APSARD Blog
The APSARD blog contains content that addresses mental health practitioners, children and adults, ADHD and related disorders, and overall memberships updates.
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Other Myths about ADHD
Author: Stephen Faraone, Ph.D. Myth: ADHD is an American disorder. Those who claim ADHD is an American disorder believe that ADHD is due to the pressures of living in a fast paced, competitive American society. Some argue that if we lived in a simpler world, ADHD...
Are Nonpharmacologic Treatments for ADHD Useful?
Author: Stephen Faraone, Ph.D. There are several very effective drugs for ADHD and that treatment guidelines from professional organization view this drugs as the first line of treatment for people with ADHD. The only exception is for preschool children where...
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for ADHD: What is it? Does it work?
Author: Stephen Faraone, Ph.D. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a one to one therapy, for adolescents or adults, where a therapist teaches an ADHD patient how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are all interrelated and how each of these elements affects the...
Myths about the Treatment of ADHD
Author: Stephen Faraone, Ph.D. Myth: ADHD medications “anesthetize” ADHD children. The idea here is that the drug treatment of ADHD is no more than a chemical straightjacket intended to control a child’s behavior to be less bothersome to parents and teachers. ...
Psychotherapy for ADHD
Author: Stephen Faraone, Ph.D. Psychotherapy and ADHD: How a Harvard Professor Help his Patients Professor Larry Seidman is world renowned for his neuropsychology and neuroimaging research. In addition to all of his creative science, he has found the time to create...
Can ADHD be Treated with Fish Oil?
Author: Stephen Faraone, Ph. D. If you’ve been reading my blogs about ADHD, you know that I play by the rules of evidenced based medicine. My view is that the only way to be sure that a treatment ‘works’ is to see what researchers have published in scientific...
MYTHS ABOUT THE DIAGNOSIS OF ADHD
Myth: The ADHD diagnosis is very much "in the eye of the beholder." This is one of many ways in which the ADHD diagnosis has been ridiculed in the popular media. The idea here is that because we cannot diagnose ADHD with an objective brain scan or a blood test, the...
Love, Sex and ADHD
As a researcher who has devoted most of the past three decades to studying ADHD, I am surprised (and somewhat embarrassed) to see how little research has focused on how ADHD affects the romantic side of life. There are over 25,000 articles about ADHD listed on...
How to Avoid False Positives and False Negatives when Diagnosing Adult ADHD?
A recent paper by Margaret Sibley and colleagues addresses a key issue in the diagnosis of adult ADHD. Is it sufficient to only collect data from the patient being diagnosed or are informants useful or, perhaps, essential, for diagnosing ADHD in adults. Dr. Sibley...
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Fact vs. Fiction
Many myths have been manufactured about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Facts that are clear and compelling to most scientists and doctors have been distorted or discarded from popular media discussions of the disorder. Sometimes, the popular media...