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Naturopathic Medicine offers an alternative to pharmaceutical treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) with nutritional supplements, diet and lifestyle changes, and other natural therapies.
Biofeedback clinical trials have shown that personal EEG biofeedback is an effective therapy for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a developmental disorder characterized by distractibility, hyperactivity, impulsive behaviors, and the inability to remain focused on tasks or activs....
Aromatherapy with essential oils can help to regulate and calm the nervous system of children suffering from ADHD.
Physicians often prescribe nervous system stimulants like Ritalin for ADD or ADHD which can help one concentrate, but have side effects such as insomnia and nervousness. Herbal calmatives are key herbal remedies for ADD and ADHD. If accompanied by stress and fatigue, add adaptogens. When accompanied by signs of liver hyperactivity, such as frontal headaches, irritability, red or dry eyes, add liver relaxing herbs.
Learning disorders are academic difficulties experienced by children and adults of average to above-average intelligence. People with learning disorders have difficulty with reading, writing, mathemag....
Bipolar, or manic-depressive disorder, is a mood disorder that causes radical emotional changes and mood swings, from manic highs to depressive lows. The majority of bipolar individuals experience aln....
Sensory integration disorder or dysfunction (SID) is a neurological disorder that results from the brain's inability to integrate certain information received from the body's five basics....
Biofeedback, or applied psychophysiological feedback, is a patient-guided treatment that teaches an individual to control muscle tension, pain, body temperature, brain waves, and other bodily functiom....
Tourette syndrome (TS) is an inherited disease of the nervous system, first described more than a century ago by a pioneering French neurologist, George Gilles de la Tourette. Before they are 18 yearr....
Behavioral therapy, or behavioral modification, is a psychological technique based on the premise that specific, observable, maladaptive, badly adjusted, or self-destructing behaviors can be modifiedm....
People all the world over have pursued the cultivation of consciousness, and meditation has stood at the forefront of tested and effective techniques.
Cerebral palsy (CP), or static encephalopathy, is the name for a collection of movement disorders caused by brain damage that occurs before, during, or shortly after birth. A person with CP is often e....
Biofeedback can help everyone including athletes, executives, musicians, and students by improving their performance through teaching them to control arousal, focus attention, reduce misplaced muscular effort, and manage life stress.
Auditory integration training (AIT), is one specific type of music/auditory therapy based upon the work of French otolaryngologists Dr. Alfred Tomatis and Dr. Guy Berard.The premise upon which most an....
The acronym for 5-hydroxytryptophan (or 5-hydroxy-L-tryptophan) is 5-HTP, a compound found primarily in the brain. This compound is made from tryptophan, a natural amino acid inherent in foods. Tryptn....
Dyslexia is a kind of learning disability noted for spatial reversals and shifts and is sometimes described as a neurological disorder. It manifests as difficulties with reading, writing, spelling ana....
Hypnotherapy is the treatment of a variety of health conditions by hypnotism or by inducing prolonged sleep.Hypnotherapy is thought to date back to the healing practices of ancient Greece and Egypt. n....
Omega-3 fatty acids are one of two groups of fatty acids—the omega-3s and the omega-6s—that are vital to human life. They are called essential fatty acids (EFAs), which the body cannot s....
Psychophysiology is the branch of physiology that is concerned with the relationship between mental (psyche) and physical (physiological) processes; it is the scientific study of the interaction betws....