Re: ADHD/Ritalin ...
Steve Tobin (drannen@DRAFT5.DAB.GE.COM)
Thu, 24 Mar 1994 12:44:04 EST
Andrew J. Heath (Heatha@Yvax.byu.edu) asks:
>...I had a good discusion with a professer here who is in the feild of Music
>Medicine. She has two grandchildren who have ADHD, and our discusion led to
>this subject. She is in the process of getting equipment to do Neurofeedback.
>Both her granchildren have been treated, and have made great improvements. She
>advocates this approch as it treats the diesese rather than the symptoms.
> She also commented that some children are diognosed with ADHD when they
>have a raging yeast infection (an allergy) instead.
When my son and I were diagnosed ADD/ADHD the MD did tests to check for other
possible physical causes of the symptoms, we also both saw a PSY DR to rule
out depression etc.
> I am currious if anyone has had experience with Neurofeedback as a
>treatment for ADD/ADHD?
To paraphrase a PSY DR I heard answer this question,
Anybody who sits hooked up to an EEG machine an hour or so a day is going to
start behaving differently.
He also made the point that the only study he had seen only involved ~10 kids
and was a short term study. Of course he is conservative in alot of his views,
I have dealt with him for many years and never heard him blame anything on if
or how long you were nursed (not bottle fed).
nancy,
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