About Neurofeedback
Neurofeedback, or “brainwave biofeedback,” has had enormous growth as a clinical field since 1989 when I brought it into my practice of mind-body medicine at the Self-Regulation Medical Group. Today, there are a variety techniques and equipment being used. We educate you about them all and help you choose the
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Our objective is to tailor an individualized treatment program for each individual. Thomas M. Brod, M.D. is a Board Certified psychiatrist; however he prescribes many forms of treatment. As a rule, medication is prescribed only when needed to augment other treatments. Self-regulation is our ideal, and we aim to
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New research uses EEG information, specifically "evoked potential" methods, to make even firmer the connection between severity of autism (ASD) and problems in sensory processing. The American Psychiatric Association put out a bulletin recently discussing the research of Sophie Molholm PhD and
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Shame and anxiety (hidden or tormentingly on the surface) are key discomforts in each person; however, everyone is miraculously unique. In my practice, we aim to pinpoint the help you need and offer the quickest and most lasting treatment appropriate. Sometimes that is intensive psychotherapy
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ENDING. GRIEF. BLESSING
Poem (untitled) by Jan Richardson Somewhere the sun has comecrashing down. Look, the world is always ending somewhere. Somewhere it has gonecompletely dark. Somewhere it has endedwith the gun, the knife, the fist. Somewhere it has endedwith the slammed door, the shattered hope. Somewhere it has endedwith the utter quiet that follows the news from the phone, […]
NEWS: Office Open; Video Sessions possible; Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy
Office Open; Video Sessions possible; Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy
The Power of Eye-Contact and Attunement
Refugees in Europe Met with Human Kindness
Four Preludes by Carl Sandberg
I had the opportunity today to hear Michael Tilson Thomas lead the LA Philharmonic in his own Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind (2003; 2016), a powerful 30 minute piece. It is a setting of Carl Sandburg’s 1922 poem of the same name. I haven’t found a link to Thomas’s piece online, but here […]
Growing Gratitude
Positive health and social benefits after attitudes of Gratitude are taught.