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    Does Your Teenager Struggle With the Following?

  • Family Conflict, Argumentative, Abusive Behavior
  • Blatant Disregard of Rules
  • Can't Accept "No" For an Answer
  • Abrupt Change in Personality
  • Never at Fault - Shifts Blame to Others
  • Uncontrollable Anger - Poor Emotional Control
  • Can't Accept Feedback - "Above the Law"
  • Manipulative - Pits Parents Against Each Other
  • Lying - Stealing - Sneaky Behaviors
  • Lack of Motivation - Lazy - Resists Tasks
  • "I hate you," attitude
  • "You can't make me," attitude
  • Substance Abuse - Alcohol or Drugs
  • Skips School - Truancy
  • School Suspensions - Authority Problems
  • Grades Have Fallen - Academic Problems
  • Can't Keep Friends - Peer Problems
  • Legal Problems - Facing Justice
  • Fighting - Violence and Aggression
  • Gang Involvement & Glorification

    Has there been a diagnosis of a disorder?

  • Danger to Self or Others
  • Runs Away or AWOL
  • Conduct Disorder - Diagnosed or Observed?
  • Poor Choice of Friends - Easily Misled
  • Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
  • Bipolar Disorder - Diagnosed or Observed?
  • Low Self-Esteem or Poor Self-Image
  • Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD)
  • Depression - Diagnosed or Observed?
  • Attempted or Threats of Suicide (Ideation)
  • Drug Abuse or Addiction
  • Alcohol Abuse or Addiction
  • Smoking or other Tobacco Use
  • Sexually Active - Risky Behavior
  • Cutting - Self-Harm or Mutilation
  • Adoption Issues - Associated with RAD
  • Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)
  • Eating Disorder (Anorexia, Bulimia)
  • Learning Disabilities - Diagnosed?

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A Neurobehavioral Approach to Treating Attention Disorders

One of the most confounding conditions encountered by pediatricians, neurologists, mental health professionals, and educators is Attention Deficit Disorder, with or without Hyperactivity (ADD/ADHD). Once simply referred to as hyperactivity or minimal brain dysfunction, we now know that this condition is far more complex than those names imply. While there has been considerable speculation in the scientific literature as to the etiology of ADD/ADHD, only recently have we begun to understand that those suffering from attention disorders are neurologically different from the normal population. Two particularly compelling studies elucidate the neurobiological difference between those with attention disorders and normal populations.

Reduced Glucose Metabolism

The first was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in November 1990. It reported the results of a positron emission tomography (PET) scan study of adults who had been diagnosed with ADHD as children (Zametkin, et al.). The study showed that glucose metabolism in the brains of these adults was significantly reduced, particularly in areas of the brain associated with control of attention and motor activity.

Theta > Beta Wave Activity

A second study, published in Pediatric Neurology in February 1992, distinguished ADHD boys from a control group, using a topographic (EEG) brain-mapping protocol (Mann, et al.). The study indicated that ADHD subjects consistently produced more theta (4 – 7.75hz) slow EEG activity, and less beta I (12.75 – 21hz) fast-wave activity. Theta is associated with inattention, distractibility, disorganization, and poor task sequencing. Beta correlates with the ability to focus, organize, pay attention, sequence, and associate cause and effect.

ADHD clearly has a strong biologic substrate, and cortical activation is apparently decreased in ADHD. It is with this understanding, and the development of sophisticated computer hardware and software, that a neurobehavioral treatment for ADHD using EEG technology has been developed.

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Author: Aubrey K. Ewing, Ph.D.

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