We are living through the messy business of a new scientific revolution becoming established, and in the process we stand in awe of the scientific pillars and edifices of the status quo with which we have to contend. It seems like a David and Goliath kind of mismatch. Thus it was exceedingly satisfying to read […]
One of the privileges of working in the early development of a field is that most of the pioneers are still around, and we get to know them all personally. We have lost Neil Miller, Chuck Stroebel, and Barbara Brown, and now Marjorie Toomim, but most of the people from the early days of the […]
This was the thirteenth Winter Brain Conference, the first in some time without its own special T-shirt. The crowd was somewhat smaller this year than in the past couple of years. This tends to happen when the location stays the same for too many years, although the Hilton was certainly a good host, and the […]
We are once again at the threshold of the Winter Brain Conference. Preliminary conferences are already going on. This year will mark the entry of EEG Support into the hardware business. With the help of a few gnomes of Zurich we have developed a QIKtest device that allows us to run a variety of choice […]
With the State of the Union speech coming up shortly, it’s not a bad time for us to do the same with regard to our discipline of neurofeedback. When people are asked about the prospects for society at large, they tend to assess it somewhat more negatively than society deserves, but when they are asked […]
I had chosen this topic to end the year well before the recent tsunami brought home to us the disconnect between risks that we face–as societies, as a global community, as a species, and as individuals–and how we actually live our lives. This is a follow-up to the previous newsletter on Triage. What got me […]