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12/16/2009	Study may show whether neurofeedback helps people with ADHD and other disorders
	Gulf War veteran Lynn Gibbons has awful memories of combat with her fourth-grade son, Brent. "He was an out-of-control monster whenever you asked him to do something," the former Air Force computer operations officer recalls. Brent, who had received a diagnosis of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, was also flailing in his classes at Saratoga Elementary School in Springfield -- unable, says his mom, to write a coherent paragraph. That was seven years ago. Today Brent is taking advanced-placement high school courses, maintaining a 3.5 grade-point average, playing guitar in a band and -- drum roll -- helping with chores. Says Gibbons: "I am no longer afraid that jail time will be in his future." What made the difference, she's convinced, is a high-tech intervention called neurofeedback, also known as EEG biofeedback. Ordinary biofeedback is a kind of mind-over-body training in which a person uses electronic equipment to monitor an involuntary physiological process such as heart rate and learns to gain some control over it. Neurofeedback operates on the same principle -- except in this case, it's mind over brain.
12/16/2009	A Study on New Gameplay Based on Brain-Computer
	For example, in a racing game concentration could influence the speed of the player’s car, so the speed would go up as the player concentrated more on the game. In fact, this has already been adopted by a gaming toolset called ‘Smart Brain Games,’ seen in Figure 4. The toolset is quite basic. It simply replaces a few buttons on a traditional game controller when the player plays existing games (16).
9/3/2009	Playing attention
	New treatment uses video games system to get ADHD patients to focus
12/11/2008	Using PlayStation as Therapy for Children with ADD by Jenna Gaillard
	WESTPORT NEWS Posted: 12/05/2008 Gray Matters, LLC, a section of Westport family therapy clinic Living in Harmony, LLC, is offering neurofeedback training with specialized technology to children who are diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), to help them focus better and reduce anxiety by playing PlayStation 2 for 30 minutes.
1/5/2008	Building Focus Through Fun
	Computer games that may actually build concentration skills in your child with attention deficit disorder (ADD ADHD).