In the following I hope to demystify some of the aspects of neurofeedback training with bipolar placements, or at least provide substantiation for some of the statements I have been making about it. We are concerned with reward-based training with narrow-band filters that select a particular training frequency. The bipolar montage feeds a differential amplifier […]
The Food and Drug Administration uses the term “misbranding” to finger any piece of medical equipment for which specific claims are being made that have not been validated in research. When we now survey the field of neurofeedback and consider the various “claims” that we believe to be reasonable to make for neurofeedback, it is […]
Over the years we have been following the technique of using music-based auditory challenges to help with auditory processing deficits, the work that arose out of Tomatis’ original research in France. It is apparently still a much smaller field than our own, and it has had its own growth pains along the way. The field […]
A Critique of NIMH’s Major Study of Anti-Depressant Effectiveness
On March 23rd the Washington Post reported in a front-page article on the findings just released from NIMH’s 35-million dollar “Sequenced Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression” study. The study results were met with mixed reviews. The url: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/22/AR2006032202450.html The results from this study were published in three articles and discussed in an editorial in the […]