Experiment Conditions
Initially, my project consisted of analyzing many
patient’s data to assess improvement. However, confidentiality laws and my
limited exposure with patients did not allow me to do so. But fortunately,
Scottsdale Neurofeedback Institute measures the effectiveness of the treatments
themselves. They retest patient with the three tests stated above and so far
have a success rate of 94%. The patients are often retested after around 25 EEG
Neurofeedback therapy sessions, and contribute to the Institute’s success rate
if their...
Thursday, June 25, 2015
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Gathering Data
To determine whether this clinic's patients' scores had improved over the course of their neurofeedback sessions, I needed, unsurprisingly, real patients. However, various HIPPA laws prevent me from obtaining too much information. As a result, I created these anonymous patient release forms (Special thanks to Mrs. Miller, my adviser, for sending me ideas). They allow me to obtain the patient's files and analyze their test scores before and after...
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Identifying Improvement
So far, I have described in detail how to use brainmaps to find and solve neurological problems through neurofeedback therapy. But how does the patient or the therapist know that their efforts are not in vain? Surprisingly, the developing field of neurofeedback has developed a fairly accurate method of assessing improvement.
When patients are tested and brainmapped, they are also given numerous other assisting documents. As a rule of neurofeedback...
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