Application of neurofeedback for correction of cognitive and psychoemotional disorders after stroke

Stroke is often accompanied by psychoemotional and cognitive disorders, such as depression, anxiety, decreased memory and attention focusing, decreased executive functions and emotion regulation. These disorders significantly decrease the quality of life in the patients and complicate the rehabilitation processes. For their elimination, the actively implemented methods include the one employing the biological feedback (neurofeedback). Our review includes the clinical research works conducted during the period from 2010 until 2025 and devoted to investigating the role of neurofeedback in restoring the cognitive and the psychoemotional functions in stroke patients; various types of biological feedback were taken into account with analyzing the data on their efficiency in correcting the mental disorders after a cerebrovascular stroke. The main protocols of neurofeedback were described, such as the training of the sensory-motor rhythm (SMR-training, alpha and beta training) along with providing the results of their clinical application in the cognitive and the psychoemotional rehabilitation. It was shown that the methods of neurofeedback show high potential in the rehabilitation treatment of stroke consequences. The efficiency of therapy largely depends on the choice of the optimal treatment protocol, on the course duration, on the individual adaptivity of the approaches and on the thorough monitoring of changes in the brain functional parameters.