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 March 12, surrounded by close friends and family, just 3-4 minutes after being removed from life support.  In two more days she would have turned 62 years old.

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.  She had undoubtedly performed more neurofeedback sessions than any other individual in the field.  She was responsible for the development of all digital real time neurofeedback equipment that samples EEG at a rate which provides unparalleled definition of the raw EEG and filtered waveforms.  Margaret was a master clinician without equal in her ability to interpret raw EEG patterns.

Gratefully, her work and legacy will continue.  Her dear friend, companion and colleague, Dr. Penny Montgomery will continue (along with engineering support from Michael Wolff) to run Neuropathways EEG Imaging and to provide training.  Her annual conference will also meet again late this summer. 

Funeral services will be held on Friday, March 28^th at 2:30pm in the Old North Church at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills, 6300 Forest Lawn Drive, Los Angeles, California, 90068. The phone number is 800 204 3131.