Last week the discussion was about a service delivery model of neurofeedback that allows access by those who most need it, namely the poor. Most neurofeedback clinicians probably have no contact with the poor at all, so that message may not resonate, least of all as a way to sustain a practice. But the model […]
Frank Deits and his wife Mary happened to be driving through the Denver area at the time of the conference, so they came to the exhibit hall and made their rounds. Frank has a new pacemaker installed, and thereby hangs a tale. Fortunately I have not yet had reason to become acquainted with the jargon […]
This year’s ISNR Conference was the best attended, and membership is bumping up to 700. The organization is doing well when more than half of the membership shows up for the annual meeting. The exhibit hall reflected the creativity that continues to flourish in this field. One cannot imagine this conference without it. Instrumentation development […]
With all of the disagreements outstanding in this field, the least we can do is clear the semantic hurdles that may stand in the way of synthesis. One issue that is still outstanding, but can easily be dispatched, concerns how we think about inhibits. In the past I have variously contrasted Sue’s largely reward-based training […]
Science and Religion
The recent newsletter on this subject was intended to highlight the impulse within science to present a complete theory, in the face of the ineluctable reality that completeness can never be proved. We are bound by our hypotheses, and to assert that these allow for no reality beyond the hypotheses is to confuse the map […]