Table 2.

Summary of studies suggesting effective mental strategies for neurofeedback success

Successful Strategies	EEG Trained Sub-band	Study Population	Study
	Mental Strategy (Personal Factor)
Neither instructions nor explicit mental strategies	Review on real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging neurofeedback of different bands	Healthy subjects / Animals	Birbaumer et al. (2013)
No conscious mental strategy	Slow cortical potentials	Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients	Neumann & Birbaumer (2003)
No conscious mental strategy	Sensorimotor rhythm	Healthy subjects	Witte et al. (2013)
Positive strategies (positive thoughts) and no strategy	Alpha	Healthy subjects	Angelakis et al. (2007)
Positive thinking	Alpha	Healthy subjects	Nan et al. (2012)
Positive emotions (e.g. happiness)	Gamma	Healthy subjects	Rubik (2011)
No mental strategy	Sensorimotor rhythm	Healthy subjects	Kober et al. (2013)