Vincent J. Monastra, PhD, is a clinical
psychologist and director of the FPI Attention Disorders Clinic in
Endicott, New York, USA.
During the past 25 years, he has conducted a series of studies
involving thousands of individuals with disorders of attention and
behavioral control. He is the coinventor of a quantitative
electroencephalographic (QEEG) process that was approved by the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use in the diagnosis of
attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a pioneer in the
development of parenting and EEG-based attention training
procedures, and the author of numerous scientific articles and book
chapters.
The first edition of his book Parenting Children With ADHD: 10
Lessons That Medicine Cannot Teach (2005) was named Parenting
Book of the Year by IParenting, and his book Unlocking the
Potential of Patients With ADHD: A Model for Clinical Practice
(2008) provides a model for comprehensive, effective, and practical
community-based care for patients with ADHD. His skills as a master
diagnostician and therapist have been internationally recognized
and are archived in several educational videotaped programs,
including Working With Children With ADHD (2005).
He has been a faculty member of Wilson Hospital's Family Practice
Residency Program; the Department of Psychology at Binghamton
University; and, most recently, the Graduate School of Counseling
and Clinical Psychology at Marywood University, USA.
Dr. Monastra is the recipient of several scientific awards,
including the President's Award and the Hans Berger Award from the
Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback for his
seminal research into the neurophysiological characteristics of
ADHD and his groundbreaking study on EEG biofeedback. He was listed
among the country's most innovative researchers in the Reader's
Digest 2004 edition of ""Medical Breakthroughs.
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