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Neurofeedback rests on a tidy idea: in ADHD the slower theta rhythm shows up when the faster beta rhythm should be running, so the training rewards you for shifting the balance. Knowing the idea is worth a few minutes, because it is what the brochure is built on.
Electrodes sit on the scalp, a screen animates when the signal moves the wanted way, and the person practises staying in a state of relaxed…
Ask what happens after the course ends, not only what happens during it. A gain that fades once the sessions stop was probably never a change in the person.
Neurofeedback tends to look decent while it is being delivered and then drift back, and the studies that followed people afterwards did not find…
When a parent is set on something that will not hold, one honest story often lands better than a pile of studies. A family finished the better part of a year of neurofeedback and watched their child slide back to where he started within weeks.
Told plainly, with no note of triumph in it, a story like that raises durability without telling a parent they were foolish. They were not foolish.…
When you read that a treatment worked, look for who judged the improvement and whether they knew what the child had been given. In much of this literature, they knew.
The design to look for is a sham condition, where everybody goes through the same routine and only some receive the active ingredient, with the…
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