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Title: A Symphony in the Brain: The Evolution of the New Brain Wave Biofeedback by Jim Robbins ISBN: 0-8021-3819-5 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 10 July, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.44 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Riveting Story about an Amazing, Life Changing Approach
Comment: There are so many self-help books which just ploddingly go along giving tips and data. This isn't like that. WHile reading it could start you on the path to really making major positive changes in your life, the book is more of a story about the history of the field and description of its promise and potential than a how-to book. I've been in the field of neurofedback since 1972, but I still learned alot from the big picture, in depth story Jim Robbins spent several years researching and telling. This book tells of the promise, the potential of the new brainwave biofeedback, and it tells a history of its development that could easily be made into a movie, with fascinating characters and multiple plots. I recommend it to people to read so they will learn all the different aspects and potentials of neurofeedback, since it does such a thorough job. But I have to warn them that it is not all pretty. The people who have moved the field forward are human, with flaws. But that makes the STORY even better. Since it came out, articles in the New York Times Book Review and Newsweek, and more have referred positively to the book. It's a good way to find out if you or someone you care about is a potential candidate for neurofeedback, because in all likelihood, your doctor is not going to mention it.
Of course the wild history of neurofeedback continues to go on. Rob Kall [email protected]
Rating: 5
Summary: A New Kind of Learning Frontier
Comment: Jim Robbins' new book is a must read for anyone tracking the most promising new frontiers in science and healing. Neurofeedback or "braintraining" is a complicated offshoot of biofeedback, based on teaching all or parts of our brains to operate more effectively or at a desired frequency with new high tech brain monitoring and computer software programs.
While the government and mainstream medicine have been, for whatever reasons, reluctant to fund research on neurofeedback, a handful of dedicated researchers and practitioners have amassed tons of data and demonstrated remarkable results. Seems like we should be spending some of our "War on Drugs" budget to investigate such a promising way to get kids off Ritalin.
The treatment successes are impressive, everything from stroke and brain injury to alcoholism and criminal behavior, but this is not just about treating pathology. It is also about the potential to develop extended human capacities; for optimizing our brain functioning, accessing creativity and deep meditative states, and attaining new levels of mental and physical health.
The book is balanced and thoroughly-researched, yet the author is also willing to reflect a little on where this amazing new technology could take us, and its quite a ride.
This is the future. If you like to know what's coming, I heartily recommend it.
Rating: 2
Summary: Deeply Disappointing
Comment: Reads like a bad script for an infomercial on Coral Calcium. I grew weary of the persistant defensiveness of those in the industry (No, no, it's real Science!) as well as the attacks on an ambiguously-defined, western, medical machine that won't fund clinical trials that would dispell all doubt.
Honestly, this book was recommended by a clinician as an introduction prior to therapy. I can truly say that I am far less inclined to undergo EEG Neurobiofeedback after reading this book than I was walking in with no prior knowledge of the therapy.
I can't speak to Robbins' coverage of the history of the field. However, as for the tecnology itself, he does little more than relate a few glowing case studies, echo the claims of practicioners, and sumarize his own minimal experience. Absent a single citation from another publication (peer reviewed or otherwise) I am left in search of further reading for guidance.
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Title: Getting Rid of Ritalin: How Neurofeedback Can Successfully Treat Attention Deficit Disorder Without Drugs by Robert W. Hill, Eduardo Castro ISBN: 1571742549 Publisher: Hampton Roads Pub Co Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The High-Performance Mind: Mastering Brainwaves for Insight, Healing, and Creativity by Anna Wise ISBN: 0874778506 Publisher: J. P. Tarcher Pub. Date: January, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Awakening the Mind: A Guide to Mastering the Power of Your Brain Waves by Anna Wise ISBN: 1585421456 Publisher: J. P. Tarcher Pub. Date: 14 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Introduction to Quantitative EEG and Neurofeedback by James Evans, Andrew Abarbanel ISBN: 012243790X Publisher: Academic Press Pub. Date: 15 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $84.95 |
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Title: Mindfitness Training: Neurofeedback and the Process by Adam Crane, Richard Soutar ISBN: 0595096050 Publisher: iUniverse.com Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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