New ADHD Videos Online
We are doing our best to keep up with the latest technologies, but remember, we are clinicians not media savy web guys. So we are in the process of producing brief information videos on various ADHD related topics for parents and teachers. We hope to be able to product from five to ten videos each month, in our "spare" time.
The first five videos are now online at the ADHD Information Library. See what you think. Here are the topics:
Take a look at them, we hope that they will be at least somewhat helpful. And give us your feedback so that the next generation of videos can be even better.
Thanks,
Doug Cowan, Psy.D.
Clinical Editor - ADHD Information Library
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Articles on Tourette Syndrome
A defining criterion of Tourette is symptoms-
involuntary tics-that start between age 2 and age 15.
Anyone who has Tourette first got it as a child,
probably during school, when peers can be ruthless
to anyone out of the mainstream. Recent studies
show that the greatest frequency and severity of tics
occurs for most children around middle school. It's a
terrible time to be twitching and barking.
Yet the roughly 1 percent of students who have
Tourette syndrome are, aside from their tics, no
different than other students. The condition has no
impact on intelligence or athletic ability. Even tics
themselves are not unique; some 20 to 25 percent of
children develop a physical tic or tics during their
school years that, in most cases, go away. When the
symptoms last more than a year, and audible tics join
the physical ones, it's probably Tourette syndrome-TS
to the cognoscenti. READ COMPLETE ARTICLES
Tourette Syndrome No Laughing Matter by E.H. Santiago in the Long Island Press. Used by
permission. Tourette's Syndrome or ADHD? Questions from a School Psychologist, and Answers from our Dr. Cowan.
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ADHD Symptoms More Severe
in Women? 
Let's begin by pointing out that we have recently
written about ADHD and Depression in Teenage Girls,
and have even produced a brief internet video on the
topic. As reported in that article, females with ADHD
tend to have the "inattentive" type of ADHD (what we
refer to as Winnie the Pooh type)...
As children mature into adolescence, the human brain
matures. But the interesting thing about the brain is
that the brain tends to mature from the back of the
brain to the front of the brain, and the frontal lobes and
pre-frontal cortex mature last. These brain areas are
most associated with the "executive functions" of the
brain, and their delays in maturity are associated
with "inattentive ADHD."
Since the female brain tends to achieve its full growth
and maturity in the early 20's, we see many females
who had been diagnosed with inattentive ADHD
seemingly "outgrow" it in young adulthood.
READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE
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