ADHD and Brain Mapping

[LadyHalcyon]

"At Integrative NeuroTherapy, LLC ADHD is addressed using Neurofeedback and Functional Neurology methods that help identify disordered neural pathways, connections, and activity in the brain and throughout the body. This is accomplished using several analytical procedures including QEEG/brain mapping, evaluating certain types of eye movements, testing body coordination and movements, evaluating spinal and other reflexes, computerized testing of attention and impulsivity, biochemical analysis and more.
Once all the results are processed and analyzed a customized program is created to move the brain and nervous system toward a more ordered and efficient pattern of activity."

Our Approach to ADHD - Neuro Therapy

At Integrative NeuroTherapy, LLC ADHD is addressed using Neurofeedback and Functional Neurology methods that help identify disordered neural pathways, connections, and activity in the brain and throughout the body.This is accomplished using several analytical procedures including QEEG/brain...

www.integrativeneurotherapy.com

I am familiar with biofeedback, but this is taking it a step further. It seems like an easy way to to exploit patients, but I am interested in the thoughts of others. Also, I have never seen this offered in the areas I have worked.

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[WisNeuro]

This is definitely an exploitative practice. The majority of these methods are nowhere close to being appropriately studies for regular clinical practice. But, if you show people colorful pictures of their brains, and use a lot of neurosciencey words, they will indeed pay large amounts of money for the equivalent of a sugar pill. I've always said, when I've lost any shred of decency and integrity I had, I would just open up a similar practice and rake in the money.

 

[LadyHalcyon]

That is what I figured. I was looking over this too

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2017-43854-005

 

[LadyHalcyon]

This is definitely an exploitative practice. The majority of these methods are nowhere close to being appropriately studies for regular clinical practice. But, if you show people colorful pictures of their brains, and use a lot of neurosciencey words, they will indeed pay large amounts of money for the equivalent of a sugar pill. I've always said, when I've lost any shred of decency and integrity I had, I would just open up a similar practice and rake in the money.

Is that what was happening at that place you have referred to before? I feel like you said it was affiliated with Nova and you used to respect them, but now you do not. That is all I can really remember.....

 

[WisNeuro]

Is that what was happening at that place you have referred to before? I feel like you said it was affiliated with Nova and you used to respect them, but now you do not. That is all I can really remember.....

The Amen Clinics? Yeah this is what he does, been doing it for years. That dude has become very wealthy exploiting the suffering of others.

 

[LadyHalcyon]

The Amen Clinics? Yeah this is what he does, been doing it for years. That dude has become very wealthy exploiting the suffering of others.

Yup. That is them. So this is the next snake oil, huh? It hasn't made it to where I am........yet.

 

[WisNeuro]

It's not the next snakeoil, it's been around for some time. People are just getting better at dressing up the snakeoil. These people have also latched on to exploiting the concussion crowd, which is why the visibility has increased in recent years.

 

[Ollie123]

Some colleagues are getting reasonably promising results using fMRI neurofeedback.

This however, isn't that. This is unproven junk.

Said colleagues would also be the first to tell you that even their promising paradigm is not even close to ready for use outside a research context.

 

[Therapist4Chnge]

fMRI work has some promise, but the real researchers doing fMRI research are very up front about the limitations and gap between current (research) use and clinical use.

There are a bunch of labs doing interesting (research) work, but anyone claiming strong clinical findings from a soup to nuts “neurofeedback” eval is full of crap. Amen is the most well known snake oil group, but there are many others trying to get in on it too.

 

[PsyDr]

qEEG: 6000 variables used in way that offers less sensitivity and specificity than neuropsych testing.

Neurofeedback: a treatment that has not been supported by evidence; but offers cures for everything.

 

[Going Incognito]

EEG Neurofeedback is also exploitive. There are psychologists doing this that make a crap load of money, seeing several patients at a time.