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If you or your kid have ADHD, do have a treatment monitoring plan in place for the New Year?

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When a child is diag­nosed with ADHD, par­ents con­front the dif­fi­cult deci­sion about which treatment(s) to pur­sue to best help their child suc­ceed. While decid­ing on an ini­tial treat­ment plan is impor­tant, equal­ly impor­tant is estab­lish­ing a plan to mon­i­tor how well that treat­ment is work­ing on a sus­tained basis, regard­less of what spe­cif­ic treatment(s) is being used. This is because children’s response to ADHD treat­ment often changes over time and [Read more…] about If you or your kid have ADHD, do have a treat­ment mon­i­tor­ing plan in place for the New Year?

Studies reinforce the critical importance of ADHD treatment monitoring

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As the new school year approach­es, let me high­light the essen­tial val­ue of ADHD treat­ment mon­i­tor­ing. Even when a child’s treat­ment has been going well, response to treat­ment can change over time. This is true for med­ica­tion treat­ment, or any oth­er treat­ment a child is receiv­ing. By reg­u­lar­ly mon­i­tor­ing how a child is doing at school, par­ents and pro­fes­sion­als are alert­ed [Read more…] about Stud­ies rein­force the crit­i­cal impor­tance of ADHD treat­ment monitoring

Discouraging new findings about pediatric care for children with ADHD: Often, best-practice guidelines are not followed

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Most chil­dren with ADHD receive their care from com­mu­ni­ty-based pedi­a­tri­cians. Giv­en the large num­ber of school-age chil­dren who require eval­u­a­tion and treat­ment ser­vices for ADHD, and the adverse impact that poor qual­i­ty care can have on chil­dren’s devel­op­ment, it is impor­tant for chil­dren to rou­tine­ly receive care in the com­mu­ni­ty that is con­sis­tent with best-prac­tice guide­lines. [Read more…] about Dis­cour­ag­ing new find­ings about pedi­atric care for chil­dren with ADHD: Often, best-prac­tice guide­lines are not followed

FDA clears use of online cognitive/ behavioral assessment to inform ADHD diagnosis

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– Pre­vi­ous test (QbTest), which required use of two periph­er­al devices, a small but­ton and a camera.

Qbtech receives FDA clear­ance for online test that assess­es ADHD (Mobi­Health News):

“Swe­den-based Qbtech has received an FDA 510(k) clear­ance for an online tool, called QbCheck, that offers clin­i­cal deci­sion-mak­ing sup­port for diag­nos­ing and treat­ing chil­dren with ADHD [Read more…] about FDA clears use of online cognitive/ behav­ioral assess­ment to inform ADHD diagnosis

Study finds large gaps between research and practice in ADHD diagnosis and treatment

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Most chil­dren with ADHD receive their care from com­mu­ni­ty-based pedi­a­tri­cians. Giv­en the large num­ber of school-age chil­dren who require eval­u­a­tion and treat­ment ser­vices for ADHD, and the adverse impact that poor qual­i­ty care can have on chil­dren’s devel­op­ment, it is impor­tant for chil­dren to rou­tine­ly receive care in the com­mu­ni­ty that is con­sis­tent with best-prac­tice guidelines.

The Amer­i­can Acad­e­my of Pedi­atrics has clear­ly rec­og­nized this and pub­lished guide­lines for [Read more…] about Study finds large gaps between research and prac­tice in ADHD diag­no­sis and treatment

Study: Neurofeedback treatment for ADHD in only 12 sessions?

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Neu­ro­feed­back — also known as EEG Biofeed­back — is treat­ment for ADHD in which indi­vid­u­als learn to pro­duce and main­tain a pat­tern of EEG activ­i­ty that is con­sis­tent with a focused, atten­tive state. This is done by col­lect­ing EEG data from indi­vid­u­als as they focus on stim­uli pre­sent­ed on a com­put­er screen. Their abil­i­ty to con­trol the stim­uli, for exam­ple, keep­ing the smile on a smi­ley face or keep­ing a video play­ing, is con­tin­gent on main­tain­ing an EEG state con­sis­tent with focused atten­tion. Over­time, [Read more…] about Study: Neu­ro­feed­back treat­ment for ADHD in only 12 sessions?