Thursday

9:00 Meeting Opening Rob Kall

9:15 Training to Achieve an Ideal Performance State Michael & Lynda Thompson

 

10:00 Immune and psychological enhancement through self-hypnosis training. John Gruzelier

 

10:45 Break

11:00 Using EFT for Optimal Functioning

Gary Craig

 

11:20 Interleaving 21 and 40 Hz Training For Peak Performance: How A Pair Can Beat A Full House Valdeane Brown

 

12:05 Audio-Visual Entrainment as Applied to Peak

Performance David Siever

 

12:35 Lunch Break

2:00 Key Insights from my Ten Years at Tools: BioPhysics, Neuro-optimization, Neuromysticism, & an Emerging New Multi- medium Terry Patten

 

2:45 What’s the bottom line? Biofeedback in a Health Spa Mary Deits

 

3:05 Optimizing Education & Entertainment

Jim Hardt

 

3:20 Preparing the Client for Increased Retention

Paul Swingle

 

3:40 Break

4:00 Integrating the Spiritual and Ineffable into your Training Strategies. Judith Lubar

4:45 Zygomation; Smile Work Rob Kall

 

5:30 Optimal Functioning Plenary lectures end

 

7:00-9:00 Training to Achieve an Optimal (Ideal) Performance State: Optional Workshop

9:00-11:00 Combined Reception for all Winter Brain Meeting Events, incuding Sing Along (with lyrics on overheads)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday

7:00 The Freeze- Framer: A New Heart Rate Variability Monitor Terry Patten

 

7:20 Audio-Visual Entrainment, its effects On Producing Dissociation & Related Clinical Implications

Dave Siever

 

7:40 Good and Bad Alpha Bill Scott

 

8:10 Neurofeedback for Optimal Functioning with Psychotherapy Patients Linda Mason

 

8:30 Exhibit Hall Break

8:45 Macro and Micro Management of Neurofeedback Treatment Resulting in Long Term Positive Change Judith O. Lubar

 

9:30 Conference Greeting: Making a Conscious Health Revolution Happen Rob Kall

 

10:05 Break

10:25 Effects of AVS on academic performance

Thomas Budzynski

 

11:20 Using EFT for Optimal Functioning Gary Craig

 

8:35 Exhibit Hall Break

11:50 Client Transformations in Mind, Body & Spirit: Patterns, Milestones & Interventions. Rhonda Greenberg

 

12:20 Optimizing Brain Balance with Nutritional Supple- ments: Use of vitamins, minerals, herbs, amino acids, and essential fatty acids to restore normal brain chemistry for such conditions as anxiety, depression, ADD, and PMS Hyla Cass MD

 

1:00 Lunch

2:00 "A" workshops

4:00 "B" workshops

7:00 PM Effect of SMR/Beta Training on Neurocognitive Performance David Kaiser

 

7:30 Spiritual Experiences Through 4-Channel Biocybe-rnaut Alpha Training James V. Hardt

 

8:15 Break

8:30 Deep EEG Training & the Evolution of Human Consciousness Fri Evening Steve Wall

 

9:45-10:30 Explaining the Spectrum of Self- Regulation: Mastery, Mystery, & the Technologies of Transformation Joel & Michelle Levy

 

Saturday

 

7:15 Audiovisual Entrainment with ADD & Reading Problems in a School Setting David Siever

 

7:30 The Effects of Performance Enhancement Training on Human Attention, Hypertension, Stress, & Brain Wave Patterns S.Louise Norris

 

7:50 ADD - Cutting Edge Interventions: Biofeedback, NeuroFB, Metacognition and Sound Therapy Michael & Lynda Thompson

 

8:35 Exhibit Hall Break

8:55 How Biofeedback is Performed in Public Schools Mary Jo Sabo

 

9:40 Neurofeedback in the Schools: an Administrator’s Perspective Linda Vergara

 

Weaving Peripheral Biofeedback & Energy Therapies with EEG in ADD/ADHD Lynda Kirk

 

ADHD: The New Untermenschen? Thom Hartmann  6000 word essay: Click here 

 

Relationships between Stimulant Medications, Quantitative EEG, Neurofeedback and Clinical Outcome Joel F. Lubar

 

The What & Why of Threshold Based Proportional Feedback Frank Deits

 

The EEG, Brain States, & Self-Regulation  Siegfried Othmer

 

Is Neurofeedback Treatment Effective ? You Bet Your QEEG it is ! Elsa Baehr, & Peter Rosenfeld

 

Integrating Q-EEG & Computerized Tests into Accurate Testing for ADD Michael Linden

 

Brain Wave Signatures for False Memory, Conscious and Unconcious Recognition

J. Peter Rosenfeld

 

Functional Significance of EEG Activities in the 10-20 Hz Range During Attentive States M. Barry Sterman

 

An Update on the Recent Changes of FDA Regulations as it Relates to the Biofeedback Manufacturers and Users     Anand Akerkar & Alan P. Schwartz

 

Gamma-Band EEG Oscillations and Conscious Perception; A New Discovery in a Patient with Somatic Hallucinations John Gruzelier

 

Neural Dynamics of Traumatic Brain Injury       Robert Thatcher

 

QEEG Profiles of Psychiatric and Medical Conditions: A Review from Published Literature Corydon Hammond

 

A Paradigm Shift: "We are on the Ground Floor of A Healing Highrise" Gary Craig

 

Panel Discussion: In Search of a Common Thread: Exploring the Neurophysiologal and Energetic Base for the New "Power Therapies" used in Treatment of Trauma. Moderator: Patricia Carrington, Panelists: Gary Craig, Michael Gismondi, Carol Schneider, Robert Scaer

 

Steady State Evoked Potentials - A New Channel for EEG Biofeedback? Thomas F. Collura

 

Can You Really Use the Internet for Your Research Patricia Carrington

 

Circadian and Ultradian Rhythms in Topographic EEG across the Waking Day David Kaiser

 

Non-Linear Data Analysis And 21 Hz Augmentation Training Valdeane Brown

 

Clinical Observations With Thinking Cap^TM Hershel Toomim

 

Designing NF Interventions Based On qEEG Evaluation Jay Gunkelman

 

QEEG Panel: The Role of QEEG in Evaluation and Treatment Chair: Linda Mason

 

EEG Biofeedback for Chronic Depression.     S. Louise Norris

 

Wideband Amplitude Reduction: Why It Ought To Be In Your Bag Of Tricks and When You Should Be Careful With It Dan Maust

 

Measuring and Improving Cardiovascular Homeostasis By Heart Breathing Biofeedback

Paul Lehrer

 

Twilight Learning in the Treatment of a Case of Sexual Abuse and Sexual Aversion Corydon Hammond

 

Recent Advances in the Neuro and Behavioral Sciences: Implications after Central Nervous System Damage for Biofeedback and Neurofeedback Applications to Stroke, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Spinal Cord Injury Bernard S. Brucker

 

Pulsed Electromagnetic Fields: Biological and Therapeutic Effects Martha Lappin, Ph.D.

 

The Dangers of Balance Len Ochs

 

Brain Stimulation Panel Chair: Paul Swingle, with Len Ochs, Martha Lappin, Tom Budzynski

 

Survival of Consciousness and the Brain Gary Schwartz

 

Why You Need 3- Dimensions to

Understand QEEG Results William J. Hudspeth

 

Whiplash, Pain & PTSD: The Gain in Pain Comes Mainly From the Brain Robert Scaer

 

"Quirks" of Coherence Biofeedback Training   Joe Horvat

 

Schizophrenic Patients are Capable of NFB Training. John Gruzelier

 

The Hijacked Brain, Subcortical Survival Mechanisms and Alpha-Theta Training. Sue Othmer

 

Frontal Lobe Electro-physiological Evaluation Jay Gunkelman

 

New News about the Neurobiology of the Cortical Pathways of Distress Carol Schneider

 

Practice Promotion: Strategies for Success, Pitfalls to Avoid Mike Linden

 

Discussion on Practice Issues

 

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Detailed Plenary Session Abstracts and   Workshop Descriptions

Conference Vision

To bring together the field's best leaders, innovators and thinkers to share advanced, cutting edge ideas & techniques, network,& advance the fields forward while having tropical fun. The meeting covers the cutting edges of the world of mind brain and consciousness measurement, modification and training. Main themes include neurofeedback, brain mapping, qEEG, ADD, sound/light technology peak performance, brain/mind smart drugs, nutrients, power therapies, etc., clinical neuropsychophysiology and related economics, and consciousness. Over 50 speakers and 25+ workshops and a great exhibit hall. . None of the speakers are paid to present. They come because they want to hear the best experts in the world sharing their newest findings and ideas, at the first place they are reported, and they enjoy the quality of the questions and the dialogue. The workshops are extraordinary opportunities to get in-depth information, training or just the thinking of the masters of the Brain/Mind arts and sciences universe.

Meeting Exhibitors:

Futurehealth, Inc., EEG Spectrum, Thought Technology, Autogenics-Stoelting,

Tools for Exploration,  Focus Technologies, Bioresearch Institute (BioIntegrator),

Biofeedback Research Institute (BioComp), Winter's Tale, Lexicor, Takion, Wave Access,