Healthy skepticism is an important part of taking a scientific approach to health care. Your doctor wants to be sure there is scientific support for the effectiveness of neurofeedback.  He or she probably believes that there is little research proving the effectiveness of neurofeedback.  This is fair enough, since until fairly recently, there was relatively little solid research on neurofeedback, and it was not published in commonly read journals.

In the last five years or so, there is much more and better research. But these studies are primarily published in neuroscience journals, not in the kind of journals that most practitioners regularly read. And even now, the field is still lacking in the kind of large, randomized, carefully controlled studies that allow for the highest level of confidence. Neurofeedback research is incredibly expensive and time consuming. Still there is more research on neurofeedback than on many interventions that are widely used today in medical and psychological practice.

In fact, the American Academy of Pediatrics has recently ranked neurofeedback as having “Best Support” for the treatment of ADHD.

To provide our medical and mental health colleagues with additional evidence of the effectiveness of neurofeedback in actual practice, we engage in a consistent process of measuring outcomes, using well established psychological measures. You and your doctor will be able to see your improvement with hard data.