Vijayaraghavan Padmanabhan: Improving the Quality of Health Care from Within Faith is essential for healing to take place regardless of the kind of treatment that is actually given. Where there is faith, the feeling is positive and this helps the body's built-in mechanisms of healing. The quality of health care would eventually depend on how well the various aspects of health care are synchronized to supplement and support the central nature of faith and the hidden reality of mind-body-spirit medicine.

Lewis Mehl-Madrona: Nanglyala Mental Health Center I write about the composite mental health center I have created in previous essays which comes from my and others' experiences working in mental health in New York State. I call it Nanglyala Mental Health Center, in honor of the Russian word for Valhalla, which one can't use, for it actually exists. I propose a thought experiment in changing the culture at NMHC, which I hope someone somewhere will be inspired to do.

Rob Kall: Washington Post Covers NIMH's First Funded Study of Neurofeedback. It's rare that a major media operation publishes a full article on Neurofeedback or biofeedback Today's Washington Post has published a solid article pegged to news that NIMH is funding a double blind study on Neurofeedback for ADHD.