AboutNeurofeedback

Sam Roura, MD, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (also practices Adult Psychiatry)

Interview by Michael Cohen  

1) You've prescribed medications for many years.  Why bother adding neurofeedback? 

      He was pushed by his patients.  Many south Miami mothers didn't want medications for their children.

If you have a laptop, you may need headphones or speakers.

2) How did you get introduced to it?
                      

3) You works with difficult kids and adolescents.   For kids who don't respond well to medications, does neurofeedback help? 

     "The difference this has made in their life. . ."
                          

4) You describe some of the progress with neurofeedback.  Don't you get similar changes with medications?
                                 

5) Do you ever get relapse of patients after doing neurofeedback? Do parents ever get mad at you because you've put someone on neurofeedback (as they do with meds)?

Would stabilization for this schizophrenic patient ( described in 5) been difficult on medication by itself?                  

6) You have a lot of working clients.  How do they deal with the amount of time and cost neurofeedback takes?

7) Who does the neurofeedback?  You?  Staff?

8) You've mentioned using neurofeedback for Peak performance in golf, or for executives . . .  

9) What role do you think psychiatrists play in helping expand this new modality?

10)  What's the implications for the elderly?

11) Many good psychiatrists won't see Medicaid patients. You're one of the few that still do. How do you do that?

12) Psychiatry used to be a calling. Money has caused many people to get in medicine for the wrong reasons. Some are now leaving because the money's not there. . .

Very interesting comments about psychiatry and medicine. .