Twenty nine years ago in upstate New York a young Grace Slick sang out Migraineous inspired lyrics "One pill makes you larger, And one pill makes you small, And the ones that mother gives you, Don't do anything at all." Ahh yes, a little music fesival called Woodstock, and if you are a Babyboomer who might have been there when that storm front came through, it would have given you a massive Migraine!
No Imitrex® back then, but it was the days of Dr. Timothy Leary, PhD, and drugs and pills are everywhere! But really nothing that effective for that nagging Migraine about to disrupt your cultural experience. Ironically the drug of choice back then to abort Migraine was a drug family called Ergotamine. I say ironically because it is a relative of an other drug very available at the festival; LSD! With any luck our Babyboomer found an aid station and got a shot of Demeral® & Vistaril® and after a few hours on a cot got back to the Jefferson Starship or diving & dancing in the mud.
Back to the future some thirty years here in upstate Northern Virginia where the 8th annual EEG Spectrum International (ESI) Clinical Interchange Conference (CIC) is happening. But this time you will find over a hundred mental health professionals, a great deal of them Babyboomers here at this health festival to share their experience and review clinical data in the use of neurofeedback (eeg biofeedback) in addressing a variety of issues. Ironically a non-drug effective treatment, neurofeedback is used in addressing diseases such as Migraines, fibromyalgia, depression, in addition to symptoms associated with ADHD, anxiety, inattention and autism to name a few.
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