Does ADD medication really work

Answer 1

This is extremely complex to explain, so you'd better have time to listen. In your brain, there are three main brain waves-theta waves, SMR waves, and high beta waves. When you sleep, your brain is full of delta, which rejuvinates your brain. But when you are awake your brain has theta. The job that theta has is to rejuvinate your brain every few moments when your awake. High beta is the opposite of theta. High beta is sort of your emergency situation wave. It is running at full speed. When people have to much high beta, their brain is running extremely fast which is not good. SMR is the perfect middle. When someone has ADD they have excessive theta waves. Their brain checks out every few minutes, but stays out too long, causing the person to be inattentive. ADD medications, such as Ridalin or Aderal are stimulants and cause the brain to run faster. In this case, the ADD medications work Much too often though, people with excessive high beta are confused with having ADD. When someone's brain is running on high speed, they often tend to focus on one thing and block everything else out because their brain is so exhausted which makes it look like they have an attention disorder. So then the ADD child is put on an ADD medication which makes their brain run faster. As you probably figured this out, this doesn't help the child. Both of these conditions can be fixed with Neurofeedback. I would explain that too, but i think that would be a bit too much. For that information and more on the subjects I discussed go to www.Hope139.com or call 1-888-YouR-139. Read all the information and watch the "Stories of Hope" (my sister and i are in the Dominican Republic video under Education. I'm in the red shirt and she's in the orange. Also check out Chris Kaman's video under Peak Performance.) Please, please, please read it, I promise its worthwhile and check into it if you or someone you know has ADD or anything related to that. THANK YOU SO SO MUCH FOR READING! -Katie, age 12