Real-time synchronous gamma training made easy. (SKU: AG-P-119)
Futurehealth WinterBrain 20 minute plenary presentation by Tom Collura.
Gamma waves have been shown to reveal a cohesive, organized state of mind that includes binding of many perceptions into a unified whole. Richard Davidson reported seeing these rhythms in advanced meditators. This presentation will show results and describe methods for the real-time training of fast bihemispherically synchronized 40 Hz ("gamma") activity, through real-time detection and targeting of brief synchronous bursts. This method can capture single brief (e.g. less than ? second) bursts of gamma that occur very rarely (e.g. once per minute), and can clearly discern and feed back individual bursts, for training purposes. This will be related to the cortical dynamics that underly the gamma rhythm, and discussed in the context of gamma training.
Remarkable Anecdotes on Healers and Their Interventions (SKU: AH-P-283)
Futurehealth WinterBrain 20 minute plenary presentation by Beverly Rubik
Dr. Rubik began conducting research on spiritual and energy healers in the late 1970s, after she had a remarkable personal healing experience. She will tell stories of remarkable healings that have occurred in the clinic as well as the laboratory, on humans, animals, and cell cultures. These data include the qualitative, inner dimensions of healing, and depict unique and sometimes uncontrolled events. They are inspirational and provide insights into the mysterious real-life phenomena of healing, revealing its transpersonal dimensions. Healing experiences are remarkably unique to each person and typically offer spiritual lessons for both healer and healee.
Reward And Inhibit Strategies: Recent Advances in Theory and Practice (SKU: AG-W4-064)
Futurehealth WinterBrain 4 hour workshop by Sue Othmer.
This workshop will cover (1) the very different roles of rewards and inhibits, and how they relate to normal regulatory rhythms versus abnormal disregulated EEG activity; (2) different clinical options in combining inhibit bands and optimizing reward frequencies with one and two-channel EEG training; (3) the role of bipolar training in desynchronizing EEG activity and stabilizing brain function; and (4) the integration of interhemispheric with single-hemisphere training.
Self-Regulation & Biofeedback Treatment of Borderline Personality (SKU: AH-W2-372)
Futurehealth Workshop by Jerry Wesch
Borderline Personality Disorder patients are common in health psychology practice, presenting with stress disorders, exacerbated somatic symptoms, chronic pain, headache, and other troubling symptoms. The systematic use of self-awareness building approaches, self-soothing cognitive and behavioral training and self-regulation strategies, reinforced by biofeedback instrumentation, can make treating these complex patients easier and more effective.
The presentation provides a step-by-step protocol for integrating biofeedback, self awareness training and cognitive behavioral techniques.
Simplicity and Complexity in Neurofeedback (SKU: AG-P-081)
Futurehealth WinterBrain Plenary presentation by Sigfried Othmer.
Considerable proliferation has occurred in recent years in basic approaches to neurofeedback. Yet there is considerable overlap in terms of efficacy. The attempt is made in this talk to extract the essential elements of commonality among these approaches, and the essential elements that differentiate them. In the manner, it may be possible to discern a minimal set of attributes that neurofeedback strategies should feature in order to yield full coverage of the clinical terrain.
sLORETA- What is it and What Does it Mean to Me? (SKU: AG-W2-223)
Futurehealth Workshop by Leslie Sherlin
This 2 hour workshop is intended to teach the basic principles and practices for understanding and interpreting QEEG and sLORETA. The workshop will involve theory, literature review, and integration of knowledge into an actual case study. The workshop is experiential and attendees will be participating in the practical demonstration.
Success Builds Sucess: Beyond the Double Blind (SKU: AG-P-203)
Futurehealth Plenary Talk by Gary Schummer
Neurofeedback has many roads to success, depending on the definition of success. A model of success beyond that offered through research will be presented. We're speaking of the creation of many well managed effective treatment centers.
SYNCHRONY: HOW THE BRAIN CODES INFORMATION (SKU: AG-P-049)
Futurehealth Plenary Talk by Les Fehmi
Early studies on information processing in the visual system have shown that visual information is transmitted as a spatial, not a temporal, code. Information travels toward the cortex as waves of synchronous action potentials. The role of synchrony in transmission of various kinds of information will be described. The role of synchrony in coding information at the level of the nerve, and at higher levels of neural organization, is crucial for controlling attention. Learning to increase and decrease brain wave synchrony with neurofeedback provides a skill set which is crucial to attentional flexibility and well being.
Tales of the "Fatherson": The Son's Rejection and Renewal of the Father in American Narrative (SKU: AG-P-216)
Futurehealth Plenary Talk by Al Collins
I will discuss an archetypal pattern in American fiction and film, that of the son who rebels against his father, often shaming or even killing the old man but potentially also redeeming the father and giving him new life. In Nicholas Ray's 1950s cult film classic, "Rebel without a Cause" and in Mark Twain's great novel, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" we see this archetype fully realized, but its structure can be found in most American fiction (as well as American religion, philosophy, and other aspects of culture).
The Alarming Rise in Mental Illness Linked to Increased Drug Use: Causes and Prospective Solutions (SKU: AG-P-054)
Futurehealth Plenary Talk by Nancy White
The literature shows that psychotropic drugs worsen the conditions they are prescribed to correct by incapacitating the brain?s own neurochemical facilities. A number of acceptable non-drug treatments exist which we intuitively assume have a balancing effect on neurochemistry without being able to demonstrate how that may occur. Now, some exciting new avenues are being explored that hold promise, but the mechanisms by which they work also are unclear. Thus, a future direction of research is clear: in order to expand the potential of non-pharmocologic approaches we might better demonstrate how brainwave patterns and neurotransmitters affect each other.
