usually studied from a behavioural perspective, with a focus on somatic and cognitive arousal. Recent studies have suggested that an impairment of information processes due to the presence of cortical hyperarousal might interfere with normal sleep onset and/or consolidation. As such, a treatment modality focussing on CNS arousal, and thus influencing information...

Neuroscience as well as computer gaming have rapidly advanced in the last decades. Yet, the combination of both fields is still in its infancy. One example of an emerging alliance is neurofeedback, where participants are required to learn controlling their own brain activity. So far, this kind of training is mostly applied in therapeutic settings, for example improving symptoms in epilepsy, att...

The goal of neurofeedback training is to provide participants with relevant information on their ongoing brain processes in order to enable them to change these processes in a meaningful way. Under the assumption of an intrinsic brain-behavior link, neurofeedback can be a tool to guide a participant towards a desired behavioral state, such as a healthier state in the case of patients. Current r...

This paper presents a mobile, easy-to-maintain wireless electroencephalograph (EEG) system designed for work with children in school environment. EEG data acquisition platform is small-sized, battery-powered high sampling rate that scalable to different channel numbers. The was validated study of live z-score neurofeedback training quantitative (zNF-qEEG) typical-reading and those developmental...

Alzheimer s Disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia. In a qEEG, patients with AD present a greater amount of theta activity compared to normal aging individuals. An excess of delta and a decrement of alpha and beta is also observed. Little is known about the effect of neurofeedback in patients with dementia. However, it has been successfully applied in the treatment of different disord...

Psychopathic individuals are characterized by impaired affective processing, impulsivity, sensation-seeking, poor planning skills and heightened aggressiveness with poor self-regulation. Based on brain self-regulation studies using neurofeedback of Slow Cortical Potentials (SCPs) in disorders associated with a dysregulation of cortical activity thresholds and evidence of deficient cortical func...

Many individuals with tinnitus have abnormal oscillatory brain activity. Led by this finding, we have developed a way to normalize such pathological activity by neurofeedback techniques (Weisz et al. (2005). PLoS Med., 2: e153). This is achieved mainly through enhancement of tau activity, i.e., oscillatory activity produced in perisylvian regions within the alpha frequency range (8-12 Hz) and c...

a Ed Pigott, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist and Director of Neurotherapy Services at Behavioral Health of the Palm Beaches. He is also in private practice at The Center for Brain Training in Jupiter, FL. b Lindsay De Biase, Ph.D. is a neuroscientist and post-doctoral fellow. C Eugenia Bodenhamer-Davis, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor and Director, Neurotherapy Program, University of North Tex...