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Brian Mears, DNAP, APRN, CRNA, PMHNP Brian Mears, DNAP, APRN, CRNA, PMHNP

Why ADHD Is Often Misdiagnosed — and What You Can Do About It

Struggling to focus? Feeling disorganized, restless, or distracted? You might assume it’s ADHD. But those same symptoms are also caused by anxiety or trauma, poor sleep, nutritional deficiencies, technology overuse, or inflammatory foods. That’s why, at Alleviant, we never rush to label someone with ADHD. Instead, we use spectral EEG (sEEG) to look at the brain’s real-time activity and determine what’s actually going on — whether it’s ADHD or something else entirely. 

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