Testimonials Regarding Neurofeedback
Dr. Katie Campbell Daley, in a recent paper Update on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder published in Current Opinion in Pediatrics, reviewed the research and practice standards related to ADHD treatment. Dr. Campbell Daley concluded:
Overall, these findings support the use of multi-modal treatment, including medication, parent/school counseling, and EEG biofeedback, in the long term management of ADHD, with EEG biofeedback in particular providing a sustained effect even without stimulant treatment…parents interested in non-psychopharmacologic treatment can pursue the use of complementary and alternative therapy. The therapy most promising by recent clinical trials appears to be EEG biofeedback.
Department of Medicine, Children’s Hospital, Boston
Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
In my experience with EEG Biofeedback and ADD, many people are able to improve their reading skills and decrease their need for medication. Also, EEG biofeedback has helped to decrease impulsivity and aggressiveness. It is a powerful tool, in part because the patient becomes part of the treatment process by taking more control over his own physiological processes.
Amen Clinics, Newport Beach, CA
Change Your Brain, Change Your Life
The literature, which lacks any negative study of substance, suggests that EEG biofeedback therapy should play a major therapeutic role in many difficult areas. In my opinion, if any medication had demonstrated such a wide spectrum of efficacy, it would be universally accepted and widely used.
Head of the Neuroimaging Department and Neuroimaging Research at
Boston Children’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School Professor
In my own practice, I’ve used neuro-feedback in a comprehensive medical treatment program to help more than 1,000 patients with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. When combined with supportive therapies such as family counseling and educational therapy, EEG neurofeedback is the most effective treatment available. Critics of EEG neurofeedback hold this treatment to more rigid standards than drug treatments. Yet unlike drugs, neurofeedback is benign.
Medical Director, Drake Institute of Behavioral Medicine
Los Angeles
Among the newer approaches to managing ADD, the most exciting is a learning process called neurofeedback. It empowers a person to shift the way he pays attention. After more than twenty-five years of research in university labs, neurofeedback has become more widely available. This is a pleasing development, because neurofeedback has no negative side effects.
The A.D.D. Book (Page 205)