Aug 182009
American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, August, 2005 by William C. Scott, David Kaiser, Siegfried Othmer, Stephen I. Sideroff
Neurofeedback has been successfully used to treat patients with alcoholism and drug addiction. Peniston and Kulkowsky (1989) used neurofeedback with chronic alcoholics. Those alcoholics treated with neurofeedback had significantly fewer relapses as compared to a control group of alcoholics that did not receive neurofeedback. Those patients treated with neurofeedback had reduced levels of depression as well. On four-year follow-up (Peniston & Kulkowsky, 1990), fully 80% of those patients treated with neurofeedback remained sober, compared to only 20% of the control group.