Synopses & Reviews
Diseases have a history, and understanding that history helps us understand how best to treat and control disease today. Today's students are confronted with a panoply of often-frightening illnesses and afflictions - the Biographies of Disease series provides students with the information that they need to understand the origin of various maladies, how they impact contemporary society, and how doctors and researchers from around the world are fighting to devise treatments to alleviate or cure these diseases. This volume, ADHD, examines Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, the controversial affliction with which millions of boys and girls are diagnosed every year.
Review
"...the Biographies of Disease series provides students with the information that they need to understand the origin of various maladies, how they impact contemporary society, and how doctors and researchers from around the world are fighting to devise treatments to alleviate or cure these diseases. This volume,
ADHD, examines attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, the controversial affliction with which millions of boys and girls are diagnosed every year."
Adolescence
Review
"Like a biography, this volume tells the complete story of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), with information on its history, diagnosis, risk factors, drug development, treatment, complications and associated conditions, and effects on the family. Hammerness (pediatric ADHD research, Harvard Medical School, and child and adolescent psychiatry, Newton Wellesley Hospital) reviews and summarizes the scientific literature for general readers and concludes with a chapter on recent advances, including genetic investigations, brain imaging, and adult ADHD." - SciTech Book News
Synopsis
The volume includes a glossary of important terms and a bibliography of accessible works that discuss the disorder.
Synopsis
ADHD discusses all aspects of this affliction, including:
The definition and history of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
The symptoms of ADHD, and the psychiatric and physical diagnoses of the disorder.
How does someone get ADHD?
Complications and impact of ADHD on the patient and the family.
Current treatment and research.
About the Author
PAUL GRAVES HAMMERNESS is the Scientific Coordinator for Pediatric ADHD research at the Clinical and Research Program in Pediatric Psychopharmacology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He is also consulting physician in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Newton Wellesley Hospital.
Table of Contents
Series Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1.What is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder(ADHD)?
Chapter 2.How is ADHD Diagnosed?
Chapter 3.How does a child get ADHD?
Chapter 4.The process of drug development
Chapter 5.Treatment of ADHD
Chapter 6.Complications and Associations with ADHD
Chapter 7.How ADHD Affects the Family
Chapter 8.Clinical and Scientific Research in ADHD
Appendix
Glossary
Bibliography