Legarda Stella B, McMahon Doreen, Othmer Siegfried, Othmer Sue
Georgetown University Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics, Washington, DC 2000, USA.
J Child Neurol. 2011 Aug;26(8):1045-51. doi: 10.1177/0883073811405052. Epub 2011 May 16.
Trends in alternative medicine use by American health care consumers are rising substantially. Extensive literature exists reporting on the effectiveness of neurofeedback in the treatment of autism, closed head injury, insomnia, migraine, depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, epilepsy, and posttraumatic stress disorder. We speculated that neurofeedback might serve as a therapeutic modality for patients with medically refractory neurological disorders and have begun referring patients to train with clinical neurofeedback practitioners. The modality is not always covered by insurance. Confident their child's medical and neurological needs would continue to be met, the parents of 3 children with epilepsy spectrum disorder decided to have their child train in the modality. The children's individual progress following neurofeedback are each presented here. A proposed mechanism and practice implications are discussed.
美国医疗保健消费者使用替代医学的趋势正在大幅上升。有大量文献报道了神经反馈在治疗自闭症、闭合性颅脑损伤、失眠、偏头痛、抑郁症、注意力缺陷多动障碍、癫痫和创伤后应激障碍方面的有效性。我们推测神经反馈可能是治疗难治性神经系统疾病患者的一种治疗方式，并已开始将患者转介给临床神经反馈从业者进行训练。这种治疗方式并不总是在保险范围内。三名患有癫痫谱系障碍儿童的父母相信他们孩子的医疗和神经学需求将继续得到满足，于是决定让他们的孩子接受这种治疗方式的训练。这里分别介绍了这些孩子在接受神经反馈治疗后的个人进展情况。还讨论了一种可能的机制和实际应用。
