Neurofeedback is so fascinating, isn't it? But when you are not yet familiar with it or you try to explain it to others, it is sometimes complicated. With our neurofeedback ABC on Instagram and Facebook we introduce to you every week neurofeedback related terms. Compact and understandable. To learn and share with the #neurofeedbackabc and #beemedic. And if you are not on social media we will keep you up to date here at our blog.
EEG Info lecturer Dr. Roxana Sasu and Matthew Fleischmann, PhD from the Neurofeedback Advocacy Project have been working successfully with ILF neurofeedback for years. In the US American podcast Mindstories with Dr. Josephine McNary, they explain what makes neurofeedback so special. Why it is so helpful in the therapy of ADHD, anxiety disorders and trauma and why it is particularly pleasant for patients. They also discuss current findings. Have fun listening!
"Put your glasses on and dive into another world" - Virtual Reality (VR) is often advertised in this or a similar way. And especially the therapeutic benefit and use arouses the interest of science and research - especially in combination with neurofeedback. Recently, a sensational case study was published. According to this study, a patient suffering from chronic pain showed a 40% improvement in her symptoms after only 20 sessions with ILF VR neurofeedback. More details and why VR can also be so interesting for neurofeedback are covered in this article.
This is how Susanne Lenz, mother of a boy with autism and dyslexia, describes her experience with neurofeedback. The family was accompanied by EEG Info Europe lecturer Gernot Wührer. They tell their story and how neurofeedback can help with ADHD, autism or dementia in a recent article entitled "Brain training with neurofeedback", published in the German VdK member magazine.
In the current issue of the German-language professional journal for occupational therapists "Praxis Ergotherapie" our collegues Dr. Siegrid Seuß and Jennifer Riederle published the results of a survey among 260 neurofeedback therapist, mainly occupational therapist. They asked them about their use and experience with neurofeedback in daily work.
A short article in today's edition of the WELT shows how neurofeedback can help us deal with stress and strain right now.
As part of the study—which was conducted in cooperation with the Neurofeedback Network and a group of child and adolescent psychiatric practices in Munich—251 patients with AD(H)D received neurofeedback treatment. Attention was assessed before the start and after completion of the therapy. A comparison of the test results showed significant improvements in attention and impulse control; patients also reported an improvement in AD(H)D symptoms.
This blog post is about... um... oh… let me think... yeah! Memory and forgetting. We all have been in such situations: forgetting the appointment at the dentist, having to search for our car in the parking lot and not remembering birthdays. In this blog post, we explain why we forget things and how neurofeedback can improve memory. We are also discussing a study by the Saarland University in which the memory of test subjects could be improved in the long term through neurofeedback training.
Language is a fundamental component in child development. When suffering from a so-called language development disorder, communication, language comprehension, vocabulary and language formation or several of these areas are affected.
In his practice in Munich, the psychologist Gernot Wührer treats, among others, patients with language development disorders. In this interview he reports on how neurofeedback can help.
If you are interested in the topic of neurofeedback, you will quickly realize that not all neurofeedback is the same. This article gives a brief insight into our whitepaper on the development of the Othmer Method. From its origins in classic SMR beta and frequency band training, to the systematic study of electrode placements, to today's ILF neurofeedback.