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International Society For Neurofeedback And Research (ISNR) 2010 Annual Conference

I am pleased to announce that the International Society for Neurofeedback and Research (ISNR) 18th Annual Conference will held near Denver, Colorado from September 29 – October 3, 2010. Pre-conference workshops will be held September 27-29. I always look forward to the ISNR annual conference as this is the premier international conference for neurofeedback, biofeedback, and quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG ) practitioners.

All ISNR 2010 Annual Conference updates, news, and goings on will be posted in the comments section of this article. Please stay tuned and check back frequently for more information.

Registration and other important information can be found here.

I hope to see everyone out there!

CFisher

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13 Responses to International Society For Neurofeedback And Research (ISNR) 2010 Annual Conference

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    Chris Fisher February 12, 2010 at 5:43 PM #

    Posted on behalf of ISNR:

    This year’s ISNR conference will continue to hold very exciting changes and an atmosphere that everyone will find very rewarding and professionally stimulating. Our conference schedule has been transformed to increase the opportunity for in depth presentations and discussions. There will more time allotted between talks to allow a more relaxed pace getting to the talks and for maximum mental absorption to take place.

    This meeting is going to be a great opportunity to advance your current understanding and expand your boundaries in neurofeedback and other neuromodulation techniques. With a rapidly growing membership we expect attendance to increase substantially. With an already existing program of the top speakers in the field and the beautiful backdrop of a resort setting just outside Denver this is yet another ISNR that shouldn’t be missed. The meeting is being held at the Omni Interlocken Resort in Denver, Colorado. We are inviting presentations from clinical practitioners, academicians, researchers, trainers, coaches, physicians, etc. who wish to make presentations oriented to the field of neurofeedback and complementary neuromodulation techniques.

    The ISNR conference committee will be accepting submissions for oral paper presentations, student scholarship oral paper presentations, poster presentations, workshops, preconference workshops, panel presentations and post-conference vendor seminars.

    In order to provide the attendee with the optimal opportunity for education and connecting there will be a limited number of oral presentations. To promote leisurely opportunities for the attendee to continue to learn about current research and clinical work the poster sessions we hope to continue to expand. There will be two different poster session opportunities for the presenters to disseminate their work in a relaxed yet formal manner. We raised the standards for our poster presentation sessions and hope to make this a unique opportunity for the attendee to interact with the presenter at a collegial level. Additional guidelines can be found online HERE.

    Again this year the Program Committee is pleased to request abstracts for research presentations by undergraduate and graduate students. In keeping with ISNR’s goal to support and endorse excellence in the field of neurofeedback, the purpose of this call is to promote research related to treatment outcome data, identification of QEEG patterns in clinical research groups, or any relevant area of neurofeedback (EEG biofeedback). This project can be a dissertation or thesis project and must consist of original work completed by an undergraduate or graduate student. Guidelines can be found online HERE.

    Along with this invitation from the 2010 ISNR Conference Committee, you will receive a “link” for internet submittal of abstracts, biographical information, and professional affiliation information related to your presentation, all of which is required for the continuing education certification compliance.

    All conference material will go through this web site and the peer review process. Your idea for a presentation can only enter this process after all the submitted internet information is accepted as complete by the ISNR staff. The review process is competitive and will begin as submissions are received, thus the submission process may be closed early. Last minute submittals are strongly discouraged. The deadline for all submittals is April 16, 2010.

    The program committee has complete discretion to accept or deny submissions and determines the form of presentation and placement within the agenda. Please be aware that scheduled times may change to accommodate the conference schedule. If you have specific time requests they MUST accompany your submission.

    Continuing with ISNR policy established in 2005, we will not accept presentations, panels or workshops which have been presented in the previous year during the conference (e.g., if a presentation, panel or workshop was presented at our 2009 conference, we will NOT accept the same work for the 2010 conference).

    Digital presentations are due September 1st for loading onto our computers. ISNR will have your talk pre-loaded on the presentation computer for the venue, saving down time due to audio-visual switch-over difficulties. All communications about presentations will be through email unless authors and presenters specifically ask to be contacted by other methods.

    Thanks for your interest in presenting at the 2010 ISNR meeting in Denver. We thank you because it is by presenting your material (whether a paper, seminar, workshop, panel, or poster) at our meeting that you are contributing to the progress of our field. We look forward to seeing you there!

    Leslie Sherlin, PhD, Conference Committee Chair, on behalf of the ISNR 2010 Conference Committee

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    Chris Fisher February 13, 2010 at 5:08 PM #

    Posted on behalf of ISNR:

    The International Society for Neurofeedback and Research (ISNR) is pleased to announce that Donald Cooper, Ph.D., with the University of Colorado at Boulder, has accepted our invitation as an Invited Speaker for the 18th Annual ISNR Conference this fall.

    Dr. Cooper received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the Chicago Medical School in 2000. Dr. Cooper is the recipient of an NIH career award to investigate gene expression in cocaine addiction. His laboratory is funded by the NIH to study Ecstasy and cocaine in the brain memory and reward system.

    The long-term goals of Dr. Cooper’s laboratory are to understand information processing in the brain motivation/reward memory circuitry and characterize the adaptations and impaired neural memory mechanisms associated with depression, addiction and schizophrenia.

    Dr. Cooper’s neurophysiology laboratory combines behavioral, molecular genetic and detailed electrophysiological analysis to understand how psychostimulant drugs alter neuronal impulse activity leading to short and long-term changes in communication within mesolimbic dopamine system. Their approach to this problem utilizes state-of-the-art technology (e.g. DNA microarrays, viral gene transduction, infrared and fluorescence visualized patch-clamp physiology and intravenous drug self-administration) and complementary levels of analysis (e.g. drug self-administration, in vivo and in vitro physiology, molecular techniques and computer simulation) in order to gain insight into how this system functions under normal and pathological conditions.

    Confirmed Keynote Speaker include Norman Doidge, MD (author of NY Times bestseller, “The Brain that Changes Itself”), Alvaro Pascual-Leone(neuroplasticity), and Jonathan Marks, MA, BCL (bio/neuroethics).

    Confirmed Invited Speakers include Hartmut Heinrich, PhD (ADHD, Neurofeedback), Ute Strehl, PhD (slow cortical potentials, migraine, ADHD), Jason Soss, MD (epilepsy, neurology, mapping techniques).

    The conference will be held at the Omni Interlocken Resort in Denver, Colorado from September 29 – October 3, 2010. For more information please contact Ann Marie.

    Leslie Sherlin, PhD
    2010 Conference Chair

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    Chris Fisher February 15, 2010 at 6:16 PM #

    Posted on behalf of ISNR.

    The International Society for Neurofeedback and Research (ISNR) is pleased to announce that we are again offering a deep discount for very early conference registrations for ISNR members. This fee of $355* is for those who register on or before April 1. The rate will increase to our regular registration rate of $395 between April 2 and August 31, and will be $495 thereafter. This very early registration rate is an extra token for those willing to make an early commitment to attending the conference.

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    Chris Fisher February 16, 2010 at 9:10 PM #

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    The International Society for Neurofeedback and Research (ISNR) is pleased to announce that Jonathan H. Marks with Penn State University and Harvard University, has accepted our invitation as a Keynote Speaker for the 18th Annual ISNR Conference this fall.

    Jonathan H. Marks is Associate Professor of Bioethics, Humanities and Law at Pennsylvania State University. He is Director of the bioethics program at the main campus, University Park, and has a joint appointment in the College of Medicine at Hershey. He is also a barrister and founding member of Matrix Chambers, London. Jonathan was counsel for Human Rights Watch in the Pinochet case, and represented Dr. Nancy Olivieri in the European Court of Justice-a landmark case on pharmaceutical regulation. The Olivieri case vividly demonstrated the potential hazards to academic independence presented by industry-sponsored medical research and triggered Jonathan’s interest in bioethics and, in particular, his interest in situational and systemic threats to ethical conduct.

    Jonathan received his M.A., B.C.L. (equivalent to J.D., LL.M.) from Oxford University and, from 2004-06, he was a Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics and Health Policy at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Georgetown University Law Center. Jonathan has published widely on the legal and ethical implications of the use of health professionals, behavioral science and neuroscience in interrogation. His work on this topic has appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, American Journal of Law and Medicine, New York Times, and the Hastings Center Report (among others). During the fellowship, he will work on a book project addressing the relationship between professional ethics and human rights in the wake of terror. Jonathan Marks has been named the Edmond J. Safra Faculty Fellow in Ethics.

    Confirmed Keynote Speaker include Norman Doidge, MD (author of NY Times bestseller, “The Brain that Changes Itself”) and Alvaro Pascual-Leone, MD, PhD (rTMS).

    Confirmed Invited Speakers include Hartmut Heinrich, PhD (ADHD, Neurofeedback), Ute Strehl, PhD (slow cortical potentials, migraine, ADHD), Jason Soss, MD (epilepsy, neurology, mapping techniques), Donald Cooper, PhD (addictions), and Michael Schmidt, PhD (brain building nutrition).

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    Chris Fisher February 25, 2010 at 4:06 PM #

    Posted on behalf of ISNR:

    The International Society for Neurofeedback and Research (ISNR) would like to remind you that the deadline for conference submissions is Friday, April 16. Submissions for oral papers, student papers, conference and preconference workshops, panels and posters are being accepted at the Editorial Manager website.

    We are again offering a deep discount for very early conference registrations for ISNR members. This fee of $355* is for those who register on or before April 1. The rate will increase to our regular registration rate of $395 between April 2 and August 31, and will be $495 thereafter. This very early registration rate is an extra token for those willing to make an early commitment to attending the conference.

    Confirmed Keynote Speaker include Norman Doidge, MD (author of NY Times bestseller, “The Brain that Changes Itself”), Jonathan Marks, M.A., B.C.L. (Bioethics) and Alvaro Pascual-Leone, MD, PhD (rTMS).

    Confirmed Invited Speakers include Hartmut Heinrich, PhD (ADHD, Neurofeedback), Ute Strehl, PhD (slow cortical potentials, migraine, ADHD), Jason Soss, MD (epilepsy, neurology, mapping techniques), Donald Cooper, PhD (addictions), Michael Schmidt, PhD (brain building nutrition), and Dirk De Ridder (phantom perceptions).

    The conference will be held at the Omni Interlocken Resort in Denver, Colorado from September 29 – October 3, 2010. For more information please contact Ann Marie.

    Leslie Sherlin, PhD
    2010 Conference Chair

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    Chris Fisher March 11, 2010 at 12:17 PM #

    Posted on behalf of ISNR:

    The International Society for Neurofeedback and Research (ISNR) is pleased to announce that Hartmut Heinrich, PhD, has accepted our invitation as an Invited Speaker for the 18th Annual ISNR Conference this fall.

    Dr. Heinrich received his PhD from the University of Heidelberg. His thesis was “Wavelet analysis methods in a study on attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder.” Since 2003, he has been the head of the working group “Neurophysiology in child & adolescent psychiatry” at the Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Erlangen and Heckscher-Klinik in Munich, Germany.

    Dr. Heinrich was the first to investigate the use of Slow Cortical Potential (SCP) Neurofeedback in children with ADHD and was also involved with the groundbreaking multi-centre Gevensleben et al. study that was published last year.

    Confirmed Keynote Speaker include Norman Doidge, MD (author of NY Times bestseller, “The Brain that Changes Itself”) and Alvaro Pascual-Leone, MD, PhD (rTMS), and Jonathan Marks (bioethics).
    Confirmed Invited Speakers include Ute Strehl, PhD (slow cortical potentials, migraine, ADHD), Jason Soss, MD (epilepsy, neurology, mapping techniques), Donald Cooper, PhD (addictions), Michael Schmidt, PhD (brain building nutrition), and Dirk De Ridder (phantom perceptions).

    The conference will be held at the Omni Interlocken Resort in Denver, Colorado from September 29 – October 3, 2010. A very early discounted registration rate of $355 is available for ISNR members until April 1. For more information please contact Ann Marie.

    Leslie Sherlin, PhD
    2010 Conference Chair

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    Christopher Fisher, M.A. April 29, 2010 at 6:27 AM #

    Posted on behalf of ISNR:

    1st Annual ISNR Golf Tournament

    When: Wednesday, September 29th, 2010 with tee times going off between 10-11:00 AM

    Where: Omni Interlocken Golf Club (on site at ISNR conference hotel)

    Why: Great opportunity to golf a beautiful course in Colorado with the Rocky Mountains as your back drop as well as catch up or network with other colleagues prior to the Conference starting. Also a portion of your greens fee will go towards the Research Foundation!

    Format: Scramble (In a scramble, each player tees off on each hole. The best of the tee shots is selected and all players play their second shots from that spot. The best of the second shots is determined, then all play their third shots from that spot, and so on until the ball is holed).

    Prizes will be awarded at the banquet on Saturday night.

    Cost: $110.00/per person. This includes 18 holes of golf, golf cart, range balls, bag tag, club storage, gratuity and GPS system. Payment will be made to ISNR. A percentage of green fees goes towards ISNR Research Fund.

    Club Rentals (if needed): $30.00 per set includes the 2010 TaylorMade woods & irons. We will need to know in advance if rental is needed, as well as right or left handed clubs.

    Deadline: Friday, August 6th, 2010

    We will need to know handicap or best score for pairings.

    Sponsored Holes: Par 3’s will have a closest to the pin with prizes given by the hole sponsor. Closest to the Pin – The object is to be the golfer that hits the ball closest to the hole for the day. A marker will be provided by the golf course for golfers to identify the closest shot to the hole.

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    Christopher Fisher, M.A. May 1, 2010 at 11:32 AM #

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    The International Society for Neurofeedback and Research (ISNR) is pleased to announce that Matthew Nock, PhD, has accepted our invitation as an Invited Speaker for the 18th Annual ISNR Conference this fall.

    Dr. Nock’s research interests are broad and focus primarily on the etiology, assessment, and treatment of self-injurious (e.g., suicide and self-mutilation) and aggressive behaviors, particularly among children and adolescents. Current projects include the development and evaluation of laboratory and ecological assessment methods for evaluating processes associated with self-injurious and aggressive behaviors. A related line of research focuses on the evaluation of treatments for impulsive, aggressive, and self-injurious behaviors and the factors that mediate and moderate clinical change in treatment

    Dr. Nock’s presentation will address Single-Case Experimental Designs: A Practical but Unassailable Methodology for Neurofeedback Research in Clinical Practice.

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    Christopher Fisher, M.A. May 14, 2010 at 8:17 AM #

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    The International Society for Neurofeedback and Research (ISNR) is pleased to announce that Michael Schmidt, PhD, has accepted our invitation as an Invited Speaker for the 18th Annual ISNR Conference this fall.

    Dr. Schmidt did his PhD research in molecular medicine and biochemistry at NASA Ames Research Center, working under the chief medical officer, and he did a fellowship at NASA’s Psychophysiology Research Laboratory. He has an M.Phil. in neuroscience from Lancaster University (UK). Dr. Schmidt teaches in the regenerative medicine program at the University of South Florida,
    responsible for their training in metabolic networks, systems theory, and clinical
    chemistry. He also teaches in the NIH-sponsored Metabolomics Training Program at the University of Colorado and National Jewish Hospital.

    Dr. Schmidt works closely with the medical and bioinformatics groups at the Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology (U Manchester, UK), where he has done additional training in metabolomics, functional genomics, and multivariate modeling. Dr. Schmidt also has collaborations with the bioinformatics group at the University of Cambridge. He currently works with the human factors group within NASA’s suborbital research program.

    Dr. Schmidt is the author of Beyond Antibiotics: Strategies for Living in a World of Emerging Infections and Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria and he is a member of the Society for Neuroscience, the Metabolomics Society, and the Epigenetics Society.

    Dr. Schmidt’s presentation will address Nutrient Modifiers of Neuroplasticity and Performance and the Exploration of Novel QEEG Assessment Metrics.

    Leslie Sherlin, PhD
    2010 Conference Chair

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    Christopher Fisher, M.A. June 10, 2010 at 9:23 PM #

    Posted on behalf of ISNR:

    The International Society for Neurofeedback and Research (ISNR) is pleased to announce that Norman Doidge MD, has accepted our invitation as an Keynote Speaker for the 18th Annual ISNR Conference this fall.

    Dr. Doidge is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, researcher, author, essayist and poet. He is on the Research Faculty at Columbia University’s Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, in New York, and the University of Toronto’s Department of Psychiatry.

    Dr. Doidge served as Head of the Psychotherapy Centre and the Assessment Clinic at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, and taught in the departments of Philosophy, Political Science, Law and Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He has published on trauma, problems in love, psychiatric diagnoses and intensive psychotherapies, and is the author of standards and guidelines for the practice of intensive psychotherapy that are widely used in Canada. In 1993 he presented his early research at the White House in Washington, D.C., and is credited with helping preserve these treatments as part of the Canadian and Australian health care systems. He is a Training Analyst (a trainer of psychoanalysts) in the Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis.

    Dr. Doidge has won a number of scientific awards, including the U.S. National Psychiatric Endowment Award in Psychiatry; the American Psychoanalytic Association’s CORST Prize in Psychoanalysis and Culture; the Canadian Psychoanalytic Association’s M. Prados Prize; and election to the American College of Psychoanalysts for “many outstanding achievements in psychiatry and psychoanalysis… and national leadership in psychiatry.” He was recently awarded the Mary S. Sigourney Prize, the highest award in international psychoanalysis, and the National Association of Mental Illness Ken Book Award. He is a reviewer for the Harvard Review of Psychiatry.

    Leslie Sherlin, PhD
    2010 Conference Chair

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    Christopher Fisher, M.A. June 24, 2010 at 5:31 PM #

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    The International Society for Neurofeedback and Research (ISNR) is pleased to announce that Alvaro Pascual-Leone, MD, PhD, has accepted our invitation as an Keynote Speaker for the 18th Annual ISNR Conference this fall.

    Dr. Pascual-Leone is the Director of the Center for Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation and Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

    Dr. Pascual-Leone is Board Certified in Neurology and Neurophysiology by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. His focus is to understand neural plasticity at system’s level. He seeks to identify rules that are invariant across neural systems and domains. He believe that plasticity is the normally ongoing state of the nervous system and that a coherent account of any neurocognitive theory and neural system has to contemplate plasticity as an integral property of the nervous system and the obligatory consequence of each sensory input, motor act, association, reward signal, action plan, or awareness. In this framework, notions such as psychological processes as distinct from organic-based functions or dysfunctions, or of “good” and “bad” plasticity, cease to be informative. Plasticity is the reason for development and learning, the cause of disease, and a mechanism of functional recovery. The challenge is to learn enough about the mechanisms of plasticity in order to manipulate them, suppressing some changes and enhancing others, to gain a clinical benefit and behavioral advantage for a given individual.

    In the laboratory Dr. Pascual-Leone combines various brain imaging and neurophysiologic methodologies to establish a causal relationship and a precise chronometry between regional brain activation and behavior. PET or fMRI identify information about brain areas associated with behavior. TMS can transiently deactivate a region of the brain, thus creating a “virtual patient” and explore causal relations. EEG, MEG and ERPs can provide further chronometric information. Repetitive TMS and tDCS allow the non-invasive modulation of activity in a specified cortical target area and its functionally connected cortico-subcortical neural network. MRI and EEG can guide such applications of neuromodulation. Such non-invasive approaches can lead to clinically relevant therapeutic effects in neuropsychiatry and neurorehabilitation, and serve as proof-of-principle prior to more invasive neuromodulatory interventions.

    Leslie Sherlin, PhD

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    Christopher Fisher, M.A. July 8, 2010 at 12:21 PM #

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    The International Society for Neurofeedback and Research (ISNR) is pleased to announce that Dr. Dirk De Ridder has accepted our invitation as an Invited Speaker for the 18th Annual ISNR Conference this fall.

    Dr. Ridder is a neurosurgeon, working in Antwerp, Belgium, whose research is focused on the pathophysiology and treatment of phantom perceptions. He developed the technique of electrical auditory cortex stimulation for tinnitus and somatosensory cortex stimulation for pain and recently for auditory hallucinations as well. His expertise extends beyond tinnitus and he is additionally investigating a diversity of clinical populations with a variety of neuroimaging techniques and neuromodulatory interventions.

    Leslie Sherlin, PhD
    2010 Conference Chair

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    Christopher Fisher, PhD September 2, 2010 at 8:33 PM #

    The International Society for Neurofeedback and Research (ISNR) is pleased to announce that Paul Rapp, Ph.D. has accepted our invitation as an Invited Speaker for the 18th Annual ISNR Conference this fall.

    Paul Rapp attended the University of Illinois as a James Scholar. He received a Bachelors degree in Physiology (minor in Chemistry) and a second Bachelors degree in Engineering Physics in 1972. He then attended Cambridge University as a Churchill Scholar and received his Ph.D. in 1975. His doctoral work, under the supervision of Professor Sir James Lighthill, was conducted in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. Following graduation he was elected to a Fellowship at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. During this period he continued teaching in the Faculty of Mathematics and performed combined theoretical and experimental work in collaboration with Professor Sir Michael Berridge in the Invertebrate Chemistry and Physiology Unit at Cambridge. This work led to the publication of the calcium-cyclic nucleotide oscillator hypothesis. He joined the faculty of the Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1979.

    At present, Dr. Rapp is a Professor of Military and Emergency Medicine at the Uniformed Services University and Director of the Traumatic Injury Research Program. He also holds a secondary appointment as a Professor of Medical and Clinical Psychology. Previously he was a Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology at Drexel University College of Medicine (the successor organization to the Medical College of Pennsylvania) and Director of Research at the Clinical Research Center at Norristown State Hospital.

    Dr. Rapp is a past editor of Physica, and is currently on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, Chaos and Complexity Letters, and Cognitive Neurodynamics. Past honors include a Certificate of Commendation from the Central Intelligence Agency for “significant contributions to the mission of the Office of Research and Development.”

    Leslie Sherlin, PhD
    2010 Conference Chair

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