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Neurofeedback for Cognitive Dysfunction (Under-achievers)
Cognitive dysfunction (Learning Disability) description
Academic achievement is highly valued in our society. Parents often invest a great deal of time and emotional energy into ensuring their children’s academic success, but it can be extremely upsetting when a child with no obvious intellectual deficits does not achieve as expected. Cognitive dysfunction in reading, mathematics, and written expression are characterized by performance that is substantially below what would be expected given the person’s age, intelligence quotient (IQ) score and education.
Cognitive dysfunction symptoms
Children with cognitive dysfunction may also have short attention spans and problems with concentration. Other symptoms include:
- Slow learners
- No motivation to study
- Slow to respond to questions
- Low self-esteem
- Fail in examinations despite remedial and tuition
- Difficulty in completing homework
However, some may be conscientious and hard working yet unable to attain satisfactory results.
Cognitive dysfunction biochemistry
Theories about the causes of cognitive dysfunctions include genetic, neurobiological, and environmental factors. Many research indicated that the following factors affect our cognitive ability:
- Food allergies
- Acidity due to oxalates
- Heavy metal accumulation
- Nutritional imbalances
- Excessive organic acids due to yeast and bacteria overgrowth.
- Poor digestion of certain proteins from diary, wheat and soy products
Cognitive dysfunction intervention
Mercury exposure can cause behavioural problems such as inattentiveness and memory loss while high level of cadmium is correlated with low academic achievements. A high copper/zinc ratio has also been found to cause behavioural and learning difficulties. Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis test is an inexpensive yet effective method of identifying mineral levels and toxicity in the body. Intervention through supplementation and dietary habits could be designed to overcome the imbalances and toxicity.
Functional magnetic resonance imaging scanning has been used previously to
compare how children with and without reading disorders processed simple tasks
(Temple et al., 2003). After 8 weeks of intensive training on a computer program
that help them to work on their and language processing skills, these dysfunctional
children not only improve their reading skills, but their brains started functioning in a
way similar to the brains of their peers who were good readers.
With the QEEG brain mapping, similar brain imaging can be done. Many cognitive
dysfunctional children have shown cortical fatigue or exhaustion. Poor arousal level has also been found at all parts of the brain and in many cases, their crucial parts of the brain shuts down whenever they try to study.
Neurofeedback is non-drug alternative intervention for cognitive dysfunction.
Neurofeedback intervention aims at exercising specific parts of the brain. With the
brain exercise, the neural activities at these specific locations of the brain can be
directly regulated. For those with cognitive dysfunction, neurofeedback can help to
reduce Theta brain wave to increase arousal and to regulate Beta brain wave at
specific regions to enhance cognitive functions. Finally, these regulations will result
In:
- Improvement in concentration
- Improvement academic performance as reflected by their grades
- Improvement in learning speed
- Faster response to question
- Increase interest in study
- Improvement in memory
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