Practice-Based Evidence We know from electoral politics that it is hard to defeat somebody with nobody. In order to push back against the contagion of Evidence-Based Practice it is not enough to “go negative;” one must field a live candidate. We have in fact been living in a world largely driven by Practice-Based Evidence. This […]
The AAPB has just published the 2008 edition of its publication “Evidence-Based Practice in Biofeedback and Neurofeedback“, written by Carolyn Yucha and Doil Montgomery. This is an update on the 2004 edition. The new publication spruces up the reference list and adds new material. It now comes to 81 pages, whereas the first one was […]
Untitled Document No, this article is not about chess. Larry Hirshberg authored a superb defense of EEG Biofeedback (EBF) in application to ADHD that appeared in Expert Reviews of Neurotherapeutics last year but just came to my attention [Expert Rev. Neurotherapeutics 7(4), 315-319 (2007)]. He makes a number of arguments that we should all have […]
Some years ago, the Economist Magazine covered the nascent neurotechnologies and came up somewhat alarmed about our potential futures. If people were concerned about such issues as genetically modified foods, stem cell research, genetic screening, etc., they should really be worried about what the future has in store with regard to the alteration of brain […]
The unlicensed practice of neurofeedback has arisen again as an issue with an article written by Cory Hammond that appeared in a recent issue of the National Psychologist newspaper. Following a concise and favorable introduction to neurofeedback, Cory Hammond wrote the following: “It is crucial for licensed professionals to report lay neurofeedback practitioners to state […]
Brain Scans as Mind Readers? — Commentary on an Article in Wired Magazine by Daniel Carlat
Neurofeedback is reaching the threshold of mainstream acceptance, so we are going through a kind of ‘darkness before dawn’ phenomenon right now where critics are at their most strident. My inclination is increasingly to ignore these criticisms and attend to the business of growing the field, but inevitably the criticisms grate, and they evoke the […]