ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2019
Clinical and Experimental Factors Influencing the Efficacy of Neurofeedback in ADHD: A Meta-Analysis.
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- Neurofeedback for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JAMA psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Theta/Beta Ratio Neurofeedback Effects on Resting and Task-Related Theta Activity in Children with ADHD.Applied psychophysiology and biofeedback · 2025Trial
- Slow Cortical Potential Versus Live Z-score Neurofeedback in Children and Adolescents with ADHD: A Multi-arm Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial with Active and Passive Comparators.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2022Trial
- Alpha activity neuromodulation induced by individual alpha-based neurofeedback learning in ecological context: a double-blind randomized study.Scientific reports · 2021Trial
- EEG-Based Neurofeedback in Athletes and Non-Athletes: A Scoping Review of Outcomes and Methodologies.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2024Review
- Consumer-Grade Electroencephalogram and Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Neurofeedback Technologies for Mental Health and Wellbeing.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Variations in Theta/Beta Ratio and Cognitive Performance in Subpopulations of Subjects with ADHD Symptoms: Towards Neuropsychological Profiling for Patient Subgrouping.Journal of personalized medicine · 2023Article
- Limited usefulness of neurocognitive functioning indices as predictive markers for treatment response to methylphenidate or neurofeedback@home in children and adolescents with ADHD.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Preliminary Real-World Evidence Supporting the Efficacy of a Remote Neurofeedback System in Improving Mental Health: Retrospective Single-Group Pretest-Posttest Study.JMIR formative research · 2022Article
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- Efficacy and acceptability of pharmacological, psychosocial, and brain stimulation interventions in children and adolescents with mental disorders: an umbrella review.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2021Article
- ADHD: Reviewing the Causes and Evaluating Solutions.Journal of personalized medicine · 2021Review
- Z-score neurofeedback, heart rate variability biofeedback, and brain coaching for older adults with memory concerns.Restorative neurology and neuroscience · 2021Article
- An Approach for Stabilizing Abnormal Neural Activity in ADHD Using Chaotic Resonance.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2021Article
- Exploring the Use of Brain-Computer Interfaces in Stroke Neurorehabilitation.BioMed research international · 2021Review
- Excessive Daytime Sleepiness Measurements in Children With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Review
- In Quest of Pathognomonic/Endophenotypic Markers of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): Potential of EEG-Based Frequency Analysis and ERPs to Better Detect, Prevent and Manage ADHD.Medical devices (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2020Review
- Neurofeedback in ADHD: A qualitative study of strategy use in slow cortical potential training.PloS one · 2020Article
- A Systematic Review of the Potential Use of Neurofeedback in Patients With Schizophrenia.Schizophrenia bulletin open · 2020Review
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Abstract
Meta-analyses have been extensively used to evaluate the efficacy of neurofeedback (NFB) treatment for Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children and adolescents. However, each meta-analysis published in the past decade has contradicted the methods and results from the previous one, thus making it difficult to determine a consensus of opinion on the effectiveness of NFB. This works brings continuity to the field by extending and discussing the last and much controversial meta-analysis by Cortese et al. (1). The extension comprises an update of that work including the latest control trials, which have since been published and, most importantly, offers a novel methodology. Specifically, NFB literature is characterized by a high technical and methodological heterogeneity, which partly explains the current lack of consensus on the efficacy of NFB. This work takes advantage of this by performing a Systematic Analysis of Biases (SAOB) in studies included in the previous meta-analysis. Our extended meta-analysis (k = 16 studies) confirmed the previously obtained results of effect sizes in favor of NFB efficacy as being significant when clinical scales of ADHD are rated by parents (non-blind,
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