Restoring Mental Health in Long-term Veterans with PTSD
by Carol Kelson, MFT Something exciting is happening at The Salvation Army Bell Shelter in Los Angeles that I want to share with you this Veterans Day. It started this past May with a small group of veterans who volunteered to be part of a neurofeedback pilot study. The veterans were randomly selected to be […]
A Soldier’s Homecoming
by Kimberly Smith Van Metre, BS, OMC After serving in Iraq, wounded Marine Lance Corporal Chris Allen couldn’t shake images of losing his best friend after their Humvee was hit by an RPG; Chris was the sole survivor. He took shrapnel to his knee, thigh, and eye and, after returning home, he turned to alcohol […]
To All of Our Veterans
by Siegfried Othmer, PhD Most of those who enter the Armed Forces benefit from the training experience, and would agree that life in the military allowed them to improve in their personal competence and skills to a greater degree than if the same amount of time had been spent in civilian life. On the other […]
The Deep Roots of Infra-Low Frequency Training
On first acquaintance, infra-low frequency training requires a lot of explanation because it seems to stand apart from conventional neurofeedback. If that were really the case, however, it would likely not have emerged out of this field at all. Infra-low frequency training did not burst full-grown upon the scene like Venus out of a lotus […]