Stephen Sideroff, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA
Resilience, stress, neurofeedback and performance
Stephen Sideroff is a clinical psychologist and an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, with a joint appointment in rheumatology. He directs the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Ethics.
His research and clinical work cover resilience, stress, addiction and neurofeedback. He has published on neurofeedback in substance abuse treatment and led a UCLA study of neurofeedback for cognitive symptoms after chemotherapy. He directed UCLA's certification course in addiction for more than 30 years and co-founded the Moonview Treatment and Optimal Performance Center, where he was clinical director from 1998 to 2012. From 2001 he helped bring biofeedback and neurofeedback training to hospitals and universities in China.
He has consulted with the UCLA men's basketball team and the US Men's National soccer team, and coaches executives through a program he calls The Path. He wrote The Path: Mastering the Nine Pillars of Resilience and Success (2015) and The 9 Pillars of Resilience (BenBella Books, 2024).
Research
13 papers indexed in PubMed. The evidence search draws on them when they bear on a question.
- A neurotherapy protocol to remediate cognitive deficits after adjuvant chemotherapy: a pilot study.J Complement Integr Med · 2023
- Effects of an EEG biofeedback protocol on a mixed substance abusing population.Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse · 2005
- Subjective dimensions of heroin urges: influence of heroin-related and affectively negative stimuli.Addict Behav · 1989
- Conditioned responses to a videotape showing heroin-related stimuli.Int J Addict · 1980
- Conditioned heroin responses as an indication of readdiction liability.NIDA Res Monogr · 1979
- Craving in heroin addicts maintained on the opiate antagonist naltrexone.Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse · 1978
- The relationship of seizures to retrograde amnesia in hippocampectomized rats.Physiol Behav · 1977
- Neural correlates of discriminative conditioning: separation of associational and motivational processes.Brain Res · 1976
