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Substance use disorder (SUD) is a problematic pattern of use of a substance or substances, leading to impairments to health, social function, and control of a substance. This negatively affects everyday activities of daily living, and occupation performance that causes a disruption to physical, mental, and social health.

Now, Neurofeedback is a noninvasive biotherapy that uses audio or video feedback to reinforce healthy brain function. This type of intervention usually works by having a patient listen to music and putting electrodes on a patient’s head that pick up negative or positive brain activity or waves. And if the negative activity is identified there were be a skip in the music. Over time, the negative feedback received by the brain will train the brain to subconsciously make healthy connections.

Neurofeedback literature address different types of aspects that impact individual's life. This includes cognition attention in memory, learning, anxiety, depression, sleep quality, and many more psychological aspects

With that being said OTs help people construct and destruct New or pre-existing habits and roles that would lead them throughout recovery. And Neurofeedback could be a beneficial intervention or conjunction intervention. However, there is no systematic understanding of how neuro-feedback therapy can be used in the substance-use population within the scope of the OT practice.

This leads me to the problem which is the use of neural feedback, therapy in clients with substance use disorder has not been systematically reviewed to identify its use within the scope of OT practice, leaving it difficult for OT practitioners to integrate neurofeedback into OT for clients with substance use disorders.

So the purpose of my capstone project was to conduct a scoping review of the literature to identify how Neurofeedback is utilized with clients with substance use disorder that is within the scope of OT practice.

Publication Date

Summer 9-9-2023

Publisher

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

Keywords

Substance Abuse, Substance use, Substance use disorder, Drug use, Drug addition, Neurofeedback, Neurofeedback therapy

Medical Subject Headings

Substance Abuse, Substance use, Substance use disorder, Drug use, Drug addition, Neurofeedback, Neurofeedback therapy

Disciplines

Neurology | Occupational Therapy

Comments

Poster presented at the Summer 2023 Virtual OTD Capstone Symposium held online at the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences on August 2-9, 2023

Neurofeedback Within the Scope of Occupational Therapy With Clients with Substance Use Disorder: A Scoping Review

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