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Neurofeedback - A Non-Drug Teatment for ADHD
"Helping you take control of your child's ADHD" is an article written by Anthony Kane, MD. He states: "Neurofeedback is probably the most interesting and promising treatment modality for ADHD in use today. The goal of the treatment is to teach a person to change the way his brain works, so that the person no longer functions like he has ADHD. That means that with neurofeedback your child could teach his brain not to have ADHD. Would such a thing interest you? We are now going to explain how it works.
Biofeedback is the use of instrumentation to mirror psychological and physiological processes of which the individual is not normally aware. These processes are usually considered involuntary. However, through biofeedback they may be brought under voluntary control. The person receives information about the status of his own biological state, and using this information, learns to gain control over involuntary biological functions.
Neurofeedback is a type of biofeedback that can be used to train ADHD children to change their brain wave patterns to be more typical. Using an electroencephalograph to monitor the brain waves and a system of positive reinforcement, the children learn how to make their brains become more attentive. The result is that there is a significant reduction in ADHD symptoms and improvements in behavior, relative to how well the children learn to control their own brain function."
For Anthony Kane's full article "Helping you take control of your child's ADHD", which includes a discussion on "What is Biofeedback?" please click here.
This group program integrates guidelines set out in other established group treatment programs for PTSD, including the New Directions and Transcend Programs developed at the Cleveland Veterans Administration Medical Center.
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