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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“Why Things Fall Apart” and Drugs for Sanity When Things Fall Apart
As I prepare to leave for my fourth trip to India (teaching intensive psychotherapy in Ahmedabad and Hyderabad next week) a couple of fascinating items diverted my attention. The first is a small essay by the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, which I came across in an article in the December 31, 2016 issue of the Wall Street […]
Slavery’s Shadow on the American Psyche
Slavery’s Shadow: Racism in the American Psyche, Part II A screening of two 2016 documentary films, 13th and I Am Not Your Negro, offers both formal and facilitated audience discussion of racism in the American psyche today. Saturday morning April 8, 2017, 9-1:30 at New Center for Psyhcoanalysis (Los Angeles). 13th, directed by Ava DuVernay (Selma, Queen Sugar), […]
Dr. Brod Training Advanced Psychotherapists Summer 2016
I will be out of the office much more than usual this summer to teach intensive psychotherapy to other clinicians. In early June, I joined Jon Frederickson MSW in Syria Virginia for the Washington School of Psychiatry ISTDP Summer School. July 7-23, I have been invited to Melbourne to consult with psychotherapists doing advanced study […]
An Ego Boost Amidst Some Seriously Bad News About Anti-Depressants
It is not schadenfreude (taking pleasure in another’s misery) but I received an unexpected ego boost buried in shockingly bad news in a new paper + editorial on Suicide and Antidepressant Use published in the British Medical Journal, Jan. 28, 2016 (available http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.i65). Danish researchers, Tarang Sharma and colleagues, uncovered confirmation that the rate of suicidality and aggression doubles […]
EEG Neurofeedback Overview
EEG Feedback in a psychiatric practice. Adjunct to reduced medication. Theory overview. Case examples.