Often, we are encouraged to reach for medication as a first choice for unwanted symptoms and conditions. What if you had another first choice? More and more parents are looking for options other than medication when it comes to the treatment of ADHD. One of the most beneficial alternative means of improving ADHD symptoms is...

Reactive Attachment Disorder, or RAD, is usually associated with children who have been adopted.  RAD can occur even if a child was adopted in the first few days of life. Although RAD is generally linked to adoption, not all adopted children develop RAD. In addition to the many misconceptions regarding Attachment Disorder, it’s often not...

The History Neurofeedback In 1968, Dr. Barry Sterman, a neuroscientist at UCLA medical school, used operant conditioning to prove that cats in his lab could be trained to make more EEG activity at 12-15 Hz frequencies. He called it Sensory Motor Rhythm or SMR.  Inadvertently, this experiment launched part of the field of neurofeedback. Sterman...

ADHD - Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder has become one of the most frequent diagnoses for school age children. In March 2013, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention released data stating that 11% of school-age children have been diagnosed with ADHD. That is a 50% increase over the past decade. Parents of children who are...

A clinical trial conducted by Vincent Monastra and colleagues in 2002 revealed that neurofeedback training outperformed medication in the treatment of ADHD.  One hundred children diagnosed with ADHD were enrolled in the study. For one year, all of them were treated with medication (Ritalin), while half had their treatments supplemented with neurofeedback training. Immediately after...