"Neurofeedback addresses problems of brain disregulation. These happen to be numerous. They include the anxiety-depression spectrum, attention deficits, behavior disorders, various sleep disorders, headaches and migraines, PMS and emotional disturbances. It is also useful for organic brain conditions such as seizures, the autism spectrum, and cerebral palsy." Siegfried Othmer, PhD, Chief Scientist, EEG Institute, Woodland Hills, CA
"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." (p. 205) William Sears, MD
"Neurofeedback approaches are very exciting because they offer a relatively short-term solution for a lifelong problem. Neurofeedback is a new frontier, and although it was heretical only a generation ago to think we could change our autonomic nervous system (blood pressure, heart rate, brain waves), we have made it commonplace today." (p. 175-176) Frank Lawlis, PhD
"In my experience with neurofeedback and ADD, many people are able to improve their reading skills and decrease their need for medication. Also, neurofeedback has helped to decrease impulsivity and aggressiveness. It is a powerful tool, in part because we are making the patients part of the treatment process and giving them more control over their own physiological processes." (P. 266-267) Daniel Amen, MD, psychiatrist, brain imaging specialist, and bestselling author of "Healing ADD", "Making a Good Brain Great", "Sex On the Brain", and "Magnificent Mind At Any Age".
"Numerous studies have shown that neurofeedback results in measurable and replicable improvements in attention, impulsivity, mood, anxiety, memory, and learning and clinically significant improvements in addictive disorders and epilepsy in children and adults....These studies uniformly show significant benefit for 70% to 80% of participants, with an effect size for (neurotherapy) equivalent to that of stimulants, as measured by computerized performance tests and standardized rating scales." (p. 6) Laurence Hirshberg, PhD, Sufen Chiu, MD, PhD, and Jean Frazier, MD
"It improved seizures, depression, low self-esteem and congenital head injuries, and it helps the 'craziness' that often comes with these....Patients report that they sleep better, feel better, they don't have seizures, they are more in control, and they get more work done. It helps with closed head injury patients. It helps with chronic neurologic disease where there is no active injury but there are problems with normal functioning. We've had success with multiple sclerosis, with toxic encephalopathy (for example, chemical poisoning interfering with neurologic functioning), with chronic pain, migraines and fibromyalgia. And of course we get very good results with ADD." Jonathan E. Walker, MD, Neurologist, Dallas, TX
"[His] case demonstrates that ongoing therapy is not necessary once the nervous system has come int balance (though occasionally, as in this case, a little "tweak" a few years later might be helpful). The ability to conclude the therapeutic process is in sharp contrast to the medication approach; the neurofeedback alternative frees a person from chemical dependencies. A flexible brain produces a quiet, productive, well-adapted mind....This is a vindication of the underlying principle of all biofeedback: the ability of intelligent systems to self-regulate." (p. 34) Stephen Larsen, PhD
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