ongly diagnosed children that are currently ingesting powerful drugs like Ritalin.Doctors have to find a new way to deal with this overwhelming increase in ADHD more effectively, instead of continually administering Ritalin. There has been a new finding that is less harmful in helping children with ADHD. This new tool is EEG (electroencephalogram, or brain wave) biofeedback. The way they use this towards treating ADHD patients is quite simple. Technicians distinguish between training at higher frequencies (15-18 Hz, which is referred to as beta) and at lower frequencies (12-15 Hz, or SMR training) with the overall beta range of frequencies. Thes have vastly dirrerent effects. In beta training we appear t obe dealing with conditions of underarousal, either in duded by trauma of some kind, or fo genetic origin. In SMR hypervigilance, of heightened stress susceptibility. The EEG in ADHD children tends to be of larger amplitude than that of other children. In particular, the DDG is higher at the lower frequencies. This condition is more appropriate to a sleep or day-dreaming state than an alert and focused state. IN these chidren, the EEG shows that cortical electrical activity is disregulated. The greates point of difference between a typical ADHD EEG and a normal adult EEG is in the low-frequency component. The low frequency activity gradually diminishes as the child ages, and as the brain learns to stabilize and reulate the cortex. Hence, the EEG of an ADHD child looks like that of a younger child. Unfortunately, it may not mature in the normal fashion by itself. The symptoms may arise, then, from a condition of a disregulated EEG, in combination with whatever the childs particular weaknesses are, given his genetic makeup and any trauma he may have suffered. The disregulated EEG shows up over a broad are of the cortex. The specific weaknesses related to localized areas of the cortex. So then in EEG training for ADHD, ...
