What Does Psychology Have to Do With It?
There is a stirring of some dinosaur bones on the lists with regard to the control of neurofeedback by the professions, and in particular by psychology. It is inevitable that as neurofeedback becomes accepted that there should be an attempt by various professions to establish their turf. My own view, from my outsider perspective, is […]
The QEEG, Mechanisms, and EEG Dynamics
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 […]
The ROSHI Conference
The first ROSHI Conference was held in Pasadena this past weekend. It was a chummy affair in a revitalizing Old Town locale, with a lively group of ROSHI enthusiasts in attendance. Stephen Overcash gave the first formal presentation, on an integrated approach to the use of ROSHI. He goes back to the early days of […]
UCLA Symposium on Neurofeedback
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 […]
The Individual and the Market
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging experiments are under way to try to uncover what makes individuals buy under some circumstances and not others. This is of great interest at a time when market doctrines are becoming organizing principles for human societies—effectively our new “civic religion.” Psychologists are of course involved in those experiments. A remarkable assumption […]
A Call to Arms
It is now estimated that some 17% of soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are plagued with lingering mental health issues that are not being well met within the VA system. Even if the intention were there to address these issues, the capability is not—neither financially nor technically. As we know, the reaction of the […]
One Clinician ~ One Year’s Work with Neurofeedback:
This week I thought I would simply share the data that I received from Leslie Hendrickson, and put together for the AAPB Poster. Collectively it makes the case for the Disregulation Model, in that it shows the systematic progression toward resolution of a wide variety of symptoms with a very limited set of protocols. In […]
The AAPB Conference in Reflection
During the pre-conference period I had a chance to attend Daniel Kuhn’s workshop on erasing symptoms fixated by traumatic dissociation, in particular PTSD. Kuhn’s presentation had appeal for me in various respects. First of all, he found his way to the method from an academic origin in psychoanalysis, so this work represents a significant departure […]