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Bio-Psy Volume 2 #1
Published and Edited by Rob Kall, FUTUREHEALTH Inc, biofeedback and Stress
Management tool supplier founder and organizer of the 6th annual Winter Conference
on Brain Function/EEG, Modification & Training: Neurofeedback, qEEG, ADD,
Sound/Light, Consciousness, Peak Performance Advanced Meeting Colloquium (formerly
Known as the Key West EEG Meeting)
Table of Contents
1)front of zine stuff (unsubscribing, forwarding, contributors wanted, accessing past
issues)
2) Editors Note
3)hot web page news (complete abstracts of the 97 Winter Brain meeting-- FREE, and more!)
4)'98 Winter Brain Conference early speaker info, discount registration info
5)Positivity/Negativity Traits
(a chart from Rob Kalls model of positivity/positive experience training.)
6) Managed Care Heaven Joke
7) SSNR (Society of Neuronal Regulation) Sept 1997annual meeting
Announcement, schedule and DETAILED ABSTRACTS
1)front of zine stuff (unsubscribing, forwarding, contributors wanted)
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we'd like to have an opportunity to evaluate it for our publication. First rights or
reprints. Announcements about meetings will also be considered for inclusion.
d) Reviewers wanted. Send us your reviews of books, tapes, movies, software, tests,
techniques--
whatever you think BioPsy readers will be interested in.
e) Past issues of BioPsy are available at FUTUREHEALTH's and Rob Kall's Website
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/SMILE/
(0ver 80 web-pages of biofeedback, mind body, meeting, pain, EMG, Positive
Paradigms, web links, related information, articles, and product information--,
recently printed out to produce over 450 printed pages.
and in the library of Compuserve's Mind/Brain/Body Sciences Forum (go MIND)
2)
Editor's Note
a) Meetings
b) Antidepressants and children
a) Meetings
There are two meetings announced in this issue of our zine. We are making an early
announcement about the Feb 6-10, Palm Springs Location of Our 6th Winter Brain
conference, with an early listing of speakers and early registration discount prices.
The major Meeting announcement though, is the soon approaching SSNR meeting. Weve
included the complete presentation and workshops schedule and all the abstracts SSNR
provided to us. It looks like it will be a good meeting, perhaps SSNRs best yet.
You might ask why we give such strong support to SSNRs meeting, which certainly, at some
levels, competes with ours. The answer is, that weve offered and tried to make as much
synergy happen as is reciprocally possible between related organizations. This year,
unlike past years, SSNR has reached out shown a serious commitment, at the board and
leader level to build bridges and work to gether to help the field grow. We want to
support this kind of cooperative attitude and invite proposals and suggestions from
others. (We offer to announce other meetings too, if we are supplied with keyed-in text,
that does not need to be processed.)
b) Antidepressants in children.
This past Sundays front page of the New York Times reported that there has been a
huge increase in the prescribing of antidepressants for children between six and
eighteen. There was a 298% increase in presciptions for Prozac for children 6-12.
Yet there is almost no research, and only one not very impressive study to support the use
of these medications in over 600,000 children already. And by the year 1999, with this
rate of growth, we can expect to see over 2 million kids on prozac. Sound familiar?
Does Ritalin come to mind?
You see, the pharmaceutical companies have seen a flattening in the growth of sales to
adults. They see children as another target market promising more billions of dollars in
sales growth. This was very consistent with what I saw at the annual ADDA meeting (an
excellent meeting, worth attending if you work with ADD/ADHD adults.) There are many
doctors lecturing on the combineing of different medications-- antidepressants with
stimulants in particular. And there are no studies showing that this works. The approach
does seem to make sense. But I see no hue and cry for double blind controlled studies
llike weve seen for neurofeedback. There is a huge hypocrisy here. And I also see a just
below the surface fear that meds will be taken away. Meds can do amazing things for some
people. But it frightens me how so many kids are being normalized. The history of
humanity has ubiquitously included falling down and learning how to get up, learning from
mistakes, learning from suffering. Some of the best inventions and solutions have come
about because someone was so pissed about how things were going. All these meds take away
these aversive gifts, which like the sand pebble, lead the oyster to create the
perfect pearl. I dont think its a good idea to teach people not to expect suffering or
discomfort. Our approahces teach people how to take control of thier lives and their
health. This makes sense.
3)hot web page news (complete abstracts of the 97 Winter Brain meeting-- FREE, and more!)
Weve uploaded the complete Abstracts text of the 1997 Winter Brain meeting-- both
presentations and workshops. Theres a lot of meat here. Most non-profit organizations sell
a handful and use those sales as an excuse to not freely share the info. The web changes
this. This for-profit organization is setting a new precedent-- We will post the abstracts
to our meeting six months after the meeting, so they are available for downloading or
printing out to all, at no charge. Lets hope this sets an example that is followed by
AAPB, SSNR, SPR, SBM, APA, AAPM APS, AABT and others.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/smile/97eegab1.htm
Weve also added more website links and more pages on:
-Quotations on Balance (as an addition to our Quotation Central) along with numerous new
quotation wesite links
-Anatomy of Positive Experience outline
-More website links.
-Early info: First Attentional Difference/ADD/ Neurobehavioral Continuum Meeting
for Professionals
-Positivity Central: A page which pulls together the numerous other pages we offer
covering articles, website links, the KPEI positive experience inventory, quotations, the
Positive Pardigms
Meeting Project, etc.
You can get to all of these new web pages form our table of contents.
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4)'98 Winter Brain Conference early speaker info, discount registration info
E-mail, phone, fax us or check the following website for the latest updates.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/smile/97brainm.htm
1998, 6th Annual Winter Conference on Brain Function, Modification & Training;
Advanced Neurofeedback Meeting/Colloquium, February 6-10, Palm Springs, Cal.
Pre-conference Neurofeedback Foundations Course, Feb 5th (available on tape)
Pre-conference advanced Course in Optimal Functioning and Peak Performance Feb 5.
Organized By Rob Kall
Speakers (many who present at onlyi one neurofeedback meeting-- this one)include:
Tom Allen, Elsa Baer, Geoffrey Blundell, Valdeane Brown, Tom Brownback Tom Budzynski,
Tom Collura, Frank Deits, Frank Echenhoffer, Jay Gunkelman, James Hardt, Thom
Hartmann,
Michael Hutchison, Julian Isaacs, Rob Kall, Linda Kirk, Michael Linden, Joel
Lubar,
Judith Lubar, Carol Manchester, Lindo Mason S. Louise Norris, Len Ochs, Siegfried
Othmer,
Karl Pribram, Susan Othmer, Gene Penniston, Peter Rosenfeld, Gary Schwartz, David
Seiver,
Lynda Thompson, Michael Thompson, Barry Sterman, Mary Jo Sabo,
Richard Williams, Anna Wise
The Winter Brain Conference is the world's largest meeting focusing on neurofeedback
and it's related subjects. In a time when attendance at meetings has been shrinking, the
Winter
Brain conference's attendance has grown 25-50 percent each year since its founding.
The goal is to make an advanced meeting-- an intellectual "salon" where leaders
in the field can
present and share ideas starting at an advanced level. If you are a novice, considering
attending
this meeting, there is a one day pre-conference neurofeedback foundations Course which
will help you be prepared to understand the more advanced discussions which occur at the
meeting. The 30+ optional workshops range from intermediate to advanced neurofeedback and
some cover related areas, such as sound light stimulation, techniques in related fields,
etc. By taking the foundations course and selected workshops, as well as the main meeting,
we believe you can prepare yourself for work as a neurofeedback trainer-- not completely
though. After attending the meeting, you will know which trainers you want the further
training-- an intensive 4-7 day period of didactica and hands-on learning usually-- which
will round off your skills.
Palm Springs is beautiful in February-- routinely the warmest place in the continental
USA. Make sure, as a part of your stay, that you visit the oasis, five minutes from the
conference hotel, on native American Indian lands. It is a lush, Tropical dream scene with
towering palms, mountain streams, pools of beautiful water, huge boulders, guaranteed to
please.
And the restaurant selection is awesome.
Endorsements from Leaders in the field and newcomers:
The premier meeting in the entire area of EEG BF and an outstanding opportunity for
in-depth
interaction with the experts in the field.
Joel Lubar, Past President AAPB
A unique, congenial and free- wheeling forum for the exchange of
practical information and
ideas about the brain. My favorite brain meeting
Barry Sterman
Best meeting in Neuro-FB I've yet attended.
Peter Rosenfeld, AAPB Past Pres
The best of the best from the best. A veritable banquet for the discriminating mind
tech
gourmet. The only meeting which succeds at bringing it all together in a synergistic
and
congenial atmosphere. In other words, I like it! <g> Dennis Campbell, EEG
Spectrum, Megabrain Journal
If I had to choose only one conference a year to attend, it would be your EEG
meeting.
A wonderful opportunity to experience the whole spectrum of the most up-to-date and
leading
edge work in NF. It's hard to synthesize into words what an incredible
experience your
97 conference was. The words "family" & "community" aren't even
strong enough to describe the
sense of sharing, communion, creativity, and openness that I experienced in Palm Springs.
I
truly believe this field is coming together as never before, and your conference provides
it
a home base and a launching point. Anna Wise, author; The High Performance
Mind
the single most important event of the year for practitioners, theorists, and lay people
in the
ADD arena. Rob Kall's EEG annual conference is the best of all the conferences I've
ever
attended or presented at. In particular, I appreciate the casual atmosphere, the
opportunities
for discussion and cross-pollination of topics and new information, and the omnipresent
Jacuzzi.
This conference has an extremely high level of scientific and speculative
information combined
with an honest, humility, and humanity which is usually lacking from those conferences put
on by
"associations" and "professional groups" who are often more interested
in status, politics, and
self-aggrandizement than they are in people learning and enjoying themselves.
Thom Hartmann, Success with ADD, ADD: A different Perspective, The Prophet's Way
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5) Positivity/Negativity Traits
(a chart from Rob Kalls model of positivity/positive experience training.)
POSITIVITY Traits NEGATIVITY Traits
empower & facilitate weaken & hinder
energize
sap & parasitize
open and flexible narrow, rigid,
love, care & commit fear, neglect & scorn
embrace opportunity blind and avoiding
appreciative, finds the good puts down, complains
plans & acts to improve reacts to fix or avoid
is warm & full hearted is cold & empty hearted
enthusiastic & optimistic cynical & pessimistic
challenged and winning overwhelmed and losing
curious and intrigued bored and apathetic
expects & creates success expects & sets up failure
cooperation & teamwork isolation & dissension
pleasant, peaceful & kind angry, mean & hateful
healing, wholistic, healthy hurting, frequently ill
persistent, self starting quitter, dependent, stuck
happy, hopeful, connected depressed, cynical, aloof
altruistic, connected self-centered, sociopathic
honest, good character dishonest, dissipated,
creative, sense of humor bored, humorless
spontaneous, quick constricted, retarded
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6) Managed Care Joke
Announcement, schedule and abstracts
3 nurses die and appear before St Peter at the pearly gates. St Peter, of
course, questions each in turn to determine their eligibility to enter heaven.
He asks the first nurse, "What did you do with your life on earth?"
The nurse replies, "I worked in an emergency room. It could be very hectic,
and sometimes violent and bloody, but almost every day we were able to
save a few lives."
St Peter says,"Great! Come on in! Enjoy Heaven!"
Then he turns to the 2nd nurse, "Tell me what you did with your life on earth."
The 2nd nurse says, "I was a hospice nurse. Sometimes it could be very
depressing, since all our clients would die sooner more often than later, but
still it was very rewarding to know that our work was easing someone's
passage into the next life."
St Peter says, "Great! Enter the Pearly Gates! Enjoy Heaven!"
And turning to the 3rd nurse, he asks, "What did you do with your life on
earth?"
The 3rd nurse replies, "I was a managed care nurse, and I worked for an HMO."
St Peter pulls out his laptop, brings up his spreadsheet program, grabs his
pocket calculator, some pencils, a crayon, and spends a minute or two typing,
calculating, and scribbling figures. Then he turns again to the 3rd nurse.
"Great! I can give you up to 5 days in Heaven!"
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7) SSNR (Society of Neuronal Regulation) annual meeting
SSNR 5th Annual MeetingAspen, CO Sept. 18-21, 1997Program
Chairs David L. Trudeau, MD and Jay Gunkelman, QEEGT
Society for the Study of Neuronal Regulation
President, Steve Stockdale, Ph.D., Colorado Springs, CO
President Elect, Lynda Kirk, MNLP, Austin, TX
Secretary, Ellen Saxby, RN, Carmel, CA
Treasurer, Nancy White, Ph.D., Houston, TX
Sergeant at Arms, David L. Trudeau, M.D., St. Paul, MN
Member at Large, Harold L. Russell, Ph.D., Galveston, TX
Past President, Dale Walters, Ph.D., Topeka, KS
Program Schedule SSNR 5th Annual Meeting, Aspen Colorado, Sept 18-21,1997.
See www.ssnr.com for registration, hotel, travel, and abstracts.
1997 Society for the Study of Neuronal Regulation (SSNR) 5th Annual Meeting
Colorado Biofeedback Society (CAAPB) Conference
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Thursday, September 18, 1997
General Session - SSNR
8:35 - 9:30 Invited Papers
Robert Chabot, Ph.D., " ADD/ADHD/LD: Patterns in QEEG predicting
medication response and outcome"
Bill Hudspeth, Ph.D., "Neuroelectric Imaging: a new frontier in
neurometrics"
Research Paper Presentations
Ken Blum, Ph.D., "Genetic evidence of a reward
deficiency in ADHD"
Don Bars, Ph.D., "Visual EP in explosive behavior and rumination: a signature
response"
Daniel Hoffman, M.D. Steve Stockdale Ph.D., " A new approach to neuronal
regulation of pain without using neurofeedback.
2:00 - 4:00 SSNR Workshops:
(1) Basics of QEEG:
Gunkelman
(2) Cognitive therapy and NF
Tim/Cassie Tinius
(3) Neuronutrients and gene analysis Blum
4:15- 6:15 SSNR Workshops:
(4) Neurofeedback in Peak Performance
Crane
(5) Using EPs in Clinical Practice
Bars
(6) Validity and QEEG Databases
Hudspeth
6:30- Vendor Hosted Wine/Cheese
social
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Friday, September 19, 1997
General Session - SSNR
8:30 - 9:30 Invited Papers
Vietta "Sue" Wilson, Ph.D., "Research Review of EEG in
Sport."
Joel Lubar Ph.D. A Study of the effects of single and multi- session AV
Stimulation on EEG and performance
Robert Thatcher, Ph.D., " Correlation of quantitative MRI, QEEG and psychometrics in
TBI"
Research Paper Presentations
John Nash Ph.D. "Vision retraining and Neurofeedback in MTBI "
Tim Tinius, Ph.D., "Cognitive training and NF in MTBI and ADD
CAAPB General Sessions
1:00 - 2:00 Dave Drage on creating your own WEB page.
2:00 -4:00 Mary Ann Kestly review of EMG database, developing outcomes research.
4:00-5:00 Liana Mattulich and Bob Whitehouse on prime performance.
2:00 - 4:00 SSNR Workshops
(7)Peak Performance in Athletics
Wilson
(8) Alpha-Theta for Couples
Saxby
(9) Neurometrics and QEEG in children Chabot
4:15- 6:15 SSNR Workshops
(10) Neurometrics/QEEG Update
Thatcher
(11)Listening to Nature: New Approaches to Neurofeedback Sams
6:30- SSNR Banquet and Meeting under the Stars
Steve Stockdale, Ph.D. , Presidential Address Business meeting ($30
buffet - all you can eat pasta and salad with meat and vegitarian entrees)
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Saturday, Sept. 20, 1997
General Session - SSNR
Invited Paper
Paul Kulkosky, Ph.D., " Experiments in brainwave therapy in alcoholism
Research Paper Presentations
Graap, Kenneth, M.Ed., "Outcomes using the Peniston-Kulkosky Protocol in
PTSD"
Tom Budzynski, Ph.D. "The Case for Alpha - Theta"
John Gilbert, Ph.D. "Slow waves in Neurofeedback"
John Ziobro, "New Assessment and Training Software for the A620"
Marvin Sams, Ph.D., " Theta, Don't Tread on Me"
General Sesion CAAPB
9:00 - 5:00 A day with Joe Kamiya Ph.D. on Biofeedback for a complete human science.
SSNR Workshops
(12) ADHD and Family Dynamics
Joel/Judith Lubar
(13) Practical Internet Skills
Theil
(14) Peak Attention; wide band feedback. Cowan (limit 10)
(15) QEEG advanced topics
Gunkelman
(16) Peak Attention; wide band feedback. Cowan (limit 10)
(17) Business oportunities in peak performance training. Moroney
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Sunday, Sept 21, 1997
Conjoint Session - SSNR and CAAPB:
New Concepts in Trauma Related Syndromes
Joe Kamiya moderator
Carol Schneider on clinical symptoms of frontal lobe injuries
Bob Scaer on Peter Levines Somatic Experience
Daniel Hoffman on evaluation of the MTBI patient
Tim Tinius on the strengths and weaknesses of neuropsych tests
Tom Budzinski on AVS augmentation of neurofeedback
Conference Notes:
Vendors in Bedford Lobby throughout the conference.
Scientific Paper Abstracts
Experiments on Brainwave Therapy for Alcoholism. Paul J. Kulkosky, Ph.D.
In 1989, E.G. Peniston and P.J. Kulkosky published an innovative
therapy for the treatment of alcoholism and prevention of its relapse.
This therapy combined systematic desensitization, temperature biofeedback,
guided imagery, constructed visualizations, rhythmic breathing, autogenic
training, alpha theta brainwave biofeedback, and booster sessions to treat
chronic alcoholism in male inpatients. This Peniston & Kulkosky Brainwave
Neurofeedback Therapy increased alpha and theta brainwave production;
normalized personality measures, prevented a rise in beta endorphin-levels;
and produced a prolonged prevention of relapse, in comparison with
traditionally treated and nonalcoholic controls. Subsequent internal
replications demonstrated this therapys effectiveness in treatment of
inpatients symptoms of PTSD in association with alcohol abuse. Although
there have been several external case studies supportive of this novel
therapeutic approach, there have been few controlled experiments published.
To convince a skeptical general scientific and clinical audience to accept
this alternative therapy, a large scale, external, direct replication must
be published in a mainstream journal. Deviation from original procedures of
Peniston and Kulkosky may preclude similar results. However, future
research designs could also address the following: 1) the external,
systematic replicability of the method results in diverse populations with
traditionally treated matched control groups; 2) the essential components
and durations in this multiple stage therapy required for therapeutic
advantage; 3) extension via conceptual replication beyond alcoholism and
PTSD to the treatment of other psychopathology and 4) the physiological and
psychological processes of the therapeutic effects. For example, extensive
research confirms that endogenous neuropeptides are physiological stimuli
for the initiation and termination of alcohol ingestion. newly approved
pharmacological therapy for alcoholism is based on the neuropeptide control
of alcohol intake. Future research on brainwave therapy for alcoholism can
address how regulatory neuropeptides are affected by the procedures of
biofeedback. Only carefully controlled experimentation can advance wide
acceptance of brainwave therapy for alcoholism and related-disorders.
Visual Evoked Potentials and Explosive Behaviors: A Brain Signature
Response. Donald R. Bars, PH.D.; F. LaMarr Heyrend, MD; Dene Simpson, PH.D.
Since 1990 our clinic has conducted over 1200
computerized
electro-encephalogram (CEEG) and cortical evoked potential (EP) studies of
children and adolescents exhibiting a variety of psychiatric disorders.
Across the years, clinical observations suggested that when the occipital
lobe showed a high amplitude response during pattern reversal visual evoked
potential
(PREP) patients typically had histories of major difficulty in controlling
emotional responses. This paper presents the results of a study conducted
to determine if the amplitude of the P100 wave form predicts explosive
behavior in children and adolescents.
CEEG and visual and auditory EP studies of all
patients, age 6 to
18 years, seen during 1966 (N=177) were compared based upon the presence or
absence of explosive behaviors. (Analysis of other data is under way and
will be addressed in future papers.) Logistic regression was used to
evaluate the relationship of the amplitude of the P100 wave form recorded
from occipital electrodes (O1/O2).
Patients who exhibited explosive,
out-of-control behaviors were
significantly more likely to have high amplitude P100s (p<.0001). Grouping
individuals as high amplitude or not, based upon our clinical guidelines
(high amplitude = greater-than-or-equal-to 11 uV) still showed a
significant relationship with explosive behavior (p<.005).
These findings indicate that the use of PREP
studies allows the
identification of one subset of individuals who have organically based
explosive behavior tendencies. It strongly suggests that much explosive
behavior is biological and not the result of "bad" parenting skills. The
information provided by this study allows more appropriate intervention and
treatment strategies to be implemented, while providing a better
therapeutic relationship with the patients and parents.
Treasure Valley NeuroScience Center, Boise, Idaho
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Binocular Vision and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. John K. Nash, Ph.D.
The primary cue to depth is binocular disparity. The images from
the eyes must be precisely overlapped quickly and automatically; this is
called fusion. The brain must then create the appearance of a depth field
from the range of fused objects of varying binocular disparities. This is
called stereopsis. Stereopsis is the visual equivalent of stereophonic
sound.
Patients with mild traumatic brain injury routinely show severely
impaired fusion and
stereopsis. They may also experience accommodative disorders, meaning that
one or both
eyes fail to adjust rapidly to different viewing distances. Patients
experience a range of symptoms from "eye socket" headaches and impaired
ability to judge distances to frank diplopia - double vision - while
reading or looking at nearby objects. The most common symptom is that the
world loses its beauty and appears flat, one thing "stuck" on the next,
much the way a stereo system sounds if switched to "mono."
Data will be presented on MTBI patients with these impairments and
on their subsequent
recovery of binocular visual function with a combination of orthoptic
visual therapy and neurotherapy. Visual therapy is supervised by a
developmental optometrist. Patients receive guided practice with a variety
of binocular visual stimuli, gradually extending their ability to create
normal fusion and stereopsis. Accommodative disorders can be treated
through a combination of proper lenses and training procedures.
The recovery of visual function is often rapid (10-20 sessions)
when visual therapy is
coupled with neurotherapy. Improving binocular vision is separate but
complementary to improving memory, concentration and multi-tasking
abilities. The improvement in vision causes a positive effect on a wide
range of symptoms, including affect and attention. Patients report improved
mood, confidence in spatial judgments and a great sense of relief and
amazement that they can see in "3-D."
--
John K. Nash, Ph.D.
Licensed Psychologist
http://www.qeeg.com
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EEG Biofeedback Treatment for Vietnam Veterans Suffering from Post
Traumatic Stress Disorder Ken Graap, M.Ed. 1, David J. Ready, Ph.D. 2,
David Freides, Ph.D. 1, Bob Danials, Ph.D. 2, David Baltzell, M.D. 1
Acknowledgments:
Rachel Dupre 1, Carol Drummond 2, Ph.D., Elizabeth Henkit 1, Tim Sheehan 1
1 Emory University, Department of Psychology, Atlanta, GA
2 VA Medical Center, Decatur, GA
This work was partially supported by a grant from the Atlanta VA Medical
Center which paid for participant = 92s parking.
Peniston and Kulkosky (1991) reported outstanding results in
relieving symptoms of PTSD with an EEG biofeedback based treatment. This
study was undertaken in an attempt to replicate Peniston and Kulkosky
findings in an outpatient setting. To this end, outpatient
veterans who sought treatment for PTSD at the Atlanta, VA were screened
for participation in a two group cross over design study. Ultimately,
nineteen of the veterans participated in some part of the study and
thirteen of them completed the EEG biofeedback training. Dependent measures
including the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Minnesota Multi-phasic
Personality Inventory (MMPI), Million Clinical Multi-Axial Inventory
(MCMI), Clinician Administered Posttraumatic Stress Scale (CAPS),
Mississippi Scale for Post Traumatic Stress (Miss) and 19 channel EEG
recordings were collected on three separate occasions. Half of the sample
was treated at Emory using the Lexicor Biolex system and half were seen at
the VA using a Focus Technology system. All participants were also
enrolled in therapy groups with their cohort. BDI and Mississippi Scale
scores declined across the study interval while other variables did not
systematically change.
Overall, the results indicated that applying the treatment
described by Peniston and Kulkosky (1991) to the outpatient population did
not lead to the same dramatic results as they reported. A discussion of
the past research, the present study and the factors which may have lead to
the failure to replicate is presented.
Ken Graap, M.Ed.
Emory University, Department of Psychology, Psychological Center, Atlanta, GA
The Case for Alpha-Theta: A dynamic Hemispheric Asymmetry Model. Tom
Budzynski, Ph.D.
The Dynamic Hemispheric Asymmetry model (DHA) postulates a
differential functional cortical arousal level range wherein the dominant
hemisphere, with its critical screening capability, is diminished in this
capacity at high and low arousal levels, however, the nondominant
hemisphere is still able to function at these extreme levels. At the low
end of the arousal continuum, images and/or verbal suggestions are
processed without the full effect of the critical screening, and therefore,
are more likely to be accepted and acted upon. Conversely, early memories,
especially those traumatic in nature, tend to be brought to the surface
during this low arousal condition which has been labelled the twilight
state. Neurofeedback, in the form of alpha-theta training, provides the
means to access and maintain this state.
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The Effects of Single Session and Multi-Session Audio-Visual Stimulation
(AVS) at Dominant Alpha Frequency and Two Times Dominant Alpha Frequency on
Cortical EEG Joel F. Lubar, Ph.D., University of Tennessee, Knoxville
AVS at fixed frequencies has been shown to synchronize brain
activity towards those frequencies. We have conducted two studies
employing 19 channel EEG recordings to determine if a single 20 minute
session of AVS stimulation had significant and lasting effects over
baseline on the cortical EEG measured in the 19 standard 10-20 electrode
locations. We then examined the effects of dominant and twice dominant
frequency stimulation over 20 sessions assessing the EEG every 5 sessions
and also 2 weeks after the termination of all stimulation. Measurements
were compared with initial baseline measurements which were taken in eyes
closed situation and also we evaluated the effects on an eyes open post
baseline measurement compared with a pre-eyes open measure before any
stimulation had been employed. All of the measurements were obtained on
normal college students. They were ten
individuals in each AVS group. In addition, another study was carried out
over 20 sessions to evaluate the effects of stimulation at one half the
dominant frequency (theta activity) on cortical EEG. In addition to the
AVS-EEG measurements, we obtained an assessment of possible behavioral
effects as measured by the Categories Test of the Halstead-Reitan battery,
the NEO - a personality assessment measurement, the Woodcock Johnson
Psychoeducational Evaluation and a measurement of hypnotic susceptibility.
The most surprising findings of this research is that the effects
of AVS are counter intuitive and far from simple. For example, simulation
at the dominant alpha frequency has relatively minor effects on alpha
production and has much more profound effects on either theta and/or beta
activity. Beta stimulation also has relatively little effect on alpha but
effects slow
activity as well as fast activity. The distribution of these effects in
terms of cortical regions is also very complex. For example, there are far
fewer effects in occipital regions and in temporal regions than there are
in frontal regions.
The basic findings from this initial research will be presented as
well as the implications of these findings for combining AVS stimulation
with neurofeedback in order to enhance neurofeedback effects. Because the
results are counter intuitive and very complex, clinicians should be
extremely careful in the employment of this modality until they have a
clear picture of which regions and which frequencies are effected by theta,
alpha and beta auditory and visual stimulation. Various models of how the
AVS might be combined with neurofeedback will be presented and should lead
to some open dialogue as to the best paradigms.
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Theta: Dont Tread on Me. Marvin Sams Ph.D., R.EEG T, QEEGT, L. Ac.
Theta activity is defined by international Federation of
Electrophysiology and Clinical Neurophysiology as a frequency band of 4-8
mHz. As is well recognized, however, various subsets exist in all EEG
frequency bands; Theta is no exception.
Subset 1: Frontal Midline Theta (Fm Theta) is a specific EEG
frequency seen in those subjects actively engaged in cognitive activity,
such as solving math problems and playing Tetris, a Nintendo game. the
peak frequency is between 6.2 and 6.7 Hz and maximally present at Fz, but
with a wide fronto-central distribution.
Subset 2: According to Cavanaugh (1972), 4 Hz Theta is associated
with object naming, an important aspect of memory.
Fm Theta is associated clinically with the ability to sustain
attention over a time, an extroverted personality, low anxiety and low
neuroticism..
Of importance, the administration of diazepam (Valium ) and the
ingestion of alcohol increases Fm Theta. In a study of those with marked
extroversion, Fm Theta was found, along with lowered platelet MAO activity.
Due to the favorable characteristics of Fm Theta and 4 Hz Theta,
Theta should not be inhibited or decreased in Neurofeedback training. The
one exception is statistically elevated Theta activity on a QEEG reference
database.
Fm Theta is easy to train with Neurofeedback, with positive
clinical outcome. Specific protocols will be discussed.
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Autogenic Systems: Three new technological developments. John Ziobro
(1)Diagnosing ADHD using the A620 EEG Assessment Software: In a
recent multi-center study which used the A620 EEG and its Assessment
Software, Dr. Vincent Monastra et al have found strong evidence that ADHD
can be accurately diagnosed by quantifying and comparing the theta:beta
power ratio to norms. The cross-validation study is currently on-going.
Upon completion, Autogenics will submit the data to the FDA. Our goal is
to register the device as a proven diagnostic instrument for ADHD.
(2)Introducing the new Version 4.0 software for the A620 EEG.
Developed in conjunction with Dr. George H. Green, the new Version 4.0
software for the A620 EEG completely updates the appearance of all of the
menus and training screens. In addition, it includes an exciting new
animation sequence. But unlike other competitive animation games which
provide "high-energy" feedback (considered to be counter-productive by many
therapists), the Space Conquest game rewards your clients in a step-by-step
fashion. For example, with each reward earned, the story progresses
through the next animation sequence. It then pauses until the next reward
is earned. In this manner, only the desired EEG state is reinforced.
(3)Introducing the new portable, non-computerized AT62 Alpha-Theta
Trainer. The new AT62 Alpha-Theta Trainer is a simple self-contained,
portable EEG for use in your office -- or for your client's use at home.
(It is FDA-labeled as an "over-the-counter" device.) The Alpha-Theta
Trainer offers two lightbar displays, two numerical readouts and four
different audio tones. In addition, it can provide statistics for the
entire session, as well as collect and display statistics sampled
throughout the training session. The AT62 can be used with most
Alpha-Theta and Peak Performance protocols.
John F. Ziobro, Division Manager
Autogenic Systems
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Workshop Abstracts:
Work shop 2: Cognitive therapy and NF
TIM TINIUS, Ph.D., CASSIE TINIUS, LICSW
This presentation will show techniques and procedures to combine
the use of computer programs that facilitate cognitive retraining while at
the same time providing EEG biofeedback or neurotherapy. We have used this
training in our office for the past 18 months and have shown that the
combination can reduce the number of sessions needed for treatment. It
also allows us to make a better estimate of the number of sessions needed
to complete treatment. We will briefly discuss the history and research
with cognitive retraining/rehabilitation and review published outcome
studies. We will present a detailed explanation of procedures that include
the rational for selecting cognitive training programs, length of the
cognitive training exercises, and when exercises (audio or visual) are
presented to facilitate treatment. We will show a brief video of how the
office is set up and how a session is completed. We will discuss available
programs (private and public domain) that are available for use. We have
used this technique for treating children and adolescents with a diagnosis
of ADD and Head Injury. Interesting outcome cases will be used to promote
discussion.
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Workshop 4: Performance/Life Enhancement Training Integrating EEG
Biofeedback . R. Adam Crane
One of the most promising trends to emerge in mental health is
assisting functional people in becoming more functional and the treatment
of subclinical symptoms. The educational specialty popularly known as
Performance Enhancement will probably grow exponentially in the near
future. Neurofeedback opens an extraordinary niche in this field. Many
practitioners long to expand into this area and to that end we have
developed The Process.
This workshop will describe a Performance/Life Enhancement EEG
program designed to appeal to the "Actualizer" segment of the Value Added
Lifestyle Survey and targeting businesses, sports, education, arts, and
personal growth. "Actualizers" are trend setters, practice builders and the
group most responsible for the evolution of neurofeedback, and integrative
and alternative medicine.
This innovative strategy seeks to solve the problems attendant to
delivering Neurofeedback Performance Enhancement Training to the public in
small groups using qualified practitioners, inexpensive personal EEG
trainers and a powerful, heuristic program designed
to stand on its own with or without EEG biofeedback.
Problems of doing EEG training in groups will be discussed as well
as techniques for working with individual clients for whom EEG training is
difficult. Integration of computerized
neurofeedback and Synchrony training will be discussed and, if possible,
demonstrated depending on time and equipment availability.
Adam Crane has been training professionals in neuro and traditional
biofeedback for 28 years and has developed several organizations dedicated
to training, technological innovation and equipping professionals. Health
Training Seminars provides accredited certification training in EEG and
traditional biofeedback and includes the director of the Center for
Enhanced
Performance at West Point Military Academy on its distinguished faculty.
Adam began training clients in Biofeedback assisted Performance
Enhancement in the early 1970s (executives, writers, musicians, actors,
models, athletes, etc.) and has developed a combination of strategies which
are embodied in The Process and will be presented in abbreviated form.
Workshop on Clinical Interpretation of Evoked Potentials
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Workshop 5: Using Evoked Potentials in Clinical Practice. Don Bars, Ph.D.
This workshop will address the clinical interpretation of visual
and auditory evoked potentials in relation to psychiatry, psychology, and
education. An overview will be presented to familiarize the audience with
what an evoked potential is and how it is recorded. Different wave forms
generally identified and evaluated will be discussed in relation to the
primary areas of the cortical surface where they are recorded and what
research has suggested are their function in data processing and behavior.
A major "block" in psychiatric treatment is denial. While most
individuals "know" that they have problems, many do not want to recognize
this fact for fear of being thought "crazy". The results of evoked
potentials help cut through denial and show that the individual is not
crazy but rather is influenced by biologically based brain signature
response patterns.
Data from an on-going research project will highlight differences
in morphology and amplitudes between individuals presenting with several
behavioral difficulties. An entire clinical evoked potential paradigm from
four groups of individuals, based upon specific electrophysiological
activity and clinical experience, will form the basis for the discussion.
Participants will be able to identify wave forms associated with
different stimuli and begin to see how clinical relationships to behavioral
and educational difficulties can be arrived at and incorporated into
treatment planning. Individuals will learn electrical patterns normally
seen and how unusual patterns underlie behavioral and learing difficulties.
While treatment strategies are still not fully understood in relationship
to the electrophysiological information found, the discussions will focus
on how information gained through evoked potentials can result in more
appropriate interventions with more successful and shorter treatment times.
In the future, biofeedback may address changes in evoked potential
response patterns, even though the feedback itself is based upon the
brain's frequency band distribution.
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Workshop 6: HOW TO: INTERPRET THE EFFECTS OF NEUROFEEDBACK ON QEEG TESTS .
Bill Hudspeth, Ph.D. - Neuropsychometric Lab
Neuropsychologists and neurotherapists use the QEEG to estimate the
status of cerebral functions before and after various treatment programs.
This workshop demonstrates the
impact of EEG quality (artifacts & etc.) upon results from pre and post
treatment QEEG evaluations and, as well, upon the evaluation of treatment
effects on QEEG results.
The course content will be demonstrated with QEEG results from several
clinical case studies.
Upon completion of the workshop, attendees will be able to describe
and demonstrate the qualities of EEG recordings that lead to reliable
(interpretable) QEEG tests and to explicitly
demonstrate the effect of neurofeedback upon QEEG results.
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Workshop 7: Learned Self-Regulation (LSR) for Performance Enhancement; Nuts
& Bolts of Optimal Performance Under Stress. Vietta E. 'Sue' Wilson, Ph.D.
This workshop presents the basic research supported "how to"
techniques to facilitate
performance when under stress. The presenter has taught sport psychology,
counseling, motor learning and learned self-regulation at York University
for over 25 years Her research has been in the application of
psychological skills to performance enhancement with the latest work being
in QEEG investigations of the distinction between kinesthetic and visual
imagery. Her clinical work includes teams or athletes at every Olympics
since 1972 as well as working with corporations and educational
institutions. She also has experience in a Counseling and Development
Center and in a medical clinic specializing in children with cerebral
palsy. She is the president of 2Balance which focuses on providing
individuals with knowledge, skill and coaching support for maintaining
health and balance in one's life.
This workshop is applicable to almost all performance situations
including sport, school, work, fine arts, and interpersonal relationships.
The Brief LSR skills ,which are to be integrated into the performance
setting to prevent disruption of previously learned skills or enhance new
skills, will be practiced. The Deep LSR skills, which are used for
regeneration or recovery will be discussed but time does not permit
practicing. The role of EEG for assessment and biofeedback will be
suggested but not demonstrated.
Tentative Outline:
I. Motivation
A. Goal Setting & Image Projection
B. Feedback
(achievement, support)
C. EEG for motivation
II. Body Control
A. Breathing (roller
coaster)
B. Muscles (muscle awareness
training MAT)
C. Blood Flow
(arteriole vasodilatation)
D. EEG for body control
III. Mind Control
A. Attention
B. Emotions
C. EEG for mind control
Vietta E. 'Sue' Wilson Ph.D., York University
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Workshop 11: Listening to Nature; New Approaches to Neurofeedback
Training. Margin Sam Ph.D., R.EEG T, QEEGT, L. Ac.
Historically, Neurofeedback Practitioners have focused on enhancing
attention by training two EEG frequencies at three different electrode
sites, namely, so-called SMR and Beta training at Cz, C4 and Cz.
Neurofeedback can be much more than attention training; using
specific training techniques, inefficient and dysfunctional electrical
brain activity can be remediated with symptoms alleviated. Cerebral
function has been effectively restored or improved, for example, in such
neurological issues as specific learning disabilities, ADD/ADHD,
depression, closed head injury, and OCD.
Techniques will be described which use the increase of natural
brain frequencies known for their presence in those with adequate to
superior cognition (namely, 40 Hz, 13 Hz, and 11 Hz frequency bands) the
decrease of inappropriate slow waves that dampen attention and blunt
cognitive ability (delta activity that increases under task), and the
correction of electro-physiological inefficiencies (inappropriate coherence
and phase relationships). The importance of training multiple electrode
sites in certain frequency bands will be stressed.
The proposed new neurofeedback training objective, therefore, is to
address and remediate the root cause of the clinical problem, rather than
to train for alleviation of symptoms.
Marvin Sams Ph.D., R.EEG T, QEEGT, L. Ac., Neurofeedback Centers of
America, Dallas TX
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Workshop 12: Interrelationship Between Changes in EEG, Stages of Learning,
and Long-term Success in Neurofeedback for the Treatment of ADD/HD. Joel
F. Lubar, Ph.D., University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Judith O. Lubar,
L.C.S.W., Southeastern Biofeedback and Neurobehavioral Institute
A long-standing debate central to the concept of biofeedback is
that unless there is an underlying change in the physiological measure
being trained, any change in behavior that is observed is primarily due to
nonspecific i.e., placebo factors or will result in relatively short term
gains. In the case of employing neurofeedback for the treatment of ADD/HD,
we have accumulated data over a 20 year period. A large number of
children, adolescents, and adults that clearly support this position. We
will demonstrate in this workshop how patients are evaluated for
neurofeedback training and how their success is tracked session by session
through graphing their data: specifically microvolt levels of the
rewarded frequency, microvolt levels of the inhibited frequency, percentage
time they obtain feedback for the reward frequency, ratio of reward to
inhibit activity, threshold settings, and percentage and microvolt levels
of EMG
activity measured from the active electrode sites. We will show how these
parameters are directly effected by factors outside of the neurofeedback
session, i.e., everyday life experiences, traumas, positive experiences,
family interactions and events taking place in the community or in the
school. We will emphasize the importance of rather than mechanically
employing neurofeedback how the integration of neurofeedback with parent
skills training and family dynamics in therapy is crucial for long term
success and follow up.
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Workshop 17: Business Opportunities In Peak Performance Training
Bob Moroney, MA, DA
Every human being can benefit from peak performance training.
Developing a
thriving business depends on matching the background and interests of the
peak performance specialist with a like-minded population group. E.G., a
former football trainer has developed a successful peak performance
practice with football players.
In addition to outlining a number of training protocols, I will
teach participants how to identify and recruit populations of prospects
with compatible interests and objectives to the background and interests of
the peak performance trainer.
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