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Composite Biofeedback Conditioning and Dangerous Offenders: III
seventy seven offenders, selected as subject to deep brain complex seizures, were treated with varying amount of composite EEG-SMR and GSR-SCARS biofeedback conditioning procedure. subjects were selected through successive screens, culminating in criminal conduct. The lack of a recognizable prodrome that 3 subjects might use to cue voluntary self-regulation made it seem necessary to abandon the usual method of continuous analog biofeedback. An operant conditioning method was employed, which provided discontinuous and contingent reinforcing feedback during all occurrences of EEG sensorymotor rhythm and for successive 1K ohms increases in skin resistance. the mean duration of post-release follow-up was 18 months. criminal recidivism rates were shown to decrease roughly in proportion to the number of treatment sessions received. recividism rate varied from 65% for those receiving essentially no biofeedback treatment to 20% for those receiving more than 33 half-hour sessions. the results were interpreted as holding out hope for the identification and treatment modification of one subset of dangerous offenders.
View Full Paper →Predictive factors for controlling seizures using a behavioural approach
A behavioural approach using EEG biofeedback for controlling complex-partial seizures has been successful at the Andrews/Reiter Epilepsy Research Program. Records for a random sample of 83 patients with uncontrolled seizures, one third of those receiving care between 1980 and 1985, document that 69 (83%) achieved control by completion of the programme. Additional data about initial age of seizure onset, number of years seizures had been uncontrolled and seizure frequency when treatment started were collected to determine whether these factors predicted seizure control. Only frequency was significantly related to whether seizures were controlled when treatment ended. Further study using discriminant analysis showed that earlier onset age and higher seizure frequency were associated with a significantly greater number of treatment sessions required. Thus, these two factors predicted difficulty in controlling seizures, as measured by number of sessions, although onset age did not predict whether control was eventually achieved. Since even the subgroup achieving the lowest rate of control (i.e., patients having daily seizures when treatment started) had 67% success, these results suggest that a behavioural approach can be useful for many people with currently uncontrolled complex-partial seizures regardless of their characteristics on factors examined in this study.
View Full Paper →The use of EEG theta biofeedback in the treatment of a patient with sleep-onset insomnia
In this report, the treatment of a 42-year-old female with a complaint of chronic sleep-onset insomnia is described. Following the unsuccessful use of relaxation training, treatment consisted of 11 sessions of EEG theta rhythm (4–7 Hz) biofeedback. Theta density and five sleep indices were monitored throughout baseline, placebo, and treatment sessions. A significant increase in theta density was accompanied by reports of a decrease in sleep latency and an increase in total sleep time. This improvement was maintained after withdrawal of medication and at 3-month follow-up.
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