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Dr. Sam Roura

Sam Roura, MD is a highly respected psychiatrist in South Miami. He did his training at the Child and Adolescent psychiatry program at Miami.

Dr. Roura has been instrumental in the development and progress of Mental Health Agencies, Residential programs for Court appointed juvenile offenders, Drug Rehab Programs and Educational Institutions including private and federally funded programs.

He sees a wide range of problems in his psychiatric practice and uses neurofeedback in conjunction with medications.

In the interview, he talks about his clinical success with NF, and the positive response from his patients. He gives examples with ADD, autism, and describes the results with a difficult schizophrenic patient.

Sam Roura, MD, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Interview by Michael Cohen

Questions - Click on any link to hear the response.

You've prescribed medications for many years. Why bother adding neurofeedback?
He was pushed by his patients. Many South Miami mothers didn't want medications for their children.
How did you get introduced to it?
You work with difficult kids and adolescents. For kids who don't respond well to medications, does neurofeedback help?
"The difference this has made in their life. . ."
You describe some of the progress with neurofeedback. Don't you get similar changes with medications?
Do you ever get relapse of patients after doing neurofeedback? Do parents ever get mad at you because you've put someone on neurofeedback (as they do with meds)?
Would stabilization for this schizophrenic patient (described in 5) been difficult on medication by itself?
You have a lot of working clients. How do they deal with the amount of time and cost neurofeedback takes?
Who does the neurofeedback? You? Staff?
You've mentioned using neurofeedback for Peak performance in golf, or for executives.
What role do you think psychiatrists play in helping expand this new modality?
What are the implications for the elderly?
Many good psychiatrists won't see Medicaid patients. You're one of the few who still do. How do you do that?
Psychiatry used to be a calling. Money has caused many people to get in medicine for the wrong reasons. Some are now leaving because the money is not there.
Interesting comments about psychiatry and medicine.