The Neurofeedback Solution (from Healing Young Brains by Eduardo Castro, M.D. and Robert Hill, Ph.D.)

   This book is about rescuing children from pervasive and devastating disorders that affect millions of young people.  Problems like autism, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and even depression can have lifetime consequences.  The simple truth is that when we rescue the child, we save the adult.  We have seen countless adults who have bemoaned the fact that they did not get the needed help when they were younger, as a consequence, their adult lives have been in some way handicapped by what are now very treatable disorders.  When we wrote Getting Rid of Ritalin, we were excited to tell the story of how  brainwave training program (all over the world were being helped by a nonpharmaceutical brainwave training program (neurofeedback).  Neurofeedback, or brainwave biofeedback, offered hope for millions of children and adults with ADHD.  We knew that brainwave training would meet with skepticism from some medical practitioners, so we wanted to get the message out to families everywhere.  Since that time, neurofeedback has grown by leaps and bounds.  Practitioners all over the world have been trained to help individuals with a number of problems.  Psychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, social workers, and counselors in many countries have added neurofeedback to their treatment regimens.

     Since we wrote the first book, exciting things have happened in the field.  There have been new studies on autism, ADHD, learning disabilities, dyslexia, depression, anxiety, and other disorders.  We are now able to treat Tourette’s syndrome and a wider variety of behavioral problems.  People with sleep disorders and premenstrual syndrome (PMS) are seen in neurofeedback clinics on a daily basis, as are people seeking performance enhancement programs.”