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Difficult Child's 14th birthday and neurotherapy update
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<blockquote data-quote="Second Time Around" data-source="post: 649889" data-attributes="member: 18739"><p>It's not that well-known yet, but there are places out there that use this for ADHD. It's covered by insurance as it's invoiced as ADHD therapy. I wanted to share our experience in case it helped someone else. Our Difficult Child has bipolar disorder as well as ADHD, so he can't take ADHD medications. This works without medications and once his brain has been retrained, it should stay that way. The therapist first does a Quantitative EEG to see what the client's brainwave patterns are. Then the client watches what looks like a simple computer game with electrodes on their scalp with a connectivity paste. The computer is programmed to look for an increase or decrease of a particular brainwave pattern. If the client increases or decreases the brainwave for at least 3 seconds, depending on the goal, he scores a point on the computer game. This rewards the brain for the desired brainwave pattern and the client gradually retrains his brain. It usually takes 20-30 sessions to really have an effect, but we started noticing improvements after 8 sessions. When he first started, Difficult Child could hardly sit still for more than 2 minutes, but now he can hand 15-minute sessions, although he does get fidgety after about 10 minutes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Second Time Around, post: 649889, member: 18739"] It's not that well-known yet, but there are places out there that use this for ADHD. It's covered by insurance as it's invoiced as ADHD therapy. I wanted to share our experience in case it helped someone else. Our Difficult Child has bipolar disorder as well as ADHD, so he can't take ADHD medications. This works without medications and once his brain has been retrained, it should stay that way. The therapist first does a Quantitative EEG to see what the client's brainwave patterns are. Then the client watches what looks like a simple computer game with electrodes on their scalp with a connectivity paste. The computer is programmed to look for an increase or decrease of a particular brainwave pattern. If the client increases or decreases the brainwave for at least 3 seconds, depending on the goal, he scores a point on the computer game. This rewards the brain for the desired brainwave pattern and the client gradually retrains his brain. It usually takes 20-30 sessions to really have an effect, but we started noticing improvements after 8 sessions. When he first started, Difficult Child could hardly sit still for more than 2 minutes, but now he can hand 15-minute sessions, although he does get fidgety after about 10 minutes. [/QUOTE]
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