{"id":2098,"date":"2011-05-01T20:14:45","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T01:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/blog\/?p=2098"},"modified":"2011-05-08T22:08:30","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T03:08:30","slug":"meditation-helps-adhd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/2011\/meditation-helps-adhd\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditation For ADHD Teens &#038; Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2146\" title=\"teens meditating\" src=\"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/23_meditation_image_550_w3-285x249.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"*\" srcset=\"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/23_meditation_image_550_w3-285x249.jpg 285w, http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/23_meditation_image_550_w3-450x393.jpg 450w, http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/23_meditation_image_550_w3.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\" \/>Mindfulness meditation significantly\u00a0helped three-quarters of the participants in a study described here by Dr. David Rabiner:<\/em> Because of the wide spread interest in new ADHD interventions \u2014 particularly non-pharmaceutical approaches \u2014 I try to cover credible research in this area when ever I come across it. I was thus pleased to learn about a very interesting study of mindfulness meditation as a treatment for adults and adolescents with ADHD that was published in the Journal of Attention Disorders.<\/p>\n<p>Although medication treatment is effective for many individuals with ADHD, including adolescents and adults, there remains an understandable need to explore and develop interventions that can complement or even substitute for medication. (&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, mindfulness meditation has been used as a new approach for stress reduc\u00adtion and incorporated into the treatment for a variety of psychiatric dis\u00adorders, including depression, anxiety, and substance abuse. Of special rele\u00advance to the treatment of ADHD are findings that meditation has the potential to regulate brain functioning and attention. For example, research has demon\u00adstrated that mindfulness meditation can modify attentional networks, modulate EEG patterns, alter dopamine levels, and change neural activity.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"sharpbrains.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sharpbrains.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/22\/mindfulness-meditation-for-adults-teens-with-adhd\/\" target=\"_blank\">Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mindfulness meditation significantly\u00a0helped three-quarters of the participants in a study described here by Dr. David Rabiner: Because of the wide spread interest in new ADHD interventions \u2014 particularly non-pharmaceutical approaches \u2014 I try to cover credible research in this area when ever I come across it. I was thus pleased to learn about a very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[278,25,28,55,68,96,117,127,128,175,295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2098"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2132,"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions\/2132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}