Reducing Epileptic Seizures Through Operant Conditioning of Central Nervous System Activity: Procedural Variables
- 5 January 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 203 (4375) , 73-75
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.758682
Abstract
Operant conditioning of the sensorimotor rhythm of the human electroencephalogram with time-outs contingent on epileptiform activity reduces epileptic seizure rates in patients whose seizures are not well controlled by medication. A comparison of this procedure with time-out training alone demonstrates that operant conditioning of the sensorimotor rhythm is neither necessary nor sufficient for seizure reduction.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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