Futurehealth - Futurehealth Newsletter of December 15, 2009

By Rob Kall
Washington Post Covers NIMH's First Funded Study of Neurofeedback.

It's rare that a major media operation publishes a full article on Neurofeedback or biofeedback Today's Washington Post has published a solid article pegged to news that NIMH is funding a double blind study on Neurofeedback for ADHD.

By Jim Donovan
So, Just What is Age Anyway?

Just what is age and are you going to let it stop you?

By Warren Davies
Smoking and Stress

Contrary to popular opinion, smoking isn't relaxing. The evidence shows smoking actually causes stress, rather than reduce it.

By Rob Kall
American Character Strengths Threatened By Private Health Insurer Economic Policies
The American character has been undergoing a dangerous and effective attack that has, in my opinion, gone virtually un-noticed. The character values of self-reliance, self responsibility and self control are being seriously eroded by private for profit and non-profit health insurer policies.

By Rob Kall
Your Biofeedback Practitioner's Hero's Journey

Joseph Campbell described a mythic pattern that any hero, any person going through a process of growth and increased personal awareness experiences. This model works very well for biofeedback practitioners, describing the stages, steps, experiences, problems, opportunities, challenges and rewards you can expect to encounter on your path to becoming a master of the world of biofeedback.

By tom collura
INFORMATION, ENTROPY, AND FREEDOM OF CHOICE
The concept of information and entropy is key to understanding how we are able to have the ability to make choices. A brain-oriented view of this leads to helpful insights regarding neurofeedback and its potential for human development.

By Alexandra Cox
Why Brain Science Is Bad for Juvenile Justice

advocates' uses of brain research, and their reliance on 'hard' science, raise some potentially troubling questions about the potential impact of this science on ideas about human potential.

By Jon Rhodes
Relaxation And Stress
Effects of long term stress are not to be taken lightly. Although they cannot always be seen, the effects of stress can lead to serious physical, as well as mental health problems.

By Rob Kall
Handwarming from the Inside out; Thermal / Temperature Biofeedback

Have you warmed your hands lately? How about your feet?

Psychotherapy Via Skype, texting and On-line therapies
Depressed patients got better WITH texting.

By Rob Kall
The Hottest Christmas Present This Year is an EEG-based Game from Mattell

the Wall Street journal reports that the hot game this holiday season is just about sold out, and it's based on EEG. This should be GOOD for the profession of bio/neurofeedback

By frances fox
Is Your Child an Indigo or Crystal Child? Are You?
Children today are different, they are more evolved, they are born wise. They receive information from more than one dimension at a time; consequently, their minds cannot stay in one dimension. Because of their inability to focus, too often they are classified as ADHD. The biggest challenge for parents and teachers is how to educate then, how to satisfy their needs and how to keep them happy.

By Judith Acosta
The Gift of Receiving--A Pre-Season Guide To Staying Stress Free
Every year at around this time, the advertising starts to remind us that the holidays are closing in. For some, that is a delight. To others, it is a cause for panic.

By Patricia Norris
Self-Regulation for Immune System Disorders

Beyond the amelioration or healing of an immune system disorder, biofeedback-assisted psychophysiologic therapy provides the experiential knowledge of self-regulation, self-mastery, and voluntary control, and an improved and empowered self image. This has far-reaching consequences, for the image that we hold of ourselves influences everything that we are and everything we do.

By Hershel Toomim
Intentional Control of Regional Cerebral Blood Flow with the Thinking Cap

This study examines intentional increase of blood perfusion in a chosen brain area when the subject is suitably informed of the rCBF of that brain region.

By tom collura
ON PERSONAL CONNECTIVITY
When we look at our personal connectivity over time, we realize that our own interpersonal connections are vast and profound. This should affect how we choose to view each other, and act accordingly.

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 tom collura
THE NEURO-RELAXATION PARADIGM
Neuronal Regulation is a key concept in neurofeedback. Rather than being a trivial concept related to a simple relaxation state, neurorelaxation means affecting the brain at its most dynamical level, implementing change that is transformational in nature.

By Warren Davies
Positive Priming

Priming is a phenomenon where being exposed to a certain stimuli makes a particular response to a second stimuli more likely to happen. For example, smelling the freshly baked bread when you walk into a store makes you more likely to buy some bread.

By Barbara Woolner
The Use of Electromyographic Biofeedback for Training Pelvic Floor Musculature

The core behavioral treatment of urinary incontinence is pelvic muscle re-education. Biofeedback "takes the guesswork out of pelvic muscle training" (reference NIDDK) because it enables the patient to improve pelvic muscle function through muscle awareness, which, when combined with a home exercise program, leads to increased muscle strength and improved coordination.

By lincoln stoller
Neurofeedback and Ayahuasca: A More Effective Program for Personal Growth

Modern neurofeedback therapy is compared with the experience and goals of the traditional ayahuasca ceremony. A program of conducting neurofeedback training in conjunction with the ayahuasca ceremony is described. It's argued that such a combination enhances the goals of each program by providing better preparation and post-training support.

EEG Neurofeedback for Epilepsy
Documents the author's exploration into the data supporting EEG neurofeedback as a treatment option for epilepsy.

By Michael Cohen
Can I do neurofeedback training at home?

Can a parent or individual do training on his own with limited or no neurofeedback training? These questions arise often. Wouldn't it be more convenient to do training at home, and less costly? Can't you do more training per week and make progress faster? The clinician/technician just pushes some buttons - couldn't I do that just as easily myself at home? If it were only so simple.

By Rob Kall
Template Feedback of Athletic Force and Movement Patterns
Over 30 years ago, I developed a concept of using transducers and sensors to convert athletic force and movement patterns into electrical activity that could be used for biofeedback. Things have come a long way since then.

By Kirtley Thornton
A Cost/Benefit Analysis of Different Intervention Models for LD/Special Ed. Students

Since the decade of the brain was declared in 1990, there have been impressive advances in the area of neurodiagnostic instrumentation measuring the physical functioning of the brain and providing a deeper understanding of the functioning of the brain.

By Jay Gunkelman
Thalamic Involvement in the Generation of the Alpha Rhythms

Alpha" it's not a simple idling rhythm" let's look at alpha generators:

By Judith Acosta
PRIMUN NON NOCERE: First Do No Harm

Primun non nocere. This is still the sacred promise of every medical school graduate across the country as he or she accepts the diploma, the title and the rank of healer in our culture. It is the core of the Hippocratic Oath. However, in a world of unreasonable speed, in which new discoveries and new pharmaceuticals are being produced in measures of seconds, not years, it may be more than doctors can promise us anymore.

By Siegfried Othmer, Ph.D.
Overcoming Obstacles to Neurofeedback Care for Veterans

We now know how to recover veterans from all kinds of mental health issues through neurofeedback comprehensively, cost-effectively and quickly—regardless of whether we are talking about traumatic brain injury, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, or other less devastating mental dysfunctions.