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ANNOUNCEMENT: BOSTON AREA LOCATION OPENING!
Beginning in March, 2010, we will also have a satellite center at 1 Bow Street, Suite 220, Cambridge, MA, in the heart of Harvard Square. This center will provide EEG biofeedback or neurofeedback and Cogmed Working Memory Training services only, and on Mondays and Fridays only at the present time.
Communication and support services such as practical information, appointment scheduling, billing, and other office functions will be provided through the Providence office, which can be reached at 401 351-7779.
All neurofeedback patients being seen in our Cambridge facility will visit our Providence office on one occasion for a treatment planning conference with Dr. Hirshberg.
John Clarke, MD. and Janice Stubblefield-Tave, LICSW will serve as the onsite providers in Cambridge, and will consult closely with Dr. Hirshberg in conducting each neurofeedback session.
The surrounding streets offer metered parking for 25 cents per 15 minutes for up to two hours. Most afternoons, people will be able to find a parking spot. Late afternoon and early evening, on street parking becomes scarcer. Parking is available at these two parking garages:
Holyoke Center Parking
1950 Massachusetts Avenue
$10 for the first hour, after 5 PM, $14 maximum
Harvard Square Parking Garage
1 Eliot Street
$8 for the first hour, after 5 PM, $15 maximum
About our center
The NeuroDevelopment Center is a private multi-disciplinary center dedicated to providing traditional and innovative assessment and intervention options for individuals with neurologically based difficulties in their lives. We work with children and adults who have problems with attention, anxiety, mood, social relatedness, learning, and behavior. Our Center is friendly, fun, and professional. 
Neuroscience and innovation
The last decade has seen an explosion in knowledge about brain function, due primarily to the use of new technologies that permit us to see the brain at work. At the NeuroDevelopment Center, we closely monitor new findings from neuroscience and carefully evaluate new clinical methods arising out of these findings.
The role of scientific research
We recognize the need for scientific proof of the effectiveness of clinical techniques and methods, and carefully evaluate the scientific foundation and validation for the treatment approaches we offer. However, we also realize that conclusive scientific validation of clinical methods is a very time consuming process, and often takes decades to complete. For this reason, we do offer as an option to our clients some innovative methods that have shown unusual promise in preliminary research and clinical trials. We realize that many people do not want to wait until multiple large studies of a new treatment option are complete, as long as the method is safe and initial studies or clinical experience shows benefit. For this reason, when our study of the literature and others' clinical experience persuades us that an innovative method offers significant advantages over existing methods, or that this method represents a valuable option for clients to consider when making choices about intervention, we make it available to our clients.
Our approach to intervention
Decades of research has made it clear that every aspect of our psychological functioning is shaped both by biological factors (genetics, brain function, nutrition, and a variety of other factors) and by our experiences - at home in the family, at school, at work, with friends. These two types of influence interact in complex ways: our experience affects the brain and body and our brains and bodies influence our experience.
At the NeuroDevelopment Center, we are committed to carefully considering all of these factors in understanding the challenges and difficulties our clients face and in devising intervention plans to make for positive change.
For this reason, our approach to intervention is eclectic. We make use of strategies from cognitive behavioral psychology, psychodynamic psychology, attachment theory, systems or family therapy, and other developmental approaches. We also make use of various forms of biofeedback as an adjunct to psychotherapy, and as a primary form of intervention in some instances.
The role of electroencephalographic biofeedback in evidence based treatment of ADHD
There is a considerable body of research evidence showing the effectiveness of neurofeedback, also called EEG biofeedback or neurotherapy for ADHD. Dr. Hirshberg was recently asked to contribute an editorial to an international neurology journal called Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics on the place of EEG biofeedback in evidence based treatment of ADHD. This editorial was published in April 2007 and is available for download by clicking here.
CONTACT US
The NeuroDevelopment Center is located in Suite 210 of the West Exchange Center at 260 West Exchange Street in Providence, RI. Telephone: 401 351-7779. Or you can reach us by webform.