Professional
Critique

"My active clinical practice includes...epilepsy,
behavioral neurology including learning
disabilities and ADHD.  I have no hands on
experience with EBT (EEG Biofeedback Therapy).
 I would hope that the opinions provided in this
commentary could be seen as free of any personal
bias or financial conflict.  I have reviewed the
extensive EBT literature, attended many lectures
on the topic at hand and have spoken to many
practitioners in order to come to the opinions
noted below.

In my opinion, if any medication had
demonstrated such a wide spectrum of
efficacy, it would be
universally accepted and widely used."
Frank M. Duffy M.D.






The January 2000 edition of Clinical EEG
(vol. 31 No. 1) was devoted to an extensive review
of the clinical applications of EEG biofeedback, a
form of operant conditioning.

Frank Duffy M.D. is
Clinical EEG's Associate
Editor for Neurology.  He directs the Clinical
Neurophysiology Laboratory and Developmental
Neurophysiology (research) Laboratory at
Children's Holpital, Boston, a Harvard Medical
School Affiliated institution.  In the introduction
to his editorial he writes,