EEG INFO – Articles on Neurofeedback
Weekly newsletter covering Neurofeedback & Biofeedback: Research, Application, Testimonials
So pronounces the headline in the Los Angeles Times. Needed are allied health professionals, those of lesser credentials who nevertheless are crucial to the medical enterprise. Involved here are some two hundred occupations ranging from respiratory care practitioners to radiographers to paper pushers. These allied professionals make up some 60% of the labor pool in … Continue reading “Wanted: More Health Workers”
Two powerful individuals are combining their efforts and resources in a renewed campaign against the scourge of tobacco: Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York City. Despite best efforts to date to change behavior, about one billion people still smoke; half die prematurely from smoking-related causes; and the typical loss of life expectancy … Continue reading “A Renewed Campaign Against Smoking”
Our migraine symposium was the last scheduled item on the program. It was to be conducted by Frank Andrasik, Jeff Carmen, Deborah Stokes, and me, but Frank was unable to be there. The attendance was huge, given the late positioning in the schedule. On the previous occasion, in 2004, we were crowded into a smaller … Continue reading “Report on the AAPB Conference in Daytona Beach, FL”
In this newsletter we take a look at two recently published books that represent two ends of the spectrum of neurofeedback approaches. They reflect divisions within the field that have remained unreconciled over the decades. They also reflect their authors, who have taken very different approaches in their scientific research. The Open Focus Brain This … Continue reading “Catching up on Book Reviews”
Sometimes we who work with neurofeedback have the impression of living in a parallel universe. We live with a view of reality that is attaining increasing confirmation via formal studies while at the same time becoming much more clinically effective, yet it is a view that appears to be almost completely disconnected from mainstream thinking. … Continue reading “Parallel Universes”
It was my hope that the Biofeedback Society of California Annual Conference would offer a favorable climate for the cross-fertilization between peripheral and EEG biofeedback that now badly needs to occur. In actual fact, the rather large program made for considerable fragmentation and splintering of the audience, as nearly everyone gravitated to their own traditional … Continue reading “Report on the BSC Conference”