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Neurofeedback and effectiveness of its therapeutic application
VOSPĚLOVÁ, Tereza
This theoretical bachelor thesis introduces neurofeedback, development of its research and its associated areas. It also deals with assessment of effectiveness of therapeutic use in the area of ADHD, epilepsy, specific learning difficulties, Autism Spectrum Disorders, anxiety disorders, OCD, depressive disorders, sleeping disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder and improving the performance. The assessment altogether involves 27 studies and 2 meta-analysis from several databases such as PubMed, Google Scholar, EBSCO, Sciencedirect, PsycNet and ResearchGate. Randomized controlled trials consisting of primal empiric data (except for 2 meta-analysis), which were published in English, Czech or Slovak language or their publishing is about to be done, were incorporated. According to the available results, it wasn't possible to affirm the highest level of the effectiveness, and the treatment using the neurofeedback is characterised as probably efficacious. The work summarizes many methodological imperfections found in examined sources and stresses the importance of their elimination for the future research, so it might be possible to find and prove specific influencing factors.
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