ArticleApplied psychophysiology and biofeedback2017
Upper Alpha Based Neurofeedback Training in Chronic Stroke: Brain Plasticity Processes and Cognitive Effects.
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- Assessment of the effects of rehabilitation of hand function using a biometrics device in people after stroke - a randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- Alpha neurofeedback training improves visual working memory in healthy individuals.NPJ science of learning · 2024Article
- Neurofeedback therapy to improve cognitive function in patients with chronic post-stroke attention deficits: a within-subjects comparison.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Poststroke Cognitive Impairment Research Progress on Application of Brain-Computer Interface.BioMed research international · 2022Review
- The influential factors and non-pharmacological interventions of cognitive impairment in children with ischemic stroke.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Review
- Cellular-resolution monitoring of ischemic stroke pathologies in the rat cortex.Biomedical optics express · 2021Article
- Session Frequency Matters in Neurofeedback Training of Athletes.Applied psychophysiology and biofeedback · 2021Article
- Intrahemispheric EEG: A New Perspective for Quantitative EEG Assessment in Poststroke Individuals.Neural plasticity · 2021Article
- Brain Networks Underlying Strategy Execution and Feedback Processing in an Efficient Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Neurofeedback Training Performed in a Parallel or a Serial Paradigm.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
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Abstract
In the present study, we investigated the effects of upper alpha based neurofeedback (NF) training on electrical brain activity and cognitive functions in stroke survivors. Therefore, two single chronic stroke patients with memory deficits (subject A with a bilateral subarachnoid hemorrhage; subject B with an ischemic stroke in the left arteria cerebri media) and a healthy elderly control group (N = 24) received up to ten NF training sessions. To evaluate NF training effects, all participants performed multichannel electroencephalogram (EEG) resting measurements and a neuropsychological test battery assessing different cognitive functions before and after NF training. Stroke patients showed improvements in memory functions after successful NF training compared to the pre-assessment. Subject B had a pathological delta (0.5-4 Hz) and upper alpha (10-12 Hz) power maximum over the unaffected hemisphere before NF training. After NF training, he showed a more bilateral and "normalized" topographical distribution of these EEG frequencies. Healthy participants as well as subject A did not show any abnormalities in EEG topography before the start of NF training. Consequently, no changes in the topographical distribution of EEG activity were observed in these participants when comparing the pre- and post-assessment. Hence, our results show that upper alpha based NF training had on the one hand positive effects on memory functions, and on the other hand led to cortical "normalization" in a stroke patient with pathological brain activation patterns, which underlines the potential usefulness of NF as neurological rehabilitation tool.
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