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- From: ruegg@med.unc.edu (Robert G. Ruegg)
- Subject: Re: Biofeedback Treatment for Attention Deficit Disorder?
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 20:27:35 GMT
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- >> Does anyone know if biofeedback techniques have been
- >> effectively used in treating people with Attention Deficit
- >> Disorders (ADD)? Has any research been done in this area?
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- >What exact biofeedback techniques were you thinking about anyhow, Stuart?
- >(Just trying to concieve of how they might possibly be useful in training
- >my students to attend to a task for more than fifteen seconds).
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- Biofeedback from EEG monitoring has been used. The subject is given an
- indication as to whether he is procucing alpha (alert but inactive,
- mentally) or beta (thinking) brain waves. The subject is to keep the beta
- waves coming. There is a literature on this, but I beleve it is small.
- Some report excellent results.
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- Bob (ruegg@med.unc.edu)
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