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The aim of this chapter is to provide you with many new and important insights into ADD/ADHD that go substantially beyond what is traditionally understood about this impairment. In addition to my discussion on an added helpful classification of ADD/ADHD, three successfully treated children will teach you how to best understand and overcome this disorder. And several others will even demonstrate that the inner-ear antihistamines may sometimes—atypically—be more effective than stimulants, and why.
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Why is the minimum six-symptom requirement helpful for research? you may wonder. Because it prevents diagnosing false positives—patients with concentration and distractibility symptoms due to other causes. But as a clinician, this need for quantitative diagnostic certainty creates lots of false negatives—it omits many milder ADD patients deserving of a proper diagnosis and beneficial treatment.
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A few non-stimulant ADD/ADHD meds should be tried when the above fail—although they have less chance of working.
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Levinson, H.N. (2019). New Insights into ADD/ADHD. In: Feeling Smarter and Smarter. Copernicus, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16208-5_14
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