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Member Events:

Thank you for your ongoing interest in bio and neurofeedback. We would like to let you know about some upcoming events this fall hosted by NRBS . If you are aware of additional member events we should post, please let us know.

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NRBS President, Cynthia Perlin has been invited by Dr. Peter Breggin to present her Neurofeedback work at his latest professional conference; she is listed as an Innovative Practitioner. Dr. Peter Breggin's new Empathic Therapy organization is sponsoring an exciting, informative and inspiring conference April 8-10, 2011 in Syracuse, NY and will feature presentations by Dr. Breggin and some of his closest colleagues and exceptional speakers.  The theme of Bring Out the Best In Yourself! relates both to individual growth and life improvement as well as specifically addressing ways that counselors, social workers, psychotherapists, teachers, psychiatrists and others can be their very best professionally with their clients, patients and students. The conference is oriented to serve the needs of professionals including offering continuing education credits.  Interested laypersons, and individuals and families who have encountered biopsychiatry and are seeking better ways of improving and enhancing their lives are also welcome. Please see this link to register: 

http://empathictherapy.org/Conference.html

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EEG:
Kirtley Thornton, PhD will be offering the activation seminar on March 28, 2010 (Sunday-starting at 10 AM, EST), which will consist of a 6 hour lecture covering the results of 5 years of research on activation procedures (18 cognitive tasks) with the QEEG. The results are presented in over 200 powerpoint slides. The cognitive tasks involved attention (visual and auditory), memory (auditory for paragraphs, word lists; visual for reading material and Korean figures; auditory-visual for names of faces), pronunciation of nonsense words, problem solving (Raven’s matrices), spelling, mathematics (multiplication and internal spatial addition), memory for a “todo” list and where objects were placed, and the emotions of love, happiness and sadness. You can visit our website chp-neurotherapy.com for examples and a fuller explanation of the method.

The memory tasks all involve the input, immediate and delayed recall periods. The data was collected with the Lexicor unit with the frequency range extended up to 64 Hertz. The results for the groups are divided between children (ages 7-14) and adults (greater than age 14). The normative sample size is about 90. The effects of brain injury (N=90) (within and as opposed to normals) on auditory memory, eyes closed and attention tasks will also be presented.

Employing the activation database to guide the treatment interventions, I have been able to obtain an auditory memory improvement average of 3 standard deviations improvement in 20 learning disabled subjects, 2.61 standard deviation improvement in 19 brain injured subjects, 130% improvement in 3 normal subjects, 6 grade levels in math in one learning disabled 9 year old female, etc.

The fee is $200. Registration is required as space is limited.

There are BCIA CE credits available. Please contact ket@chp-neurotherapy.com or 908-662-7458.

PIRHEG WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT:

PIRHEG is a non-invasive form of Neurofeedback that uses infrared photons rather than electrons as a signal source. Neurofeedback is a subset of Biofeedback but is more specific in terms of the brain area(s) that are trained. The primary targeted brain area for PIRHEG Neurofeedback is the prefrontal cortex, also known as the executive control system. This is the system that is responsible for general management of attention, management of emotional responses, planning, etc. It is useful for working with most disorders in which there is an excess rate and magnitude of response to relatively benign stimuli.

This will be an all day hands-on workshop at a beautiful location in the High Peaks region of the Adirondack Mountains in New York State. The location is Keene, New York (near Lake Placid), just 2 hours north of Albany. The date is Saturday, June 12, 2010. The workshop starts at 9:30am and ends at 6pm. If you like being outdoors, fishing, hiking, climbing, and other activities are easily accessible. The workshop will emphasize physically using equipment with live demonstrations and participant use of multiple systems. A nice addition to this is the ability to capture pre/post images of prefrontal cortical metabolic activity with an infrared camera. Participants will have the opportunity to capture infrared images of themselves and view post-session changes.

Please contact me for more details.

Jeff Carmen

Jeffrey A. Carmen, Ph.D.

Manlius, NY 13104

315.682.5272 (phone)

315.682.4716 (FAX)

carmen5272@aol.com 

http://www.stopmymigraine.com/

Practice Building Tools/Powerpoints:

Healing and Tuning the Brain with Neurofeedback - Power Point by Cindy Perlin.
Biofeedback Power Point by Susan Antelis