It's been a busy few weeks here at theattentiondoctor.com. On Thursday the 10th of January I spoke to about a hundred people at the Manhattan Adult ADD support group. Although I gave a number of presentations on ADD and Hypnosis in the mid 90's, it’s been about ten years since I've talked about my work in a group setting. Many of those attending seem very interested in my take on the interaction of mood and trauma with underlying attentional disorders, and there was a robust question and answer period following the talk. Both the talk and the questions that followed are available for downloads, here: Part 1 and Part 2.

Thanks to all of you who attended and to the many of you that called afterwards. If we haven't gotten back to you please try again; we get swamped.

You may have read an article this week in the NY Times about how drug companies systematically over-estimate the efficacy of their antidepressant drugs by declining to publish/report research studies that do not support them. This news speaks directly to the sometimes less than admirable ethics of our pharmaceutical industry; and to the very poor quality and mnimal utility of most psychiatric research; it does not however say anything very much about the usefulness of anti-depressant medication, which if actually matched properly to the depressive subtytpe are often vital to a speedy recovery; for my views on this please see the articles section of our site.

The other new piece on our site is a short meditation on Buddism, neuroplasticity and ADD and the argument for the idea of "brain training as an a needed part of any treatment regime for adult ADD/ADHD.