Progress in Remediating PTSD
The occasion of Memorial Day 2011 is a good opportunity to reflect on what has been happening in the remediation of PTSD using our latest Infra-Low Frequency (ILF) neurofeedback training. The word breakthrough is over-used, but it does describe the progress that has occurred over the last several years. The most significant event over that […]
Clinical Decision Making and Protocol Selection in Infra-Low Frequency (ILF) Neurofeedback Using the Othmer Method
Bringing neurofeedback into a mental health practice means acquiring a working model by means of which all the clinical phenomenology can be reframed in a psychophysiological perspective. Clinical decision-making then emerges largely out of that framework. As the training proceeds, clinical observations are interpreted in terms of that framework and lead to fine-tuning of the […]
Infra-Low Frequency Neurofeedback for the Autism Spectrum
Neurofeedback is a highly promising emerging therapy for the autism spectrum. At issue here is a tool for the direct training of brain function, one that has already shown itself highly effective in addressing a wide range of “mental health” concerns. As has been the case for other therapies, its application to the autism spectrum […]
Dave Duerson’s Suicide
Bill Dwyre, sports writer for the Los Angeles Times, took up the cause of Dave Duerson in an emotionally piercing piece on February 25. Duerson shot himself in the heart in order to preserve his brain for head-injury research. What Duerson clearly did not know, along with nearly everyone in the field of medicine, is […]
Tourette Syndrome
We have worked for many years with Tourette Syndrome, with very equivocal results. It is clearly a heterogeneous condition that does not lend itself readily to a narrow diagnostic description. Mild expressions of the condition may respond readily to a variety of neurofeedback protocols, but more extreme presentations may be more resistant to most approaches. […]
A Case of Addiction to Heroin and Cocaine
The following is a brief report on a recent case of recovery from addiction. This was one of the first addiction cases in which we utilized the extension of our software to cover the low frequency range down to 0.1 mHz (milliHertz). Essentially all of the training of this client took place within this range, […]
Dysponesis
The Dysponesis HypothesisWe are always casting about for better ways to frame the work that we do in order to make it comprehensible to other professionals and lay persons. Sometime it helps to dip into past history to see how others wrestled with the same issue. One notion that has threaded its way through is […]
The Flash Crash, the Soccer Ball, the Schooling Fish, and the Brain
We are challenged at all levels by complexity. In response, we do our best as scientists and engineers to model system behavior. No matter how far we are along in this process, however, we encounter events which make it clear that the model of behavior does not also model misbehavior. Misbehavior acts differently, and we […]