ADHD Frontiers - Drug-Free Approaches
to helping difficult children achieve their full potential
HOW NEUROFEEDBACK
CAN SUCCESSFULLY TREAT
ADHD WITHOUT DRUGS
FREE PUBLIC TALK
Melville Recreation Centre
Canning Hwy (cnr Stock Rd)
7.30-8.30pm Thursday 17th March 2005
(* Held Monthly ... Phone 9430 7777 for Times & Places)
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD) is estimated to affect three to five percent of school-age children. Currently, there is much concern over the widespread use of medication as a treatment for AD/HD.
“WA adults biggest ADHD drug users”
Front Page Headlines in The West Australian, Feb 16, 2005
Many people feel that stimulant medications are overprescribed to AD/HD children and adults. Because behaviour modification and drug therapy are of limited benefit for the treatment of AD/HD and because there may be repercussions and adverse side-effects associated with drug therapy, it is important that more effective, alterna- tive therapies are available for the treatment of AD/HD.
“Neurofeedback ... an approach whose time is coming”
- Prof. Silberstein, Brain Sciences Institute, Swinburne University, Melbourne
on ABC Radio Catalyst Show on ‘ADHD Alternatives’, May 2003
Numerous studies and over 30 years of clinical experience indicate that Neuro- feedback brainwave training that focuses on inhibiting theta and increasing beta brainwaves, is an effective treatment for children and adults with AD/HD . Feedback techniques using brain wave patterns are used to help the child/adult gain self-regulatory control of individual brain wave states (e.g. remain relaxed, alert, and focused without figiting). The child is also taught strategies which address reading, mathematics, listening, remembering, and study skills. Thousands of children have benefited from the Neurofeedback approach to AD/HD:
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. | Psychiatrist Eduardo Castro and psychologist Robert Hill say it's time to replace medications with neurofeedback—an innovative, scientifically proven form of brainwave biofeedback that teaches patients how to control their own brain. The authors have used this modality to success- fully treat hundreds of children and adults with ADHD & found it effective for 75-80% of clients. "Neurofeedback is the logical replace- ment for Ritalin because it works better, is safer, and addresses the core problem rather than treating a symptom. "Neurofeedback is a sophisticated form of biofeedback that has been demonstrated to be highly effective in treating dozens of physical and psychological disorders. "This is, at last, a quick, noninvasive, cost- effective treatment for attention deficit disorder and its cluster of companion disorders. Neuro- feedback is a natural, self-regulating approach that helps restore the brain's ability to function in the manner in which it was designed to function. Once brain wave patterns begin to normalize, all the symptoms in the cluster of problems begin to improve. Neurofeedback is perhaps the biggest breakthrough in non-invasive medicine in the last 50 years." - Eduardo Castro and Robert Hill, authors “Getting Rid of Ritalin” Hampton Roads Publishing Company ISBN: 1-57174-254-9, 2004, 304 pages |