Bringing Neurofeedback to the Congo
L anier Fly, who’s been using neurofeedback at his Newport News, Virginia practice Fly Family Therapy and Neurotherapy for 15 years, believes that he received a higher calling to use his skills to help the people of the Congo. He prepared a team of five colleagues to travel to the Bukavu in eastern Congo. Lanier […]
Our Trip to India: Sight-seeing Day 4
by Siegfried Othmer, PhD Sight-seeing Day 4 September 19 (Friday) Breakfast took place in the richly appointed, cavernous dining area designed “1911” for the year that New Delhi became the capital of India. The occasion was the Delhi Durbar of 1911, which celebrated the wedding of King George V and Queen Mary. The king announced […]
Our Trip to India: Travel Days 1, 2 & 3
by Siegfried Othmer, PhD Travel Days 1 & 2 September 16 – 17 (Tuesday-Wednesday) Thanks to frequent flyer miles that had piled up over the years, we were able to take this opportunity to fly in comfort to India via Virgin Atlantic Airways. The thought of sleeping in coach for all those hours on two […]
Our Trip to India
by Siegfried Othmer, PhD S ue and I have just returned from a sojourn to India, where we taught our training course at the Tibetan Medical Institute, Men-Tsee-Khang. Here briefly is the story of how this came about. We will be reporting on our journey in more detail in the following days in this newsletter. […]
Synchrony Training at the 2014 Clinical Summit
by Siegfried Othmer, PhD T he 2014 Clinical Summit was held July 10th, 11th, and 12th here in Los Angeles at the Woodland Hills Hilton, right next door to our office and training facility. It was our largest turnout yet, with 140 people in attendance. The location allowed us to utilize our office for all […]
SMR/Beta Training in the Age of Infra-Low Frequency Training
by Siegfried Othmer, PhD The Historical Background M any in the field are still relying on the traditional SMR/beta protocols that were our mainstay in the nineties. Of course, what was valid before remains valid, so the protocols are clearly useful for many applications. Indeed, the field experienced its “Cambrian explosion” of broad applicability to […]
CPT Data for Infra-Low Frequency Training with Cygnet
by John Putman and Siegfried Othmer, PhD We have just reviewed all of the CPT data sets we have acquired over the last three years at the EEG Institute for which post-training data are available. The data were acquired with the QIKtest, but they were analyzed with T.O.V.A.® norms. The data cover a variety of […]
The Shrinking Divide
by Siegfried Othmer, PhD A t the time of the storming of the Bastille in 1789, King Louis the 16th wrote in his private journal: “Rien.” Nothing. Just a few years later, he was beheaded and himself came to nothing. One could make similar judgments about our field. No one in the suites at Pfizer […]