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COGNITION CLINIC FOR PROSPECTIVE CLIENTS

COGNITION CLINIC FOR PROSPECTIVE CLIENTS

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The clinic specializes with helping people with attention difficulties to their concentration ability. Attention deficit disorder is an issue which affects people from a young age which affects them in various ways including paying attention to academic work. I have selected the option because I would like to understand and address problems which lead to a declined attention and possible interventions which should be taken to assist such patients.

Target population

The clinic targets young people aged between five years to 25 years. There are various reasons why a child can have trouble on paying attention and most of them occur at their childhood stage. Most of the young people between 5 and 25 years are also students which means that they require high concentration levels. The clinic aims towards assisting them to increase their concentration span especially on academic work.

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Lim, C. G., Lee, T. S., Guan, C., Fung, D. S. S., Zhao, Y., Teng, S. S. W., ... & Krishnan, K. R. R. (2012). A brain-computer interface based attention training program for treating attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. PloS one, 7(10), e46692.

The article addresses a method which can be adopted to improve concentration levels. The discussed program consists of 24 brain-computer interface sessions. The patient is also supposed to take 3 once a monthly booster training sessions. A head band with a dry EEG sensors was used to measure the levels of attention. He program targeted 20 samples for the BCI-based attention training program. Clinic psychiatrists were also involved in monitoring the children during the process.

Children version IV was completed at the screening phase while their parents completed a diagnostic interview. To monitor the participant’s intellectual functioning, a text, second (KTR-11) was used. Out of the 20 participants involved in the study, 16 were males while 4 were females of an average age of 7.80 years. Out of the 20 17 were Chinese, 2 were Eurasians, and one Malay. 14 of the children had been diagnosed with a combined subtype of ADHD on C-DISC. The remaining six were diagnosed with ADHD subtype. 17 of the students which is 85% completed the program. According to the findings, a comparison between the first and last week shows that there was an increase in the mean score from 60.9 to 64.7 concluding that the program is an efficient method of increasing the levels of attention among young people.

Frazier, J. A., Biederman, J., Bellordre, C. A., Garfield, S. B., Geller, D. A., Coffey, B. J., & Faraone, S. V. (2001). Should the diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder be considered in children with pervasive developmental disorder? Journal of Attention Disorders, 4(4), 203-211.

The article aims at determining the overlap which occur between pervasive developmental disorder and attention deficit disorder on young people. Based on the hypothesis, the researchers aimed at assessing whether there is a similarity between the symptoms of ADHD and the symptoms of pervasive developmental disorder. The method of research used involved assessing a total of 50 children. Structured diagnostic interviews were applied for the research. The main limitation is that some children were not able to complete the sessions since they did not show signs of improvement.

According to the results, the characteristics of PDD are similar to the symptoms displayed by children with PDD both for children who suffered from ADHD and who did not suffer from ADHD. Based on the results, it is right to conclude that children with PDD display symptoms of hyperactivity, impulsivity, and inattention meaning that they may have ADHD. The main limitation of the research is that it focuses only on the two disorders without paying attention to other challenges such as anxiety which might be facing some of the children therefore affecting the results.

Comparison between cognitive interventions

According to the first article, a brain-computer interface can be used to improve a child’s memory therefore enabling them to recall better. This is an effective method since it works through stimulating children therefore increasing the level of how effective their brain is able to recall. This is effective to the target population since young people love computer-related programs. It can be used to help them improve their memory capability. The second article discusses the importance of determining whether disorders with shared symptoms can be similar interventions. This is important for the clinic since it will help in understanding patients more before subjecting them to a treatment method.

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