A clear and focused mind is crucial to learning, and neurofeedback teaches the mind how to move into these states as needed. Many parents come to us because they don’t see medications as a solution.

Neurofeedback has shown itself to be a permanent non-drug solution for ADD / ADHD through published, peer-reviewed, large group size studies (links to the side of this page), with an efficacy rating of 5/5. Teaching children to concentrate in this way does indeed improve their concentration. It is not only evidence based, but simple common sense.

Inattention could be a child’s only problem, though often it is accompanied by a wider pattern of issues. Associated problems often include anxiety, behavioural difficulties, depression, trauma, and sleep disturbances.  These problems often carry through into adulthood.

Being QEEG brain-map guided, we tailor the sessions according to the child’s precise needs, identifying the associated surface and deep brain areas. While we work to clear the ADD / ADHD, we also address any associated learning, mood, distractibility, hyperactivity, impulsivity and attitude problems.

EEG biofeedback meets the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry criteria for clinical guideline for treatment of ADHD, seizure disorders, anxiety (OCD, GAD, PTSD, phobias), depression, reading disabilities, and addiction disorders. This suggests that EEG biofeedback should always be considered as an intervention for these disorders by the clinician.

Conclusions of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America devoted to recent advances in brain function interventions

In my experience with EEG Biofeedback and ADD, many people are able to improve their reading skills and decrease their need for medication. Also, EEG biofeedback has helped to decrease impulsivity and aggressiveness. It is a powerful tool...(Change Your Brain Change Your Life, pp.143-144):

Daniel Amen, MD, Noted researcher and author, ADD specialist

Among the newer approaches to managing ADD, the most exciting is a learning process called neurofeedback.  It empowers a person to shift the way he pays attention.  After more than twenty-five years of research in university labs, neurofeedback has become more widely available.  This is a pleasing development because neurofeedback has no negative side effects

William Sears, MD, Noted pediatrician and author

In my own practice, I’ve used neurofeedback in a comprehensive medical treatment program to help more than 1,000 patients with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. When combined with supportive therapies such as family counseling and educational therapy, EEG neurofeedback is the most effective treatment available. Critics of EEG neurofeedback hold this treatment to more rigid standards than drug treatments. Yet unlike drugs, neurofeedback is benign.

David F. Velkoff, M.D. Medical Director,
Drake Institute of Behavioral Medicine, Los Angeles
Physician’s Weekly POINT/COUNTERPOINT, July 13, 1998 Vol. XV, No. 26