Dr. Ennen provides non-pharmaceutical therapies that can substantially improve autistic symptoms and help children and adults perform more effectively overall. By eliminating heavy metals and other toxicities, reversing the negative effects of vaccinations, balancing brain chemistry, and restoring digestive function, he helps children and adults with autism express their humanness more fully.

Asperger's - Autism has many faces and not all are completely disabled. Children and adults with Asperger's Syndrome often have very developed capabilities with factual and mathematical or closed systems but are seriously disabled when it comes to social cue-ing and interpreting the nuances essential to understanding the frequently illogical world around us. 
 
ADHD - Like any "syndrome", ADHD is less a diagnosis than a description of symptoms. Any of several issues can underlie these symptoms. Although many children and adults have been labeled with the same diagnosis, Dr. Ennen works with each person as an individual and tailors his diagnostic and therapeutic programs to that unique individual. Dr. Ennen works with children and adults by first identifying the biochemical and neurological problems behind the symptoms and then treating them with a variety of innovative and effective tools.

In order to identify what's working and what's not, Dr. Ennen uses a highly developed personal history, physical and neurological examination, computer aided examination, standardized testing, and laboratory-based studies.

Once problem areas of imbalance and dysfunction have been identified, Dr. Ennen has a wide variety of tools, techniques, and technologies available. These range from improving focus and attention, self-control and distractibility, to specific diets to reduce food sensitivities, chelation and detoxification programs to eliminate heavy metal and other toxic substances which may be blocking normal brain and body function.

OCD - Being stuck in a particular idea marks obsessive-Compulsive Disorders. This results in perseveration, doing or saying or thinking about the same thing over and over and over. As we gain an ever-increasing understanding of how the brain works, we find that, neurologically, there are strong similarities between autism, Asperger's, Tourette's, OCD, and ADHD.
 
By improving the balance of neurochemicals (neurotransmitters and other neuropeptides) and turning on the dormant parts of the brain to increase balance within the brain's activity, we see wonderful improvements in people's abilities to live successfully. Neurotransmitter, metals and food toxicities, and other functional metabolic testing guides the biochemical therapies with the objective of turning on the previously dormant parts of the brain.

Tourette's Syndrome and the other disorders in this category tend to occur together (known as "co-morbidity") because they are all closely related neurologically. Classically, Tourette's is marked by the inability to regulate or control oneself, resulting in outbursts which are, at the least, socially inappropriate. The part of the brain responsible for these outbursts, the amygdala, is restrained by the prefrontal cortex in normal, healthy people. In the hands of a skillful provider like Dr. Ennen, a Tourette's sufferer can obtain the tools to control their outbursts and the ideation behind them.

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