What is the minimum age for Neurofeedback to be effective?
We have worked in our own office with children as young as two and three years of age. One was chronologically three years, but of mental age of six months. When we see the very young children, they are of course also the most compromised–CP, victims of near- drowning, prenatal substance exposure, severe Tourette’s, victims of psychological trauma, etc. Yet these very compromised nervous systems are clearly able to respond to the challenge of the training. Other practitioners have trained with children as young as one year old and even younger. The results are persuasive that the cognitive demand for successful training is extremely low. And it may be recalled that Barry Sterman first did this EEG training with cats.
