Neurofeedback Treatment for Children with ADHD

By treating children with ADHD with neurofeedback, we can train the brain to fight off the effects of ADHD in a manner that is not reliant upon medication. Discover more about neurofeedback at k

The Drake Institute is one of a handful of medical institutes that are extremely successful at treating neurological disorders through Brain Mapping and Neurofeedback.

For 30 years the Drake Institute has made neurofeedback and biofeedback the centerpiece of its treatment programs. It gives us a method to access brain functioning without any negative side effects and restore normalcy, thereby reducing or eliminating symptoms. It is not an “add on” to other therapies or medications in the Institute’s treatment programs. . It is the central treatment though we may provide adjunctive counseling or treatment of learning disorders secondarily. Because it has been the central treatment for our patients for 30 years, it has enabled the Drake Institute to develop leading edge knowledge and clinical experience in its applications for ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorders, and stress related disorders or diseases. All of these disorders have one thing in common : at their core is irregular brain function.

There is a learning curve in developing clinical expertise in utilizing neurofeedback and biofeedback for many different disorders. Very simply, the more patients you help, then the more clinical experience and expertise the clinicians acquire. The treatment programs at the Drake Institute have gone through many evolutions of development during the last 30 years as the Institute benefited from its relationships with other leading professionals in the world who helped pioneer this technology.

The Institute has continously acquired new “state of the art” technology and integrated it into it’s treatment procedures. Being a medical facility enabled the Drake Institute to develop the applications of this technology through a medical practice. Having treated more than 11,000 patients has produced a level of knowledge and clinical competency that could not have been acquired in any other way.

In addition at the Drake Institute we feel that qEEG brain mapping is essential in being able to provide optimal neurofeedback treatment. The only exception has been in a younger Autistic child whom obtaining an accurate brain map on is rarely not possible. Brain mapping is preferably done “in house” as opposed to having an outside service come in and do it. It has been an enormous asset that Drake’s patients’ qEEG brainmaps are done by the clinic itself and interpreted by Drake’s doctors for developing the neurofeedback protocols. We feel this is far superior than if an outside service provided this without the benefit of Drake’s enormous clinical data base.

Another invaluable aspect of the Drake Institute is its extensive clinical experience in treating stress related disorders , including anxiety and depression, with stress biofeedback. Many adult ADHD patients and some adolescent ADHD patients need and benefit from Drake’s stress biofeedback treatment in addition to the brain map guided neurofeedback they receive.

It is important to have a physician overseeing a treatment program utilizing neurofeedback/biofeedback when there are patients taking medications. Medical case care is the most comprehensive view of the patient and at Drake, we understand the relationship between neurofeedback care and drug reduction. This is necessary as medications may need to be titrated down as the patient improves with neurofeedback. Having a physician directing the neurofeedback treatments and medication monitoring simultaneously with an understanding of the interaction between the two is preferable to having an outside physician monitoring medication who doesn’t understand the neurofeedback treatment.

Lastly, since 70% of ADHD patients have secondary learning disorders, the Drake Institute developed FullCare in order to provide comprehensive treatment for all of the patients’ needs not just their ADHD symptoms. Once the attention problems are helped, it is essential to improve or resolve the secondary learning or processing disorders. Otherwise, the patients will never develop to their full capacities to meet life’s challenges.

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Irvine Clinic
Stone Creek Plaza
4330 Barranca Parkway Suite 130
Irvine, CA 92604
949-653-2020
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Northridge Clinic
Medical Towers Building
18250 Roscoe Blvd. Suite 325
Northridge, CA 91325
818-709-2009
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