Posts Tagged ‘adolescents’
Top 10 Resources to Better Understand the Teenage Brain— Brain Health Series Part 2
Adolescence can be a challenging time for both the adolescents and the significant adults (parents, teachers) in their lives. Teenagers themselves do not always understand why they behave the way they do. Why is it difficult being a teenager or interacting with one? Why do teenagers have these typical behaviors: Risk-taking, strange sleeping habits, addiction, impulsivity, etc.?…
Read MoreNeurofeedback/ Quantitative EEG for ADHD diagnosis
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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