“A normally functioning brain selects what to pay attention to and it takes an event of a certain magnitude to get it to change focus.  If a non-ADD person is in the restaurant and a door slams, they may be slightly distracted but they do not necessarily lose their focus.  The person with ADD can lose focus with the slightest distraction.  For example, if someone wipes his mouth with a napkin, the person with ADD may completely lose the focus of what he is doing.  People with ADD are often in sensory overload.  It is hard to carry on a conversation with them.  They keep breaking eye contact to follow other activity in the area.  They laugh at what someone did across the room.  They will often rejoin a conversation with inappropriate input.   They may respond to something that was said by someone else five minutes ago, while they were off in their own world for a few minutes.     ADD has many components, and they vary in degree and intensity.  Frequently, two different cases may not even look like the same disorder, when in fact they are just different manifestations of behaviors.  The diagnosis must therefore include a wide-range checklist including symptoms from a variety of categories.     Several years ago we developed a behavioral checklist that includes behaviors from twelve different categories.  These categories are:  attention deficit, hyperactivity, impulsivity, immaturity, oppositional behavior, aggressive/sadistic behavior, tic disorders, depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, sleep disorder, and developmental and learning disorders.  Our checklist can be found in appendix C.”  p.6     From Getting Rid of Ritalin by Robert Hill, Ph.D. and Eduardo Castro, M.D.    We have seen this diversity in ADD and ADHD individuals.  The brain map/qEEG is very specific in how to help each ADD/ADHD person.  Most all see improvement within 10 treatments although optimal response usually takes 40 and more session.  The benefits are permanent in almost all cases.   Drs. Kelsey