FW: Death of Margaret Ayers

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>Reply-To: QEEGGuidedNF

>To: QEEGGuidedNF

>Subject: [QEEGGuidedNF] Death of Margaret Ayers

>Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:40:03 -0700

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>It is with deep sadness that I want to inform everyone of the death

>of Dr. Margaret Ayers. Margaret had not been feeling well for many

>months, and had also recently fallen and broken her pelvis. During

>this ordeal it was discovered that she had a genetic ischemic bowel

>disorder. She had been hospitalized in intensive care for the last

>month. Margaret died of infection and multiple organ failure. She

>had remained coherent until the last 3-4 days and then died last

>night, surrounded by close friends and family, just 3-4 minutes after

>being removed from life support. In one more day she would have

>turned 62 years old.

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>Margaret was one of the first 3 pioneers in the field of

>neurofeedback. She had been in full time private practice in Beverly

>Hills since 1975 and was particularly internationally renowned for

>her work with brain injury and in bringing patients out of coma, as

>well as in many other clinical applications of neurofeedback. I

>believe that she had undoubtedly performed more neurofeedback

>sessions than any other individual in the field. She was responsible

>for the development of real-time neurofeedback equipment and her

>Neuropathways equipment samples EEG at the incredible rate of 250,000

>samples/second, providing definition to the raw EEG that was

>unparalleled. Margaret was a master clinician and without equal in

>her ability to interpret raw EEG patterns.

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>Gratefully, her work and legacy will continue. Her dear friend,

>companion and colleague, Dr. Penny Montgomery will continue (along

>with technical support from Wolff) to run Neuropathways EEG

>Imaging and to provide training. Her annual conference will also

>meet again late this summer. A Margaret Ayers Research Fund has been

>established. Contributions may be sent to The Margaret Ayers

>Research Fund at 427 North Canon Drive, Suite 105, Beverly Hills,

>California 90210.

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>During my 16 years of doing neurofeedback I have felt indebted to

>many people who have shared their wisdom with me. However, my

>greatest debt has been to Margaret Ayers, who taught me more about

>the brain and neurofeedback than any other person in the field. I am

>so grateful that in 1993 when I was President of ISNR that I was able

>to honor her with a Lifetime Achievement Award for her incredible

>pioneering contributions to our field. Her insights, inspiration,

>incredibly positive attitude and enthusiasm will be deeply missed.