Thomas Collura
Bill Mrklas
Penijean Gracefire
John Demos
Harry Kerasidis
Mark Smith
McGill Scott
Dick Genardi
Leonardo Mascaro
Thomas Brownback
Thomas Feiner
David Cantor
Dolores Gaxiola
Andre Keizer
Steve Warner
Joseph Guan -Tech
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J. Michael Griffin
Richard Powell
Christen Stahl
Jeff Tarrant
Debora Joy Elliott
Jacob Elliott
Jeff Reich
Wes Center
Rich Davis
Lori Miller
Giuseppe Chiarenza
Yvonne Tate
Lisa Black
Kathie Schofield
Doron Todder
Jay Gattis
Richard McAlister
Kristen ElliottTeenagers are famously self-conscious, acutely aware and concerned about what their peers think of them. A new study reveals that this self-consciousness is linked with specific physiological and brain responses that seem to emerge in adolescence. “Our study identifies adolescence as a unique period of the lifespan in which self-conscious emotion, physiological reactivity, and activity [...]
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Use of controversial ‘brain-mapping’ technology stymied in Florida courts
Two years ago, a controversial “brain-mapping” technology — allowed into evidence by one Miami-Dade judge — helped spare convicted Kendall murderer Grady Nelson from the death penalty. But the prospect of widespread use of the technology in criminal court has dimmed as, one by one, Florida judges have refused to allow use of the “QEEG,” [...]
read more »Alzheimer’s Precursors Evident in Brain at Early Age
Scientists studying Alzheimer’s disease are increasingly finding clues that the brain begins to deteriorate years before a person shows symptoms of dementia. Now, research on a large extended family of 5,000 people in Colombia with a genetically driven form of Alzheimer’s has found evidence that the precursors of the disease begin even earlier than previously [...]
read more »How the brain controls our habits
Habits are behaviors wired so deeply in our brains that we perform them automatically. This allows you to follow the same route to work every day without thinking about it, liberating your brain to ponder other things, such as what to make for dinner. However, the brain’s executive command center does not completely relinquish control [...]
read more »Biofeedback Now a Level 1 Best Support Intervention for Attention Hyperactivity Behaviors
http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2012/10/05/biofeedback-now-a-level-1-best-support-intervention-for-attention-hyperactivity-behaviors/
read more »New Glymphatic system discovered supporting brain cleansing
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120815142042.htm
read more »Articles on brain activity, fear, love
Here are some interesting articles on brain activity and empathy. It does not take a lot of imagination to see how these findings could help to usher live EEG imaging into the world of psychology and psychotherapy. The second one is interesting, particularly if the idea of shocking your spouse appeals to you… Light, S. N., Coan, [...]
read more »Myers and Young article – Journal of Counseling and Development
The attached pdf is of an excellent article by Myers and Young: Myers, J.E. & Young, J.S. (2012) Brain Wave Biofeedback: Benefits of integrating neurofeedback into counseling. Journal of Counseling and Development (90) 20-29. EEG_BF_MHC.pdf
read more »Published Work – Links to Collura et. al. Z-Score book chapters and articles
The following is a link to: Collura,TF, Guan, J., Tarrant, J., Bailey, J., and Starr, F. (2010) EEG Biofeedback Case Studies Using Live Z-Score Training (LZT) and a Normative Database, Journal of Neurotherapy 14(2), 22-46. The following is a link to Collura, T.F. (2009) Practicing with Multichannel EEG, DC, and Slow Cortical Potentials, NeuroConnections January, [...]
read more »DC and Slow Cortical Potential Research Links
The following links refer to published material on DC and Slow Cortical Potential Biofeedback: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=1300796 http://nro.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/5/2/74 http://www.futurehealth.org/biofeedback_and_locked_in_ALS_Lou_gherigs.htm http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1738580 http://www.camresearch.net/showauthor.php?surname=Birbaumer&initials=N http://www.kuhncenter.com/neurofeedback/bibli/slowcorticalpotential.shtml http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T0G-3WTP6R2-5&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=99ab38cfb91e472373a3a150c99ffaf7 http://physrev.physiology.org/cgi/content/citation/70/1/1 http://jnnp.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/74/8/1117 http://www.springerlink.com/content/g5267u28t5625741/ http://www.iapsych.com/articles/strehl2006.pdf http://ida.first.fhg.de/publications/HinSchNeuMelBlaCurBir04.pdf http://books.google.com/books?id=JaFaQEWan3kC&pg=PA471&lpg=PA471&dq=birbaumer+slow+cortical&source=web&ots=YlZAxYtl1K&sig=1IELDWTECFps_EbXr_z0L6Kb1ik&hl=en The following is a link to Collura, T.F. (2009) Practicing with Multichannel EEG, DC, and Slow Cortical Potentials, NeuroConnections January, 35-39
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