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December 11, 2008

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101 Fascinating Brain Blogs: An Excellent Review

Brain information continues to mushroom: Many excellent brain blogs keep all of us posted on these interesting neuroscience developments. Alisa Miller has reviewed and published an inclusive summary "101 Fascinating Brain Blogs" over at the Online Educational Database [OEDb] for our mutual use and Holiday reading.

October 18, 2008

Published by admin at October 18, 2008

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Fixing the ADD Madness: The Diagnostic Mess

Right Targets Right Interventions If you don't see the specific AD/HD target, if you don't have a specific objective, how can you hit anything no matter what technique you use?

October 11, 2008

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AD/HD: Diagnosis and Treatment Often Miss the Mark

Our diagnostic grid for ADD Spectrum Disorders [with multiple expressions of attention related issues] is almost purely descriptive - with the inevitable consequence that we most often treat labels, not people. The public is mad because, more frequently than not, our measurements simply don't consider their pain.

September 21, 2008

Published by admin at September 21, 2008

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AD/HD Office Updates: Home and Away

The AD/HD Philosophic Reception: The medical discussion about aspects of my new book has been, quite interestingly, uniformly positive. The theme in my medical presentations is simple, and often addressed here at CorePsychBlog - we often do not use precise parameters with our AD/HD treatment targets, - current diagnostic criteria are imprecise, superficial, amorphous and "move about" too much- does that cover it? If we don't see it how can we hit it? - we don't appreciate the specific trajectories of the drugs we use, and thereby often miss the mark just because we don't adjust our sights correctly, but, rather, too often blast away. Are we shooting howitzers at wrens?