We just attended the sixth annual attachment conference here in Los Angeles. A similarly themed conference will be held later in Boston. Attendance is growing rapidly from year to year, indicating that Attachment Theory is on a path to becoming one of the central organizing schema for mental health. Presentations at this conference were highly […]
We just returned from the 14th annual Winter Brain Conference in Palm Springs. I can give only a partial perspective on it since it is impossible for any one person to take it all in. Conference attendance was impacted both by the Biofeedback Foundation of Europe Conference, which drew away some of the usual key […]
The BSC is the strongest of the local biofeedback organizations, unsurprising perhaps in the birthplace of the national biofeedback organization. Nevertheless, it is a small organization, and for its size put on quite a conference. There were some 80 attendees. I attended Naras Bhat’s workshop on reversing heart disease. Naras Bhat is one of the […]
Last week I did not really finish in reporting on the DAN Conference, so the newsletter agenda will just have to be pushed back, including my review of the BSC Conference (Biofeedback Society of California) this past weekend. This year’s Think Tank heard from the advocates of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for the first time. So […]
Last week Sue and I were invited to attend the “Think Tank” meeting of the medical brain trust behind the “Defeat Autism Now” (DAN) movement. The group wanted to hear about neurofeedback. We were there at the invitation of Dr. Jaquelyn McCandless, psychiatrist and author of the book “Children with Starving Brains.” DAN was started […]
Frank Deits and his wife Mary happened to be driving through the Denver area at the time of the conference, so they came to the exhibit hall and made their rounds. Frank has a new pacemaker installed, and thereby hangs a tale. Fortunately I have not yet had reason to become acquainted with the jargon […]
