Prozac Nation Is Now Xanax Nation While to epidemiologists the disorder is a medical condition, anxiety is starting to seem like a sociological condition, too: a shared cultural experience that feeds on alarmist CNN graphics and metastasizes through social media. This past winter, Sarah Fader, a 37-year-old social media consultant in Brooklyn who has generalized […]
Therapy Podcast – Self Awareness In this Podcast with Dr Gordon: Keeping your cool when stuck with children for very long time during winter break; understanding we arent perfect; self-awareness; taking vacations https://www.pathwaysneuropsychology.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/1_03_08-Dr.-Gordon-1.mp3 The Pathways team of professionals has helped thousands of people with brain injuries. We are Dedicated to effective and compassionate care for individuals with […]
Why Your Child’s ADHD Evaluation is Not One and Done While ADHD is typically a chronic condition, it is by no means static. Symptoms will evolve as children grow and transition from one grade to the next. With a new classroom and another year of maturity under a child’s belt, the problems in the classroom […]
Promising Medication Tested Successfully on Adults with ADHD A New Medication for ADHD on the Horizon Psychologists may have a promising new ADHD medication option to prescribe: mazindol CR. Mazindol CR, also known as NLS-1, is a treatment produced by the Switzerland-based company, NLS Pharma. It would be a revolutionary addition to the ADHD medicine […]
Fidget Spinners for Children with ADHD? You probably have heard of the craze: fidget spinners! The spinning toys come in a variety of colors and cost only a few dollars. Despite causing nuisance to many adults and school teachers (they are even banned in some school districts!), some experts say these toys can benefit some […]
Rutgers Researchers Attempt to Slow the Progress of Traumatic Brain Injuries Almost two million Americans each year suffer from a traumatic brain injury (TBI). TBI’s occur as a result of physical trauma to the brain. The most common symptoms include headaches, memory loss, depression, and/or personality changes. Upon violent impact to the head, a chemical […]
Biofeedback – How it Works for You For those with brain injury or mental illness, wouldn’t it be nice to “hear” and “see” what is going inside your body in order to gage progress and plan for improvement? Stress, anxiety, and depression are very complex phenomenon with a basis inside the brain. Biofeedback is essentially […]
The ADHD Lifestyle Part II: Exercise What if there was a way to treat ADHD without taking a trip to the pharmacy? Believe it or not, this idea is not too farfetched. Many doctors describe exercise as a natural “medication” that can treat ADHD symptoms effectively. While exercise will most likely not replace traditional treatment […]
Does My Child Need Ritalin for ADHD? Especially for young students with behavioral or academic problems, stimulant medications are thought of as a one-size-fits-all “easy fix.” A parent might be tempted to pursue this route out of legitimate concern for a child and the conception that a pill can be the miracle cure. But not […]
Mindfulness & Your Brain Since ancient Hindu and Chinese times, meditation has been promoted as a medicine for health and success. But does meditation have any basis in Western science? The answer, based on multiple recent peer-reviewed studies, has been overwhelmingly “yes!” Meditation, or mindfulness, can have significant effects on frontal-brain activity that control emotion […]
