Dana,
Tom Budzynski is at the University of West Florida currently. He was at
the Universty of Colorado, Boulder School of Medicine for many years and
is prolifically published in biofeedback. He did some of the pioneering
work in experimental biofeedback in the 60's. Although he is a Ph.D.
psychophysiologist; he is also an electrical engineer who worked on the
blackbird project in the 50's. He coined the term twilight learning in
the 70's which involved a learning process that utilizes
biofeedback-induced hypnagogic states. He has travelled widely presenting
his scientific work.
Les Fehmi is a former professor of psychology at Suny-Albany and he did
post-doc research at UCLA I believe. He is currently a private
practitioner in Princeton, NJ. His work is primarily centered on a
perceptual notion he calls "Open-Focus" which is a technique he teaches to
avoid perceptual attenuation. He utilizes EEG biofeedback to train this
and relies heavily on the use of interhemispheric synchrony training of
alpha rhythms in his paradigm. I have no opinion of his work except to
say that he has published it and it is available for your scrutiny a lit
search on psychinfo will yield a nice size bibliography. I don't think
either would consider themselves as "new age" in orientation.
Also, I found out that Karl Pribram's lab at Radford is interested in
light and sound stimulation. I would consider him a credible
neuroscientist. You might check him out on this. He is accessible by
phone in Radford, Va. I believe.
Tom
