Depression and Neurofeedback Research:
Depression is a common mental health concern. Many individuals will suffer from occasional depression throughout their lifetime. Depression changes a persons way of thinking, many sufferers experience a negative thinking pattern that influences how one feels about themselves, their lives and those around them. Depression can affect children and adolescents, as well as, affecting a high rate of seniors.
Depression symptoms include:
- Depressed mood, sadness, or an “empty” feeling, or appearing sad or tearful to others
- Loss of interest or pleasure in activities you once enjoyed
- Significant weight loss when not dieting, or significant weight gain
- Inability to sleep or excessive sleeping
- Restlessness or irritation (irritable mood may be a symptom in children or adolescents too)
- Fatigue or loss of energy, feelings of “dragging”
- Feelings of worthlessness, or excessive or inappropriate guilt
- Difficulty thinking, concentrating, or indecisiveness
- Recurrent thoughts of death or suicide without a specific plan, or a suicide attempt or specific plan for committing suicide
Depression Treatment: When Should You Get Help?
If you have five or more of these symptoms for most of the day, nearly every day, for at least two weeks, and the symptoms are severe enough to interfere with your daily activities, you may have major depression. Your primary care doctor is a good place to start. Your doctor can screen you for depression, and help you manage and treat your symptoms so that you can feel better.
If you feel like you may hurt yourself or others, please call 911 immediately and reach out for help.
Depression can be treated with medication and/or neurofeedback training, but the first step is a careful diagnostic evaluation. Prior to your first neurofeedback session, our experts will use well-established psychological tests to measure your symptoms as a baseline prior to starting a neurofeedback protocol. Once completed with a protocol, a patient will complete the same test to determine symptom improvement or decline.