Sometime ago, MABS posted an article entitled "The Future of Biofeedback: Four Important Questions from Biofeedback Pioneer Lilian Rosenbaum." We're re-posting it now, along with the cover and table of contents from the Winter 2019 issue of Biofeedback magazine, a publication of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback. We're delighted with the cover, which …

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Walmart, the one-stop shop center for almost everything, is adding health centers at some locations. Along with lab tests and health check-ups, counseling will be offered for $1 per minute. Click here for the story.

Board member Hogan Pesaniello, MD, provides another article of interest for our audience, this one on improving mood regulation with biofeedback and neurofeedback. More of Dr. Pesaniello's articles will be posted in the coming weeks and months, so be on the lookout for them! Read it here and feel free to offer comments: Bio-Neurofeedback to …

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The National Institute of Mental Health is updating its Strategic Plan for Research to guide the Institute's research efforts and priorities over the next five years. The NIMH recently sought feedback from the public about the draft plan, available at https://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/strategic-planning-reports/2020-draft-strategic-plan.pdf MABS shared NIMH's high-level goals with our members and encouraged members to review the …

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Dr. Ron Swatzyna, a past conference presenter who will present again on May 2, 2020, at our Spring Conference, has two videos with Dr. Natalie Challis and Leigh Shinde of Love Your Beautiful Brain (www.loveyourbeautifulbrain.com). These two women from Australia have an "anxious child program," where evidence-based research meets compassion and understanding. Here are the …

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MABS recently received an update from the group working on our field's CPT codes. For more information, check out this brief overview of the history and the group's ongoing work: CPT Code update for public release August 2019

MABS President Jessica Eure, LPC, BCN, informed us at the MABS Board meeting on 8/11/19 that she shared a Functional Mental Health Checklist she has developed with the Applied Neuroscience Society of Australasia (ANSA). In exchange, ANSA made a small donation to MABS. ANSA, a new NF society, plans to include the checklist in the …

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