It is best to report on the conference before memory grows stale. My overall impression was that creative ferment may be returning to this venue. Evolutionary developments are more likely at interfaces between disciplines than they are within monocultures, and the AAPB offers the natural forum for the interaction between biofeedback and neurofeedback. The reintegration […]
The lead article in the current issue of the electrical engineer’s magazine, IEEE Spectrum, appears under the heading of “Psychiatry goes Electric” and is titled, “Psychiatry’s Shocking New Tools.” The article is remarkable not so much for what it covers as for the fact that it exists at all in this forum. The article covers […]
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 […]
Some while ago I came across a study that blacks in this country were suffering major depression and perhaps other major mental disorders at lower rates than might be expected on the basis of known risk factors. These risk factors included obesity, smoking, and alcohol abuse, plus indices of social pathology such as social isolation […]
The current issue of The New Yorker features an article by Malcolm Gladwell on the problem of the homeless. The title of “Million Dollar Murray” sets the theme: It may be a lot more expensive to manage homelessness than it is to solve the problem. Murray Barr was a homeless person in Reno, Nevada, until […]
The other day it was 87 degrees in our neighborhood in Los Angeles. Unusual? Yes, but the previous record was 86 degrees, and that was twenty years ago. One can’t base much of a case on such isolated extrema in weather, but viscerally they do give one pause. I have yet to close the sunroof […]