Survey of 2500 families finds what ADHD treatments seem to work/ not work as applied in the real world

By Dr. David Rabiner | December 17, 2020

While care­ful­ly con­trolled clin­i­cal tri­als are essen­tial for estab­lish­ing sci­en­tif­ic sup­port for dif­fer­ent ADHD treat­ments, it is also impor­tant to exam­ine how par­ents feel about the treat­ments they actu­al­ly select for their child. How par­ents feel about ADHD treat­ments they have tried for their child pro­vides an impor­tant com­ple­ment to pub­lished clin­i­cal tri­als data, and can…

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Study: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) + Medication outperforms CBT alone to treat ADHD symptoms among adults. At the same time…

By Dr. David Rabiner | January 10, 2017

Although med­ica­tion is the pri­ma­ry treat­ment for adults with ADHD, and has good empir­i­cal sup­port, many adults would rather not take it. For these adults with ADHD, it would be help­ful to know whether med­ica­tion is like­ly to pro­vide sig­nif­i­cant ben­e­fits above and beyond those they would gain from well-con­­duc­t­ed ther­a­py, or whether they are…

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Update: Test your stress level with this fun brain teaser

By SharpBrains | July 31, 2014

— Time for Sharp­Brains’ July 2014 e‑newsletter, fea­tur­ing a wealth of thought-pro­­vok­ing insights, sci­ence reports…and this fun brain teas­er to deter­mine your stress lev­el. New think­ing: Why “dis­or­ders of the brain” deserve at least equal atten­tion as car­dio­vas­cu­lar dis­eases and can­cer Pre­lim­i­nary Agen­da of the 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Octo­ber 28–30th) Debunk­ing Myers-Brig­gs per­son­al­i­ty test How to remember…

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Physical exercise as ADHD treatment: Necessary but not sufficient

By Dr. David Rabiner | June 5, 2014

— Can exer­cise reduce behav­ior prob­lems and enhance cog­ni­tion in chil­dren with ADHD? Results from mul­ti­ple stud­ies indi­cate that exer­cise mit­i­gates aging-relat­ed declines in cog­ni­tive func­tion­ing and that it may enhance cog­ni­tive func­tion­ing in old­er adults. Exer­cise has also been shown to be 

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Study: Families’ Perspectives on ADHD and its Treatment

By Dr. David Rabiner | October 18, 2011

In 2005 the Amer­i­can Acad­e­my of Pedi­atrics (AAP) began an ini­tia­tive to pro­mote an approach to care among its mem­bers in which “…the pedi­atric team works in part­ner­ship with a child and a child’s fam­i­ly to assure that all of the med­ical and non-med­i­cal needs of the patient are met.” A crit­i­cal­ly impor­tant focus of…

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