Rauter Alexandra, Schneider Horst, Prinz Wolfgang
Psychological Practice, Graz, Austria.
Medical Scientific Research, BEE Medic GmbH, Singen, Germany.
Front Hum Neurosci. 2022 Jun 9;16:892296. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2022.892296. eCollection 2022.
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neural and mental developmental disorder that impacts brain connectivity and information processing. Although application of the infra-low frequency (ILF) neurofeedback procedure has been shown to lead to significant changes in functional connectivity in multiple areas and neuronal networks of the brain, rather limited data are available in the literature for the efficacy of this technique in a therapeutic context to treat ASD. Here we present the case study of a 5-year-old boy with ASD, who received a treatment of 26 sessions of ILF neurofeedback over a 6-month period. A systematic and quantitative tracking of core ASD symptoms in several categories was used to document behavioral changes over time. The ILF neurofeedback intervention decreased the average symptom severity of every category to a remarkable degree, with the strongest effect (80 and 77% mean severity reduction) for physical and sleep symptoms and the lowest influence on behavioral symptoms (15% mean severity reduction). This case study is representative of clinical experience, and thus shows that ILF neurofeedback is a practical and effective therapeutic instrument to treat ASD in children.
自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）是一种神经和精神发育障碍，会影响大脑的连接性和信息处理。尽管已有研究表明，应用超低频（ILF）神经反馈程序可导致大脑多个区域和神经网络的功能连接发生显著变化，但关于该技术在治疗ASD方面的疗效，文献中的数据相当有限。在此，我们展示了一名5岁ASD男孩的案例研究，该男孩在6个月内接受了26次ILF神经反馈治疗。我们采用系统定量跟踪多个类别的ASD核心症状，记录随时间的行为变化。ILF神经反馈干预显著降低了每个类别的平均症状严重程度，其中对身体和睡眠症状的效果最强（平均严重程度降低80%和77%），对行为症状的影响最小（平均严重程度降低15%）。该案例研究代表了临床经验，因此表明ILF神经反馈是治疗儿童ASD的一种实用且有效的治疗手段。
