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Cost of health care and public policy I ran across this graph recently, and it underlies the main concern with health care in the U.S. We have an increasingly expensive, yet less effective, health system than any other country in the world. The factors beneath this are many of the same ones we emphasize as […]

Brain and Mind in a Comprehensive View of Mental Health The science of mental health is converging on a brain-based model of emotional responses and decision-making into a readily accessible format. There is a need for models which can be used by counselors and other mental health professionals with or without the use of extra

Noise in the Brain and Free Will There is an interesting article authored a couple of years ago by Dr Jesse Bengson’s team at the University of California on how EEG “background noise” appears to be important for decision-making.  I find this particularly interesting because it is consistent with one of my ideas about how

EEG Imaging and Biofeedback in the Traumatized Brain The attached talk was presented at the 27th Annual Psychological Trauma Conference in Boston on June 2, 2016.  These results show brain activation patterns that found in individuals experiencing traumatic and emotionally charged stimulation and experiences.  We find that the responses of the frontal lobes demonstrate specific

Toward ecologically valid studies of innovative therapies A key concern in the development and deployment of innovative therapeutic technologies is the availability of validation studies that support clinical practice. Specifically, the fields of biofeedback and neuromodulation have undergone significant evolution in the past 20 years, with emerging methods including advanced analysis of signals from the

The Information paradigm and brain/mind health As science and clinical practice evolve, we move through a series of paradigm shifts.  Things that were once thought of as abstract entities such as ego, motivation, and mood, become successively reduced to different levels of science.  We have a chemical brain, we are told.  We have an electrical

Music and the Brain We recently had the opportunity to study the effect of music on the brain, in an unusual performance and imaging project.  Our friend Samuel Salisbury, who is a master of the Indian sarangi, created a 20-minute immersive soundscape, while we monitored the EEG of a listener.  The sarangi is a stringed

San Diego Chargers Neurofeedback The San Diego Chargers are being hit, literally, as are all football teams, with head blows and impact, some resulting in injury.  Neurofeedback is one intervention that is being used to help athletes to recover from head injuries, including concussion.  Neurofeedback is a scientifically-based, nonpharmaceutical intervention that lets the brain learn

BrainAvatar Muse Mood EEG for Mental Health Counseling and Psychotherapy We are proud to announce a special partnership between BrainMaster Technologies Inc. and InteraXon, creators of Muse: the brain-sensing headband. As many of you know, we announced the new “BrainAvatar Muse“ software platform at ISNR on October 16, 2014. Pairing the rich experience of BrainAvatar’s

Corey Liuget NFL Defensive Player of the Week Our neurofeedback client Corey Liuget is on a fantastic season (and career) start, with playing that attracts notice of everyone in the field (literally!). We are happy to be allowed to work with him, and to add neurofeedback to his set of tools. He is definitely setting