Survey: Parents view Exercise as more effective than Prescription Medications to treat children with ADHD

By Dr. David Rabiner | November 17, 2017

Con­sid­er how research sup­port for ADHD treat­ments are typ­i­cal­ly estab­lished. The ‘gold-stan­­dard’ approach would be a ran­­dom­ized-con­trolled tri­al in which chil­dren with ADHD are ran­dom­ly assigned to the treat­ment or con­trol group. The treat­ment, what­ev­er it hap­pens to be, would be care­ful­ly imple­ment­ed in a research-based pro­to­col. If possible

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5 Must-Read Articles, and an Online Course, to Help Children with ADHD

By SharpBrains | June 21, 2017 |

—– Giv­en the ongo­ing changes and con­tro­ver­sies sur­round­ing ADHD diag­no­sis and treat­ment, let us high­light 5 key arti­cles writ­ten by Duke Uni­ver­si­ty’s Dr. David Rabin­er to sum­ma­rize recent sci­en­tif­ic find­ings and their impli­ca­tions, plus a very rel­e­vant online course to help par­ents and pro­fes­sion­als help chil­dren with ADHD. 1. Study finds large gaps between research and practice…

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Study shows why children with ADHD should be reevaluated each year: Attention problems perceived by teachers are far less stable than we imagine

By Dr. David Rabiner | June 1, 2017

— While the study below was pub­lished a few years ago, it makes an impor­tant point that I think is worth revis­it­ing. In the study, pub­lished in the Jour­nal of Devel­op­men­tal and Behav­ioral Pedi­atrics, my col­leagues and I looked at how fre­quent­ly teacher rat­ings of inat­ten­tive symp­toms per­sist in chil­dren from one grade to the…

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Update: Study Debunks Four Common Myths About Brain Training and Lifelong Cognitive Enhancement

By SharpBrains | February 24, 2017

— Time for a new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains’ e‑newsletter explor­ing the lat­est in brain health. New research: Study debunks 4 com­mon myths about brain train­ing and life­long cog­ni­tive enhance­ment Don’t over­look sleep dif­fi­cul­ties in chil­dren with ADHD; they may impair func­tion­ing as much as ADHD itself Cog­ni­tive Behav­ioral Ther­a­py (CBT), not med­ica­tion, dri­ves long-term rewiring of the…

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Classifying and treating physiologic brain imbalances using quantitative EEG: Key Neurotech Patent #15

By SharpBrains | February 17, 2017
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Today we are shar­ing a 2003 patent assigned to CNS Response, Inc. (As men­tioned, we are fea­tur­ing a foun­da­tion­al Per­va­sive Neu­rotech patent a day, from old­er to new­er by issue date) U.S. Patent No. 6,622,036: Method for clas­si­fy­ing and treat­ing phys­i­o­log­ic brain imbal­ances using quan­ti­ta­tive EEG. Assignee(s): CNS Response, Inc Inventor(s): Stephen Suf­fin Tech­nol­o­gy Cat­e­go­ry: EEG Issue Date: Sep­tem­ber 16, 2003…

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Study: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), not medication, drives long-term rewiring of the brain to help reduce psychosis symptoms

By SharpBrains | January 27, 2017

Talk­ing ther­a­py changes the brain’s wiring, study reveals for first time (Sci­enceDai­ly): “A new study from King’s Col­lege Lon­don and South Lon­don and Maud­s­ley NHS Foun­da­tion Trust has shown for the first time that cog­ni­tive behav­iour ther­a­py (CBT) strength­ens spe­cif­ic con­nec­tions in the brains of peo­ple with psy­chosis, and that these stronger con­nec­tions are associated…

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