What's New in Neurofeedback
A Monthly Summary of News and Events
Vol. 11 No. 1 - January 2008

This newsletter is sponsored by EEG Spectrum Intl Inc,
the leader in providing neurotherapeutic service and
training professionals. Past issues available at
http://start.eegspectrum.com/Newsletter/
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Opinions in this newsletter reflect author's only.
Copyright (C) 2008 by EEG SpectrumIntl, Inc.
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Announcements - News
In the Spotlight - Start My Day with EEG Spectrum Intl
News & Reviews - Books & journal papers
Events & Locations - Conferences, Courses
Last Word - 2007 Index
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Announcements

What's New in Neurofeedback enters its 11th year,
world's longest-running mental health webzine (Jan 1998-).

* Brain Waves Pattern Themselves After Rhythms of Nature
* Genetic Pathway Critical To Disease, Aging Found
* Gene Research May Help Explain Autistic Savants
* Listening To Music Improves Stroke Patients' Recovery
* New Patterns Of Brain Activation in LTM formation
* Mental Illness subject To Biological & Sociocultural Factors
* Learning About Brains From Computers, And Vice Versa
* Do Animals Think Like Autistic Savants?
* Working Alone May Be Key To Better Productivity
* Women Better at Remembering Everyday Events
* Very Young process Fear Memories In Unique Way
* What Is Cognitive Rift Between Humans & Other Animals?

Links at http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/mind_brain/
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In the Spotlight

Start My Day with EEG Spectrum Intl

** Man is a message - Norbert Wiener **

This month I introduce (or re-introduce) our webpage
"Start My Day with EEG Spectrum International," a
good start page for anyone interested in mental
health or neuroscience, http://start.eegspectrum.com.

Not only are standard Start or Homepage information
available -- News, Sports, Entertainment, and Weather
-- but weekly updates on mental health and neuroscience books
and articles, plus links to daily information on these
topics and more plus a convenient array of search
engines: Google, Wikipedia, Amazon.com, Medline,
Dictionary,Thesaurus, and search within the massive
website that is #1 in neurofeedback information
since its inception in Dec 1995, EEG Spectrum (now)
Intl.

The Astronomy picture of the Day is updated by NASA
daily and weekly I find a relevant or irrelevant
webcam such as the windiest place in the world (Mt
Washington, NH) or the coldest (South Pole) or an
upcoming conference locale or city of interest. Also
available is a convenient all-in-one search page,
http://start.eegspectrum.com/search.htm, where you
can search the sites mentioned above along with
Mapquest, phone books, Yahoo Sounds, Youtube, Flickr
photos, and other useful sites.

On the Start page are links to many resources
including science videos. As a professor I often
used video to present material to my students. In
fact I was called Dr Video by my colleagues, which I
took as a compliment (even if it wasn't meant as
one) because if you can find material in video
format it conveys detail and nuance unavailable to
the left hemisphere (words). You can talk until
you're blue in the face about a rat who crosses an
electrified grid for intracranial stimulation, but
see it and remember it forever. Or talk about a
person who continues to shock a stranger to death
(or so he thinks, Milgram's obedience experiment),
but watch the man's body language and his mind is
revealed. Over the years I've built up one of the
largest video archive of original psychology and
related material and fortunately many of these
videos are available freely online. Explaining the
impact of a stroke on Broca's area is missed by no
one when a lawyer with this predicament is tested by
Norman Geschwind, for example, and this example is
available (Brain: Teaching Module), along with
countless others on brain function, injury, and
psychopathology. See the "Video" links on the start
page. Here are some highlights:

Scientific American Frontiers:
* http://www.pbs.org/saf/1302/video/watchonline.htm
* http://www.pbs.org/saf/1205/video/watchonline.htm
* Growing Up Different: Williams Syndrome, Autism, childhood
* Changing Your Mind: neuroplasticity
* Pieces of Mind: split brain patient research.
* It's a Kid's World: child development
* Make Up Your Mind: Phineas Gage, theory of mind, consciousness.
* The Wonder Pill: placebo affect.

Discovering Psychology with Dr Phil Zimbardo
(26 half-hour episodes)
* http://www.learner.org/resources/series138.html
Notable episodes:
* Episode 3: The Behaving Brain: structure
* Episode 4. The Responsive Brain: behavior and environment
* Episode 21: Psychopathology
* Episode 25: Cognitive Neuroscience: neuroimaging

World of Abnormal Psychology
* http://www.learner.org/resources/series60.html
* 13 episodes from anxiety & personality disorders, substance
abuse, to childhood behavioral disorders.

Mind: Teaching Modules
* http://www.learner.org/resources/series150.html
* Ten minutes videos, 35 in all, with titles
including Placebo Effect,Brain Mechanisms of
Pleasure and Addiction, Frontal Lobes: Cognition and
Awareness , Life Without Memory: The Case of Clive
Wearing, Part 1 & 2 (an amazing story of a man
without short-term memory like H.M. or the movie
Memento), Infant Cognitive Development, and three
modules on mood disorders

Brain: Teaching Modules
* http://www.learner.org/resources/series142.html
* All the modules are relevant:
* 1. Organization and Evaluation of Brain Function
* 4. Intelligence and Culture: cultural hemisphericity
* 5. The Divided Brain: intro to split brain research
* 6. Language and Speech: Broca's and Wernicke's Areas
* 8. Visual Information Processing: Elementary Concepts/Perception
* 17. Learning As Synaptic Change
* 25. Frontal Lobes and Behavior: The Story of Phineas Gage
* 26-28. Schizophrenia
* 29. Autism
* 30. Understanding the Brain Through Epilepsy
* 31. Neurorehabilitation after TBI

Brain-computer interface (BCI) Pfurtscheller lab
* http://bci.tugraz.at/downloads.html

-DK

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News & Reviews

NEW BOOKS


Social Neuroscience: People Thinking about Thinking People
by JT Cacioppo, PS Visser, CL Pickett (Eds)
Mental and brain function during social cognition, emotion, and behavior.
--www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262033356/eegspectrum

American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Mood Disorders
by Dan J. Stein, David J. Kupfer, and Alan F. Schatzberg
Authoritative reference for current information about mood disorders.
--www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/158562151X/eegspectrum

Handbook of Bipolar Disorder: Diagnosis And Therapeutic Approaches
by Siegfried Kasper, Robert M. A. Hirschfeld (Eds)
Neurobiology, symptoms, and treatment of bipolar disorder.
--www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0824729358/eegspectrum

Illicit Drug Policies, Trafficking, and Use the World Over
by Caterina Gouvis Roman
History and current laws and policies on cannabis, cocaine, and heroin
trafficking --www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0739109987/eegspectrum

Becoming a Therapist: What Do I Say, and Why?
by Suzanne Bender
The basic process of therapy is explained in layperson terms.
--www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1572309431/eegspectrum

Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
by Robert D. Hare
Interpersonal traits such as impulsiveness and lack of responsibility
may underlie psychopathy.
--www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1572304510/eegspectrum

Brain Injury Survivor's Guide: Welcome to Our World (Paperback)
by L Jameson, B Jameson
A strategy for memory improvement.
--www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1432716204/eegspectrum

Broken Structures: Severe Personality Disorders and Their Treatment
by Salman Akhtar
Neurochemical and symptomatic profiles of personality disorders.
--www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/076570255X/eegspectrum

Brain Sex: The Real Difference Between Men and Women
by Anne Moir, David Jessel
Includes a brain sex test to discover just how masculine or feminine
your brain is. --www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385311834/eegspectrum


JOURNAL PAPERS

ADHD and QEEG in outpatient children. : CPNI ADHD T-scores and
beta:theta power ratio (site unspecified) was negatively correlated.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17938604

Depression and anxiety in epilepsy : Gender, seizure frequency and
epilepsy do not combine multiplicatively for likelihood of anxiety or
depression.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17971199

Neuronal correlates of emotional processing in patients with major
depression.
: Majorly depressed patients show continual activation of bilateral
ACC and right frontal cortex.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17965984

Transcranial magnetic stimulation for treatment of chronic tinnitus :
rTMS relieves tinnitus by modulating neuron excitability in auditory
cortex, decreasing hyperexcitability.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17956800

Endocannabinoid system involvement in brain reward processes related
to drug abuse. : Cannabis modulates reward of other psychoactive drugs.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17936009

Theories of autism. : Suggests autism is a developmental failure of
neural connectivity, with high local connectivity inducing low
long-range connectivity, resulting in constricted behavior.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17924239

Social skills problems in children with epilepsy : Presence of
learning disability and abnormal family function were predicative of
social skill impairment.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17928272

Increased anterior cingulate cortex volume in bipolar I disorder. :
ACC may increase in size in response to early attempts to control
affective lability.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17924244

Electrophysiology in neuropsychiatric research: a network perspective. :
Electrophysiology as a research tool is discussed, particularly in
relation to other neuroimaging methods.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17921927

Event related potentials in children of alcoholics. : COA showed
prolonged parietal N200 potential latency and smaller parietal P200
potential amplitude than controls.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17918508

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Events & Locations

Upcoming Courses

A Pathway to Brain Regulation - Neurofeedback helps improve
neuroregulation. It's used by health care professionals for ADHD,
depression, anxiety disorders, LD, mood disorders, and behavioral
problems. This 4-day course, Neurofeedback in a Clinical Practice,
provides the basis for using Neurofeedback clinically. - *28 CEs

4-Day Comprehensive Course Dates (subject to change)

* Scottsdale, AZ Mar 13-16
* Chicago, IL Apr 10-13
* Boston MA May 1-4

Our course is a hands-on experience right from the start. Attendees
consistently say this format is a very good way to learn neurofeedback.

"Neurofeedback should be viewed as one of the three essential or
primary forms of intervention - psychotherapy, psychopharmacology,
and Neurofeedback. In my experience, neurofeedback is every bit as
important and powerful as the other two forms of treatment." - Dr.
Laurence Hirshberg of Brown University Medical School, a
psychologist specializing in Developmental Disorders and Autism.

Contact Karie Kramer, our training coordinator, for more information
818-789-3456 ext 847 or see http://www.eegspectrum.com/Training

*EEG Spectrum Intl, Inc. is approved by APA to offer CE credits to
psychologists. ESII maintains responsibility for the program.

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Conferences for Neurofeedback Clinicians & Researchers

CONFERENCE LOCATION DATES

SABA - www.skiltopo.com/saba Sarasota FL Apr 30-May 3
ISNR - www.isnr.org San Antonio TX Aug 28-Sep 1

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Last Word

2007 Index of WNIN articles

Spotlight articles

1. AAPB - Monterey, 2007
2. Applied Social Psychophysiology
3. Brief History into Mind
4. Collapse Dynamics
5. Current Perspectives in Neuroscience, 2007
6. Mating Disorders
7. Periodicity Table
8. Principles of Learning: A quick refresher
9. Ranking EEG
10. Too Infinite a Mind
11. Word and Infinity
12. Year in Neurofeedback - 2007

Last Word

1. Auto-relation and creation
2. Dark Ages of Neurofeedback, revisited
3. Ending 2007 on a light note
4. Life is too short to be little
5. Living up to our Name
6. Placebo-resistant disorders
7. Psych Sayings
8. QEEG in your future
9. Surrounded by the Brain
10. 25 Online Tools
11. 2006 Index
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