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Pioneers in Neurofeedback Flashcards

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_____________ was a German physician who reported the presence of electrical signals as a marker of peripheral nerve impulses (action potential) in 1848

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Emil Dubois Raymond

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The first to discover and record electrical activity in the brains of animals.

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Richard Caton

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Credited with the first measures of Event Related Potentials (ERP)

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Richard Caton

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__________ recorded EEG activity on the scalp of humans in 1924

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Hans Berger

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_________discovered the Berger Rhythm of 10Hz Alpha waves in 1924.

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Hans Berger

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Beta waves that occur when eyes are open

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Alpha blocking discovered by Hans Berger

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_____________ we’re two British researchers who confirmed Berger’s observations of alpha rhythm.

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Edgar Adrian and Bryan Matthews

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____________ A researcher who proved all-or-none law of electrical output of nerve cells in 1934

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Edgar Adrian

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A British researcher who developed a oscillograph and differential amplifier

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Bryan Matthews

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An American neurologist who demonstrated abnormal EEG rhythms associated with epilepsy in 1934

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Frederick Gibbs

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__________ categorized the EEG into standard bandwidths in 1935

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Frederic Bremer

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____________ discovered delta waves in 1937 and theta waves in 1953

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W. Gray Walter

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A historical figure who published standards for measuring brain waves on the scalp of humans (i.e. 10-20 system)

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Herbert H. Jasper

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These two individuals described the EEG and phenomenology of sleep states and transitions and laid out basic patterns of sleep cycles bridged by conscious transitions

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Nathaniel Kleitmsn and William Dement

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These two researchers from Yale University developed biofeedback as a means of gaining voluntary control the autonomic nervous system (operant conditioning)

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Neal Miller and Leo DeCara

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This individual demonstrated the thalamic pacemaker control mechanism through the thalamo-cortical loop in 1968

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Per Anderson

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This researcher discovered long-term potentiation (LTP) and described synchronous 7 Hz burst originating in the thalamic nuclei that introduced brain idling rhythms like alpha an absence of environmental challenge

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Per Anderson

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____________ discovered that he could use operant conditioning on cats to increase their sensory motor rhythm along the sensory motor cortex. He found up training SMR increased the resistance to seizure in cats and humans in 1969

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Berry Sterman

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Joel Lubar is known for studying which disorders

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Attention Disorders and Epilepsy

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__________ developed for Training with LORETA guided neurofeedback to localized and trade regions of interest

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Joel Lubar

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Joel Lubar’s earliest ADHD protocols involved placing sensors bilaterally halfway between Cz and Fz or halfway between Cz and Fz and increasing _______ while decreasing ______

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Increasing Beta 16 to 20 Hz while decreasing Thera 4 to 8 Hz

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What disorders did Margaret Ayers most commonly work with?

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Brain injured clients and coma patients

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Who trained Brian Othmer?

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Margaret Ayers

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Who worked with Margaret Ayers and developed a comprehensive protocol selection based on symptomology and developed the first two-computer game based EEG biofeedback systems

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Sue and Siegfried Othmer

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__________ discovered he could help students decrease state and trait anxiety by increasing alpha rhythm in 1978.

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Joseph Kamiya

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Joseph Kamiya demonstrated operant conditioning of alpha rhythm and investigated EEG correlates of__________

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Meditational states

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Who organized the first specific meeting of biofeedback researchers in 1969 on Catalina Island in California?

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Barbara Brown

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What was the original name for the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback (AAPB)?

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Biofeedback Society of America

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___________ was one of the earliest researchers in biofeedback and develop the Twilight Learner the first neurofeedback system in collaboration with John Picchiottino and was the first to explore phonic stimulation and neural feedback

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Thomas Budzynski

30
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Which researcher developed the relaxation response, the opposite of fight or flight response, in 1975?

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Herbert Benson

31
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What condition did Vincent Monastra research?

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QEEG studies of theta beta ratio and ADHD

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What three individuals worked towards the development of the slow wave paradigm and Alpha Theta training

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Joseph Kamiya, Thomas Budzynski, and Elmer Green

33
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What are Thomas Collura and Robert Thatcher most known for

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Developing the process of 19 channel Z score training

34
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Recently Thomas Collura developed what training?

35
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What training system did the Othmer’s develop?

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Infra-Slow Training (ISF)

36
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Who developed the Low Energy Neurofeedback System

37
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Who developed Neurofield, A combination of micro tesla pulsing and neurofeedback

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Nick Dogris

38
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What was Richard Soutar‘s contribution to the neurofeedback field?

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Expanded EEG Training Protocol methodologies into photic driven two channel bilateral compensatory training that is widely used in conjunction with biopsychosocial database approach to protocol implementation

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Which two researchers put forth the first efforts to develop a normative database in 1973

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Matousek & Petersen

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Who were the authors of the first book on QEEG using a normative reference in 1977

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E. Roy John and Robert Thatcher

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Which Harvard professor developed the Brain Electrical Mapping System in the 1980s

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Frank Duffy

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__________ developed the first topographic maps based on normative databases in 1982

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Frank Duffy

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Nieks Birmaumer demonstrated operant conditioning of ______________ and was the first develop a brain controlled interface for communication in ALS patients

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Slow cortical potentials

44
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Who developed Neuroguide

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Robert Thatcher in 1989

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What is Jay Gunkleman known for

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He began using brain maps for clinical protocol development and promoted their use in the neurofeedback community

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Who has completed much of their research with head trauma and has developed a database that has proven to be very accurate in diagnosing levels of severity along with new insights regarding the relationship between gray matter and white matter tissue distraction and their resulting consequences in the EEG production within the brain?

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Robert Thatcher

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Who invented the modern QEEG

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Marvin Sams

48
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What is Elmer Green known for

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  1. Theta wave training
  2. “Beyond Biofeedback”
  3. Voluntary control of internal states
  4. Temperature training for Reynaud’s disease, migraines, and blood pressure control at the Menninger clinic
  5. Alpha Theta training
49
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Peniston and Kulosky protocol

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The use of Alpha Theta training with alcoholism and PTSD

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Who proposed the idea that theta states provide shifts in neurochemistry which allow traumatic memories to be integrated?

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Nancy White

51
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Who replicated Peniston‘s work with Alpha Theta and what is the name of his highly innovative program which converts neurofeedback data into abstract images in real time?

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Bill Scott, Brainpaint

52
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Who coined the term “profound attention “and what does this mean?

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Adam Crane, the outcome of both alpha training and the process, and antidotal phenomenon

53
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Who worked with Adam Crane and developed the Five Phases of CNS Functional Transformation in 1995, an approach involving training both sides of the brain at the same time over the motor strip using multiple frequencies and reinforcement tones?

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Valdeen Brown

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Who developed the program called Neuroptimal?

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Valdeen Brown

55
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Anna Weiss did not use EEG feedback in the usual manner, rather she _____________.

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Employed operant conditioning directly as mental exercise to develop the mind and measured the EEG of enlightened individuals and other peak performers calling it the “awakened mind brain wave pattern.’

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Who was the first to patent a method and device for asymmetry training

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Peter Rosenfeld

57
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Which Harvard professor identified in detail the Default Mode Network in 2008

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Randy Buckner

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Randy Buckner identified regions of the brain combining activity related to _________________ (4)

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Autobiographical processing, envisioning the future, theory of mind, and moral decision making

59
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Hagamann used the Diffusion Tensor Imaging Methods to show fiber tract patterns corresponding with the _______ and specifically traced their connectivity patterns

60
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Buckholtz and Meyer-Lindenberg in 2013 proposed what in regards to the DMN?

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Difficulties in shifting between the DMN and various other patterns of activity such as activation of the External Attention System can be used to assess mental illness

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What is the definition of Neurometrics and who pioneered the concept?

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E. Roy John described Neurometrics as a method of quantitative EEG that provides a precise, reproducible estimate of the deviation of an individual record from normal

62
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As per Andrew Abarbanel, what two systems are involved in generating neuralplasticity

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Neuromodulation and long-term potentiation

63
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What three areas does Juri Kropotov ?study

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Event Related Potentials, QEEG, and Neurotherapy

64
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Who is the cofounder of HBIMED?

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Juri Kropotov

65
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Who developed LORETA?

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Robert Pasqual Marqui

66
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What do you researchers are involved with Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback?

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Paul Lehrer & Eugene Vaschillo

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