• April 26, 2024

Autism is a condition that has increased its record in children in recent years around the world. Only in Mexico, according to figures from National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) in 2011 , 45 thousand children were registered with this disorder, and in addition, 6 thousand more are diagnosed each year.

However, although there is still no cure, technological advances contribute to improving the quality of life of patients and have developed new resources in the media to combat this disease.

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Is there any option?

The Neurofeedback is a technique that reaches national territory at the end of the nineties, and taken up by the National Autonomous University of Mexico, (UNAM), with the objective of having an effective treatment against suffering such as depression, anxiety, lack of concentration, attention deficit and of course autism.

This method: "is the monitoring of brain patterns and the recording of their activity by a computerized means, which helps the child to improve their communicative reaction through visual information and stimulating exercises that are issued from a PC", commented Luz María Álvarez, academic and coordinator of the Research in Psychology of the Faculty of Medicine of the UNAM.

In addition, adds the specialist that in the case of autism, neurofeedback has a variety of benefits such as improvement in cognitive functions, helps accelerate the process of language recovery, ensures that the child has a closer connection with the environment , people and objects that surround it, and stimulates the neurons to work properly.

Ask the specialist

Whenever there is a new medical alternative, many doubts also arise. Therefore, the specialist answers three of the most common in parents of children with autism

1. Can neurofeedback benefit any child with autism? "Almost everyone. When a severe autism occurs, that is, when the minor can not control a mouse, it is very complicated to apply the treatment, since the interaction medium is just this accessory of the computer ".

2. How long does the treatment last? "In the case of autism, the basic treatment usually ends up exceeding one year, and in other cases it is used up to two years."

3. If there is no severe autism How to know if neurofeedback can help a child? If after 3 or 4 sessions there are no changes in the minor, it may not be working. Go to your specialist, he will give you the appropriate instructions, or even other means of treatment.

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