Neurofeedback is a non-invasive method of operant conditioning designed to produce improvements in clinical and performance enhancement or sense of well-being in normal people by inducing neuroplastic effects in the brain.Objectives: Overview the literature indexed in PubMed and Scopus, and review the studies on attention deficit disorder and cognitive enhancement, performance and sense of well-being in normal people. Results: there are 156 complete articles published in Journals indexed in PubMed, 249 in Scopus, and an overall number of 310 papers. The application of the technique to the treatment of attention deficit disorder is well established in the literature, while the use for non-clinic conditions is still under development.
Neurofeedback; neuroscience; psychological clinic
