Measuring Stress
The clinical evaluation of such a condition is difficult because it is fundamentally based on the quantification of particular hormones found circulating in the blood of stressed subjects. When diagnosing stress syndrome, the medical experts, more than ever before, base their conclusions on the descriptions of the symptoms that the patient describes but this is always an empirical rather than an instrumental evaluation.

Psycotron: 30 years of Study and Research on Mental Physiology
The research at Psycotron, directed by Dr. Vincenzo Iannone for more than 30 years, has been concerned with the treatment and measure of stress, anxiety, and of innumerable other mental and physical consequences that afflict modern man.
Since the end of the 1960's Psycotron research has created a series of instruments accompanied by their respective diagnostic-therapeutic protocols. Psycotron systems like the Quit Smoking System, Diet Control and Stress Analyzer, and many others, are the only kind of their type because they are based on specific research of mental physiology. Dr. Iannone has received several international recognition for his research, including an award conferred by the Consul General of Germany at the University of Naples for "A Life Devoted to Research."

Alpha Waves: Who Controls Whom?
As with all things, even Alpha waves have lived through their cycles and seasons of success, only to finish inexorably in a fog of oblivion. After the initial clamor in the 60s with the discovery that one could control cerebral activity via feedback, the most serious researchers became disenchanted, abandoning this method because of the lack of long-term results. But the charm of the Alpha Wave is irresistible and we have found it again today with a new look and a new high-tech name: neurofeedback, ushered in by the computer, under the guise of brain-games promising new and amazing miracles.
Already, Psycotron research on Alpha Wave training conducted back in the 70s, demonstrated that frequency changes and the amplitude of cerebral activity are only an effect.
The emotional activation, in fact, has origins in the limbic system that is a function of the subcortex underneath the sphere of consciousness. The cognitive mediation can only be transcendent. We then must ask ourselves if the frequency variations and the cerebral rhythms are cause or effect. And therefore we must ask: Who controls whom?

From the Savanna to Fifth Avenue
Modern man, who proudly crosses sidereal spaces, still responds to environmental stimuli as responded his ancient cave-dwelling ancestor who was forced to defend himself from various threats of an altogether different environment. Modern man responds, as on the Savanna, with the fight or flight mechanisms that have assured his survival on the planet.
Unfortunately, though man may have graduated to the cosmos, evolution has not after tens of millions of years, updated this safety mechanism confined in the "basement" of the cranium box, even though it has strongly favored the development of the rational mind.
We therefore find ourselves with a highly technical mind and with a Paleolithic brain. Our behavior is inadequate and embarrassing. Aggression, rage, the inability to slow the rapid responses that erupt in response to environmental stimuli, are unfortunately, evidence of this, leaving us confounded and horrified.
Our contemporaries on Fifth Avenue, so sophisticated and refined, are still mired in this prehistoric bog. The mass media gives faithful testimony. Does a possibility exist for a middle way between the quick instinctive emotion of our ancestors and our loquacious reason?

Messages from the Internal World
Bioelectrical signals travel constantly across the human body, sending messages from the deepest levels of the brain to the periphery in infinitesimal time. This dense, silent network of messages, precise in language, sends information to the "external world" on its interior state. This preverbal language has a profound biological significance and represents the present phase of human evolution.

A Prodigal Son Named Stress
With the Psycotron System, therapist no longer operates in the abstract, and there is finally a valid system of treatment and measure.
Diseases tied to stress are innumerable. Stress, the prodigal son of our era, dissipates the energy available to man through the unmotivated solicitation of all the physiological functions, in this way causing a hereditary predisposition toward certain diseases. Well-being is therefore a dynamic condition of subtle interior equilibrium and is not necessarily tied to wealth or to external events, as many believe. For this reason, the wealthy are not always happy.
To use the Psycotron systems means to be in step with the most advanced scientific research and to proudly contribute to the continuity of Psycotron research.