“Sporadic performance is common in ADD.  The child may make 95 on one test and 45 on another, even though the parents knew the child prepared for both tests.  It is as if his brain goes on vacation for the second test.  Parents and professionals alike are often misled when the child can sit for hours playing video games.  So they label the lapses during the tests as lazy or stupid behavior.  But there are two things at work when the child (or adult) is engaged in something like TV or video games.     First, the game is in constant motion, which holds their attention, and secondly, these children have a quality of perseverance.  Once they lock onto something like a video game, they have trouble turning themselves loose; they are unable to shift focus from one task to another.     On the other hand, they have much more trouble focusing on the teacher trying to have a lecture on pronouns.  Teachers in today’s classrooms have a hard time competing with the high-tech  video world, particularly if the child is ADD.  Pronouns or dates in history do not have the same high–attentional attraction as a video game or high-action movie.”  From Getting Rid of Ritalin.  Robert Hill, Ph.D and Eduardo Castro, M.D.     The brain naturally has different speeds it needs to run for different situations.  The ADD person is unable to make those shifts from one speed to another.  A qEEG identifies these issues and helps us train the brain to function optimally in all situations at the proper speeds.  Drs. Kelsey