There are still relatively few psychologists who are trained to provide neurofeedback services.
Here are four reasons some psychologists have decided to attend neurofeedback training.
1. Many clients or parents of clients are looking for alternative methods of dealing with ADHD besides medications. Young people and adults that suffer with ADHD symptoms are usually proscribed medications that often but not always help. Unwanted side effects often cause people to seek other ways of dealing with the symptoms. Neurofeedback has been shown to be effective in helping reduce symptoms of ADHD. When compared to a normative database, the abundance of slow waves – Theta or Alpha to the faster waves is often too high. Neurofeedback training can help normalize this activity and help with reducing symptoms.
2. Psychologists see large numbers of clients with anxiety. Like with ADHD, clients with anxiety are often prescribed medications that might or might not be effective in managing symptoms and might also have negative side effects. The brainwave activity of a person with anxiety is often different than those without anxiety. In many cases the faster Beta waves show higher power than the average brain without the anxiety symptom. Neurofeedback training has been shown to be effective in reducing anxiety symptoms by encouraging the brain to decrease the power in the faster Beta wave frequencies and increasing the slower Alpha wave frequencies that are associated with relaxation.
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