“Refining the Distinctions: All is Not ADD”
Not everything that looks like ADD is ADD. Normal children and adults can have behavioral characteristics that can resemble ADD. We can all have bad days or even bad weeks. In our offices, if we juice up on a lot of coffee, our staff threatens to treat us for ADD. Frequently, we will get on.. read more →
How To Tell If You Have A Concussion or Brain Injury
Brain injuries are more common than most people realize. even something as simple as banging your head on a door can disrupt brainwaves and rhythms. But when do you know for sure you have a concussion or brain injury that requires help? Here are some warning signs: 1. Can’t think clearly or remember important information… read more →
Effective Help For Depression?
A huge number of people in America (and the world) suffer from some sort of depression. Even more go undiagnosed. For those who have been diagnosed, the #1 method of treatment is prescription medications. While they do offer relief, consider this: Medications won’t cure the problem or make it go away permanently. They can be.. read more →
How COVID-19 Affects The Brain
From Johns Hopkins: Patients with COVID-19 are experiencing an array of effects on the brain, ranging in severity from confusion to loss of smell and taste to life-threatening strokes. Younger patients in their 30s and 40s are suffering possibly life-changing neurological issues due to strokes. Although researchers don’t have answers yet as to why the.. read more →
Understanding Brain Fog
While Brain fog may not be a medical term, but it’s something many people with chronic illness know well. Brain fog can mean a lack of mental clarity, poor concentration, and more. Living with brain fog is hard…it affects everything you do throughout the day, every interaction you have. Here are 7 things to know:.. read more →
ADD Similarities
“These are examples of how ADD presents with uniquely different behaviors in a given child. Although different, each behavior is caused by the same type of brain dysregulation. By the way, not every case that presents with symptoms like these three examples is ADD. There are many other disorders that must be ruled out before.. read more →
The Benefits Of Neurofeedback
The human brain is one of the most complex and amazing things on earth. Just think of all that we have accomplished in the span of a few thousand years, and how much more we will accomplish in the next millennia. All of it is due to the incredible power of the human brain. For.. read more →
Hypoactive ADD can be helped.
“Linda was the stereotype of the ADD child with hypoactivity. She sat in class daydreaming and doodled on her notebook paper. She would draw little cartoon characters and have them say funny things. Some cartoons were very clever, but the notepaper was devoid of classroom notes. Linda was sweet, polite, and pretty; she was also.. read more →
Anxiety & Stress: There Is A Better Solution
Even before COVID-19 changed our lives, the rates of stress and anxiety had been climbing steadily in the US. This can be attributed to many factors, such as worries about money and the busier lifestyle people find themselves in with extra family and work obligations. Mental health has become a serious issue, enough so that.. read more →
ADD: Incognito
“Gerald was an easy diagnosis compared to Karl, a fourteen-year-old truant. He was in trouble with school officials for fighting, had a brush with the law for petty vandalism, and was a chronic marijuana smoker. He was the classic skinny little tough guy, yet no one considered him ADD. As it turns out, he used.. read more →