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 […]
Integrating the field: Rumination on our past and future
By Siegfried Othmer, PhD Integrating the Field: The Panel Discussion The integration of our field was the topic of the opening panel discussion at the 2016 Annual Conference of the Western Association for Biofeedback and Neuroscience (WABN). The event was an auspicious beginning for the meeting. It reflected the very spirit of mutual acceptance that […]
Use of Infra-Low Frequency Neurofeedback in Trauma Recovery of Victims of Torture
By Siegfried Othmer, PhD Surely among the most intractable of conditions encountered in mental health practice are victims of torture. A number of these were among the war refugees being cared for in Sweden, and they have not responded to conventional therapies over a period of years in most cases. After good experience with trauma […]