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- Late Luteal Phase Dysphoric Disorder
This is the official name for what is more commonly referred to as PMS. From our perspective, PMS should be seen as a disregulated response to normal hormonal fluctuations. The symptoms of PMS range quite widely and encompass the physical, emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and autonomic domains. Severity also ranges quite widely. PMS could be considered the defining condition among the "Disorders of Disregulation."
If that is so, then training the brain to regulate itself better should constitute a remedy, and indeed we find that to be the case. Even cases of PMS that were completely disabling have been fully remediated with Neurofeedback / EEG Biofeedback. The clinical success rate is also quite high for this condition. Ordinary cases of PMS should resolve within twenty sessions of Neurofeedback. More severe cases may indicate the presence of a trauma history, and that can add further complexity to the training, but Neurofeedback would still be the recommended approach.
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Most of the conditions under discussion in this compilation fit more or less into what we may conveniently call "Disorders of Disregulation." Most of these respond to fairly general prescriptions that provoke the brain's functional reorganization. Learning disabilities may respond similarly, but in fact should be considered as somewhat distinct. There are many different ways in which learning disabilities may arise in children, and these may have to be targeted very specifically in Neurofeedback / EEG Biofeedback training.
Most of what we have learned about specific learning disabilities was obtained with the generic methods, which are also called protocols. And the benefits of doing so are sufficient to recommend that approach in future. But that is not the end of the story. If learning disabilities remain after the standard interventions, a targeted approach should be tried. This involves characterization of brain activity while the child is under cognitive challenge, to discern in which respects the child's brain is responding differently. Then the training is directed toward the specific targets thus identified.
The consistency with which gains have been achieved in past studies suggests that we have at our hands an effective method for remediating most of the common learning disabilities. Once the brain training has removed the block to functionality, other help needs to be made available for the child to catch up on cumulative academic deficits.
Case Reports
The following report is from Kirt Thornton, who has extensively researched Neurofeedback applications to specific learning disabilities:
We had a 14-year-old girl recently who was tested at the 2nd grade reading level. After some 10 days at our clinic she flew back to California, where she was retested by her speech & language therapist and found to be functioning at the 9th grade level.
Lupus is an autoimmune disorder, and as such would not be expected to respond to something like Neurofeedback / EEG Biofeedback training. The effect, if any is indirect. The possibility exists that Neurofeedback helps to stabilize the immune system so that lupus episodes are less frequent and less severe when they occur. A second mode of action is also indirect. It is possible that Neurofeedback improves the person's tolerance to the functional disturbances attributable to the disease process. A third mode of action is even more indirect, as may be illustrated by an example: One management tool for lupus is to strip the blood of its overload of antibodies periodically (in a process called plasmaphoresis). In one case of relatively advanced lupus, a side effect of this process was the reduction of serum carbamazepine levels, rendering the patient more susceptible to seizures. The Neurofeedback was helpful in this case in stabilizing the person throughout the process. The patient, in this case, happened to be an MD specializing in hematology. On her deathbed some years later, she pronounced that one of her real regrets about departing was that she would not have a chance to know more about this remarkable procedure.
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