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Special Needs Children – Psychiatric Meds Need Attention

by Dr Charles Parker on December 5, 2011 · 1 comment

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Special Needs At The Coffee Klatch

Special Needs Children Are Just That – Special

Most noteworthy: those children with ADHD symptoms on the surface, with a biomedical background set of challenges with special needs. So many children fit this difficult set of circumstances, and so often their underlying biology, their associated biomedical hurdles simply go unrecognized.

You’ve heard it here many times before – meds without a clear biomedical diagnosis, without understanding the immune, endocrine, metabolic issues that so often complicate the surface special needs presentation, simply will not work predictably.

And the worst of the worst: this process of medical misunderstandings can last a lifetime. Let’s work together to correct these issues by keeping up with the latest brain and body biomedical insights.

The Coffee Klatch Initiative

Marianne Russo over at The Coffee Klatch  provides exceedingly interesting and useful audio reviews for parents with children troubled by a number of issues, from autism to ADHD. Her programs are straightforward, thoughtful, and drive right to the heart of the fact that we simply aren’t paying attention to many of the functional details present in these kids.

In this recent Coffee Klatch Blog Talk Radio Program on November 27 we discussed specific details so often seen with psychiatric meds – and these problems exist not only here in the USA, but internationally. Marianne’s excellent Coffee Klatch programs reach that international audience.

Thanks Marianne

Listen to this Special Needs Medications program in the player below, it’s about an hour-long, so get a cup of coffee in the morning, and turn on these medical details. Marianne’s questions help clarify in practical terms the multiple medical challenges we see in our psychiatric offices everyday.

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Thanks Marianne, – and thanks to you for listening. Do drop a note here if you would like some further answers for your own specific questions. And if you find this program valuable please forward it on Facebook, RT on Twitter, or click your favorite social media below to get the word out. An informed public will ultimately help correct these widespread biomedical oversights.
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Special Needs Children Radio | Sunday Nov 27

by Dr Charles Parker on November 24, 2011 · 0 comments

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Medications For Special Needs Children | The Coffee Klatch For Thanksgiving

Marianne Russo at the Blog Talk Radio Coffee Klatch regularly discusses important details for care and medical insights with Special Needs Children at the Coffee Klatch on Blog Talk Radio. This Coffee Klatch with Marianne program goes significantly beyond just-manipulating-psychiatiric-medications.

Convenient Time – Sunday, After Family Time

This Thanksgiving weekend do consider listening in as Marianne and I discuss the multiple challenges present with medication for Special Needs Children – the most vulnerable kids. Listen up after the weekend is over at 9 PM Sunday Night, Nov. 27th. We’ll discuss Special Needs Children Medication Details for about 1 hour – regarding why Special Needs Children regularly present in the office with so many refractory medication challenges – and what to do about those challenges.

ADHD medication misunderstandings and shortsighted stimulant applications are only part of a more serious, more pervasive problem.

Many more answers will be found in more comprehensive biomedical evaluations – details during the program.

The Biomedical Side

In retrospect I can see why I didn’t see the problems myself: Special Needs Diagnostic Criteria remain woefully inadequate to cover the complexity of the biomedical issues so often found. The current [and next] psych diagnostic manual is all about appearances and pervasively misses essential biomedical details. If you don’t ask the correct biomedical question, if you don’t know what the biomedical questions should include, or if you simply know them and just won’t ask them – those Special Needs Challenges remain uncorrected.

And, my friends, Special Needs Medication problems can then remain uncorrected for a lifetime… if not identified at the outset.

Biomedical details imply just that: measurable medical data regarding underlying medical problems exist with so many special needs kids. So often special needs children manifest underlying bowel and nutritional problems that just don’t get on the radar. Why? Because too many forget the basic fact that meds must pass through the body before they make it up there to the mind. Sounds ridiculous, but that fact is almost universal.

Tune In, See You Sunday

And, if you happen to miss this Sunday, yet catch this posting, do click on this Coffee Klatch page for the recording.

See ya there!
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 Special Needs Children Radio | Sunday Nov 27

Digitally available now at Nook, Kindle, Barnes and Noble.
ADHD Medication Rules – PDF For Your Desktop  
ADHD Medication Rules | Paying Attention To The Meds For Paying Attention – Kindle Version


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Brain, Gut and Behavior: Bacteria Matter

May 31, 2011 Autism Spectrum

The science is there folks: gut physiology, gut bugs, healthy gut bugs make a difference in human behavior. Mind and body, last time I checked, are indeed connected.

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Psychiatric Medications and Immunity: IgG and IgE

May 22, 2011 Autism Spectrum

The longer we deeply explore treatment disappointments [that occur everyday], the more we see significant confusion and missed diagnosis with psych med failures secondary to overlooking IgG, the “chronic antibody.”

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Brain, Immunity and Treatment Failure – Neuroscience Evidence

May 1, 2011 Autism Spectrum

The challenging problems that occur with successful treatment for ADHD encourage an improved review of underlying biomedical issues. With that additional laboratory understanding more precise treatment strategies often provide improved outcomes.

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ADHD And NeuroScience – San Francisco

April 4, 2011 Autism Spectrum

ADHD Solutions Evolve With NeuroScience Evidence About a year ago I traveled out to Sacramento, San Jose and San Francisco for three days of speaking to medical professionals who focus on treating ADHD, – and loved the opportunity  to discuss the many new insights on the evolving pharma side of ADHD life – specifically Intuniv. [...]

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ADHD Testing – Now Comprehensive and Biomedical

January 23, 2011 Autism Spectrum
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Those of you who closely follow CorePsych Blog and the many frustrated/dismayed ADHD treatment/medication comments here already appreciate the abyss of misunderstanding about ADHD that exists in both public and academic perceptions. New testing options turn the tide.

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CoreBrain Training – Bench to Trench In DC

December 6, 2010 Autism Spectrum

Have you been thinking about all of this new brain and body neuroscience material, – but just don’t have your arms wrapped around the translation from functional neurophysiology to the most effective office applications? This meeting will show you how.

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CorePsych DC: Parker Reopens Near Tyson’s

October 4, 2010 Autism Spectrum

And the patients that came in those Amen DC doors were already thinking deeply into the next box. Many of them had “already tried everything else – several times.” That experience confirmed my expectations: the science works. Looking is always better than guessing, – and soon will become the standard of care.

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Gluten: Immunity On The Rise: New Wheat Notes

September 7, 2010 Autism Spectrum

The Gluten/Celiac Increase, Researchers Say, Is In The Wheat Newbies. – If you have any interest in why so much news about gluten sensitivity and immune dysregulation you will love this news.

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