163th Annual Meeting,
May 22, 2010, New Orleans
EEG Feedback in Psychiatry: Clinical Applications
Directors: Thomas M. Brod, M.D., Michael Cohen
Course Description:
EEG biofeedback (Neurofeedback) uses computer-based technology to affect brain plasticity and accelerate positive clinical outcomes. How do you “train the brain” with EEG biofeedback to improve affect, attention and behavior? How do you train neuroregulation and neuromodulation by altering electroencephalographic patterns-- and what are the clinical implications? How can neurofeedback (EEG biofeedback) be integrated into the practice of a reasonably tech-savvy psychiatrist?
Neurofeedback demonstrates the impact of information on the brain, creating functional (and, most likely, structural) changes that impact clinical syndromes.
Beyond well-known effects on arousal and attention mechanisms and its role in the treatment of ADHD, growing research publications and clinical experience have led to the application of neurofeedback in a wide range of disorders. With applications as disparate as mood and anxiety disorders, Tourette’s syndrome, epilepsy, post-traumatic brain injuries, attachment disorders, PTSD, substance abuse, and adolescent acting out, neurofeedback mirrors the scope of many general psychiatric practices. Neurofeedback is complementary to both psychopharmacology and dynamic psychotherapy.
This course will focus on a few of those applications and offer resources for further study. Current research will be critically reviewed, and some of the fascinating theoretical issues of brain self-regulation and plasticity will be noted, but essentially this six-hour course will be directed with an eye on practical issues.
Attendees also get to watch (or participate) in live demonstrations of several different available neurofeedback systems. Faculty are practitioners from several centers invited because of their exceptional teaching ability.
Each year the course is extensively revised and updated.
time schedule, 2010 course
EEG Neurofeedback in Psychiatry:
Clinical Applications
Starting times |
|
Time per segment |
9:00 AM |
Introduction/Applications (Brod) |
25 |
9:25 |
EEG basics and Live demo of neurofeedback (w/Audience) (Cohen) |
30 |
9:55 |
Psychiatric Case Examples Depression/Anxiety (Hamlin) |
15 |
10:10 |
Break |
15 |
10:25 |
Psychiatric Case Examples Bipolar Disorder (Brod,) |
15 |
10:40 |
NF Research Review including critique (Hamlin) |
30 |
11:10 |
Audience discussion |
10 |
11:20 |
Attention Disorders: (Cohen) |
30 |
11:50 |
Audience discussion |
10 |
|
12:00 PM |
Lunch |
|
1:00 |
Audience discussion |
10 |
1:10 |
Widening Scope of NF(Buie) |
20 |
1:30 |
Head Injury (Stevens) |
25 |
1:55 |
Differences in Systems & Models (Cohen/Brod) |
20 |
2:15 |
Panel w/audience discussion |
15 |
2:30 |
Break |
15 |
2:45 |
Diversity in the NF field (simultaneous Demos) |
45 |
3:30 |
Panel discussion w/Audience |
30 |
3:50 |
Closing: evals |
10 |
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