Cancer, Conferences, Paradigm
September 12, 2007

Report on the Cancer Control Conference

One of the virtues of living in Los Angeles is that interesting conferences come to visit. I had occasion recently to attend the 35th annual meeting of the Cancer Control Society. It was illuminating to see one of these meetings from the perspective of an outsider. Here we had yet another meeting of professionals who […]

Conferences, Neurofeedback
February 08, 2007

Report on the 2007 Winter Brain Conference

Among the principal neurofeedback venues, the Winter Brain Conference has had perhaps the best shot over the years at attracting newcomers to the field with the diversity and vitality of its program. The pricing threshold was always too high to attract casual interest, however. This year, pricing was reduced along with the length of the […]

Report on the BSC Conference

It was my hope that the Biofeedback Society of California Annual Conference would offer a favorable climate for the cross-fertilization between peripheral and EEG biofeedback that now badly needs to occur. In actual fact, the rather large program made for considerable fragmentation and splintering of the audience, as nearly everyone gravitated to their own traditional […]

Conferences, Neurofeedback
November 27, 2006

Some Belated Reflections on the 2006 ISNR Conference

The 2006 ISNR Conference was held in a congenial setting in Atlanta with some 350 in attendance. That’s more than fifty percent of the membership, which is a good turnout. On this occasion, BrainMaster celebrated its ten-year anniversary with a festive evening. The overall attendance notwithstanding, many of the talks were only sparsely attended. One […]

Conferences
April 05, 2006

The 2006 AAPB Conference

It is best to report on the conference before memory grows stale. My overall impression was that creative ferment may be returning to this venue. Evolutionary developments are more likely at interfaces between disciplines than they are within monocultures, and the AAPB offers the natural forum for the interaction between biofeedback and neurofeedback. The reintegration […]