What's New in Neurofeedback
A Monthly Summary of News and Events

Vol. 8 No. 1 - January 2005

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Announcements - News
In the Spotlight - Open Access Articles
News & Reviews - Books & journal papers
Events & Locations - Conferences, Courses
Last Word - 2004 Index

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What's New in Neurofeedback enters its 8th year! making it the
longest-running, continuously published webzine dedicated o mental
health in history.

Brain tests Help Evaluate Mental Condition
Science Points to a 'Sixth Sense'
Monkeys Control Robotic Arm With Brain
McMaster to study the brains behind the music
Older Adults' Memories Stress the Positive
Awareness May Remain After Severe Brain Injury
The Therapeutic Mind Scan

ll links at:
http://news.yahoo.com/fc?tmpl=fc&cid=34&in=science&cat=brain_research

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In the Spotlight

Open Access Articles

The January 2005 issue of Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics in
North America features a number of review articles on neurotherapy.
Conditions reviewed include ADHD, addiction, anxiety disorders,
addiction, epilepsy, as well as the use of quantitative EEG in
psychiatric conditions. As it so happens, my college library does
not subscribe to this journal, but it does have interlibrary loan
which means that each article will be scanned by a participating
library and emailed to me as a PDF file. It costs a small fortune
but it can be worth it (especially when the college picks up the
cost.) We live in an information age and nearly every journal
article is now available for download online. But always at a price.

This month I thought I would help to reduce that price. In past
newsletters I've provided comprehensive citation lists for
neurofeedback articles, but citation lists point to abstracts --
abstracts are free and useful, but limited -- they do not contain
details, and it is with details we convince. God dwells in the
details, to quote post-WWI architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (also
supposedly responsible for "less is more").

This month I sought out high quality papers, most published in
journals, that are available online for free.

psychiatrictimes.com/p020268.html
EEG Neurofeedback for Treating Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric
Times February 2002

www.eegfeedback.org/pdf/o_donnell.pdf
Evaluation of the effectiveness of EEG neurofeedback training for
ADHD in a clinical setting...

www.zoningin.rcm.ac.uk/ICMPC_NF.pdf
Comparing learned EEG self-regulation and the alexander technique as
a means of enhancing musical performance, 7th Intl Conference on
Music Perception and Cognition, Sydney, 2002

www.openfocus.com/text/clinical.pdf
Attention and Neurofeedback Synchrony Training: Clinical Results and
Their Significance

https://haworthpressinc.com/store/sampletext/J184.pdf
Clinical Use of an Alpha Asymmetry Neurofeedback Protocol in the
Treatment of Mood Disorders: Follow-Up Study One to Five Years Post
Therapy

www.drakeinstitute.com/research-article/neurofeedback-methylphenidate
.pdf
Neurofeedback treatment for ADHD in children...

www.snr-jnt.org/journalnt/jnt(1-1)7.html
A Comparison of EEG Biofeedback and Psychostimulants in Treating
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorders (html format)

www.eee.deu.edu.tr/academics/courses/EEE401/eeg_fndmntls.pdf
Fundamentals of EEG Measurement

www.eelab.usyd.edu.au/ELEC3801/notes/electroencephalogram.pdf
Fundamentals of Biomedical Engineering, Electroencephalogram

www.adhd.com.au/Comprehensive%20Neurofeedback%20Bibliography.pdf
Comprehensive Neurotherapy Bibliography, or
http://www.isnr.org/nfbarch/nbiblio.htm

http://www.snr-jnt.org/jnttoc.htm
Journal of Neurotherapys, first three years
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General repositories of open access material

http://cogprints.org
CogPrints, free archive of papers (very limited at the moment)

arxiv.org
ArXiv's Quantitative Biology area (very technical papers and only 18
EEG papers)

www.biomedcentral.com
BioMed Central, over 100 Open Access journals covering all areas of
Biology and Medicine.

http://archives.eprints.org
ePrints archives

www.doaj.org
DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals

The best overview of neurofeedback (until now, perhaps) was the 2000
edition of "Clinical EEG". www.ecnsweb.com/images/ articles2000.htm.
The reprints will cost you, but as Frederick Douglass put it, "you
might not always get what you pay for, but you always pay for what
you get."

-DK


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News & Reviews

Children and Behavioural Problems: Anxiety, Aggression, Depression ADHD
by Martine F. Delfos
A biopsychological model of children mental health, focused on
diagnosis and treatment
--www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1843101963/top100

Epidemiology of Sleep: Age, Gender, and Ethnicity
by Kenneth L. Lichstein, et al
Sleep of normal individuals is reviewed by age and gender.
--www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0805840796/top100

Magnetic Source Imaging of the Human Brain
by Zhong-Lin Lu, Lloyd Kaufman
Current understanding of neuromagnetic fields.
--www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0805845119/top100

Principles of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation
by George P. Prigatano
Written for professionals; discusses remediation of higher cerebral
disturbances and management of patients' interpersonal problems.
--www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195081439/top100

Anxiety Disorders in Adults: A Clinical Guide
by Vladan Starcevic
Each adult anxiety disorder is reviewed in a separate chapter.
--www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195156064/top100

Physiology of Behavior
by Neil R. Carlson
Comprehensive textbook, which also includes the latest discoveries
in the changing fields of neuroscience and psychophysiology
--www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0205381758/top100

Detection of Change: Event-Related Potential and fMRI Findings
by John Polich
Reviews a range of experimental studies using stimulus change
paradigms, with clinical data augmenting the utility of the methods.
--www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1402073933/top100

Magnetic Resonance in Epilepsy: Neuroimaging Techniques, Second
Edition
by Ruben Kuzniecky, Graeme D. Jackson
Overview of new technology in the assessment and treatment of
epilepsy.
--www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ 0124311520/top100

Current Practice of Clinical Electroencephalography
by John S. Ebersole, Timothy A.Pedley
Covers the full range of applications of EEG and evoked potentials
in clinical practice.
--www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ ASIN/0781716942/top100


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JOURNAL PAPERS

ERPs correlates of EEG relative beta training in ADHD children. :
ADHD children (n=86) underwent approximately 20 sessions of EEG
biofeedback (enhancing 15-18 Hz relative power, and other
components). Good performers acquired positive evoked component over
frontal-central areas as a result of training.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15598513

Meta-analysis of quantitative sleep parameters from childhood to old
age : 40 years of research find: in adults, total sleep time, sleep
efficiency, percentage of slow-wave and REM sleep, and REM latency
decrease with age, while sleep latency, percentage of stage 1 and
stage 2 and wake after sleep onset increase with age
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15586779

Left inferior prefrontal cortex activity reflects inhibitory
priming. : The left inferior prefrontal cortex inhibits interference
from prepotent representations during task-appropriate target
selection. This is consistent with its role in behavioral
inhibition.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15601518

Executive dysfunction in cocaine addiction : Cocaine users show an
over-reliance on left cerebellum, a compensatory pattern previously
seen in alcohol addiction.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15590917

EEG Correlates of Methylphenidate Response in ADHD : Increased
frontal beta activity was correlated with med- related improvement
on the Conners' CPT and parental ratings. Decreased right frontal
theta activity was associated with parent-rated attention
improvements.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15622134

Low interhemispheric and high intrahemispheric EEG coherence in
migraine. : Twenty women with migraine were evaluated. 95% with
migraine and 85% of controls were correctly classified with EEG
coherence analysis .
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15613226

Low-resolution electromagnetic tomography neurofeedback. : Describes
the first application of an EEG inverse solution to neurofeedback.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15614994

Two new neurophysiological indices of cocaine craving :
Cocaine-dependent subjects show augmented slow- positive waves (ERP)
on cocaine pictures compared to neutral pictures.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15582921

Addiction, a condition of compulsive behaviour? Evidence of
inhibitory dysregulation. : Anterior cingulate and orbitofrontal
cortex, both critical in inhibitory control over reward-related
behavior, are dysfunctional in addiction, as they are in compulsive
disorders; so addiction may modelled as a compulsion.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15585037

EEG biofeedback for reading disability and traumatic brain injury. :
Initial support for improving brain injury and reading disabilities
in particiular with neurofeedback.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15564056

Role of QEEG in child and adolescent psychiatric disorders. :
Critical review of quantitative EEG research relevant to its
clinical application. Includes a neurophysiologic model of ADD.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15564051

Critical validation studies of neurofeedback. : Review at validating
neurofeedback protocols for improving attention, memory, and
performance in healthy participants.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15564053

Electrodermal reactivity and its association to substance use
disorders. : Poor modulators have more symptoms of substance use
disorders than good modulators, which may reflect a biological risk
factor for substance use disorders.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15563350

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"Neurofeedback should be viewed as one of the three essential or
primary forms of intervention - psychotherapy, psychopharmacology,
and Neurofeedback. In my experience, neurofeedback is every bit as
important and powerful as the other two forms of treatment." - Dr.
Laurence Hirshberg of Brown University Medical School, a
psychologist specializing in Developmental Disorders and Autism.

Contact Karie Kramer, our training coordinator, for more information
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Conferences for Neurofeedback Clinicians & Researchers
CONFERENCE LOCATION DATES

AAPB - http://www.aapb.org Austin TX Apr 1-4
SABA - http://www.skiltopo.com Anchorage AK Jun 6-12
ISNR - http://www.isnr.org Denver CO Sep 8-11
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Last Word

2004 Index of WNIN

Spotlight articles

AAPB, 35th Annual Conference (April 2004)
Beware a Terrace Effect
Books for a Young Neurotherapist
Epidemics Revisited
International Society for Neuronal Regulation
Knowledge in the Information Age
Neurotherapy in the Popular Press
SABA 3, Annual Conference
Science of Love, The
75 Years of EEG Investigation
Take Two Placebos and Call Me in the Morning, revised
Year in Neurofeedback, The - 2004



Last Word

Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness
Faulty Foresight
Hand and Brain
Ideas from the Ferry
Information about Mental Health
Online Neuroscience Resources
Research Articles, 2000-2003
QEEG Research: Who, where, and what
Search for Terrestrial Intelligence
2003 Index
Vulnerable to Vocabulary
When Rats Die for Reward

Additional WNIN articles, 1998-2004 -
http://start.eegspectrum.com/Newsletter/review.htm
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