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ADHD and Anxiety: ADHD Looks Like OCD

by Dr Charles Parker on May 31, 2009 · 6 comments

You can’t judge a book brain by it’s cover.

So much of our work with ADHD is based upon necessary, but limited pre-technology diagnosis. For years we had to rely on appearances, and didn’t have the means to measure function, much less see specific areas of the brain as they function. As a consequence of using only one set of glasses we still use phenomena as targets, and many critique valid, peer reviewed findings regarding hard brain evidence.

As you will see in this video, ‘anxiety‘ can take on many different faces – and cognitive anxiety, you heard it first here, is simply not in the books yet – strange, but true. If we don’t look for it, we just can’t see it – and so much of ADHD symptoms are associated with anxiety. I see so many who say they aren’t anxious, but suffer from complete mental shutdown from cognitive anxiety. You will get it with this video.

Sign up either on the blog here for email updates or over at my Channel on YouTube to keep up with the many planned ADHD and  CorePsych videos. Might as well stay posted for these small, but useful tidbits from years of ongoing office work, – evolved from when we couldn’t see what we were shooting at.

And, of course, not all OCD is ADHD, but with a history and significant additional findings we will get the medications dead wrong if we miss ‘dopamine‘ and only make the ‘serotonin‘ diagnosis.

Drop me a comment to see what you think about these findings.

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ADHD: The Therapeutic Window via Indiana and NYC

by Dr Charles Parker on April 26, 2009 · 0 comments

With this Window It Wasn’t Any ADHD, It Was The Server… screen-capture
- and it wasn’t Therapeutic.

As Paul Harvey used to say: “-and… now for the rest of the story”

Events in Radio Land and Fort Wayne

Monday I recorded the CorePsych Radio Therapeutic Window Piece, – all set for playing 4PM Thursday afternoon, whilst I was on a plane headed to Fort Wayne, IN. Fri I gave a full day presentation on brain and body evidence, diagnosis and the new medications, for Park Center, a three county mental health community interested to stay current with the latest in office applications from new brain science. Evidenced: ADHD, Depression, Bipolar and Anxiety. > This is the first slide from that program.

Excellent group, much fun, with many positive connections – starting with landing in the Fort Wayne airport – named by USA Today as one of the “Friendliest Airports in the US.“

Notes on Airport Excellence:

Fort Wayne Customer Service

Fort Wayne Customer Service

Pictured here are two of the famous ‘meeters and greeters,’ who daily welcome every single person who flies into Fort Wayne, with a smile, cookies and Good Hoosier Cheer.  Helen and Jean, to be exact – with two cookie baskets. Thanks ladies, great fun chatting.

Well, the talk went very well I am told, but late that afternoon I ran to the airport to catch a plane for a meeting in NYC Brief aside: Now picture this part: Sunny farm lands of Indiana, to almost midnight in Times Square, – reality changes.

Incidentally, I Ran Into Some Luminaries:
In NYC I had the privilege of meeting and chatting with two of the world’s leading experts on ADHD: Dr Russell Barkley author of ADHD in Adults: What the Science Says. – and, in addition, Amy Arnsten PhD, one of the leading neurophysiologists in the world who discussed the cellular functions of the prefrontal cortex . Much fun, – an abundance of fresh information is arriving from new cellular research. More on this topic later…

Problem and Solution
Underway, I found a tweet that indicated the ‘radio problem’ – the recorded program from Monday did not play on Thursday. Apparently the server crashed and after some messing around, Michael in Utah spun up the previous ADHD and Depression program, Program #6 for a partial CorePsych Radio..

The Window remains closed. A fix is planned:

Easy Fix:
Will rerun the ADHD Medications and the Therapeutic Window this week on Thursday at 4 PM EDT: Outline: Download for that program here.

See ya there Thursday,
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Brain and Immunity: Dr Jaffe CorePsych Radio Update

March 24, 2009 Autism Spectrum

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Can your brain suffer from allergies? Does poison ivy really itch?

Tune in to a very interesting recorded interview I did with Dr Russell Jaffe [Dr Jaffe Bio pdf], saved from a Utah broadcasting system crash 2 weeks ago, this Thursday at 4PM EDT – link here at CorePsych Radio.

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Your Signature Burn Rate: ADHD Medication Precision – CorePsych Radio 3

March 4, 2009 Autism Spectrum

ADHD Medication Axiom: Burn Rate Assessments are Required. Let me make this easy: If you don’t know your burn rate, your doc will have significant problems adjusting ADHD Medications. Period.

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The 10 Biggest Problems with ADHD Medications: CorePsych Radio Series

March 2, 2009 Beyond ADHD

ADHD Meds: Do you think there is a big problem with not paying attention to the medications used for paying attention? I do. – Well, I do agree, but I am not trying to find someone to blame – on the other hand, I’m trying to give you, the public and interested professionals, some real answers.

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CorePsych Radio #2: Functional ADHD Diagnosis

February 24, 2009 Beyond ADHD

In word we are pervasively missing ‘Functional ADHD’ – we are missing time, context and process… so how can we expect meds to be correctly adjusted?

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CorePsych Radio Update

February 22, 2009 Beyond ADHD

CorePsych Radio: How to Connect Each Week: As a side activity I have been also putting together a 1 hr live radio program, and the details are on this page: CorePsych Radio.

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ADD/ADHD Parker Updates

June 22, 2008 Beyond ADHD

Just a quick update on the Blog Silence over here with Parker – been working on ADD/ADHD projects: I’ve been working, but not as hard as I did for the 3 summers I shoveled concrete on the roads in Missouri. Yes, those days were interesting in that I worked hard and got a big promotion after two years, from the shovel to the chute. – Big responsibility move!

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ADD/ADHD Non-Med Treatment: Neurofeedback

March 26, 2007 Beyond ADHD

ADD/ADHD: So what do you do if you don’t want to use meds?
Yes, the meds work fast, and often well, if you work them correctly.
I have discussed ADD: The Media, The Meds, and The Madness at CorePsychPodcast with four episodes on diagnosis, meds, wrong meds and metabolic challenges that often go overlooked. Also posted [...]

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