Last Thursday I heard my first symphonic concert at the new Disney Hall in downtown Los Angeles. The acoustics of the hall are magical. There are no bad seats, and there is a remarkable “presence” to the sound wherever one sits. It is very suitable to the modern era where we can have high fidelity […]
There is a stirring of some dinosaur bones on the lists with regard to the control of neurofeedback by the professions, and in particular by psychology. It is inevitable that as neurofeedback becomes accepted that there should be an attempt by various professions to establish their turf. My own view, from my outsider perspective, is […]
Jay writes on the QEEG-images list: “Rather than looking at….. EEG/qEEG findings as “subtypes” of a specific disorder, we are now thinking of them as representative of phenotypical patterns seen with various genotypical and physiological presentations, and they speak to the heterogeneity of the pathophysiology of the various disorders. Phenotypes are an intermediate step between […]
The first ROSHI Conference was held in Pasadena this past weekend. It was a chummy affair in a revitalizing Old Town locale, with a lively group of ROSHI enthusiasts in attendance. Stephen Overcash gave the first formal presentation, on an integrated approach to the use of ROSHI. He goes back to the early days of […]
Last Friday was the first-ever Symposium on QEEG and Neurofeedback at UCLA under the joint sponsorship of the Psychology, Psychiatry, and Neurology Departments, and of the Brain Research Institute. Barry Sterman, Professor Emeritus of the Psychiatry Department, started the day off with the comment that it had been 25 years since he last spoke from […]
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging experiments are under way to try to uncover what makes individuals buy under some circumstances and not others. This is of great interest at a time when market doctrines are becoming organizing principles for human societies—effectively our new “civic religion.” Psychologists are of course involved in those experiments. A remarkable assumption […]