ADHD Weekly 2017-08-31
CHADD Announces 2017 Young Scientist Research Award Winners
CHADD is pleased to present Matthew J. Gormley, PhD, and Jaclyn Kamradt, MA, as winners of the 2017 Young Scientist Research Awards competition. Dr. Gormley and Ms. Kamradt will each receive $1,000 along with recognition in November during the 2017 Annual International Conference on ADHD in Atlanta, Georgia. They will also receive a professional membership…
What It‘s Like to Have ADHD: Presentations Change Throughout Life
Join the discussion. Having ADHD is like being in a room with a 1,000 TV sets turned on, but all on different channels. “Now try and concentrate on just one TV without getting distracted,” Damian Aird asks the readers of The Mighty, a community platform for people coping with mental health conditions. For him, that…
ADHD? Learning Disability? It May Be Both
Join the discussion. Getting appropriate and effective treatment for a condition depends on getting an accurate diagnosis. But if two or more conditions such as ADHD and learning disorders exhibit similar symptoms, or when those conditions co-occur, accurate or differential diagnosis can be challenging. What is the relationship between learning disorders and ADHD, and what…