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Comment author: James_Miller 04 July 2012 07:39:49AM 1 point [-]

Neurofeedback changes your brain waves and (as I'm sure you would agree) not all changes are improvements. A change that might make one person more focused could cause another to become highly anxious.

Comment author: wedrifid 04 July 2012 08:16:12AM *  1 point [-]

Neurofeedback changes your brain waves and (as I'm sure you would agree) not all changes are improvements. A change that might make one person more focused could cause another to become highly anxious.

As we see with stimulant use.

Comment author: James_Miller 05 July 2012 03:06:52AM 1 point [-]

True, but there are far more meaningfully different ways to administer neurofeedback than stimulants.

Given a decision to take Addreall, for example, it would be trivial for someone of average intelligence to look at Wikipedia and figure out a good dose. In contrast, after deciding to do neurofeedback, how you should do it is extremely complex.