Handbook of Neurofeedback: Dynamics and Clinical Applications (Haworth Series in Neurotherapy)

Handbook of Neurofeedback: Dynamics and Clinical Applications (Haworth Series in Neurotherapy)

Handbook of Neurofeedback is a comprehensive introduction to this rapidly growing field, offering practical information on the history of neurofeedback, theoretical concerns, and applications for a variety of disorders encountered by clinicians. Disorders covered include ADHD, depression, autism, aging, and traumatic brain injury. Using case studies and a minimum of technical language, the field’s pioneers and most experienced practitioners discuss emerging topics, general and specific treatment procedures, training approaches, and theories on the efficacy of neurofeedback. The book includes comments on the future of the field from an inventor of neurofeedback equipment and a discussion on the theory of why neurofeedback training results in the alleviation of symptoms in a wide range of disorders. The contributors review of procedures and a look at emerging approaches, including coherence/phase training, inter-hemispheric training, and the combination of neurofeedback and computerized cognitive training. Topics discussed include: Implications of network models for neurofeedback - The transition from structural to functional models - Client and therapist variables - Treatment-specific variables - Tomographic neurofeedback - Applying audio-visual entrainment to neurofeedback - Common patterns of coherence deviation - EEG patterns and the elderly - Nutrition and cognitive health - ADHD definitions and treatment - Attention disorders - Autism disorders - The neurobiology of depression - QEEG-guided neurofeedback - This book is an essential professional resource for anyone practicing, or interested in practicing neurofeedback, including neurotherapists, neuropsychologists, professional counselors, neurologists, neuroscientists, clinical psychologists, and psychiatrists. The field of neurofeedback has waited for a publication like Dr. James Evans' Handbook of Neurofeedback: Dynamics and Clinical Applications. With chapters written by some of the great pioneers and contributors to our field, it BRILLIANTLY SOLIDIFIES IN A SINGLE VOLUME MUCH OF WHAT IS KNOWN ABOUT NEUROFEEDBACK FROM A TECHNICAL AND CLINICAL PERSPECTIVE. Whether you are a newcomer, technician, or advanced clinical practitioner, this is, undoubtedly, a reference work you want on the shelf of your library. . . . MEANINGFUL AND INFORMATIVE. . . . This book will, undoubtedly, help advance the field of neurofeedback, and, by that, move it a step closer to earning its legitimate status as a meaningful, scientific, research-based procedure. -- Robert E. McCarthy, PhD, LPC, BCIA-EEG, Executive Clinical Director, McCarthy Counseling Associates, PA & Center for Psychophysiological Assessment and Treatment Myrtle Beach, SC A GEM! THE BOOK WILL OPEN AND BROADEN THE READER'S KNOWLEDGE BASE, whether you've been doing neurofeedback for years or are just thinking about using it. . . . Gives the neurofeedback practitioner a window into the way some of our most experienced practitioners, engineers and theoreticians think about neurofeedback. The very key issues of coherence, connectivity and synchrony training are discussed at some length. The book includes chapters on audio/visual stimulation and on the combination of neurofeedback/entrainment, both from originators of these technologies. . . . Every chapter has a long and excellent reference section that allows the interested reader to go further into depth. The authors of the various chapters reveal the way they think about and conduct neurofeedback in ways I haven't seen in print before. It's more like sitting down with the authors over dinner and hearing what they really think is going on. Many of the chapters get very specific about what the author actually does in clinical practice, which I find very useful indeed. Whether the concepts challenge or reinforce the way you think about your own work with neurofeedback you'll be stimulated and more connected with the field after reading this book. -- John K. Nash, PhD, Licensed Psychologist James R. Evans, PhD, is Professor Emeritus at the University of South Carolina, where he taught for many years in the School Psychology Program of the Department of Psychology.