Neurological Mechanisms of Diagnosis and Therapy in School Children with ADHD in Poland

Małgorzata Nermend, Kinga Flaga-Gieruszyńska, Zdzisław Kroplewski and Kesra Nermend
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Małgorzata Nermend: Department of Early Education, University of Szczecin, 71-004 Szczecin, Poland
Kinga Flaga-Gieruszyńska: Research Team on Civil Procedural Law and Informatization of the Justice, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Szczecin, 71-101 Szczecin, Poland
Zdzisław Kroplewski: Institute of Psychology, University of Szczecin, Krakowska 69, 71-017 Szczecin, Poland
Kesra Nermend: Department of Decision Support Methods and Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Management, University of Szczecin, 71-004 Szczecin, Poland

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 13, 1-15

Abstract: The paper aims to present a holistic view of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in pedagogical, psychological, legal, and social dimensions in Polish schools. The authors present the benefits of neurofeedback therapy for elementary school pupils. In order to verify the validity, the paper compares the concordance of a medical diagnosis confirming ADHD syndrome with the occurrence of abnormal electrical brain function recording and abnormalities therein as well as the effectiveness of the neurofeedback therapy. The study confirms that the reported problems faced by pupils and affecting their emotional functioning are reflected in their EEG records. Conclusions from the study lead to the proposal that the neurofeedback assessment should be performed at schools, which should result in the implementation of effective therapy. Moreover, the neurofeedback method should be promoted in Polish schools as an alternative to pharmacological therapy, which, as the research proves, is not always effective. Neurofeedback therapy, similarly to behavioral therapy, is very much needed and useful because it provides optimal conditions for the child’s development and shapes their relations with the environment effectively and harmlessly.

Keywords: neurofeedback; ADHD; neuroscience; EEG (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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