T he Lane James Band will be performing live in concert Friday, April 11 to raise money and awareness to benefit military veterans in need. The show will take place at Nectar in Freemont (412 N 36th, Seattle, WA 98103) from 6 – 8:30pm Purchase Tickets – $20 The Lane James Band is donating a […]
by Siegfried Othmer, PhD W ith this newsletter, we are pleased to announce the release of our new book, “Brian’s Legacy”, the core of which is our son Brian’s journal, written during his college years. Through his journal we get to experience Brian’s evolving understanding of his own condition, his ongoing struggle to improve and […]
by Siegfried Othmer, PhD I n the previous newsletter it was established that the outliers in the distribution of reaction times could not be interpreted as the tail of the Gaussian distribution. They had to be treated as a distinct phenomenon. When it came to characterizing the distribution function that characterizes the outliers, the analysis […]
by Siegfried Othmer, PhD A research group in the Netherlands has recently published two neurofeedback studies that failed to corroborate the claims for EEG-informed “Theta/beta” neurofeedback in application to ADHD. The first one of these of which I became aware had relied on parent and teacher ratings to establish progress (van Dongen-Boomsma et al., 2013). […]
A recent study shows that neurofeedback is effective in improving symptoms of ADHD, and outperforms cognitive training. Read Full Article on bostonglobe.com
by Siegfried Othmer, PhD For more than twenty years we have been using either the TOVA or the QIKtest with anyone who is able to take the test, in order to track progress in training. Both tests yield an incredible amount of information that is directly relevant to our project of training the brain toward […]