TY - JOUR
T1 - Taking back the brain
T2 - Could neurofeedback training be effective for relieving distressing auditory verbal hallucinations in patients with schizophrenia?
AU - McCarthy-Jones, Simon
PY - 2012/6
Y1 - 2012/6
N2 - Progress in identifying the neural correlates of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) experienced by patients with schizophrenia has not fulfilled its promise to lead to new methods of treatments. Given the existence of a large number of such patients who have AVHs that are refractory to traditional treatments, there is the urgent need for the development of new effective interventions. This article proposes that the technique of neurofeedback may be an appropriate method to allow the translation of pure research findings from AVH-research into a clinical intervention. Neurofeedback is a method through which individuals can self-regulate their neural activity in specific neural regions/frequencies, following operant conditioning of their intentional manipulation of visually presented real-time feedback of their neural activity. Four empirically testable hypotheses are proposed as to how neurofeedback may be employed to therapeutic effect in patients with AVHs.
AB - Progress in identifying the neural correlates of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) experienced by patients with schizophrenia has not fulfilled its promise to lead to new methods of treatments. Given the existence of a large number of such patients who have AVHs that are refractory to traditional treatments, there is the urgent need for the development of new effective interventions. This article proposes that the technique of neurofeedback may be an appropriate method to allow the translation of pure research findings from AVH-research into a clinical intervention. Neurofeedback is a method through which individuals can self-regulate their neural activity in specific neural regions/frequencies, following operant conditioning of their intentional manipulation of visually presented real-time feedback of their neural activity. Four empirically testable hypotheses are proposed as to how neurofeedback may be employed to therapeutic effect in patients with AVHs.
KW - brain-computer interface
KW - hearing voices
KW - psychosis
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84869845904&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1093/schbul/sbs006
DO - 10.1093/schbul/sbs006
M3 - Article
C2 - 22323675
AN - SCOPUS:84869845904
SN - 0586-7614
VL - 38
SP - 678
EP - 682
JO - Schizophrenia Bulletin
JF - Schizophrenia Bulletin
IS - 4
ER -