American Psychiatric Association Meeting

Since 2003, there's been a course at this international meeting to help more psychiatrists understand neurofeedback.  It's been very well received.  The chair is Dr. Tom Brod, a psychiatrist in private practice and an associate professor at UCLA.  The co-chair is Michael Cohen and Roger DeBeus.

At their  May 2006 meeting in Toronto, the APA sponsored a six-hour CME course called Neurofeedback in Psychiatry:  Clinical Applications on neurofeedback, and a Symposium on Neurofeedback and ADD.

The course included a review of the research, clinical applications, an explanation of the underlying mechanisms and a demonstration of how it works.  For the presentations in Toronto, Dr. Steve Buie, Dr. Sam Roura and Dr. Tom Brod are pictured below from 2005.  They were joined by Dr. David Mitnick, a child psychiatrist and Dr. Angelo Bolea, a neuropsychologist, Larry Hirshberg, Ph.D. and Roger DeBeus, Ph.D. 

Roger DeBeus, Ph.D. Tom Brod, MD, Larry Hirshberg, Ph.D. and David Mitnick, MD also presented a Symposium on Neurofeedback and ADHD at the 2006 APA.  Audio tapes are available from the APA. 

The presenters at neurofeedback workshop of the APA meeting in Atlanta, May 2005.  Left to right:

Michael O'Bannon, Ph.D., Atlanta,
Tom Brod, MD, psychiatrist, Los Angeles
Emily Stevens, Ph.D., Florida
Sam Roura,MD, psychiatrist, Miami
Michael Cohen (kneeling), AboutNeurofeedback.com, Florida
Steve Buie, MD, psychiatrist, Asheville, NC
Missing: Bill Scott, CCDP, Los Angeles