Globally around 50 million people get injured every year due to Traumatic Brain Injuries with 1.2 million deaths recorded annually. In India more than 1 million such cases take place and around 0.2 million deaths happen every year. Neurofeedback is found to be an effective treatment for TBIs because it treats the specific area of the brain that is damaged. It has shown effectiveness in addressing symptoms associated with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), such as cognitive impairment, emotional dysregulation, sleep disturbances, chronic headaches, and sensory processing issues. Utilizing neurofeedback in cognitive rehabilitation interventions offers promising results for individuals with mild-to-severe TBIs, providing opportunities for improvement in mental processing and functional recovery. This study uses neurofeedback for Cognitive Rehabilitation of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury(mTBI) patients in order to enhance cognitive functions, mitigate symptoms and improve quality of life. The research approach is quantitative in nature and data is collected from an adequate number of patients from OPD/IPD of the Department of Neurosurgery, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College & Hospital, Aligarh. This sample of patients is selected on the basis of predefined inclusion & exclusion criteria through purposive sampling method. A sample from the normal population is also selected for the study. After taking informed consent from the mTBI patients and normal persons, scales are applied for all the above mentioned symptoms. Further mTBI patients are divided into two groups namely experimental and waitlisted groups and intervention of neurofeedback is applied on the experimental group patients, spanning 16 sessions.

Authors:
Alina Haider, Aligarh Muslim University, India
Deoshree Akhouri, Aligarh Muslim University, India

About the Presenter(s)
Ms Alina Haider is a doctoral student in the Dept. of Psychiatry, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Hospital, AMU Aligarh. Her fields of interest include counselling in clinical setting and providing neurofeedback to patients of mild traumatic brain injury.

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