Neurofeedback is a highly promising emerging therapy for the autism spectrum. At issue here is a tool for the direct training of brain function, one that has already shown itself highly effective in addressing a wide range of “mental health” concerns. As has been the case for other therapies, its application to the autism spectrum […]
Bill Dwyre, sports writer for the Los Angeles Times, took up the cause of Dave Duerson in an emotionally piercing piece on February 25. Duerson shot himself in the heart in order to preserve his brain for head-injury research. What Duerson clearly did not know, along with nearly everyone in the field of medicine, is […]
We have worked for many years with Tourette Syndrome, with very equivocal results. It is clearly a heterogeneous condition that does not lend itself readily to a narrow diagnostic description. Mild expressions of the condition may respond readily to a variety of neurofeedback protocols, but more extreme presentations may be more resistant to most approaches. […]
The following is a brief report on a recent case of recovery from addiction. This was one of the first addiction cases in which we utilized the extension of our software to cover the low frequency range down to 0.1 mHz (milliHertz). Essentially all of the training of this client took place within this range, […]
The Dysponesis HypothesisWe are always casting about for better ways to frame the work that we do in order to make it comprehensible to other professionals and lay persons. Sometime it helps to dip into past history to see how others wrestled with the same issue. One notion that has threaded its way through is […]
We are challenged at all levels by complexity. In response, we do our best as scientists and engineers to model system behavior. No matter how far we are along in this process, however, we encounter events which make it clear that the model of behavior does not also model misbehavior. Misbehavior acts differently, and we […]
