Dementia I’m not aware of anyone who’s had any demonstrable success training Alzheimer’s.  It is a physiological destruction of the ability to get signals across the synapses.  Speeding up or slowing down the EEG doesn’t seem to have any effect in the cases I’ve tried or heard of. To date my “n” is small–only four […]

Depression Ideally, I recommend that a person do an assessment before starting training, so you know what patterns are actually present in the brain you are training before you try to change them. There are a lot of different brain patterns for depression. One of the most common is called alpha asymmetry, which is too […]

Diabetes I believe there has been some published work around training and diabetes as an auto-immune disorder, and I seem to recall that training up alpha activity was involved.

Dissociation DID is Dissociative Identity Disorder (once called Multiple Personality Disorder).  Alters are the alter-egos or other personalities that appear to be dissociated in this type of client. I would expect to see relatively high levels of deep theta/high delta, perhaps around 3Hz, since this could relate to dissociation.  One of the early uses of […]

Dyslexia Dyslexia is one of those diagnoses that can have many different causes.  I’ve a bipolar montage at F7-T5, and I have also even more frequently found a pattern of excess slow activity at O1-T5 and have done a lot of work there with good improvements.

Epilepsy The first major publication (in the middle 1960s) on neurofeedback was Barry Sterman’s work with 8-10 treatment-refractory cases of epilepsy who were in line awaiting split-brain surgery. Sterman trained them all using SMR (without using an assessment, since there were no databases at that time). Seizure activity decreased significantly in all–most were able to […]

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome I’ve only worked with a few FAS children, and my first response is, as usual, to do an assessment of the brain, if the child is old enough (7 or 8 or older) and able to sit quietly for a minute at a time.  The idea would be to find out what […]

Fibromyalgia See also Pain/FibromyalgiaMany clients in this category are heavily medicated, so having an MD willing to work with you to reduce and get rid of the meds would be a major plus. That’s one of the first steps, since in many cases getting off the meds is a crucial step and an early focus. […]

Fine Motor Coordination/Handwriting Handwriting is a secondary issue, so anything you do to normalize brain function will usually help. Oftentimes very fast, sloppy handwriting is helped by quieting the brain, shifting into more SMR in the central strip. If you change the brain issues, the effect in my experience is pretty permanent. Handwriting problems seem […]

Hormones and SMR There are frequently reports of people responding hormonally to brain-training–often to SMR.  It has appeared to me to be somewhat idiosyncratic–not everyone does it–and I’ve never seen anything studied or published about it.  It would be difficult to study, since the range of potential hormonal responses is pretty vast. We do know […]