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Healing Young Brains: The Neurofeedback Solution
by Robert W. Hill and Eduardo Castro
Hampton Roads Publishing
ISBN: 157174603X
386 pages

It is rare today to find any family untouched by such brain disorders as ADHD, and autism. And with the problems related to these conditions constantly in the media, I thought I had learned everything a parent would ever need to know about the various diagnoses and treatments available.

But until I began reading Healing Young Brains, I had never heard of neurofeedback as a way to treat these problems in children.

Neurofeedback is a means of brainwave feedback therapy that trains the brain to overcome abnormal brainwave activity, and to maintain optimum brainwave activity permanently.

In Healing Young Brains, Drs Hill and Castro discuss many of the disorders that plague our children… from bi-polar disorder to Tourette’s syndrome … and how they’ve found neurofeedback is an effective way to treat, and often completely eliminate the symptoms of, these disorders.

While I have no experience with neurofeedback myself, Hill and Castro produce here a compelling argument that neurofeedback should be considered a frontline treatment for many of these childhood problems. While promoting their premise, the book is quite evenhanded in its treatments as well. Healing Young Brains is not a polemic against prescribing drugs when they prove useful. Nor does it ignore using diet and nutrition to temper the symptoms of brain disorders.

With its many anecdotes, Healing Young Brains is not an intimidating medical book, but rather an important book that every parent with an ADHD or ASD diagnosed child should read.