Neurotopia Neurofeedback and Autism

Autistic Spectrum Disorders

Children with autism indeed have significant differences in their brains. MRI images and QEEG Brain-mapping research have shown this to be related to abnormal neural connectivity. The brains of individuals with ASD show both areas of excessively high connectivity and areas with deficient connectivity.

Study

A recent peer-reviewed study by Robert Coben, Phd, published in the Journal of Neurotherapy, showed connectivity-guided neurofeedback is capable of significantly remedying these anomalies and reducing autistic symptoms.

Methods

Assessment-guided neurofeedback was conducted in 20 sessions for 37 patients with ASD. The experimental and control groups were matched for age, gender, race, handedness, other treatments, and severity of ASD.

Results: The major findings of our study included an 89 percent success rate with a 40 percent reduction in core ASD symptoms, as a result of assessment-guided neurofeedback training over 20 sessions. Significant improvement was noted for the experimental group on measures of attention, executive, visual perceptual and language functions. IR enduring change was indicated by enhanced metabolictivity, regulation of output, and maintenance of changes within and across the 20th treatment session. The benefit-to-harm ratio of 89:1 exceeded all current treatments for ASD as surveyed by Rimland (2005).