Re: Neurofeedback for ADHD?

[Dr. Bob Wildblood]

Robert Hill wrote:

Ron,

I appreciate the abstracts you pointed out. Both of these studies lack a control
group where a control group would provide a strong methodological advantage.

I am also curious and I guess skeptical about reported changes in WISC Full
Scale IQ scores as a consequence of neurofeedback. If this intervention can
produce improvement in IQ, as well as ADHD symptoms I am curious about the lack
of published data in child, clinical and developmental journals.

thanks,

Bob Hill

My response:

Since a proper diagnosis of ADHD should require the administration of an instrument such as the WISC (because there are six scales on the test which are "indicators" of ADHD), it would make sense to say that if a child is treated successfully for the ADHD (through medication or some other method), the WISC score would increase because the indicators of ADHD will go up. So we haven't increased intelligence, we have removed the affect on the measure of intelligence of the brain disorder which we call ADHD.

Bob Wildblood, PhD
Indiana University Kokomo
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