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THE EFFECTS OF QEEG GUIDED NEUROFEEDBACK TREATMENT (NFT) ON PATIENTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (ID): A CLINICAL CASE SERIES WITH 67 SUBJECTS.

Tanju Surmeli1*
  • 1 Living Health Center for Research and Education, Türkiye

BACKGROUND: Intellectual Disability is a disorder that causes problems in cognition, behavior, communication, sociability, and health. Given that NF has been found to be effective in Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Learning Disabilities (LD) and based on the results of two previous case studies we have conducted in children with Trisomy 21 (Down’s Syndrome) and in children with Intellectual Disability, where we have seen the positive effects of Neurofeedback (NF) treatment, we hypothesized that NF treatment would be effective in a larger group of children with Intellectual Disability. METHODS: We analyzed the IQ of a case series of 67 intellectually disabled children (39 Male, 28 Female) in the age ranges of 6 – 16 years of age (Mean 12.2, 95%CI: 10.4-13.9) before and after QEEG Guided Neurofeedback treatment. The goal of the Neurofeedback treatment was to normalize frequencies in areas that were found to be outside the norms based on QEEG recording and comparison to a normative database. The hypothesis was that by normalizing the brain’s electrical activity we would be able to see a corresponding improvement in intellectual functioning as measured by the IQ scores. RESULTS: A statistically significant increase in IQ scores were observed after Neurofeedback treatment. Overall the average increases were above any expected gains to a retest factor; that is, more than 6 points increase in VIQ, more than 9 points in PIQ, and 7 points in FSIQ CONCLUSION: Based on these findings further controlled studies using this methodology in this group of patients is warranted.

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Keywords: Intellectual Disability, Id, qEEG, Neurometric analysis, database, Neurofeedback, EEG biofeedback

Conference: SAN2016 Meeting, Corfu, Greece, 6 Oct - 9 Oct, 2016.

Presentation Type: Oral Presentation in SAN 2016 Conference

Topic: Oral Presentations

Citation: Surmeli T (2016). THE EFFECTS OF QEEG GUIDED NEUROFEEDBACK TREATMENT (NFT) ON PATIENTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (ID): A CLINICAL CASE SERIES WITH 67 SUBJECTS.. Conference Abstract: SAN2016 Meeting. doi: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2016.220.00004

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Received: 29 Jul 2016; Published Online: 30 Jul 2016.

* Correspondence: Dr. Tanju Surmeli, Living Health Center for Research and Education, Istanbul, 34394, Türkiye, neuropsychiatry@yahoo.com