ADHD is a continuum disorder with some being at the extreme end of typical functioning, while others are quantitatively different from their peers. ADHD causes significant functional impairment in daily life activities, reduces school success and strains personal relationships (Faraone & Larsson, 2019). Many have difficulties into adulthood negatively affecting aspects of function, including employability.
Read MoreRecently my home state of Arizona, along with approximately 39 other states, passed legislation designed to help identify students with dyslexia by mandating K-3 screening for all students.
Read MoreWe continue to connect the dots and fill in the blanks when it comes to diagnosis and management of neurodevelopmental and mental health disorders. Research to identify underlying mechanisms, as well as diagnostic and biological biomarkers is ongoing; these disorders have a vast landscape of common genetic mutations (Jensen et al, 2022).
Read MoreIf you are a parent, teacher or caregiver of someone with an ADHD diagnosis, or in the absence of formal diagnosis has poor attention interfering with their occupational performance, and in some cases, safety, watch or listen to Andrew Huberman, PhD provide the most up to date research on medications, supplements and behavioral tools for improving attention and focus along with comprehensive discussion on the neural circuitry and neurochemistry involved.
Read MoreVisual attention is key to my work with students, so I am writing about it again. It is one of the first things I work on with students. It is foundational to our working together in a way that will stick…not just going through the motions.
Read MoreImprove hand skills and develop body maps of the hands in the central nervous system with this short, easy routine. Differentiate digits, encourage prehensile grasp, synchronize the hands at the vertical midline of the body, cross midlines, increase awareness of thumb positions, refine movement and stimulate mental flexibility.
Read MoreWhen children are learning to print letters and numbers it is not uncommon for them to reverse “b” and “d”, “p” and “q”, “m” and “w”, “s” and “5”, and “q” and “9” – after all they do look similar to the inexperienced eye.
Read MorePlaying of video games, especially the high speed, highly graphic and constantly novel type, release similar amounts of dopamine in the brain somewhere between nicotine and cocaine, according to Andrew Huberman, Ph.D. of the Huberman Lab at Stanford School of Medicine
Read MoreI am not a regular, nor habitual blogger. My aim isn’t to be constantly writing and posting as a matter of routine. I share, because I love what I do, and I believe in the brain’s ability to change. I have personally experienced not being “stuck” with the brain I was born with, and through my work I have observed this to be true for countless others.
Read MoreElectronics are here to stay, so how do we navigate in a world with so many distractions for us and for our even more vulnerable children? Cell phones, I-pads, laptop computers and video game consoles have made instant gratification and constant release of dopamine (the feel-good neurotransmitter in the brain) easy to achieve and addictive.
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