The New ADHD Medication Rules: Brain Science & Common Sense

by Charles Parker

Overview

New ADHD Medication Rules deals with the over-medication, missed diagnoses and imbalanced medical treatments used today in the treatment of ADHD. Dr. Parker shows where and how these imbalances occur, provides the data and explanations for why treatment is often incorrect, and then simplifies and explains insightful methods for dealing with ADHD medications, both for medical practioners and parents of kids and adults with ADHD.

Rules is based upon the latest brain science, and includes a variety of associated treatment topics that address the real complexity of ADHD medical management.

The variables that effect medication effectiveness range from sleep, to breakfast, to biomedical interferences that can dramatically change the way medications burn in the body. Without Rules the possibility of missing potentially dangerous drug interactions and associated diagnostic challenges, such as depression and anxiety, adds to the greater possibility of treatment failure.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781938467226
Publisher:	Koehler Books
Publication date:	01/01/2013
Pages:	180
Sales rank:	933,813
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.37(d)

About the Author

As a neuroscience consultant, child and adult psychiatrist with more than forty-three years of experience in the office trenches, and twenty years teaching medical professionals nationally, Dr. Parker brings a fresh, comprehensive street sense to the variety of clinical challenges seen in everyday psychiatric problems. From ADHD meds, to addiction recovery, to specific neurotransmitter measurements and SPECT functional brain imaging, Parker encourages a fresh perspective based on real data. New, easily measurable brain evidence points weave a complex, interactive mind-body web that maps out improved ADHD treatment protocols. It sounds complicated but creates common sense, workable solutions. Dopamine receptors matter. Genetics, nutrition, and immunity issues matter every day. Parker regularly reports new science findings in over 400 articles on the award-winning CorePsych site.

Table of Contents

Section I: First Things First
Beginning Treatment, First Identify Target Objectives
Overview     

Chapters
1.    Right Drugs For The Right Diagnosis

2.    How to Get Past Outward Appearances

3.    Acting ADHD: Acting Without Thinking
4.    Thinking ADHD: Thinking Without Acting

5.    Avoiding ADHD: Not Thinking And Not Acting

6.    Measure Metabolism: The Burn Rate
7.    Depression & Anxiety: ADHD Confusion
8.    Furious Minds: Bipolar And ADHD

9.    Unpredictable: Brain Injury And ADHD
 
Section II: Monitoring Medication Progress
Improved Structural Grids for Medication Management
Chapters
10. Shoot For Your Therapeutic Window

11. Breakfast Matters

12. Sleep For Brain Defrag
13. Managing With Your Medical Team
 
Conclusion