The BSC had its largest meeting in seven years November 5-8 in Irvine. This is particularly welcome news because normally it is the Northern California venues—in alternate years—that draw the largest participation. A good spirit prevailed. I gave a short course on developing a general theory of self-regulation. This theme was also reflected in my […]
Author: Alan Bachers, Ph.D. NeuroCARE Pro (NCP) has been developed by Valdeane and Susan Cheshire Brown at their Zengar Institute in Victoria, British Columbia. This article is my approximation of their concepts, having avoided as long as I could Siegfried’s several requests to put something to paper — or digital medium. Given that this is […]
Why an article on longevity in this newsletter? Whereas we may all have a personal interest in increasing longevity, there is probably also agreement that a significant prolongation of human life in our society creates more problems than it solves. In a modern revival of “The Twilight Zone” some months ago there was an episode […]
Author: Jonathan D. Cowan, Ph.D., BCIACEEG A small study done by Marcus Perman and Dr. Artur Pocswardowski at St. Lawrence University compared two protocols on the Peak Achievement Trainer with an untrained control group. This study was designed to test whether they could enhance performance in female undergraduates in just 8 sessions. The primary measurement […]
Just a sign of life from Germany, where Marco Versace and I just visited Lindenberg Salem yesterday for an all-day lecture on neurofeedback. Salem is the worldwide service organization that Thom Hartmann was associated with years ago. At his instigation, they are now doing neurofeedback. This beautiful spot in Northern Bavaria is something of an […]
For the last number of years, Jonathan Cowan has been promoting broad-band down-training of frontal sites to improve attentional functioning, based on the earlier work of Dan Maust. We of course tried this also, and found that it could not be the whole story, as many people found the training too activating or even mania-inducing. […]
