The individualization of training has had a long history in neurofeedback. It began perhaps with Joel Lubar’s choosing whether to reinforce the standard SMR band of 12-15Hz or the low-beta band of 15-18 Hz, or whether to do both in pursuit of different objectives in work with ADD/ADHD children. At our hands, it eventually became […]
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 […]
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 […]
Los Angeles has been riveted over the last few months by the trial in Santa Monica of an elderly driver who mowed down numerous bystanders at an open-air farmer’s market, killing ten people and wounding nearly 70, many of them seriously. His car traveled over 1000 feet through the market, managing to avoid all encounters […]
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 […]
A Year-End Reflection
The film “An Inconvenient Truth” with Al Gore is a chilling example of what can happen when scientific findings clash with political objective and entrenched economic interests. The science can be made to disappear even when it is impeccable and even when unanimity has been achieved within the scientific community itself. We saw the same […]