A New Treatment For ADHD
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"Jan Drew" jdrew1...@sbcglobal.net
http://wcco.com/local/local_story_092144955.html A New Treatment For ADHD (CWK Network) An estimated two and a-half million children in the United States are on medications for ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
As the FDA considers requiring warning labels on these drugs, because of side effects, many parents are wondering if there will ever be a chemical-free way to help their children.
The Bowens has found something that they say has worked for them.
Their son, Brody, was diagnosed with ADHD when he was five.
"Whenever I got mad I started throwing stuff around and I got really angry," he remembers.
"I thought, ADHD - not so bad, I'll give him a pill, he'll be fine," says his mom, Joyce. "We'll all move forward," Over the next year, Brody tried three different medications. All three produced side effects, and none of them really worked.
They decided to try something else: neurofeedback, using video games that teach the brain to focus and concentrate.
In one game, called "glider," the goal is to keep an eagle on a video screen flying up in the air. As Brody concentrates, the bird flies higher.
But if Brody talks to someone, or looks away and loses focus, the eagle starts to drift down.
Dr. James Sendelbach, who uses neurofeedback in his practice, explains.
"Your brain learns what to do," he says, "what it is, what it feels like to be concentrating, what it feels like to be focused. And so that's the skill that get carried out of the laboratory or the home environment - into all the other situations." Brody has 40-minute neurofeedback sessions, twice a week. Experts compare the regimen to weight training.
"You just don't achieve results in one session," explains Dr. Sendelbach.
"You have to develop, over a period of time, some stamina and you have to develop consistency - which is essential. And once you do that, you get results." Over the course of nine months, Brody's behavior and his grades are better.
And he no longer needs medication.
"I would never use the word cured," his mom says, "Does he exhibit the symptoms of ADHD in the continuum that he would be tagged ADHD? No. He's just better." As Dr. Sendelbach explains, "Medication can change it on a temporary basis.
What neurofeedback does is change it on a permanent basis."
"Raving Loonie" raving.loo...@gmail.com
Example: http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/rids/20060401/i/r1273739274...
"Erik" eramse...@gmail.com
Are there Neurofeedback/Neurotherapy providers on this list?
Mark Probert markprob...@lumbercartel.com
Which "list" is that?
Do you provide this service?
"Jan Drew" jdrew1...@sbcglobal.net
There is a video, watch it.
...
Mark Probert markprob...@lumbercartel.com
There is some evidence cropping up that medication can make changes on a permanent basis. This is VERY early research and much has to be done to see what is happening in the long run. This was in todays RSS feed from PubMed. (Note that SPECT is Single Positron Emission Computed Tomography): *Effects of long-term methylphenidate treatment: A pilot follow-up clinical and SPECT study.* Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 2006 Apr 14; Authors: Akay AP, Kaya GC, Emirog(lu NI, Ayd?n A, Monkul ES, Tas,?§? C, Miral S, Durak H BACKGROUND: Although abnormalities in the regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) responses to methylphenidate (MPH) treatment have been reported in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), there are few prospective longitudinal studies ***essing the long-term effects of MPH and discontinuation effects after chronic treatment. METHODS: The authors studied ten drug-naive children (2 girls, 8 boys, mean age+/-S.D.=9.60+/-1.96) diagnosed with ADHD by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) diagnostic criteria, using (99m)Tc-HMPAO-single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT).
Patients were studied at baseline (visit 1), after 2 months of MPH treatment (visit 2) and after a drug-free period of 2 months following 12 months of MPH treatment (visit 3) at doses of 1 mg/kg/day. We evaluated SPECT data visually and semi-quantitatively. RESULTS: Two months of chronic MPH treatment resulted in visually detectable improvement in hypoperfusion in the right frontal cortex and all areas of temporal cortex with the exception of left lateral temporal cortex.
This improvement was still detectable on visual evaluations of SPECT data after 2 months of treatment discontinuation. The treatment effects that were detected visually were not statistically significant in semi-quantitative analyses. CONCLUSIONS: Treatment effects of chronic MPH treatment may persist long after the discontinuation of the treatment.
PMID: 16616981 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Mark Probert markprob...@lumbercartel.com
BTW, neurofeedback for treating AD/HD is hardly new.
kit ...@whitepine.com
Still at it, Jan?
Uhm, yeah. As the doc who dx'd YS said, "I don't prescribe meds for children whose parents don't want to have to discipline their children." YS hasn't ever thrown fits, no matter how angry he becomes, he doesn't throw things when he's angry, AND he's dx'd with ADHD-C -
all 18 symptoms. (Guess where he got it?) I REALLY detest when you or anyone else does this "these kids with ADHD are soooo horrid!!!" routine. Get over it already.
Kitten
"Jan Drew" jdrew1...@sbcglobal.net
"Mark Probert" pushing medication [while continually lying about] is snipped
Mark Probert markprob...@lumbercartel.com
Jan Drew, a/k/a L. Ron Hubbard Junior, wrote: restored: There is some evidence cropping up that medication can make changes on a permanent basis. This is VERY early research and much has to be done to see what is happening in the long run. This was in todays RSS feed from PubMed. (Note that SPECT is Single Positron Emission Computed Tomography): *Effects of long-term methylphenidate treatment: A pilot follow-up clinical and SPECT study.* Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 2006 Apr 14; Authors: Akay AP, Kaya GC, Emirog(lu NI, Ayd?n A, Monkul ES, Tas,?§? C, Miral S, Durak H BACKGROUND: Although abnormalities in the regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) responses to methylphenidate (MPH) treatment have been reported in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), there are few prospective longitudinal studies ***essing the long-term effects of MPH and discontinuation effects after chronic treatment. METHODS: The authors studied ten drug-naive children (2 girls, 8 boys, mean age+/-S.D.=9.60+/-1.96) diagnosed with ADHD by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) diagnostic criteria, using (99m)Tc-HMPAO-single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT).
Patients were studied at baseline (visit 1), after 2 months of MPH treatment (visit 2) and after a drug-free period of 2 months following 12 months of MPH treatment (visit 3) at doses of 1 mg/kg/day. We evaluated SPECT data visually and semi-quantitatively. RESULTS: Two months of chronic MPH treatment resulted in visually detectable improvement in hypoperfusion in the right frontal cortex and all areas of temporal cortex with the exception of left lateral temporal cortex.
This improvement was still detectable on visual evaluations of SPECT data after 2 months of treatment discontinuation. The treatment effects that were detected visually were not statistically significant in semi-quantitative analyses. CONCLUSIONS: Treatment effects of chronic MPH treatment may persist long after the discontinuation of the treatment.
PMID: 16616981 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] Jan, facts do not disappear by your snipping them.
"Jan Drew" jdrew1...@sbcglobal.net
"Mark Probert can not post without lying...
This thread is: A New Treatment For ADHD
MothWrangler mothwrang...@hotmail.com
It is? Wow!
Just how does this thread treat ADHD? Do individuals with ADHD merely have to read it to receive treatment--and, if so, how often do they have to do so?
What happens to readers who don't have ADHD who read this thread? Do they get unneeded treatment?
Nancy Unique, like everyone else
Mark Probert markprob...@lumbercartel.com
If it is, then the subject is a LIE. Neurofeedback has been around for many years: It was well discussed in asad: Searched all groups Results 1 - 10 of 146 from Jan 1, 1981 to Apr 25, 2000 for neurofeedback group:alt.support.attn-deficit (0.39 seconds) BEFORE April 25, 2000.
An early proponent of it was Joel Lubar, who wrote about it as early as 1995.
It was first discussed as biofeedback in January *1994*: http://tinyurl.com/ja6b4 This is hardly NEW.
You really are a moron.
Mark Probert markprob...@lumbercartel.com
Be careful...Jan will call you a liar.
"Jan Drew" jdrew1...@sbcglobal.net
Yes, it IS.
Look at the title.
Read and watch the video..*if* you are interested...
Strictly up to the reader.
http://wcco.com/local/local_story_092144955.html A New Treatment For ADHD (CWK Network) An estimated two and a-half million children in the United States are on medications for ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
As the FDA considers requiring warning labels on these drugs, because of side effects, many parents are wondering if there will ever be a chemical-free way to help their children.
The Bowens has found something that they say has worked for them.
Their son, Brody, was diagnosed with ADHD when he was five.
"Whenever I got mad I started throwing stuff around and I got really angry," he remembers.
"I thought, ADHD - not so bad, I'll give him a pill, he'll be fine," says his mom, Joyce. "We'll all move forward," Over the next year, Brody tried three different medications. All three produced side effects, and none of them really worked.
They decided to try something else: neurofeedback, using video games that teach the brain to focus and concentrate.
In one game, called "glider," the goal is to keep an eagle on a video screen flying up in the air. As Brody concentrates, the bird flies higher.
But if Brody talks to someone, or looks away and loses focus, the eagle starts to drift down.
Dr. James Sendelbach, who uses neurofeedback in his practice, explains.
"Your brain learns what to do," he says, "what it is, what it feels like to be concentrating, what it feels like to be focused. And so that's the skill that get carried out of the laboratory or the home environment - into all the other situations." Brody has 40-minute neurofeedback sessions, twice a week. Experts compare the regimen to weight training.
"You just don't achieve results in one session," explains Dr. Sendelbach.
"You have to develop, over a period of time, some stamina and you have to develop consistency - which is essential. And once you do that, you get results." Over the course of nine months, Brody's behavior and his grades are better.
And he no longer needs medication.
"I would never use the word cured," his mom says, "Does he exhibit the symptoms of ADHD in the continuum that he would be tagged ADHD? No. He's just better." As Dr. Sendelbach explains, "Medication can change it on a temporary basis.
What neurofeedback does is change it on a permanent basis." Do individuals with ADHD merely
"Jan Drew" jdrew1...@sbcglobal.net
No, I am not a moron.
And, makes you a further liar..
Why so much hostility?
Your reply.
Denise....
There are people who insist that AD/HD does not exist, that it is caused by too much television, poor parenting, etc. They insist that medications are evil and do not help.
When they beat that drum, others respond.
FACT: Came to me Via Google Alert: ADHD It works for some kids when medication did NOT.
There are no worries of SIDE EFFECTS.
You do nothing here but DISRUPT..as usual.
Pushing drugs....and LYING...and calling names and insulting....
http://wcco.com/local/local_story_092144955.html A New Treatment For ADHD (CWK Network) An estimated two and a-half million children in the United States are on medications for ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
As the FDA considers requiring warning labels on these drugs, because of side effects, many parents are wondering if there will ever be a chemical-free way to help their children.
The Bowens has found something that they say has worked for them.
Their son, Brody, was diagnosed with ADHD when he was five.
"Whenever I got mad I started throwing stuff around and I got really angry," he remembers.
"I thought, ADHD - not so bad, I'll give him a pill, he'll be fine," says his mom, Joyce. "We'll all move forward," Over the next year, Brody tried three different medications. All three produced side effects, and none of them really worked.
They decided to try something else: neurofeedback, using video games that teach the brain to focus and concentrate.
In one game, called "glider," the goal is to keep an eagle on a video screen flying up in the air. As Brody concentrates, the bird flies higher.
But if Brody talks to someone, or looks away and loses focus, the eagle starts to drift down.
Dr. James Sendelbach, who uses neurofeedback in his practice, explains.
"Your brain learns what to do," he says, "what it is, what it feels like to be concentrating, what it feels like to be focused. And so that's the skill that get carried out of the laboratory or the home environment - into all the other situations." Brody has 40-minute neurofeedback sessions, twice a week. Experts compare the regimen to weight training.
"You just don't achieve results in one session," explains Dr. Sendelbach.
"You have to develop, over a period of time, some stamina and you have to develop consistency - which is essential. And once you do that, you get results." Over the course of nine months, Brody's behavior and his grades are better.
And he no longer needs medication.
"I would never use the word cured," his mom says, "Does he exhibit the symptoms of ADHD in the continuum that he would be tagged ADHD? No. He's just better." As Dr. Sendelbach explains, "Medication can change it on a temporary basis.
What neurofeedback does is change it on a permanent basis."
kit ...@whitepine.com
Hmmm...
I coulda sworn that any time you do *anything* to *any* part of the body, there will be side effects, good and bad. With this treatment, you're working directly with the brain, which is not yet fully understood.
Kitten
Mark Probert markprob...@lumbercartel.com
Some nut jobs claims video games *cause* AD/HD. Weird.
MothWrangler mothwrang...@hotmail.com
Not true. (Hmm. What is it that people who tell untruths is called?) The video is about neurofeedback, not about treating ADHD with this thread.
So I'm still in the dark about how ADHD is treated with this thread.
Is it only *this* thread that treats ADHD? Or can ADHD be treated with other threads?
<snip long article about neurofeedback> Nancy Unique, like everyone else
Mark Probert markprob...@lumbercartel.com
Of course you are. The thread you posted in mha about me, et al, accusing us of being anti-Christian bigots proves it. Your claim that I am a Jew-atheist proves it.
It is my OPINION, moron. OPINIONS can never be a lie. However, this opinion is solidly based on facts.
Who cares how it came to you? It is totally irrelevant how it got there.
What YOU did with it afterwards is what matters.
I push proper treatment. I call you what you are. If you find it insulting, perhaps you should consider your actions and see if your behavior is out of line.
It is as simple as that.
Cue Jan to bleat and bray that I am responsible for my actions, thus she is not responsible for hers.
"Jan Drew" jdrew1...@sbcglobal.net
"Mark Probert" insists on arguing and posting diversions and LIES That was NOT my claim....it was a repost.
See how you LIE and DIVERT!
More insane need to argue snipped.....
Mark Probert markprob...@lumbercartel.com
Once again proving me correct when I claim that when Jan Drew cannot refute me, she calls me a liar.
Thanks Jan. You make it easy.
Big ****ing deal that it is a repost or a claim. In the manner you posted it, it appears to be a claim. Whatever you want to call it, it is still absolute proof of you being a bigoted moron.
Waste of time, BigotBrain, as you know I restore: It is my OPINION, moron. OPINIONS can never be a lie. However, this opinion is solidly based on facts.
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