Study: Fewer than 19% of ADHD treatment plans monitor treatment response according to guidelines

By SharpBrains | February 24, 2015

What did they find (at a recent study, pub­lished in the jour­nal Pedi­atrics, sur­vey­ing com­­mu­ni­­ty-based ADHD diag­noses and treat­ments)? For around 30 per­cent of chil­dren diag­nosed with ADHD, the evi­dence that DSM cri­te­ria were met was miss­ing. ADHD rat­ing scales were col­lect­ed from par­ents and teach­ers for only 56 per­cent of youth with an ADHD diagnosis.

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5 Reasons Why Parents of Children with ADHD Need to Become Proactive, Well-Informed Advocates

By SharpBrains | February 10, 2015

. Most chil­dren with ADHD receive their care from com­­mu­ni­­ty-based pedi­a­tri­cians, so it is espe­cial­ly impor­tant for that care to be con­sis­tent with best-prac­tice guide­lines. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, all too often it is not. The guide­lines Here is a brief sum­ma­ry of some key ADHD guide­lines pub­lished by the Amer­i­can Acad­e­my of Pediatrics

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Update: 40% of ADHD diagnoses, 70% of treatment plans, fall short of AAP guidelines

By SharpBrains | December 29, 2014

Time for Sharp­Brains’ Decem­ber e‑newsletter, fea­tur­ing a wide range of insights on brain health and inno­va­tion, and a deep analy­sis of this new study that found large gaps between research and prac­tice in ADHD diag­no­sis and treat­ment. Did you know, for exam­ple, that over 40% of diag­noses, and over 70% of the treat­ment plans, fall short of…

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Study: Use of methylphenidate-based ADHD medication increases the risk of heart problems

By SharpBrains | August 20, 2014

ADHD med­ica­tion enhances the risk of heart prob­lems in chil­dren (Sci­ence Nordic): “The risk of devel­op­ing heart prob­lems is twice as big for chil­dren tak­ing med­i­cine for Atten­tion Deficit-Hyper­­ac­­tiv­i­­ty Dis­or­der (ADHD) when com­pared to chil­dren not receiv­ing the medicine…The study builds on data from 714,000 children 

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Neurofeedback/ Quantitative EEG for ADHD diagnosis

By Dr. David Rabiner | November 23, 2008 |

Like all psy­chi­atric dis­or­ders, ADHD is diag­nosed based on the pres­ence of par­tic­u­lar behav­ioral symp­toms that are judged to cause sig­nif­i­cant impair­ment in an indi­vid­u­al’s func­tion­ing, and not on the results of a spe­cif­ic test. In fact, recent­ly pub­lished ADHD eval­u­a­tion guide­lines from the Amer­i­can Acad­e­my of Pedi­atrics (AAP) explic­it­ly state that no par­tic­u­lar diagnostic…

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