Aging is not what it used to be. I have the impression that in some significant respects my own health is actually improving over the years, and that has mainly to do with my increasing understanding of self-regulation in the context of a general growth in awareness of alternative health. The same is true most […]
The Connectivity Conference in Armonk, New York, brought together a number of people engaged in synchrony and coherence training or the corresponding analysis. Speakers were brought together by invitation from Michael Gismondi, organizer of the conference. As a user of a variety of neurofeedback instruments, he realized that a focus on coherence training would be […]
We just attended the annual conference on Irlen Syndrome, sponsored by Helen Irlen and her staff, and held here in Long Beach. This was the twentieth anniversary of Helen Irlen’s work, subsequent to her discovery of Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome in 1983. The conference was a warm and spunky affair. There was still the sense of […]
The July issue of Scientific American features an article about cognitive therapy as an alternative to ADHD drugs. The work proceeds from the assumption that cognitive deficits in general, and working memory deficits in particular, are among the defining features in ADHD, and yet are only marginally addressed with stimulant medication. According to Rosemary Tannock […]
The current issue of Biological Psychiatry offers a trenchant study titled “Are There Differences in the Symptoms that Respond to a Selective Serotonin or Norepinephrine Reuptake inhibitor?” by Jay Craig Nelson, Laura Portera, and Andrew C. Leon (Volume 57(12), June 15, 2005, 1535-1542). Remarkably, in two sequential, independent, randomized controlled large-scale studies (253 and 168 […]
Women in Science
When Larry Summers casually interjected his by-now famous comments into a discussion of women in science, he found out that the President of Harvard University cannot just shed his label and make off-the-cuff remarks without it gaining notice. Summers suggested that a shortage of native ability might be one of the reasons that women did […]