Ten (and More) Ways Clinicians Can Contribute to Neurofeedback Research (While Balancing Clinical Practice)

Presented by: Eddy Davelaar, PhD

Friday, May 9, 2025
12:00 noon Eastern time
11:00am Central Time | 9:00am Pacific Time
NOTE: This is a 90-minute presentation.

Workshop Description: 
The field of neurofeedback is experiencing an exponential increase in interest, research, and popular attention. This is in no small part due to the accessibility of simple wearable devices that are being promoted to enhance mental wellbeing. For good or ill, this brings a new cohort of academic researchers to the field who are using state-of-the-art neuroimaging methodologies to investigate the neurofeedback paradigm and create new technologies. Despite the acceleration and academic vigor with which research is conducted, the research tends not to utilize the years and decades of knowledge amassed by neurofeedback practitioners, many of whom have similar academic interests. One could delve into this by identifying the various obstacles for clinical expertise to influence academic research. Another route, and the one taken here, is to identify points along the route toward an academic publication and beyond where clinicians can provide critical input without taking a lot of time away from clinical work. In this workshop, I will cover at least 10 ways in which clinicians can contribute to neurofeedback research, whilst preventing negative impact on their clinical practice. All routes involve different levels of researcher-practitioner partnerships and can roughly be split into ways with and without data collection. Data collection could be prospective (new study), retrospective (archived data), lab-based, or clinic-based. Research contributions may extend beyond dealing with data and could also involve setting the research agenda or noting gaps in our cumulative knowledge. While covering the range of pathways, I reflect on the varying levels of time commitments (and remuneration, if any) and provide brief introductions to research methodologies that are exceptional well-placed for balancing knowledge transfer and time commitment. The focus on the researcher-practitioner partnership is particularly important as more funding agencies are requiring (direct) input from the public. To this end, I will show two examples from my own work in which I include non-academics at the center of grant applications.  

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Date and Time:  Friday, May 9, 2025, 12:00noon-1:30pm Eastern Time
PLEASE NOTE: This is a 90-minute presentation.
 
Agenda:
12:00pm - 1:20pm  Presentation
1:20pm - 1:30pm    Q&A
 
Location:  Zoom
 
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CE Certificate is a separate fee of $15.00 for 1.5 CE credits.
 
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Who is the Audience: Psychologists, mental health clinicians 

Level: Beginning
 
Specific Learning objectives: 
Based on the content of this presentation, the participant will be able to:
Identify points in the process of knowledge co-creation where clinicians can make impactful contributions
Recognize opportunities for knowledge transfer into the protracted academic process
Confidently create an individual strategy for knowledge transfer
Feel equipped to use the meta-research jargon to engage with academics for collaborative goals 
 
Continuing Education: 
CE Certificate is a separate fee of $15.00 for 1.5 CE credits. Purchase CE credit when registering. 
This program, when attended in its entirety, is available for 1.5 CE credits. 
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Credits: 
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INSTRUCTOR:  Eddy J. Davelaar, PhD

Professor Eddy Davelaar holds degrees in Biological Health Sciences and in Psychology from Maastricht University, as well as a PhD from Birkbeck, University of London, where he is currently a full Professor of Psychology and Applied Neuroscience. He conducts research on cognitive aging, with a particular focus on supporting healthy aging and preventing/slowing cognitive decline. Ongoing work is in collaboration with the target audience with whom he co-designs intervention studies. Another area of his research involves EEG neurofeedback for enhancing cognitive performance and mental well-being. Within that topic, he leads the way for understanding the neurocognitive mechanisms involved in successful brain training, using a wide range of research methodologies. Recent work involves creating an evidence-based pathway for identifying key experiential predictors of training success to construct supporting instructions. This approach is being applied to several common neurofeedback protocols. 
 
DISCLOSURE:  Nothing to disclose

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Ten (and more) Ways Clinicians Can Contribute to Neurofeedback Research (While Balancing Clinical Practice) presented by Eddy Davelaar, PhD

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  • Friday May 09 2025, 12:00 PM - 1:30 AM
  • 12:00 noon Eastern Time
    Presented via Zoom
    United States