Progress in Remediating PTSD

The occasion of Memorial Day 2011 is a good opportunity to reflect on what has been happening in the remediation of PTSD using our latest Infra-Low Frequency (ILF) neurofeedback training. The word breakthrough is over-used, but it does describe the progress that has occurred over the last several years. The most significant event over that … Continue reading “Progress in Remediating PTSD”

Dave Duerson’s Suicide

Bill Dwyre, sports writer for the Los Angeles Times, took up the cause of Dave Duerson in an emotionally piercing piece on February 25. Duerson shot himself in the heart in order to preserve his brain for head-injury research. What Duerson clearly did not know, along with nearly everyone in the field of medicine, is … Continue reading “Dave Duerson’s Suicide”

Dysponesis

The Dysponesis HypothesisWe are always casting about for better ways to frame the work that we do in order to make it comprehensible to other professionals and lay persons. Sometime it helps to dip into past history to see how others wrestled with the same issue. One notion that has threaded its way through is … Continue reading “Dysponesis”

On Major Nidal Malik Hasan

Up to this point, commentary on Major Hasan has had as much to do with us, the observers, as with Hasan himself, given how little we actually know about him. One wants to be careful not to jump to conclusions prematurely. That may also have been at work early on while Major Hasan was working … Continue reading “On Major Nidal Malik Hasan”

The Crisis in Health Care

When health care was last dealt with in 1993, a reform proposal was sent to Congress that promised to restructure health care. But the existing interest groups managed to kill the proposal. Now that all of the stake holders are at the table in the latest effort to reform health care, it is guaranteed that … Continue reading “The Crisis in Health Care”

The Virtual Economy

Some years ago the parent of an ADHD child we had trained told us, “I would have given my house for what you have done for my child.” Nowadays such sentiments are more likely to be expressed by parents of autistic children. Not every person who pays for our services feels this way, but clearly … Continue reading “The Virtual Economy”