Driven to distraction recognizing and coping with attention deficit disorder from childhood through adulthood

Overview: Groundbreaking and comprehensive, Driven to Distraction has been a lifeline to the approximately eighteen million Americans who are thought to have ADHD. Now the bestselling book is revised and updated with current medical information for a new generation searching for answers. Through viv...

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Main Author: Hallowell, Edward M.
Other Authors: Ratey, John J., 1948-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Anchor Books, 2011.
Edition:1st Anchor books ed., rev. and updated.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to the Anchor edition / Edward M Hallowell
  • What is Attention Deficit Disorder?
  • I sang in my chains like the sea: the child with ADD
  • Sequence ravelled out of sound: adult ADD
  • Living and loving with ADD: ADD in couples
  • Big struggle: ADD and the family
  • Parts of the elephant: subtypes of ADD
  • How do I know if I have it?: the steps toward diagnosis
  • What can you do about it?: the treatment of ADD
  • Local habitation and a name: the biology of ADD
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix: Where to find help
  • Index.