Neurofeedback News
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Women, Hormones, and ADHD
The severity of ADHD symptoms will change during the course of a woman’s cycle. Here’s what you need to know to manage them. by Laura Flynn McCarthy Do your ADD symptoms worsen at certain times of the month? Is your thinking a little fuzzier the week before your period? Are you organized and efficient at…
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neuroAgility’s ADHD Checklist
ADHD Checklist Is there someone in your family who: Has trouble sustaining attention in work or play Ignores details; makes careless mistakes Does not follow through on instructions; often doesn’t finish a task Has difficulty organizing tasks and activities Loses things often Is distracted by extraneous noise
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Scientific American : Faulty Circuits
In most areas of medicine, doctors have historically tried to glean something about the underlying cause of a patient’s illness before figuring out a treatment that addresses the source of the problem. When it came to mental or behavioral disorders in the past, however, no physical cause was detectable so the problem was long assumed…
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A site where kids can learn about the brain
Discover the exciting world of the brain, spinal cord, neurons and the senses. Use the experiments, activities and games to help you learn about the nervous system. There are plenty of links to other web sites for you to explore. Visit the site here
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A Comprehensive Neurofeedback Bibliography
by D. Corydon Hammond, Ph.D/Professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Utah School of Medicine Frank H. Duffy, M.D., Professor and Pediatric Neurologist at Harvard Medical School, stated in an editorial in the January, 2000 issue of the journal Clinical Electroencephalography that the scholarly literature suggests that neurofeedback should play a major therapeutic role in…
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Athletes use technology to train brain
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — On the frigid south flank of Alaska’s Mount McKinley, Boulder climber Mark Twight was hunkered down in a wind-rattled tent, preparing for one of the toughest climbs of his career. He’d trained for months, with sprints up Boulder’s Green Mountain, solo speed-climbs up the first Flatiron, and hours in the weight…
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What is Neurofeedback?
D. Corydon Hammond, Ph.D., ECNS, QEEG-D, BCIA-EEG Professor Psychologist, Physical Medicine, & Rehabilitation University of Utah School of Medicine Preview of paper: Download the whole pdf below. In the late 1960’s and 1970’s we learned that it was possible to recondition and retrain brainwave patterns. Some of this work began with the training of alpha…