Last week we had a visit from Martha Mack, a Tomatis practitioner in Melbourne Australia. Martha and her husband George have been running the Listen and Learn Center where both auditory training and neurofeedback are being offered. (See www.ListenAndLearn.com.au) Martha emigrated from Argentina some years ago to take up her psychology practice in Australia. The […]
Recently we had occasion to revisit with Dr. Daniel Amen at his clinic in Newport Beach. His colleague Dr. Earl Henslin, a psychologist, happened to be giving a lecture that day on the relevance of brain regulation to relationships. It’s not always a matter of denial, avoidance, or resistance—it could simply be a matter of […]
A couple of weeks ago, in the article “What does Psychology have to do with it?” I mentioned a new research program getting launched at Misericordia Hospital on ADHD. I had welcomed the study earlier as a beneficial fallout of our having taught our course there in September 2001. I had a number of facts […]
Last Thursday I heard my first symphonic concert at the new Disney Hall in downtown Los Angeles. The acoustics of the hall are magical. There are no bad seats, and there is a remarkable “presence” to the sound wherever one sits. It is very suitable to the modern era where we can have high fidelity […]
Jay writes on the QEEG-images list: “Rather than looking at….. EEG/qEEG findings as “subtypes” of a specific disorder, we are now thinking of them as representative of phenotypical patterns seen with various genotypical and physiological presentations, and they speak to the heterogeneity of the pathophysiology of the various disorders. Phenotypes are an intermediate step between […]
Last Friday was the first-ever Symposium on QEEG and Neurofeedback at UCLA under the joint sponsorship of the Psychology, Psychiatry, and Neurology Departments, and of the Brain Research Institute. Barry Sterman, Professor Emeritus of the Psychiatry Department, started the day off with the comment that it had been 25 years since he last spoke from […]
