The November 5 issue of Science News features an article by one of the regular contributors, Bruce Bower, on the encroachment of the Evidence-based Medicine juggernaut onto psychotherapy and its practitioners. The impetus was a policy statement on the subject issued by the American Psychological Association back in August. Despite the finality of a pronouncement […]
In newsletters #40 and #41 we showed cumulative data on clients for whom the dominant protocol consisted of inter-hemispheric training with single-channel bipolar placement. The results have proved to be generally better than what we were able to do with our prior lateralized placements. The reality is even more compelling than what is shown by […]
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 […]
Last week we presented data on the impulsivity subtest of the TOVA CPT for clients who received neurofeedback training exclusively with the inter-hemispheric placements. This week we present companion data on the inattention subtest. The data were compiled for us by John Putman, and were recently published in the Journal of Neurotherapy (Volume 9 (1), […]