Life Energies Research Institute, Inc. (LERI) is a non-profit research foundation which has been operating under the direction of Marshall F. Gilula, M.D. since 1970. LERI was incorporated in the state of Florida in 1980. Federal tax-exempt status was granted on January 9, 1981 under Sections 501(c)(3) and 509(a)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code. Dr. Gilula is a board-certified psychiatrist and a board certified neurological subspecialist (EEG). He has had four years of postgraduate training in Psychiatry and seven and one half years training in Epilepsy and EEG. His research experience includes being a US-USSR International Exchange Scientist in 1978 (Moscow) and receiving the 1981 (Tokyo) Motoyama-Ben Tov Award. Dr. Gilula became a NeXT Registered Developer in 1990. His research in Miami and private practice in Belle Glade and Miami involve psychiatry, EEG, and neurology within a framework of cybernatics and integrative medicine.

Dr. Gilula's active clinical expertise includes forensic psychiatry, outpatient psychiatry (primarily psychotherapy), epilepsy and clinical EEG. Outpatient psychotherapy is combined with biofeedback, hypnosis, meditation, and the use of cybernetic techniques that include cranial electrotherapy stimulation (CES) and many different forms of biofeedback. His biofeedback armamentarius includes EKG-HRV (heart rate variability) and the EPFX (ElectroPhysiological Feedback Xrroid).He is a board certified Biofeedback Instructor and a Neurotherapy Instructor. His research emphasis in neurology is focused on active use of consciousness in healing, the treatment of Parkinsonism, demyelinating disease, and chronic pain. From 2004 through 2006, he was a Senior Patient Safety Fellow at the Miami Center for Patient Safety at Jackson Memorial Hospital and the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.