Researchers continue to study ADHD in an ongoing attempt to understand what it is and how and why the treatments work. Many of our own patients comment that the meaning of ADHD remains unclear. A recent study, reported in the New York Times1, looks at the effects on the brain of commonly prescribed stimulants that have observationally helped ADHD-afflicted children …
How to Complete Hard Tasks
Sometimes you just can’t get your mind working. You wonder what’s going on, things you want to remember just slip through your fingers, and time gets away from you. It happens to everyone, but major episodes of mania or depression can result in reduced cognitive capacity, which takes time to heal. Reduced cognitive capacity can be scary; we wonder if …


