ADHD: Reviewing the Causes and Evaluating Solutions

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ADHD: Reviewing the Causes and Evaluating Solutions
Luis Nunez-Jaramillo, Andrea Herrera-Solis, and Wendy Veronica Herrera-Morales

Why do clients with ADHD have such vastly different symptoms? Anxiety and Depression, amongst other disorders, can often exhibit ADHD symptoms. When evaluating clients, its important to look at their physiology, family systems, nutrition, exercise, to look at all possible causes.

The article suggests that since ADHD is associated with different etiologies, ADHD treatment should be personalized, whether pharmacological or non-pharmacological, to reach an optimum effect in the majority of patients (5-7% children/1-7.3% in adults) 75% of children diagnosed will face permanence of symptoms into adulthood.

Most of the reports on the use of neurofeedback for ADHD use a standardized protocol, either equal for all participants or, adapted to each patient’s post Q EEG analysis. However there is another more personalized approach known as QEEG informed or Q EEG guided neurofeedback. In this variant of neurofeedback, rather than selecting a particular protocol and applying it to all the participants, subjects receive a neurofeedback protocol selected specifically for them after a QEEG analysis. This type of neurofeedback has successfully been used in schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive disorder, migraine, dementia, and with learning disabled children.

There are so far only two studies applying Q EEG informed neurofeedback in ADHD patients, so it is not yet possible to perform a meta analysis on the effects of this type of neurofeedback on ADHD. However, a positive effect of neurofeedback has been reported in both published studies.

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