I recently discovered a new website called Academic Earth that our readers may want to check out. Academic Earth provides thousands of free video lectures from top universities and scholars in hopes that they can overcome barriers that prohibit persons from achieving a world class education. Video selections/categories cover a wide span of educational topics, such as biology, mathematics, medicine, physics, ...

I just discovered a nifty software program called Blog Booker that can transform The Behavioral Medicine Report into a fancy PDF ebook with a table of contents, chapters, and live links and images from the website! Hence, this The Behavioral Medicine Report will now be available as a free downloadable PDF e-book. The ebook will receive monthly updates around the first of each month. Check the end of this st ...

I am pleased to provide this unsolicited announcement for my friends at The International Society For Neurofeedback & Research (ISNR). It is time to pre-register for the ISNR 2009 Annual Conference, which will be in Indianapolis, Indiana this year. ISNR conferences provide fantastic learning and training opportunities for professionals who are involved in biofeedback, neurofeedback, and quantitative EEG (QE ...

Just a quick post to alert our readers to the new Recommended Books section of this website. The goal is the create the ultimate Health Psychology / Medical Psychology / Behavioral Medicine book list. Hopefully many books will eventually receive formal reviews. Only books that we have personally read or are well thought of by respected colleagues are included in this section. Many more books will be added i ...

McCrea delivers a comprehensive, state of the art review of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and post-concussion syndrome (PCS) in about 200 pages.  A succinct writing style characterizes "Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Postconcussion Syndrome: The New Evidence Base for Diagnosis and Treatment" cover to cover.   ...

The American Medical Association publishes free online documents (PDF) called the Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement that provide specific overviews of many common physical and mental health conditions, such as hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and adult diabetes. These  "Clinical Performance Measures" include a nice summary of important information relevant to the sp ...

02/14/09 Update: AAPB removed the Evidenced-Based Biofeedback/Neurofeedback (2008 Edition) PDF because it is now offered only as regular book.  Attached is the PDF of the 2004 edition of this book. Original Post: The Behavioral Medicine Report readers hopefully are becoming more familiar with biofeedback. Upcoming articles will cover other types of biofeedback treatments, not just neurofeedback, such as hea ...