On the Life of Marian Diamond
Marian Diamond, first female science professor at Cornell, and later neuroscience researcher at Berkeley, has ‘graduated out of mortality’ at the age of ninety. The research on which her fame rests was done in the sixties. At that time, she established that rats living in an enriched environment benefited vis-a-vis rats in an impoverished environment […]
A Remarkable Recovery
By Siegfried Othmer, PhD After more than thirty years in neurofeedback one is less likely to be surprised by a particular clinical outcome than in an earlier day. A few months ago Kurtis Walton sent me a set of pre-post QIKtests (CPT) that showed startling change where that had not really been expected, so that […]
“Neurofeedback: Significance for Psychiatry”
By Siegfried Othmer, PhD This is the title of an article by Simkin and Lubar that recently appeared in Psychiatric Times. I suspect that much of it was written by Simpkin rather than Lubar because parts of it do not read like his papers. Also some of the content is quite startling.
Faith Healing
By Siegfried Othmer, PhD The Los Angeles Times today (4/19/17) focused on the issue of faith healing and its sanctioning under the law in Idaho. Leading off was the story of a mother who had lost four children. Yes, she confessed to some anger at God at the loss of her four children, but matters […]
Morgan’s Success Story
As submitted by her mother, Lisa Taylor, a neurofeedback practitioner: Morgan was an energetic, outgoing child with a whole lot of personality. She had all the confidence in the world, even with Tourette’s Syndrome. We taught her that people stare because they are concerned and wanted to make sure she was okay, or that they could […]
We Don’t Need No Freakin’ Tooth Fairy!
By Siegfried Othmer, PhD A good many years ago a writer for Fortune Magazine inquired with business managers about how they kept tabs on employee theft. The answer surprised him: “We ask the employees.” It turns out that those who steal from their employers assume that everyone does so, and they strategize that it would […]
The Universe Within
By Glen Martin (Part III of III) If I had chosen the route of medical referral for my son for his bipolar behaviour, or the medical recommendation for my father for his dementia, the outcomes would have been dramatically different. Over the years I saw hundreds of children whose medications activated a genetic predisposition for […]
On King Lear and Peacocks
A recent article in the NY Review of Books covers an ongoing controversy about the major differences in an early version of King Lear and the later version, the First Folio. The book under review makes the case for a definitive version that has gone missing.