Behavioral Medicine Solutions

If you have a loved one who is afflicted with ADHD syndrome, you probably vacillate between fascination and frustration with her behavior. You have learned about the inattention, distraction, impulsiveness, restlessness, and emotional fluctuation she demonstrates.  Let’s imagine a scenario when you are both sitting in a meeting listening to a speaker who is going on about [...]

Here is a link to a New York Times article that summarizes many of our fears about the abuse of stimulant medications: Risky Rise of the Good Grade Drug Is it oversimplistic? Does it trivialize ADHD? Does it assume that physicians are too stupid or careless when prescribing treatments? Does it highlight some real problems we need [...]

He gets a promotion in his 30′s.  The job demands a new level of organization.  Anxious nights make sleeping disrupted.  Arguments with the spouse and coworkers ensue.  An urgent visit to the family doctor to evaluate the panic-based chest pain does not reveal any physical causes.  Everyone is alarmed.  A reluctant appointment to a mental [...]

Our current terminology of mental illnesses classify mood, anxiety and attention disorders as separate categories.  Yet clinical experience points to the convergence of these symptoms in the same individual in many of cases.  I have a different take on this phenomenon:  I think the best way to conceptualize it is to start with the biological basis of ADHD which first leads [...]