Brookside Institute Journal

February 20, 2008
Volume 1, Issue 1

Brookside Institute Journal, First Issue
By E. Keith Owens

Welcome to the first issue of the Brookside Institute Journal.

For all of us at Brookside Institute, 2007 was a year of extraordinary growth and change. We moved into a new facility in Newport Beach, CA; we opened the Neuroscience Center; and we added several distinguished and accredited staff members including psychiatrists, an electrophysiologist, masters-level licensed therapists, and other professionals in neuroscience and addiction treatment.
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Brookside Institute: The Future is Now
By E. Keith Owens

Even as modern medicine was making great strides in treating life threatening diseases such as polio, small pox, cancer and diabetes, those addicted to alcohol and other substances were still being committed to mental institutions or imprisoned for public drunkenness. As late as the 1970’s, the psychiatric and medical community classified the disease as a moral weakness or a symptom of a deeper psychological disorder. In the 1960’s addiction treatment moved toward a more socially acceptable, compassionate model, Alcoholics Anonymous and the 12-Step Program; however, this treatment was not based on any medical or scientific research.
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Faces of Brookside: Dr. Jin
By Anna Miller

Dr. Jin is an electrophysiologist with over 20 years of experience in clinical and psychiatric research. His specialty in electroencephalogram (EEG) is particularly suitable to the work at Brookside Institute. His electrophysiological works have been extended to the studies of neural perceptual coding, mental disorders, substances abuse, genetics, and psychopharmacology. Dr. Jin is an associate professor of psychiatry at University of California, Irvine (UCI), with which he has been affiliated since 1987. He is the Director of the Behavioral EEG Laboratory at UCI Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and the Director of the NeuroScience Center at Brookside Institute in Newport Beach, California. He also serves as a visiting professor at Peking University Institute of Mental Health in Beijing, China.
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Neuroscience News: Return of ECT
By Anna Miller

In the past few years, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) or “electric shock therapy” has made a surprising comeback. More psychiatrists are looking at ECT for severely depressed patients who are not responding to medicine.
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Events & Announcements
By Anna Miller

4th Annual Conference of the International Society for CNS Clinical Trial and Methodology (ISCTM)
February 25-27, 2008, Washington, DC: Dr. Jin and Dr. Thai to present Efficacy of alpha TMS in Schizophrenia - A Multi-National, Randomized, Double-Blind, Sham-Controlled Trial for EEG-Guided, Alpha-Frequency Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
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