Report on the Seville Conference of the Society for Applied Neuroscience (SAN)
It is said that an emerging democracy should be judged not by its first election, but rather by its second. Perhaps similarly a new organization should be judged not by its first conference but by its second. The Society of Applied Neuroscience just held its second biannual conference in Seville, Spain, and by the above […]
EEG Feedback for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
The utility of EEG feedback or Neurofeedback in the resolution of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder has already been established in research going back more than a decade. We now use it routinely with veterans in connection with our volunteer services (through Homecoming4veterans.org ). The world at large, however, remains to be convinced of the superiority of […]
Catching up on Book Reviews
In this newsletter we take a look at two recently published books that represent two ends of the spectrum of neurofeedback approaches. They reflect divisions within the field that have remained unreconciled over the decades. They also reflect their authors, who have taken very different approaches in their scientific research. The Open Focus Brain This […]
Comparison Shopping in Medicines
A few weeks ago the Economist Magazine offered up the lament that comparison shopping is very difficult to do when it comes to medications because the underlying studies have not been done. It is difficult enough for pharmaceutical companies to get new drugs past their regulatory hurdles via Randomized Controlled Trials against a placebo control. […]
Parallel Universes
Sometimes we who work with neurofeedback have the impression of living in a parallel universe. We live with a view of reality that is attaining increasing confirmation via formal studies while at the same time becoming much more clinically effective, yet it is a view that appears to be almost completely disconnected from mainstream thinking. […]
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
We have just seen the new movie, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, which opened here recently in limited release. I had read the book some years ago because of its graphic telling of the story of locked-in syndrome. Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor of the French edition of Elle, had a brainstem stroke that left him […]
Implications of Personalized Medicine for Research
Much proposed research on neurofeedback has faltered over the years on the issue of uniformity of approach. The protocol to be investigated needs to be narrowly constrained or the research will be criticized for a lack of specificity. We have had a number conversations over the years with researchers who were willing to give Neurofeedback […]
Reason to Celebrate
It’s been a few months, and it’s been a total whirlwind here at EEG Info so let me try to remember all the way back to November for a moment. It seems like a year ago now, but that was about the time when all of us here at EEG Info held our breath as […]