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neurofeedback
Just saw this thread and thought I'd update with my son's experience with neurofeedback. He's six years old and has been doing neurofeedback for almost a year now. Unfortunately, I really don't think it has helped him. We started the neurofeedback in an attempt to avoid having to put him on medication, and when his impulsiveness and inattentiveness in school got really bad, we were even taking him twice a day, before and after school for a couple months. Other than those two months, he goes five days a week, once a day. We had to resort to medication after all, since he was getting so bad in school that he was on the verge of being kicked out. He goes to a very small private Montessori school, so I'd hate to think how he would have fared in a larger school setting. He started Intuniv several months ago, and has been taking 2mgs of that. It seems to have stopped working in the last couple months though, and he doesn't weigh enough to go up to 3 mgs so the doctor added a small 2.5 mg dose of Focalin to supplement it. The Focalin is only effective for about three hours though, so he's having great mornings and rocky afternoons. My sister-in-law is a psychologist and one of her associates is doing the sessions at her office. She told us that it could take as long as two years for the neurofeedback to totally retrain his brain, but that him being on medication would make it take longer. I could accept that if I felt I was seeing some change, any change at all, but I really don't think I have. I would just think that he would have shown at least some slight improvement after a year of it. We'll probably keep plugging away at it for a while yet, though it's doubtful that we'll continue past the two year mark unless we start seeing some kind of progress with it.
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13 Feb 2010 @ 10:49 AM
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