Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a neurodevelopmental disorder marked by an ongoing pattern of chronic inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity, affects around 6 million children and 10 million adults in the US alone. With the recently concluded ADHD Awareness Month in October that aims to raise awareness and provide facts, present available supports and help remove the stigma attached to the disorder, we focus on treatments and programs to assist families, parents, and schools to help manage ADHD.
Diagnosis and treatment from childhood up to adulthood is crucial, as these help improve daily life; realizing that your child, or you as an adult have ADHD will go a long way toward self-acceptance and eventual self-improvement. With the onset of the pandemic in early 2020, many ADHD patients felt increased triggers because of the isolation and lockdown, which may have led to higher stress situations, even creating risks for depression. It is then imperative to continue receiving support from family, academic community, mental health professionals, and practice stress reduction behaviors.
What are treatment options available to children with ADHD that family members can adapt and avail of?
Cogo is a patented, scientifically validated digital attention training program based on Brain Computer Interface (BCI) technology. Jointly developed by A*STAR’s Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Institute of Mental Health and Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore, CogoLand, paired with Neeuro SenzeBand 2, is easily administered and is a fun and interactive game to help improve your children’s attention issues. It is a solution to help children learn to focus better and is complementary to current conventional treatments for ADHD.
The therapeutic approach of Neeuro Cogo uses a non-invasive BCI-based game to help children learn to focus better. This patented solution was developed from over 10 years of research with clinical trials conducted.
Results from the clinical trial that involved 172 ADHD children, showed that children who received 8 weeks of intervention had significant improvements in their inattentive symptoms than those who did not receive any intervention. Additionally, through brain scans (fMRI), children in the intervention group showed renormalization of their brain network activity – increased closeness in the prefrontal region of the brain that is associated with attention (i.e. less inattentive symptoms).
For parents who have children with ADHD, the advent of complementary solutions such as CogoLand makes managing this disorder much better. It is encouraging that brain training using EEG devices may help improve their children’s mental health challenges, particularly ADHD.
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