A Symphony in the Brain: The Evolution of the New Brain Wave Biofeedback
Attachment and Psychopathology
by Leslie Atkinson, Kenneth J. Zucker
Health Resources Online; A Guide for Mental Health and Addiction Specialists
by Laurie Sheerer, Colette Kimball, Brian Zevnik
Attention Deficit Disorder : A Different Perception
by Thom Hartmann
Prozac and the New Antidepressants : What You Need to Know About Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Luvox, Wellbutrin...
by William S. Appleton
Alcoholism, the Facts
by Donald W. Goodwin
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Neuropsychiatry
by M. S. George, Robert H., M.D. Belmaker
Anxiety Disorders: Psychological Approaches to Theory and Treatment
by Michelle Genevieve Craske
JOURNAL PAPERS
Functional deficits in basal ganglia of children with ADHD shown with fMRI.
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ADHD symptoms may be closely tied to functional abnormalities in the putamen, a brain region involved in the regulation of motor behavior. Boys with ADHD had higher T2 relaxation time measures in the putamen bilaterally than healthy control subjects.
A name, what's in a name? The medicalization of hyperactivity, revisited.
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Raising a hyperactive child can provoke a profound sense of alienation in parents. Medicalization and labeling helps validate and legitimatize parental experiences. It provided a sense of control and improved parent-child relationships. However doctors worried that such medicalization led to scape-goating the child and to self-fulfilling prophecies.
A follow-up pilot study of objective measures in children with ADHD
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TOVA impulsivity scores improve in children with ADHD but inattention, response time, and response variability do not after a prolonged period of stimulant medication therapy.
The neurobiology of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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Neuropsychology, neuroimaging, neurochemistry, and molecular genetics evidence supports dysfunction of fronto-striatal dopaminergic and noradrenergic circuits with resultant executive deficits in cognitive functioning.(full text available online)
Deficient intracortical inhibition in drug-naive children with ADHD is enhanced by methylphenidate.
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Motor system excitability was evaluated in ADHD children using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS); ADHD-children had reduced intracortical inhibition compared to controls.
Neuropsychological differentiation of depression and anxiety.
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Depression and anxiety were uniquely and jointly associated with perceptual asymmetry. Depression associated with a relative decrease and anxiety with a relative increase in right-posterior activity.
Functional Neuroimaging and Quantitative Electroencephalography in Adult Traumatic Head Injury: Clinical Applications and Interpretive Cautions.
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An overview of the use of procedures such as positron emission tomography, single photon emission computed tomography, and quantitative electroencephalogram in adults for accurate differential diagnosis of mild head trauma.
Neuropsychological correlates of domestic violence.
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Poor neuropsychological performance was common among batterers and was more predictive of batterer status than all clinical variables measured. Current cognitive status, prior brain injury, childhood academic problems, as well as psychosocial influences, contribute to a propensity for domestic violence.
Psychiatric symptoms among clients seeking treatment for drug dependence.
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Gender, physical health, drug dependence and personal relationship problems predicted psychiatric symptoms than substance use. Psychiatric symptoms are more closely linked to polydrug use.
Gender differences in regional cerebral activity during sadness.
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Cerebral correlates of emotional experience in males and females indicates a more focal and subcortical processing of sadness in men.
Brain morphological changes and early marijuana use: an MRI and PET study.
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Age at which exposure to marijuana begins is important: those who start before 17 show smaller whole brain and percent cortical gray matter and larger percent white matter volumes than those starting after 17.
Weekend Advanced Workshops for
Neurofeedback Professionals
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Working with Learning and Behavior Problems in a School Setting
John Anderson Instructor Minneapolis, MN Jun 10-11, 2000 EEG Biofeedback Instrumentation Howard Lightstone Instructor Encino CA July 8-9, 2000 Therapeutic Techniques, Ethics, Research Principles Lisa Cavallaro, Psy.D., Instructor Encino CA Aug 12-13, 2000 Psychopharmacology, Nutrition, and Neurofeedback Bruce Goderez, M.D., Instructor Boston, MA Sep 23-24, 2000 | |
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A Symphony in the Brain: The Evolution of the New Brain Wave Biofeedback
by Jim Robbins
The fascinating, untold story of the development of neurofeedback, from its discovery by a small corps of research scientists to its growing application across the country and around the world, to the contentious history of biofeedback in the 1970s, to present battles for acceptance in the medical and psychological community.
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0871138077/top100
Editorial Review:
Imagine a simple procedure versatile enough to treat epilepsy, autism, attention-deficit disorder, addictions, and depression with no drugs, surgery, or side effects, and to improve everything from golf scores to sleep to opera singers' voices. These are only some of the capabilities of neurofeedback, a controversial but effective treatment that is growing rapidly in use around the world and is revolutionizing the way an incredibly diverse range of medical and psychological conditions are treated. For more than twenty years a small handful of neurofeedback practitioners have achieved dramatic results in thousands of cases. Using computerized biofeedback equipment and capitalizing on recent scientific research that illustrates the profound plasticity of the brain, clinicians train patients to function in brain frequencies they don't usually use. This exercise strengthens the brain and the rest of the nervous system, with powerful effects on the entire body. Yet, because of the unusual nature of the procedure and the boldness of their claims, proponents of neurofeedback have found it nearly impossible to convince the medical field to take the treatment seriously. This situation, however, is changing. In A Symphony in the Brain, Jim Robbins traces the fascinating, untold story of the development of neurofeedback, from its discovery by a small corps of research scientists to its growing application across the country and around the world, to the contentious history of biofeedback in the 1970s, to present battles for acceptance in the medical and psychological community. He builds a compelling argument for research funding for neurotherapy and shows how almost anyone can gain from the technique. Offering a wealth of powerful case studies, accessible scientific explanations, and dramatic personal accounts, Robbins journeys through a remarkable field, which he brings to the public eye for the first time.