What's New in Neurofeedback

• Brain tests Help Evaluate Mental Condition
• Science Points to a 'Sixth Sense'
• Monkeys Control Robotic Arm With Brain
• McMaster to study the brains behind the music
• Older Adults' Memories Stress the Positive
• Awareness May Remain After Severe Brain Injury
• The Therapeutic Mind Scan

  All links at: http://news.yahoo.com/fc?tmpl=fc&cid=34&in=science&cat=brain_research

This month I thought I would help to reduce that price. In past newsletters I've provided comprehensive citation lists for neurofeedback articles, but citation lists point to abstracts -- abstracts are free and useful, but limited -- they do not contain details, and it is with details we convince. God dwells in the details, to quote post-WWI architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (also supposedly responsible for "less is more").

This month I sought out high quality papers, most published in journals, that are available online for free.

General repositories of open access material

The best overview of neurofeedback (until now, perhaps) was the 2000 edition of "Clinical EEG". www.ecnsweb.com/images/articles2000.htm. The reprints will cost you, but as Frederick Douglass put it, "you might not always get what you pay for, but you always pay for what you get."

-DK

News & Reviews NEW BOOKS

Children and Behavioural Problems: Anxiety, Aggression, Depression ADHD
by Martine F. Delfos
A biopsychological model of children mental health, focused on diagnosis and treatment --www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1843101963/top100

Epidemiology of Sleep: Age, Gender, and Ethnicity
by Kenneth L. Lichstein, et al
Sleep of normal individuals is reviewed by age and gender. --www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0805840796/top100

Magnetic Source Imaging of the Human Brain
by Zhong-Lin Lu, Lloyd Kaufman
Current understanding of neuromagnetic fields. --www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0805845119/top100

Principles of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation
by George P. Prigatano
Written for professionals; discusses remediation of higher cerebral disturbances and management of patients' interpersonal problems. --www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195081439/top100

Anxiety Disorders in Adults: A Clinical Guide
by Vladan Starcevic
Each adult anxiety disorder is reviewed in a separate chapter. --www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195156064/top100

Physiology of Behavior
by Neil R. Carlson
Comprehensive textbook, which also includes the latest discoveries in the changing fields of neuroscience and psychophysiology --www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0205381758/top100

Detection of Change: Event-Related Potential and fMRI Findings
by John Polich
Reviews a range of experimental studies using stimulus change paradigms, with clinical data augmenting the utility of the methods. --www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1402073933/top100

Magnetic Resonance in Epilepsy: Neuroimaging Techniques, Second Edition
by Ruben Kuzniecky, Graeme D. Jackson
Overview of new technology in the assessment and treatment of epilepsy. --www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0124311520/top100

Current Practice of Clinical Electroencephalography
by John S. Ebersole, Timothy A.Pedley
Covers the full range of applications of EEG and evoked potentials in clinical practice. --www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0781716942/top100

ERPs correlates of EEG relative beta training in ADHD children. : ADHD children (n=86) underwent approximately 20 sessions of EEG biofeedback (enhancing 15-18 Hz relative power, and other components). Good performers acquired positive evoked component over frontal-central areas as a result of training. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15598513

Meta-analysis of quantitative sleep parameters from childhood to old age : 40 years of research find: in adults, total sleep time, sleep efficiency, percentage of slow-wave and REM sleep, and REM latency decrease with age, while sleep latency, percentage of stage 1 and stage 2 and wake after sleep onset increase with age www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15586779

Left inferior prefrontal cortex activity reflects inhibitory priming. : The left inferior prefrontal cortex inhibits interference from prepotent representations during task-appropriate target selection. This is consistent with its role in behavioral inhibition. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15601518

Executive dysfunction in cocaine addiction : Cocaine users show an over-reliance on left cerebellum, a compensatory pattern previously seen in alcohol addiction. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15590917

EEG Correlates of Methylphenidate Response in ADHD : Increased frontal beta activity was correlated with med-related improvement on the Conners' CPT and parental ratings. Decreased right frontal theta activity was associated with parent-rated attention improvements. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15622134

Low interhemispheric and high intrahemispheric EEG coherence in migraine. : Twenty women with migraine were evaluated. 95% with migraine and 85% of controls were correctly classified with EEG coherence analysis . www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15613226

Low-resolution electromagnetic tomography neurofeedback. : Describes the first application of an EEG inverse solution to neurofeedback. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15614994

Two new neurophysiological indices of cocaine craving : Cocaine-dependent subjects show augmented slow- positive waves (ERP) on cocaine pictures compared to neutral pictures. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15582921

Addiction, a condition of compulsive behaviour? Evidence of inhibitory dysregulation. : Anterior cingulate and orbitofrontal cortex, both critical in inhibitory control over reward-related behavior, are dysfunctional in addiction, as they are in compulsive disorders; so addiction may modelled as a compulsion. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15585037

EEG biofeedback for reading disability and traumatic brain injury. : Initial support for improving brain injury and reading disabilities in particiular with neurofeedback. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15564056

Role of QEEG in child and adolescent psychiatric disorders. : Critical review of quantitative EEG research relevant to its clinical application. Includes a neurophysiologic model of ADD. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15564051

Critical validation studies of neurofeedback. : Review at validating neurofeedback protocols for improving attention, memory, and performance in healthy participants. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15564053

Electrodermal reactivity and its association to substance use disorders. : Poor modulators have more symptoms of substance use disorders than good modulators, which may reflect a biological risk factor for substance use disorders. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15563350

Spotlight articles

1. AAPB, 35th Annual Conference (April 2004)
2. Beware a Terrace Effect
3. Books for a Young Neurotherapist
4. Epidemics Revisited
5. International Society for Neuronal Regulation
6. Knowledge in the Information Age
7. Neurotherapy in the Popular Press
8. SABA 3, Annual Conference
9. Science of Love, The
10. 75 Years of EEG Investigation
11. Take Two Placebos and Call Me in the Morning, revised
12. Year in Neurofeedback, The - 2004

Last Word

1. Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness
2. Faulty Foresight
3. Hand and Brain
4. Ideas from the Ferry
5. Information about Mental Health
6. Online Neuroscience Resources
7. Research Articles, 2000-2003
8. QEEG Research: Who, where, and what
9. Search for Terrestrial Intelligence
10. 2003 Index
11. Vulnerable to Vocabulary
12. When Rats Die for Reward

Additional WNIN articles, 1998-2004 - http://start.eegspectrum.com/Newsletter/review.htm