The Effect of Neurofeedback Training on ADHS & the Effect of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy on Depression

Last Updated on October 4, 2022 by pg@petergamma.org

Cody Rall MD with Techforpsych recently reviewed the effect of Neurofeedbacktraining on ADHS:

• which is impressive.
• The paper Cody Rall MD reviewed:

Preliminary Real-World Evidence Supporting the Efficacy of a Remote Neurofeedback System in Improving Mental Health: Retrospective Single-Group Pretest-Posttest Study

https://www.myndlift.com/

https://formative.jmir.org/2022/7/e35636

https://www.linkedin.com/in/whiteheadjc/?originalSubdomain=ca

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jocelyne-Whitehead-2

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Glen-Doniger

• Only few medical doctors use neurofeetbacktraining devices to cure their patients.

The situation is similar with Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and Depression

• Antoine Lutz does research in the group of Richard Davidson at the Center of Healthy Minds in Madison-Wisconsin:

http://brainimaging.waisman.wisc.edu/~lutz/

Antoine Lutz est aussi directeur de recherche à l’INSERM à Lyon:

Antoine Lutz

https://www.crnl.fr/fr/user/112

For those who do not speak french, Antoine Lutz reviewed seven years ago a study on YouTube, at 15:00 in the video, which shows that Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy is as effective as antidepressants:

Antoine Lutz reviewed the study:

Antidepressant Monotherapy vs Sequential Pharmacotherapy and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, or Placebo, for Relapse Prophylaxis in Recurrent Depression:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abstract/210951

• The study was published in 2010. There are also newer papers available from Zindel Segal, Professor of Psychology in Mood Disorders, University of Toronto Scarborough:

https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/psych/person/zindel-segal

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=oTq7Q94AAAAJ&hl=de&oi=sra

• It seems that many studies where done do develop new drugs to cure mental diseases, but little is known about the long-term effect of mind training.

• Is this because people set their hopes on a new drugs or on new devices, which cure them quickly, which is eventually not possible?

• The reports of self-exerienced Buddhist monks, who reproduce their findings since 2500 years should be investigated further with scientific methods. The results might not be spectacular, but sustainable.

• The results which show the effect of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy on depression are very impressive. Only few medical doctors use Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for the treatment of depression. In the German speakting part of Switzerland, there are no Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapists available:

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBC) Founded by Zindel V. Segal and Others

• Little is knonw about the effect on mind training on physiological parameters.
• Mind training could be monitored by EEG devices..
• Mind Training can also be monitored with heart rate monitors. HRMs are the most affordable devices, the most developed devices, and the easiest to use.
• As shown on this site, there are a lot of high qualified people who developed HRMs and EEG devices. These devices could be used to study the effect of mind training on physiological parameters.

Zindel Segal: The Mindful Way Through Depression