Mehrdad Salehi’s scientific contributions

This study designed to examine and compare effect of neurofeeback training and medication to improve ADHD symptoms. This study recruited 36 primary school students that diagnosed and refereed from specialist to receive treatment to improve their ADHD symptoms. This experiment was with pre/post-test employed neuropsychological assessments. All the participants' parents received enough information about the project and signed consent form accordingly. The group of participants were divided to three different groups (neurotherapy, medication and control). Twelve participants categorized for each group and parents were agreed for this categorization. Recruited assessments were including CPT, Kanner's questionnaire (parent version) and WISC-IV. In neurofeedback group the applied protocol was to reinforce (14-20 Hz) on FCz and (12-15 Hz) on CZ with Procomp 2-5 and Biogeraph Infiniti software. The total sessions was 15 and they had 3 sessions per week for about 5-6 weeks. The statistical analyses showed significantly improvement in neurofeedback therapy group (P<0.001) and for medication (P< 0.05) to compare with control group. Improvement in attention index, reaction time, impulsivity were significant (P<0.001) and hyperactivity showed (P< 0.05). The analyzed data from group of medication therapy showed significant differences in attention and hyperactivity (P<0.001). These findings were concluded that beta and SMR training neurofeedback on prefrontal area (FCz) and CZ could decrease significantly reaction time, attention and impulsivity and is suggest to use for ADHD children when they are resist to medication, less effect size or when risk of side effect depends to the case is high rate. However, combining neurofeedback with medication is recommend as a non-invasive method to treat ADHD with known action mechanisms in the brain. This method is recommended to those ADHD' children that parents have doubt or avoid accepting medication to compensate a part of treatment and control academic issues with learning strategies and proper enhancement.

Aim and Background: The present study aimed to evaluate the effect of neurofeedback training on reducing anxiety in people who attend a psychology clinic in Isfahan.Methods and Materials: Eighteen persons were randomly divided into control and test groups. The mean age of participants was 34.44. Then, before and after the training they were evaluated with Kattel Anxiety test (1958). The neurofeedback training included 15 sessions of 30 minutes. Findings: The pre-and post-test data were analyzed through covariance (ANCOVA).Conclusions: The results confirmed the effect of neurofeedback on decreasing anxiety (p <0.001- Eta2= 0.70). Keywords: Neurofeedback Training, Anxiety