Autism and Emotionality
The March 12 issue of Science News previews an article about to be published in Nature Neuroscience which proposes that autistic children actually experience intense emotional reactions when looking at faces, and hence avoid eye contact. In a controlled fMRI study comparing autistic children with normals, they found as expected that the autistic children averted […]
Musings on Mechanisms
We just returned from our Advanced Training Course in Dallas, Texas, which was unusual because it was not populated largely by people who had come through our own Introductory Training Course at some time in the past. This made for a more lecture-oriented course than usual, and it also provided more of an engagement with […]
20 years with Neurofeedback
Although I mentioned it last week, it is worthy of more reflection that March 5 was the twentieth anniversary of our son Brian’s first neurofeedback training session. Within a little more than a month thereafter, Sue and I had decided to contribute somehow to the development of this field. This happened not firstly because of […]
Scientific Progress on the Inside and the Outside
We are living through the messy business of a new scientific revolution becoming established, and in the process we stand in awe of the scientific pillars and edifices of the status quo with which we have to contend. It seems like a David and Goliath kind of mismatch. Thus it was exceedingly satisfying to read […]
By Law or Grace
Glen Martin has been involved in neurofeedback since 1993. He happened to be home sick on January 12 th of that year, and tuned in to the Home Show at which we demonstrated our neurofeedback instrument. The economy was in the doldrums at the time, and his own office finances were iffy, but nevertheless he […]
In Memoriam: Marjorie Toomim
One of the privileges of working in the early development of a field is that most of the pioneers are still around, and we get to know them all personally. We have lost Neil Miller, Chuck Stroebel, and Barbara Brown, and now Marjorie Toomim, but most of the people from the early days of the […]
Report on the Winter Brain Conference
This was the thirteenth Winter Brain Conference, the first in some time without its own special T-shirt. The crowd was somewhat smaller this year than in the past couple of years. This tends to happen when the location stays the same for too many years, although the Hilton was certainly a good host, and the […]
Winter Brain Conference
We are once again at the threshold of the Winter Brain Conference. Preliminary conferences are already going on. This year will mark the entry of EEG Support into the hardware business. With the help of a few gnomes of Zurich we have developed a QIKtest device that allows us to run a variety of choice […]