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i just wanna ask, i have mild ADHD, does piracetam helps with my focus in studying

from the research i did online, it does not brings permanent side effect but if timed and dosed wrongly will caused brain fog which hinders me from preparing for exam? but if timed and dosed properly, my brain will have much less noise when studying, and i move around less ? and actually focus on what am i doing

Thanks for sharing, Manlet.
Regarding the piracetam, I will ask my colleague and another friend (Nutritional therapist and Pharmacist).
Hopefully someone in Lowyat able to answer your question too.
May I know that are you under follow up with doctor or take it yourself?

Pills are not the only way to manage your mild ADHD symptoms.
EEG biofeedback therapy is a safe, non-invasive, alternative option for the treatment of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In November 2012, the American Academy of Pediatrics approved biofeedback and EEG biofeedback as a Level 1 or “best support” treatment option for people suffering from ADHD.
I would like to recommend you to try EEG biofeedback therapy as it is an evidence based practice for improve focus and attention problem.
However, it is important for you to seek consultation first before making a decision.

Overcome insomnia and improve overall quality of sleep by hypnotherapy

Recent Study finds that those highly suggestible to hypnosis can have deeper sleep after hypnotic suggestion

A short session of hypnosis might lead to a better night's sleep, says a team of Swiss researchers.
The new study is the first to assess via measures of EEG brain-wave activity "the positive impact hypnosis has on deep sleep and to show that it is, in fact, real," he said.
At issue is the desire to boost so-called deep sleep, also known as slow-wave sleep.

This type of sleep "often correlates with the most restorative sleep -- it's a time for your brain to process and rejuvenate from the challenges of the day," explained Dr. Kim Hutchison, assistant professor of neurology and sleep medicine at the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland.
"Over the course of people's lives, with age, the amount of deep sleep drops off significantly. And by the time you're 50 or 60 you hardly have any, depending on the person," said Hutchison, who was not involved in the new research. "With age, non-refreshing sleep becomes a very common complaint, and one of the reasons can be not getting enough slow-wave sleep."

To explore how hypnotic suggestion might help improve deep sleep, the Swiss team enlisted 70 healthy Swiss women aged 18 to 35. All participated in a series of five in-laboratory experiments, successively staged once a week for five weeks.

None of the participants had any history of sleep trouble. None were taking any kind of sleep medication. Some of the women, however, were deemed (in pre-study testing) to be "highly suggestible" to hypnosis, while others were categorized as "low suggestible" patients.
Other phases of sleep did not appear to be affected by hypnotic suggestion. However, the team further observed that slow-wave activity during the deep sleep phase was "significantly enhanced" following hypnosis. This suggests that not only does hypnosis boost deep sleep quantity, it may also improve deep sleep quality.

The team acknowledged that the study only included female participants. This was by design because men have a tendency to be less suggestible to hypnosis overall. However, men who are highly suggestible would probably derive similar sleep benefits from hypnosis, Rasch's team said.
And given that roughly half the general population is believed to be moderately suggestible to hypnosis, the team concluded that hypnosis could ultimately prove to be a very useful -- and side-effect free -- way to help improve sleep.

"I have to emphasize that we did not focus on sleep-disorder patients," said Rasch. "These were all healthy people. So while our findings are really promising, we do not yet have proof that hypnosis will help people who suffer from sleep disturbances. I would say it would. But it's not yet proven," he added.

Hutchison believes hypnosis can play a role in helping some people sleep better
"I have found hypnosis can be helpful, even for non-susceptible patients," she said. "Because it gives them something to focus on, and helps them to relax and quiet their mind before sleeping."

Findings from the study were published on June 2014 in the journal Sleep.
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http://www.webmd.com/ - WebMD News from HealthDay

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Heard this in the news..

Some scammers hypnotize victim over the phone to transfer money to them.

Is this even possible??

Great thread. Thanks for opening it.

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You're welcome to share your thoughts

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My Philosophy is SIMPLE :

"DONT THINK TOO MUCH, BE PREPARED, STAY HEALTHY LIFE STYLE like light jogging and GET ENOUGH SLEEP"

True I do agree.
However, "don't think too much" and "get enough sleep" is very difficult for certain group of people because everyone has different brain waves pattern.
Your unconscious can't process negatives. It interprets everything you think as a positive thought. So if you think, 'I don't want to think too much,' your unconscious mind focuses on the "think" and, because it doesn't do negatives, the thought becomes 'I want to think.' Thus, you can't stop thinking when you want to stay calm.


Brain waves predict our risk for insomnia
The brain—specifically the deep, inner parts of the brain called the thalamus and cortex—produces electromagnetic activity during sleep. When monitored by diagnostic tools, this activity appears as patterns of squiggly lines that scientists refer to as spindles.
In a previous experiment, Dang-Vu and his team discovered that greater spindle activity helps sleepers resist waking, despite noise. The new study aimed to test whether there would be a similar relationship between sleep spindles and stress.
The hypothesis proved true. "We found that those who had the lowest sleep spindle activity tended to develop more disturbances in response to stress, when comparing sleep quality at the beginning of the semester and the end of the school semester," Dang-Vu says.
"We are not all equally armed when facing stress, in terms of how we can manage our sleep. Some people are more vulnerable than others."


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http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-03-brai...omnia.html#nRlv

Brain training instead of medication to counter insomnia

The ability to finally enjoy a good night's sleep is something that can be learned. An Austrian Science Fund FWF project has investigated how this can best be learned and who responds best to such "brain training".

Training vs. chemistry
"People who suffer from sleeplessness, also known as insomnia, are often in a state of 'hyperarousal'. Resorting to tablets seems to be the obvious solution", explains the researcher. However, medication-based treatments are usually for short-term use only and confine themselves to fighting this state of arousal, resulting in undesirable side effects including dependence, morningness, drowsiness or amnesia. "Medication often just reduces nocturnal brain activities and thus also helpful functions such as 'memory consolidation', which is the nocturnal stabilisation of information so that recall is easier the next day", says Manuel Schabus. The EEG biofeedback training deployed within the framework of the FWF project, a type of biofeedback training for the brain, guides the affected persons into sleep. So-called "sleep spindles" are used in this process. These are patterns identified in EEG measurements which are characterised by "spindle-like" rapid rising and falling brain oscillations, and which occur especially during light sleep.

Crucial rhythm
The preliminary studies carried out for the FWF project showed the positive effects of EEG biofeedback training on healthy people. This method has therefore now been tested in a pilot study on patients aged between 19 and 50 who suffer from sleep disorders. "The brain oscillations are trained during waking to a frequency range of between 12 and 15 hertz, known as the sensorimotor rhythm. This frequency range is also prominent in light sleep and manifests itself as sleep spindles, particularly when a person is falling asleep", explains Schabus. The patients were able to observe and learn to control their own sensorimotor rhythm (measured using EEG electrodes) on the computer screen. They were tasked with moving a compass needle on the screen to a green dot using only the power of mental relaxation. They received positive visual feedback each time they reached this dot, i.e. to increase the band power between 12 and 15 hertz.

"Using the training, we managed to strengthen the sensorimotor rhythm in a waking state and the sleep spindles in 16 out of 24 patients with mild insomnia. Those who responded well to the training reported an improvement in the quality of their sleep. This was ascertained by self-monitoring methods like sleep diaries and importantly also verified in our sleep laboratory", says Schabus, outlining the process. Each of the participants visited the sleep laboratory a total of 21 times, which meant that the effects could be studied in great detail. The researchers were also able to establish positive effects on memory consolidation when word pairs were retested after sleep following earlier learning. Interestingly, the subjective sleep quality among patients who successfully completed this type of biofeedback training also showed improvement




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http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-04-brai...r-insomnia.html

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Good post and i'd like to share my probrem here too

I have this problem where i think you call it as racing mind. i simply cannot just complete a task without thinking of something else. An example, i will be replying an email and halfway through the email, my mind would start wandering off on other task like opening up excel etc and checking it without even completing the email. Another example would be, if i am reading something, say a 300 line worth of information, i cannot just complete it at one go. i'l read it, then midwy i'l start forgetting what the end was and start dream away. this in effect makes me to start re-read the entire front part back again...even in fairly simple text


i think the right term would call it a racing mind...it just cant stop thinking of the next thing without completing what i am currently doing.

is there some kind of doctor i can meet/see? half the time my mind itself blocks me from thinking alternatives..when it was right infront of me....its like so clouded that i cant think of anything else......HELP!