Specifically, EDS has reliably decreased:

• irritability and explosiveness
• distractibility to visual and auditory stimuli
• blaming of others
• attention problems
• difficulty absorbing verbal and written material
• sleeping problems at night
• procrastination

EDS has reliably increased:

• sense of physical self and boundaries
• ease of taking in information
• short-term memory
• ability to finish what is started
• ease of listening, comprehending, and conversing
• ability to disengage from one task and move to another as priorities change

These problems exist concurrently with EEG slowing, which consists of high amplitude, high variability, low frequency brain waves. EDS should been seen only as a reliable way, and a reasonably rapid way to reduce EEG slowing, and not as a treatment magically improving a wide variety of disorders -- an outcome "too good to be true." At this point, over 100 children, adolescents, and adults with ADD/ADHD have been worked with, with all finding significant relief from the above problems -- often first seen after the completion of the program.

The system, in general, operates by monitoring the person's brain waves, analyzing the EEG patterns, and using the ever-changing EEG patterns to continuously make the frequency of the flashing lights relevant to the person in treatment. Instead of evoking seizures, as many predicted, this has acted as an anticonvulsant, allowing people to safely reduce their medications. The results have been holding for the people finished five years ago, in fact, once they have started improving again, their improvements have continued to evolve.

Most of these people are light and sound sensitive. The first phase of the process desensitizes them to outside stimulation, at which time frontal EEG slowing is strongly decreased. The next phase involves systematic discovery and addressing of all other sites of EEG slowing on the scalp.

People sit in their chairs, eyes closed, and rest from 5 minutes to 20 minutes (on average). Daily sessions are most effective and reduces total numbers of sessions needed. Average numbers of sessions is 26, however the session duration varies considerably with the duration and complexity of the person's problem(s). Participants must be able to sit quietly to maintain electrode contact.

Since EDS is a non-psychotherapeutic procedure, it is always important for the patients to have competent, adjunctive psychotherapeutic treatment and support at a level commensurate with the seriousness of their problems.