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.

Hey there everyone

Welcome to the first installment of Dr Don's blog, where we'll be talking about stuff that going on as we try to launch both my book "Getting Unstuck; Unraveling the Knot of Attention Depression and Trauma, and a group therapy program based on the material thats inside the book.The book will be available in June, for now you can download the first chapter from this site if you'd like. The exact start of the group therapy program will announced in a few months; meanwhile we'll be gathering the names of folks who are interested in more information about it.

This is an exciting week for a number of reasons. First of all we are lauching our new website theattentiondoctor.com. where this week you can find some articles on mindfulness meditation training research done at UCLA and on a interesting book written by a childhood friend of mine, Jeff Brooks, about martial arts and meditation.

Second Ill be giving a talk this week at the Manhattan Adult ADD Support Group (maaddsg.org), on thursday night at 630 at the Seafarer's Hall on 15th street and Irving Place in Manhattan. Ill be presenting material from the book on the interaction of ADD with mood and trauma and about how it should be treated.

I hope to see some of you there

thanks