Neurofeedback: What the Government is Not Telling Us

According to a Scharnowski 2015 medical journal, something known as neurofeedback has the potential to make waves in modern science. Neurofeedback training continuously measures brain activity while immediately providing feedback regarding the participant's current brain state. It "makes information about hidden brain states accessible to our consciousness." EEG based neurofeedback training has been used to treat ADHD symptoms and epilepsy, and in other studies it has been proven to improve vision, memory, motor learning, musical performance, and cognitive processing speed. The main advantages of neurofeedback using an EEG is that it is portable and relatively inexpensive. In one training session, patients were trained on how to voluntarily increase activity in particular regions of their cerebral cortex. Limitations include the seemingly small effect sizes that are potentially a direct result of the lack or research and shortness or sessions. Typical training consists of one session of one hour, while the most extensive sessions consist of three hours spread over many days (training can sometimes take longer, this is merely Scharnowski's studies).

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