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Written by Tim McFadden
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Monday, 08 March 2010 00:21 |
Please tune in Wednesday, March 10, 2010 when we will appear as guests on the I’m Thankful™ Network Radio Program. Simply go to www.ImThankful.com and click the VIEW LIVE or LISTEN LIVE buttons. Locally in Seattle, tune into 1150am ~ KKNW Alternative Talk Radio. Please find my contact information on the GUEST BOOK page. |
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Neurodegenerative Diseases |
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Written by Tim McFadden
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Sunday, 07 March 2010 23:32 |
Brain State Conditioning in Neurodegenerative Disease
An article appearing in vol. 3 issue 1. of the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience. By Vijendra Singh and Lee Gerdes “Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Parkinson’s disease (PD) affect the lives of millions of people worldwide. Patients show a wide range of neurological and psychiatric problems, including cognitive deficit, memory loss, confusion, motor disability, depression, stress and anxiety (Poewe, 2009; Singh, 1997). We performed a preliminary study of Brain State Conditioning (BSC) (Gerdes, 2008), a computer-based brain technology that we modified from electroencephalogram (EEG), on cognition of people with AD and PD and the findings are described here. We conducted an open-label study of BSC in 6 subjects suffering from AD (two females, 61 and 83 years old) or PD (one female of 61 years old and three males, from 61 to 76 years old) BSC was employed to observe brain wave maps that were used to design protocols specific for each subject depending on the nature of the individual brain map (Gerdes, 2008). Subjects were administered with 10 sessions (90 min each) typically over a period of 5 days that also included the initial assessment. Training staff compiled the effects of BSC on these subjects.
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Written by Tim McFadden
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Sunday, 07 March 2010 23:17 |
Overcoming Depression through Brain Wave Optimization with RTB™
By Vijendra Singh and Lee Gerdes An article appearing in vol. 3 issue 2. of the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience Depression or major depressive disorder (MDD) is a very serious medical illness affecting an estimated 25 million Americans and millions more worldwide. It significantly changes an individual’s ability to function on a daily basis. Symptoms include persistently sad or irritable mood, pronounced changes in sleep, appetite, and energy, difficulty thinking, concentrating, and remembering, physical slowing or agitation, lack of interest in, or pleasure from, activities that were once enjoyed, feelings of guilt, worthlessness, hopelessness, and emptiness, recurrent thoughts of death or suicide and persistent physical symptoms that do not respond to treatment, such as headaches, digestive disorders, and chronic pain. The cause of depression is not very well understood, but the disorder has a neurobiological basis (Mayberg, 2007). We hypothesized that depressed individuals have an imbalance in the brain (Gerdes, 2008) and conducted a pilot study of brain training using brain state conditioning (BSC). We found that depressive tendencies can be suppressed by BSC. Read the rest of the article here. |
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Written by Tim McFadden
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Sunday, 07 March 2010 23:11 |
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American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association, Inc.
Infocus – Vol. 17. No. 1 March 2009 – by Vijendra K. Singh, Ph.D., Director Research, Brain State Technologies, Scottsdale, AZ More than 50 million people in the United States suffer from autoimmune diseases due to an abnormal immune reaction called autoimmunity. Autoimmunity is a major cause of many chronic diseases. This number, however does not include several brain diseases and mental illnesses for which brain autoimmunity has been experimentally demonstrated. For example a huge population with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Tourette’s syndrome (TS) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has been found to have autoimmunity to brain. This patient population is never included in epidemiological studies of the autoimmune diseases. If you have an autoimmune disease, your immune system goes haywire and begins to attack healthy cells, tissues, and organs. However, this must happen in a highly select way. Thus, In the case of NeuroAutoImmunity (NAI), the immune system will elicit autoimmune response towards the brain or nerve tissue. To that end, the term “NeuroAutoImmunity” (NAI) has recently been used to refer to this autoimmune response that is directed against the brain or ever tissue. Our immune system and nervous system are connected with each other via the so-called neuro-immune circuitry; and when this circuitry is disrupted, the most common problem manifested is autoimmunity to brain. Then, people commonly show a wide spectrum of neurological and psychiatric health problems. What causes autoimmune diseases is not well know. The common belief is that they are triggered by environmental factors, in particular viruses; for example, human herpes virus-6 in multiple sclerosis (MS), measles virus in autism spectrum disorders, and herpes simplex virus in Alzheimer’s disease. Virus infection is now known to change the permeability of the blood brain barrier, which permits the entry of immune cells and proteins into the brain. Inside the brain, the microglial cells can also produce immune proteins that are involved in the autoimmune process commonly referred to as brain inflammation or neuroinflammation. Read the rest of the article here. |
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Brain State Technologies Blog |
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Written by Tim McFadden
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Sunday, 07 March 2010 18:45 |
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To keep up with the amazing happenings of Brain State Technologies, the developer of Brain Wave Optimization with RTB™ (RealTime Balancing), click here. |
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Autism & Upper Cervical Chiropractic Care |
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Written by Tim McFadden
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Sunday, 07 March 2010 18:26 |
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In this study, the clinical effects of full spine adjustment for 14 autistic children were evaluated using the Autism Treatment Evaluation Checklist (ATEC). ATEC is a questionnaire about children’s development and progress answered by parents. It was developed and is scored, online, by the Autism Research Institute of San Diego, CA. Seven of these children were randomly assigned to be shifted to upper cervical care. The remaining seven children continued full spine care. Clinical assessments were done for 3-5 months. Pre and post x-ray and leg length analysis was also monitored. The clinical improvement of the autistic children showed in the parent’s observations through a significant decrease of ATEC scores. This improvement of ATEC scores was seen in the cases of six of the seven children under upper cervical adjustment and in six of the seven children under full spine adjustment. The total ATEC average improvement in the upper cervical group was 32%, and 19% in the full spine group. Two autistic children under the upper cervical adjustment protocol no longer met the ATEC score criteria to be considered autistic following the interventions. Read the entire study here. |
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Written by Tim McFadden
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Sunday, 07 March 2010 17:10 |
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Probably the most significant paper to be published in the last 50 years connecting the medical profession and chiropractic was issued in printed form in the May 2007 issue of the Journal of Human Hypertension. "This procedure has the effect of not one, but two blood-pressure medications given in combination," study leader George Bakris, MD, tells WebMD. "And it seems to be adverse-event free. We saw no side effects and no problems," adds Bakris, director of the University of Chicago hypertension center. Eight weeks after undergoing the procedure, 25 patients with early-stage high blood pressure had significantly lower blood pressure than 25 similar patients who underwent a sham chiropractic adjustment. Because patients can't feel the technique, they were unable to tell which group they were in. Read entire study here. |
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