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How Can I Know if my Child has ADHD?

This is a serious question that parents only ask if their child is having some significant problems either at home or at school, and someone has mentioned Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. In order to receive an “official medical diagnosis” one would need to be assessed and diagnosed by qualified mental health or medical professionals such as your physician.

As much as we like our online ADHD Test, you simply Read more of the article...

Our guest author is Shane Wong. Mr. Wong is the Editor-in-Chief for Juxtaposition Global Health Magazine, a student-run publication based at the University of Toronto. According to the author: "This article will explore how ADHD medication can empower diagnosed patients, and why fears towards such drugs and the pharmaceutical industry persist across North America."

"Ritalin, Ritalin, seizure drugs, Ritalin.” Such is the lunchtime rhyme for a typical school nurse in the U.S. as she trots from class to class, dispensing pills into outstretched hands of young children (01/18/99 - New York Times).

Welcome to the uniquely North American psychotropic environment. A continent featuring a prescription drug market for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) worth over 2-billionUS annually, and where the number of prescriptions have grown four-fold in 20 years and over 90% of prescriptions worldwide originate.

But when patients as young as two-years-old are prescribed drugs that a government puts in the same category as morphine and cocaine, controversy concerning the use of drug treatment for ADHD is bound to Read more of the article...

Here is a rare radio interview with Gregory Young, Ph.D., Oxon., Neuroscientist and developer of Attend. This is from one of Dr Cowan's old "Your Family's Health" radio program from c.1999 on KERI radio. It is about 14 minutes long and is very interesting and quite in-depth.

Listen to Dr Young on Attend Read more of the article...

Here is our complete VIDEO library (as found on YouTube) and several of our PODCASTS. The VIDEOS have all been recently created, and the PODCASTS are typically old radio interviews or recent seminars by Dr. Cowan. Take your time. We hope you learn from them.

ADHD Videos

ADHD Videos from our clinical editor Dr. Doug Cowan on ADHD: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and related topics such as alternative treatments for ADHD:

Parent's Podcast Library

One by one we are adding sound files in a podcast format from semiars and workshops led by our Clinical Editor Dr. Doug Cowan. We are just learning how to edit them from perhaps 60 minutes down to about 40 minutes for easier listening. We hope that the programs are helpful to you and your family.

First we will upload the lectures that we have from Dr Doug's "Navigating in the New World" seminars. This six-week class is for parents and teens, and is held each year Read more of the article...

Hi there, I am writing because I am in the process of researching for a systematic review in herbal treatments of ADHD which is due to be published in the Canadian Psychopharmacological News, I am an MSc Neuroscience student at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London, UK.

Specifically I am looking for double-blind, placebo, randomised controlled trials (including one or all of these factors) I wondered with your knowledge-base whether you may know of any studies which Read more of the article...

Awhile back I thought I read on this site the dosing recommendation for
using caffeine or a recipe for making a morning drink containing caffeine,
where did it go or can you recommend a dosage? My son is 8 1/2 weighs 95
pounds and is inattentive and spacey (like he's day dreaming) in class in
the morning but his attention improves as the day wears on. Thank you

I think what you are looking for is here:

Doug Cowan

The ADHD Information Library at http://newideas.net
Over 500 Classroom Interventions at http://www.ADDinSchool.com Read more of the article...

A Letter from a Reader:

Do I Believe ADD/ADHD?

Please let me say YES! I Believe. Let me say that their are parents, teachers, school employees, relatives an on an on THAT DON'T. I will admit when I heard of all of this fifteen years ago I didn't believe either. This is very sad and how does one get through to these folks that don't believe. I am keeping a journal of all that happens with our wonderful school systems that really don't like dealing with this subject. Maybe that is why this state didn't pass Read more of the article...

My son is eight years old, he takes Metadate CD 20mg, which effects only lasts eight hours during the day. How long does the effects of Attend last? Is the diet you recommend absolutely necessary for Attend to work?
Thanks,
NR Read more of the article...

I was recently dianosed with ADHD. I am 41 years age, and I would like to know how ADHD affects adults, and what types of alternative medications can be used to treat the symptoms of impulsivity, compulsion to do everything right, hyperactivity, short term memory span and a low tolerance for frustration (a short fuse when frustrated). Thank you. Read more of the article...