How stimulants work in Adult ADHD: Most people know that the stimulant medications can be of great help in Adult ADHD, but most people think it just boosts concentration. They can be wonderfully helpful and I’ve witnessed many people who have found them to be transformative. But there’s no free lunch and it can be helpful to understand what some of the downsides are and how you can mitigate them.
The stimulants (dexamphetaine/Adderall, ritalin/concerta/methylphenidate) have many effects on the brain/body. Many of these aren’t well know to people, or even to their doctors, so we’ll unpack the 10 secrets of stimulant medications:
Secret 1: Stimulants can inhibit natural distractibility
Secret 2: Stimulants can reduce spontaneity, creativity and playfulness
Secret 3: Stimulants can worsen sleep, anxiety, panic and anger
Secret 4: Stimulants can sometimes reduce anger and anxiety
Secret 5: Stimulants stimulate positive emotion with can sometime lead to addiction
Secret 6: Stimulants can increase physical performance, blood pressure and heart rate
Secret 7: Rebound effects are the opposite of the stimulant effects
Secret 8: Sometimes the “crash” can help with sleep
Secret 9: Tolerance can happen over time, that lead to dose creep
Secret 10: Tolerance/dose creep can be mitigated by regular (weekly) breaks from them
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Lunch & Learn Research Review
ADHD: Reviewing the Causes and Evaluating Solutions
Luis Nunez-Jaramillo, Andrea Herrera-Solis, and Wendy Veronica Herrera-Morales
Why do clients with ADHD have such vastly different symptoms? Anxiety and Depression, amongst other disorders, can often exhibit ADHD symptoms. When evaluating clients, its important to look at their physiology, family systems, nutrition, exercise, to look at all possible causes.
The article suggests that since ADHD is associated with different etiologies, ADHD treatment should be personalized, whether pharmacological or non-pharmacological, to reach an optimum effect in the majority of patients (5-7% children/1-7.3% in adults) 75% of children diagnosed will face permanence of symptoms into adulthood.
Most of the reports on the use of neurofeedback for ADHD use a standardized protocol, either equal for all participants or, adapted to each patient's post Q EEG analysis. However there is another more personalized approach known as QEEG informed or Q EEG guided neurofeedback. In this variant of neurofeedback, rather than selecting a particular protocol and applying it to all the participants, subjects receive a neurofeedback protocol selected specifically for them after a QEEG analysis. This type of neurofeedback has successfully been used in schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive disorder, migraine, dementia, and with learning disabled children.
There are so far only two studies applying Q EEG informed neurofeedback in ADHD patients, so it is not yet possible to perform a meta analysis on the effects of this type of neurofeedback on ADHD. However, a positive effect of neurofeedback has been reported in both published studies.
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