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on Dec 22, 2004

Making a Case for the Exercise Model We have just submitted a paper to the JNT in support of the proposition that inter-hemispheric training can remediate attentional deficits irrespective of the presenting complaints. In the back-and-forth with the editors that has by now taken some months, their frustration is apparent that we never seem to […]

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on Dec 15, 2004

The amount of true foreign aid (i.e., non-military development support) given by the United States is now down to about one tenth of one percent of our GNP (0.13% according to one account). At such levels there is a complete mismatch between resources and needs, so one might well use the idea of triage to […]

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on Dec 8, 2004

The issue of the states’ authority to regulate medical usage of marijuana is currently before the Supreme Court, at a time when the chief architect for the reconstruction of a viable body of “states’ rights” is at home recuperating from surgery. What delicious ironies abound when those on the Court most strongly bent in favor […]

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on Nov 24, 2004

Flying into Zurich one is immediately impressed with the orderliness of the country. Nothing appears to be out of place, even out in the fields, around the barns, and along the sides of the roads. I was reminded of Oslo, Norway, which comes close in this regard. I had a great reception in Switzerland, which […]

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on Nov 17, 2004

Today is Sunday; this must be Zurich. Life has been just a little like that recently. A well-attended public lecture and advanced training course in Alexandria, Virginia; the NF Conference in Mexico; the BSC meeting in San Francisco, and now a public lecture, Introductory and Advanced training course in Switzerland, all in less than four […]

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on Nov 7, 2004

Kurt and I just returned from an exhilarating conference in Mexico that inaugurated the new Mexican Society for Biofeedback and Neurofeedback with its first “International Congress of Neurofeedback in Mexico”, taking place at the resort hotel Hacienda San Miguel Regla, in the mountainous regions north of Mexico City. The scheduling of the conference had been […]