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Latest Headlines

By Joan Brunwasser
Talking with Dr. Temple Grandin, Author of "Animals in Translation"
People may wonder why it's so important to be humane when,in the end,the animals are still dead and we eat them.Well,it causes pain if you're not nice to them.You wouldn't say to this person “It only takes a second to yank out a tooth so we're not going to use any anesthetics.”It's really important to prevent suffering and animals are definitely capable of feeling pain and fear. There's absolutely no question about it.

By Siegfried Othmer, Ph.D.
Neurofeedback at Infra-low Frequencies of the EEG

It is time for an update on our collective experience with infra-low frequency neurofeedback training. One impetus is the continuing confusion in the rest of the field about the implications of this kind of training, both theoretically and practically. Some are still skeptical of the whole enterprise. Others are coming to terms with it, but would prefer to regard it as filling certain niches within the panoply of neurofeed...

By Joan Brunwasser
Part Two, Talking with Dr. Temple Grandin, Author of "Animals in Translation"
When I first started out in my career,I thought I could fix everything in the industry with engineering and designing a facility. I've now learned that I can only fix about half of things. Because the other half is management. I've been a big advocate of getting out and measuring handling. Then I can look at the numerical scores and ask, “Am I getting better or am I getting worse?”

By Maggie Lee Huckabee, M.A., CCC/SLP
Oral Pharyngeal Dysphagia; Application of EMG Biofeedback in the Treatment of Oral Pharyngeal Dysphagia

EMG biofeedback presents auditory and visual signals to aid the patient in learning and practicing dysphagia intervention exercise. Biofeedback provides several critical elements that are unavailable with standard dysphagia therapy.

By Gary J. Schummer, Ph.D.
Self-Regulation of the Immune System
The concept that we can modulate immune response through neurofeedback is a logical extension of currently accepted procedures and protocols.

By Nelle Frances
Neurofeedback - Our Story
A story highlighting our family's great success with Neurofeedback - it gave us our son back.

By Hershel Toomim
HEG Talk - A Conceptual Introduction to HEG
Neurofeedback using HEG trains the subject to increase blood flow to a targeted area of the brain.

By Gary Ames
Why I Love Biofeedback
There are plenty of reasons to love biofeedback and neurofeedback. Here are my favorite reasons.

By Celeste DeBease, PhD
"Cold Hands, Warm Heart" Raynaud's Disease
"Cold Hands, Warm Heart" - Raynaud's Disease

By tom collura
A Relaxation/Activation model for EEG Alpha
EEG Alpha training is put in the context of the entire brain, and its normal level of cycling. This can help to motivate neurofeedback training, and connectivity training in particular.

By Joan Brunwasser
Part Three: Talking with Dr. Temple Grandin, Author of "Animals in Translation"

I couldn't figure out why I didn't fit in. It's very important to get these young Asperger nerdy kids into these specialized activities where they're going to have peers who are also interested in computers or playing music or playing chess or building robots or anything. If I hadn't had my science teacher when I was in high school, I would have been in a real mess.

By Rob Kall
Textbook of Neurofeedback, EEG Biofeedback, qEEG and Brain Self Regulation
e-book by Rob Kall and Joe Kamiya with 26 chapters

By Paul Levy
The Sacred Art of Alchemy
The Sacred Art of Alchemy

By Rob Kall
A Top Best-seller: Foundations of Neurofeedback DVD Course
Start learning EEG biofeedback at home. See the different approaches from 15 different leading trainers, then decide whose approach you like the best. Train your staff at no extra cost.

By Gerri George
Benefits of Chocolate

Chocolate, once the food of royalty, benefits blood pressure, diabetes, cholesterol

By Rob Kall
Living in The Vein of Gold and Falling out.

We all have veins of gold-- fantastic riches-- in our lives, every one of us.

By Rob Kall
Quotations By Thoreau on Finding the Best Within Ourselves and Living It

When it comes to peak performance and finding the best in one's self, Thoreau was an unmitigated genius. Here is a large collection of quotations. For example, from his journal, "We live but a fraction of our life."

By Judith Acosta
Words Are Medicine: Raising a Self-Healing Child
When you use Verbal First Aid with your children, they are learning by your example to use it for themselves. The healing you facilitate in them by the words you use when they are hurt becomes a self-replenishing well of mental, emotional and physical resources they can draw upon for a lifetime.

By Ben Dench
Paradigm Assessment Schemata
A holistic model is proposed for assessing different worldviews on how accurate and effective they are.

By Rob Kall
Brain Waves Surge Moments Before Death, May Explain Near Death EXperiences
study of seven terminally ill patients found identical surges in brain activity moments before death, providing what may be physiological evidence of "out of body" experiences reported by people who survive near-death ordeals.

By Craig Webb
How to Increase Dream Recall
Wouldn't you like to remember your dreams more and start really experiencing the powerful benefits your subconscious has to offer you every night? You will learn proven techniques for recalling more dreams, starting within a week or less

By Kirtley Thornton
SubType Analysis of Learning Disabilities by QEEG patterns

SubType Analysis of LD by QEEG patterns

By Judith Acosta
Verbal First Aid(tm) for Survival.
What Verbal First Aid(tm) proposes is that words can mean the difference between life and death. Based on the simple notion that the words we say (to ourselves and to one another) do matter, that they affect us both physically and mentally, there are ways to speak that make those words healing, no matter what the situation.

By Grant Lawrence
The Bodhisattva's Vow: Moving Past the Prison of the 'Self'
The Bodhisattva, to me, is a state of being and not a concept that is owned by any particular religion or sect. Rather,"What makes someone a Bodhisattva is her or his dedication to the ultimate welfare of other beings, as expressed in the prayer: 'May I attain Buddhahood for the benefit of all sentient beings'."

By Warren Davies
"You can do anything you set your mind to" Vs "Stick to your strengths"
What exactly does it mean to say "You can do anything you set your mind to"? It's a tribute to the power of dedication, persistence, and time, or course. It means that even against all odds, these three pillars will support your success; all you have to do is try hard enough for long enough.

By Stephen Soldz
Spreading Hysteria about Swine Flu "Hysteria": Public Health Preparedness in the Face of Uncertainty
Public health policy-making takes place in the midst of uncertainty regarding future developments. Swine flu preparedness provides as illustration.

By Gary J. Schummer, Ph.D.
The Disconnection Syndrome

there are many types and subtypes of aphasia, depending on where a problem occurs,

By Rob Kall
Smile Anatomy: Emotional Self Regulation and Facial Expression Muscle Measurement and Training

an overview of the use of smile muscle training, smile biofeedback and a discussion of a number of the facial muscles involved in authentic and inauthentic smiling, plus discussion of smile psychomotor retardation-- people who have a hard time smiling and feeling good feelings

By Judith Acosta
Holistic Psychotherapy and Trauma Treatment

What happens in trauma? Why do memories persist the way they do? What options do people have for successful recovery?

 

Latest Articles

By press release
Integrated Health care – One-Stop Shopping
including mental health treatment in medical settings to improve overall health....the benefits of including psychologists in primary care and other medical settings and how this integration can lower costs for consumers and insurance companies.

By Rob Kall
Pain; Four Biofeedback Approaches
there are at least four different ways biofeedback can help pain sufferers.

By Peter R. Breggin, M.D.
Learn to Help Children Without Psychiatric Drugs
There is one week to go before the best conference in the world about psychiatry, mental health, and the well-being of our families and children. Experts from around the world will explain how the psychiatric diagnosing and drugging of our children does more harm than good, and present far better alternatives based on sound psychological, moral, and educational principles.

By tom collura
NEUROFEEDBACK - WHAT TO DO (OR NOT DO)

Neurofeedback is a process, not a job. When practitioners and trainees approach EEG training as a process of allowing, not doing, results will be forthcoming.

By Hershel Toomim
Neurofeedback using HEG

How to do neurofeedback, or brain training use hemoencephalography

By Bernard
On the sidelines of a travesty
Describes efforts to promote EEG neurofeedback as a mainstream treatment option for epilepsy and seizure disorders.

By Belleruth Naparsteck
Finally Figuring Out What Helps Troops with Posttraumatic Stress
We're finally figuring it out, people. Research from around the country is giving us the keys to helping our traumatized troops coming back from Afghanistan and Iraq. The only problem is, it will be at least a year - maybe two - before these studies are published.

By David Rabiner
The Role of Neurofeedback in the Treatment of ADHD

By Paul Swingle
Neurofeedback Treatment of Pseudoseizure Disorder

Background: Previous research has shown that the suppression of theta wave activity and the enhancement of Sensorimotor Rhythm (SMR) through electroencephalographic (EEG) biofeedback is an effective treatment for epilepsy. The current research reports the results of EEG biofeedback treatment for patients presenting with seizure behaviors in the absence of epileptiform EEG activity.

By press release
'Top 10 Spa Trends to Watch in 2009'
biofeedback, neurofeedback, relaxation, brain gyms, neurobics, mind gyms, brain workouts are all hot.

By Erik Peper
From Technostress to Technohealth

work stress, caused by long hours, sitting at computer stations, causes pain and worst-- technostress-- even with ergonomic interventions. This program added coaching and self regulation biofeedback training to produce enhanced health-- technohealth.

By Burton Smith
Finding the Joy in Your Universe
What it all comes down to is: what do you choose? Do you choose to hold on tightly to everything exactly as it always has been, experiencing stress, sorrow and frustration when everything begins to change, as it must?

By youtube .
Video: Coping With Stress - Biofeedback

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Best News Links from the Web

Get some sleep, warm up your hands
"The best predictor of whether someone is going to fall asleep or not is an increase in their hand and foot temperature relative to their core," In a recent study, insomniacs learned to change their hand temperature through biofeedback.

Healthcare Costs Prevented Nearly 40 Million Americans From Filling Their Prescriptions in 2008
Nearly 40 million U.S. adults decided not to fill a prescription medication from a doctor in the past year because of the cost, according to pharmaceutical and healthcare market research company Manhattan Research's Cybercitizen Health(TM) v8.0 consumer study and strategic advisory service. The study found that women and patients with neurological and mental health conditions were the most likely to give up their meds

A Blog Around The Clock : The Shock Value of Science Blogs
he form and format of a scientific paper has evolved towards a very precise and very universal state that makes scientist-to-scientist communication flawless. But that is strictly technical communication between scientists in the same research field. How about communication between scientists in far-away fields, between scientists and lay audience, or among the educated lay-people?

Brains of poor and rich kids vary
dramatic difference in the response of the prefrontal cortex in those from low socioeconomic environments that was similar, the researchers said, to the response of people who have had a portion of their frontal lobe destroyed by a stroke.

Divorce rates higher when child has ADHD
esearchers found that couples with a child with ADHD were almost twice as likely to divorce before their child turned 8 years old. After that age, however, divorce rates were similar in both groups of parents.

Marilyn Ferguson, 70, dies; writer's 'The Aquarian Conspiracy' was pivotal in New Age movement
In 1975, Ferguson turned an interest in human potential into an influential monthly newsletter, Brain/Mind Bulletin, which reported on new discoveries in neuroscience and psychology. That work led her to discern that a massive "cultural realignment" was occurring, a conspiracy in the root sense of disparate forces all breathing together to produce personal and social change.

Neurofeedback may decrease autism symptoms: study
Following a determination of an autistic child's connectivity problems, researchers performed neurofeedback experiments. They attached electrodes at various sites to redirect electrical signals in the brain. This treatment led to a 40 per cent decrease in autistic symptoms, an improvement in neuropsychological functions and a reduction in hyperconnectivity.

Portuguese Facility Offering Golf Biofeedback Opens
the biomechanical '3D Golf Biodynamics' system, the most advanced in the world for biomechanical analysis and biofeedback golf training. The computer captures body movements in real time, by means of a 3D model. The objective is not only to improve the individual swing of the golfer but also to make it efficient, preventing possible injuries.

Open Source Apps in Your Brain
there are a few biofeedback apps for Linux users who want to explore the concept.

Attention: Stressed CEOs
Economy got you down? Check out this $15,000 sanctuary.

New Game for Cystic Fibrosis Patients Promotes Better Breathing
A health game that will induce cystic fibrosis patients to practice daily breathing techniques that help alleviate respiratory problems uses breath biofeedback.

Post Stroke Hand Mentor Rehab Device Tested
The Hand Mentor simulates natural motion of the hand that has been lost due to stroke or other neurological damage. It actively involves the patient in their rehabilitation by encouraging self-initiated motion in the wrist and fingers, assisting movement only when necessary,

British Pop Star Gets Brainwave Training to Prepare for UFO Encounters
undergoing a procedure similar to one used on Nasa astronauts.

Adolescent migraines
The Diamond Headache Clinic uses a non-drug therapy technique for children and adolescents. The method teaches patients to control bodily

New Technique Activates Brain Neurons to Move Paralyzed Limb
Experiment with monkeys could lead to new treatments for severely injured patients

 

 

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