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By Ari Goldstein, Ph.D. For the past few months, we’ve been discussing the symptoms, causes and various treatment options for depression. Currently, it’s estimated that 13% of men and 21% of women in America will experience some level of clinical depression in their lives. In the past, treatment of depression usually involved long term psychoanalysis to uncover if any past emotional...

Some say the depression is an affliction that is exasperated, if not caused by our modern life style. Nevertheless, whatever the cause, therapists and physicians now have pharmaceutical options and well as traditional talk therapy to help patients suffering from this malady. This blog examines the different choices available to help those who are depressed.

What is it Like to Have Both Dyslexia and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)? Living with either dyslexia or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), let alone both of them, can be hard, unless you really know how to advocate for yourself and unless you have supportive people in your life.  Dyslexia and ADHD are both conditions that make traditional school environments a...

Depression: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment – Part I of III Depression: What’s it all about? By Ari Goldstein, Ph.D. Educational Psychologist “I have had issues with depression all my life, and it’s probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often – and this is quite common with comics – a sense of not feeling as if I...

The History of Neurofeedback: Part III By Ari Goldstein, Ph.D. Educational Psychologist, Chicago Illinois   Ever since the 1970’s, when scientists like Dr. Barry Sterman and Dr. Joe Kamiya first demonstrated that patients with epilepsy could avoid seizures by regulating their own brain activity, quantitative electroencephalography, also called neurofeedback, has had a place in medicine....

The History of Neurofeedback: Part II Ari Goldstein, Ph.D. Educational Psychologist For far too long, neurofeedback has been viewed as a therapy based more on wishful thinking than science. Perhaps this is because early in its history – in the 1960s and 70s – neurofeedback attracted the attention of those pursuing spiritual growth as well as patients seeking non-drug treatments for various...

How does Neurofeedback work? Why is it so effective in treating brain conditions as varied as ADHD, traumatic brain injury, seizures and learning disabilities? And so on. In the interest of answering these and other questions, we thought we’d start with the history of this remarkable, non-medicinal treatment for the brain known as Neurotherapy now available in Chicago.