Treating ADHD and ADD
Many people question if ADD and ADHD truly exists or whether it is a fad diagnosis. Many mistakenly believe that people with ADD and ADHD are simply lazy or undisiplined. It is now obvious on functional brain imaging studies such as PET, SPECT and fMRI that attention deficit ADD and ADHD is indeed a measurable brain disfunction. On functional imaging study, it is apparent that the prefontal cortex of the brain actually deactivates when the person attempts to concentrate. Brain exercises of the prefontal cortex are improve the following:
- Attention
- Contentration
- Planning
- Organization
- Impulse control
Treating Children with ADD/ADHD
Many parents are in search of methods that treat attention and concentration problems without using medication. At Brain Potential Institute, many students perform brain exercise programs without medication. Some students take suplimental substances and some take medications along with their brain exercises.
Contrary to popular opinion, we have long been taught that people who are distractable need to be working in very quite, understimulating environments. At Brain Potential Institute, we use simple mental tasks done at relatively high speed combined with physical movement activites with distractions added in on purpose to teach the brain to screen out distraction.
Since the student and trainer work one-on-one in a enclosed room, we can tailor the level of distraction and increase it as brain repair occurs. Our program is unique because we blend mental exercise with physical exercise to achieve a stronger brain repair.
Treatment for Adults with ADD and ADHD
One third of the children diagnosed with ADD and ADHD will go on to be adults with ADD and ADHD. They equally benefit from brain exercise treatment. What’s interesting is, the neurological systems that are performing poorly, will continue all the way into old age. In many cases, particularly when it comes to ADD and ADHD, many adults and seniors concerned with memory loss, test positive to ADD and ADHD, but have lost their ability to compensate through the process of mental aging. Some of the mild memory loss that’s associated with normal aging is intollerable for adults with untreated attention problems. People must successfully attend to something before it becomes logged into the memory. So memory problems that an adult perceives are often untreated attention problems.
As you age, if you didn’t have ADD and ADHD, you may be a little forgetful, but still functional. Over the years, people with ADD and ADHD often learn to compensate. Often this means they simply do fewer things. They also compensate by choosing careers or activities, which require their strongest skills. When an adult with ADD and ADHD experiences normal aging, they may lose their ability to compensate for their symptoms.
At Brain Potential Institute, our student’s ability to pay attention and concentrate is specially measured and we can track the progress as he advances through the program.
