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Mental Health
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What is ADHD in Adults?
Before we get to what ADHD is in adults, we first should answer the question, what is ADHD? According to the American Psychiatric Association, “Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common mental disorders affecting children.”1 Some ADHD symptoms are an inability to stay focused alongside hyperactivity and impulsivity.
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OCD Medication
What is OCD? According to the International OCD Foundation, OCD “is a mental health disorder that affects people of all ages and walks of life, and occurs when a person gets caught in a cycle of obsessions and compulsions.”1 These compulsions can vary from fears of germs to obsessively thinking about something or needing to act out…
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OCD Treatment
What is OCD? Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental disorder characterized by the combination of obsessions and compulsions. While obsessions are unwanted and intrusive thoughts and urges, compulsions are behaviors that the individual will engage in to pacify the obsessions. With the combination of both of these, the individual generally experiences a high level…
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What is OCD?
What is OCD? Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a type of mental health disorder that can affect any person at any age. With OCD symptoms, the individual becomes caught in a disruptive cycle with obsessions and compulsions.
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Neuro Training: Who Would Benefit?
Neuro training and neurofeedback are the processes of using brain imaging devices to provide live brain activity, neuroimaging, and functioning. This type of neuroimaging allows professionals to train the brain to function differently. With the use of brain mapping and brain stimulation, those who undergo brain training will be connected to electronics and computer software…
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What is Neurofeedback?
The science of neurofeedback and the neurofeedback process is not new. In fact, it has been the subject of significant research for several decades. This vital research into the applications of neurofeedback shows its effectiveness as a treatment for a wide variety of conditions, including epilepsy, depressive and anxiety disorders, addictive disorders, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder…
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Neurofeedback for Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar disorder is a personality disorder characterized by soaring highs and devastating lows. It can greatly reduce one’s quality of life, causing poor personal relationships, the inability to hold a job, and other issues.
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Brain Mapping for ADHD
Can neurofeedback and brain mapping, or quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG) which tests the electrical activity of the brain, help you or your child build stronger attention and focus? In this article, you can learn how brain mapping for ADHD can be beneficial.
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Brain Mapping for Anxiety and Depression
Anxiety and depression are common neurological disorders that affect millions of Americans each year. Whether they are chronic or seasonal, both anxiety and depression can lead to a dramatic loss in quality of life, significant emotional distress, and other negative symptoms.
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Types of Brain Waves
At its core, the brain is an electrochemical organ that uses fluids, hormones, and electrical signals to direct thought, to receive information and stimuli, and form personalities and thought actions in every human being. Those electrical signals move in “brain waves” that can be organized into types of brain waves and detected through certain brain…