Dear friends, dear NeXus users,

 
In this edition of the NeXus newsletter we are presenting a number of new products and new developments to you, like the new NTI (NeXus trigger interface) and new BioTrace software protocols which make the NeXus even easier to use. We hope you will enjoy reading the newsletter. Please feel free to contact us with suggestions for articles for future editions. Perhaps you are in the middle of an interesting project that you would the world to know about! We send this newsletter to over 10,000 professionals worldwide.

I have just returned from the ISNR conference in Denver where together with Stens, we have presented a workshop on event related potentials, P300, attention testing and reaction time testing. There were over 500 attendants at the conference, which was a record for the ISNR and indicates how much interest there is in the field of Neurofeedback and Research. At the conference the ISNR has presented a positional paper in which they present how and why Neurofeedback may now be labeled as being level 5 efficacious and specific.  This is hopeful, but personally I take a much more conservative approach. Mind Media has 18 years of experience with Neurofeedback and was the first company to introduce computerized Neurofeedback (PC based) into the European market in 1992. We have seen much progress since then, but the main problem remains the lack of specific standards for Neurofeedback. When the news gets out that Neurofeedback should now be regarded level 5 efficacious, it does NOT mean that ALL Neurofeedback protocols and products therefore fulfill those criteria! Be aware that there are still bogus products out there. Mind Media is committed to supporting better standards, more research and more clinical validation studies that will create a solid and evidence based foundation for Neurofeedback (and Biofeedback). This is why Mind Media is now becoming a IEEE-SA advanced corporate member to help create better standards and recommendations for Neurofeedback Systems. We will keep you posted, in this newsletter, on any progress made there.

with warm regards,
Erwin Hartsuiker
CEO, Mind Media BV