This blog category contains posts related to ADHD research and other reports in the news.
To the uninitiated, it sounds horrifying: Toddlers medicated for ADHD! They’re drugging babies! Yet, if you understand the ADHD-associated range of physical symptoms—and physical risks—the reasons are obvious. If you still believe ADHD is a
Part 4 in a 7-part series on genetic testing for ADHD medications—from ADHD expert Gina Pera and her scientist husband, Dr. Goat
One factor to consider when aiming for that sweet spot of medication effectiveness: your specific gene variants that affect drug response.
That is, do your gene variants mean that you metabolize drugs slowly, normally, or very fast?
That’s where genetic tests can come in handy: They identify these gene variants—that is, variations on a common gene.
In turn, this information helps you to:
1. Determine what dosage you should start with, and
2. Decide the order in which medications should be evaluated.
This information can be especially valuable if you are
—Beginning drug treatment for ADHD,
—Considering changing to a different drug, or
—Introducing an additional drug to your regimen.
Note: Information from these tests will not be a “silver bullet.” It is simply a starting point. The last post in this series will examine how I might use my personal results.
Toddlers medicated for ADHD. It’s a hot topic in the news lately. Did you miss Part 1? 10,000 Toddlers Medicated for ADHD? Part 1 Here in Part II, I continue to educate the public
Do I recommend the new revision of Understanding Girls with ADHD: How They Feel and Why They Do What They Do? Consider the opening lines of my review on Amazon.com. After, you’ll find a personal
In this post, we share our own results from genetic testing for ADHD medications. We hope this helps make the information a little more concrete, less abstract. My husband, Dr. Goat, and I share many
Netflix’s Take Your Pills, produced by Maria Shriver and daughter, is more shock-umentary than documentary. Nobody has time for this nonsense. Yet, we all have a lot to lose by failing to speak up. The
For years, ADHD experts recognized the link between untreated ADHD and obesity. As for weight-control experts and gastric-bypass surgeons? Maybe they missed the memo. Or, is it territorial protection? Let’s be charitable. Consider it one
If you have ADHD and have been helped by Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings, I am happy for you. This post is about something a little more complicated. This post addresses the danger of ADHD going
In case you missed it, there is a longer-lasting version of Adderall, called Mydayis. Many people report frustration with the current Adderall shortage. I suggest that a trial of Mydayis would be worth a shot—and
Could studying a genetically linked population shed light on a link between ADHD and Alzheimer’s Disease? That is just one question researchers ponder in studying the Paisa people of Colombia. For generations, a disease called
