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ADHD Medication Rules: Affiliate Details

by Dr Charles Parker on July 9, 2010 · 7 comments

Thanks for your continued interest in evolving mind/body science! Stay tuned for more details on how neurotransmitters, immune system challenges and hormones create problems with mind-balance.

Tired of Watching The ADHD Medication Mess Escalate?

Start With Rules

This note will be short and sweet – it’s about an opportunity to actually work together to change the current muddle, the morass so present in ADHD treatment strategies. Let’s review the game Rules.

We both know many are seriously frustrated -
Just take a look at the hundreds [now nearly 2000] of comments here and elsewhere that highlight the challenges with dialing in ADHD medications for effective treatment. No, I am not asserting it’s all a mess – many do well and have no problems – but it is quite true that the challenges out there are not rare, but rather commonplace, – way too commonplace.

Rules Speaks Directly To Those Specific Issues in Detail
To Order Rules: ADHD Rules

Rules Table of Contents
ADHD Medication Rules is organized into the following sections and chapters:
Section I: First Things First
Beginning Treatment, First Identify Target Objectives
Chapters
1. Right Drugs For The Right Diagnosis – Beyond appearance diagnosis
2. How to Get Past Outward Appearances – In to functional office diagnosis
3. Acting ADHD: Acting Without Thinking – Impulsivity redefined
4. Thinking ADHD: Thinking Without Acting – Beyond OCD
5. Avoiding ADHD: Not Thinking And Not Acting – Avoidance and procrastination
6. Measure Metabolism: The Burn Rate – Understanding metabolism: essential rules
7. Depression And Anxiety: ADHD Confusion – Suicide is a possibility if you miss this one
8. Furious Minds: Bipolar And ADHD – Predict medication rages
9. Unpredictable: Brain Injury And ADHD – The mystery ADHD, so commonly misssed

Section II: Monitoring Medication Progress
Improved Structural Grids for Medication Management
Chapters
10. Shoot For Your Therapeutic Window – Basic office how-to for everyone
11. Breakfast Matters – This detail can sink the ship
12. Sleep For Brain Defrag – If your hard drive is fragged you will remain ADHD
13. Managing With Your Medical Team – Teamwork is the ticket

Download this Rules Affiliate pdf Instruction Paper for more details.

Quick How To

Special Thanks To These Thought Leaders
Thanks Gina Pera for your excellent endorsement over at your ADHD Roller Coaster!
Thanks Roger Parker [no relation] for your kind remarks over at your Published and Profitable!
Thanks Bryan Hutchinson for your thoughtful remarks over at Adder World!
Thanks Keath Low for your thoughtful remarks over at ADD.about.com
Thanks Terry Matlen for your kind remarks over at MomsWithADD
Thanks Jennifer Koretsky for your excellent review over at ADD Management.
Thanks Tara McGillicuddy for your kind support over at My ADD/ADHD Blog.

Affiliate Registration Open Right Now
If you are a coach, counselor, advisor, family member or friend of someone downstream from this pervasive confusion – help them purchase Rules, and share in the experience with me through your own Affiliate link, available here.

Remember: Your don’t have to have a website to become an affiliate, all you have to do is share your specific affiliate link to set up the payment process through the shopping cart. See below for several suggestions on exactly where to put your link, and how to set it, even with a business card or a simple one page handout.

Review the Affiliate Details
This weekend the game changes for us at CorePsych – the price goes up and the Affiliate network becomes operational at the new price for rules – 37$. See the comments on why that price here on this page with the rest of the Affiliate details.

So what’s the Affiliate Deal?
Simple: I get paid for each book, – and through the miracles of modern computer connections, I pay you for your help with helping get this important Rules message in the hands of the folks that need it in Alaska, South Africa, or right down there in Possum Hollow, TN. Look forward to working together – register now, and I will send you your Affiliate link this weekend when the launch is almost over.
Let’s make it happen!
cp

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Psychiatric Diagnosis and DSM 5: Maps to Nowhere

by Dr Charles Parker on February 13, 2010 · 25 comments

Diagnostic Bible? Scientific Heresy

Diagnostic Bible: Scientific Heresy

If you are lost, forget being found with this bible.
You may be thinking the new, long awaited DSM5 psychiatric diagnostic manual would herald pointed improvements in the evolution of psychiatric science – …like new information, new perspectives, new treatment strategies. Don’t be worried, you won’t have to change anything you are doing… it’s the same old 19th Century stuff, trimmed up to tweak the descriptive language, with no improvements there for patient care, and no new science. Boring. But Freud is happy.

The DSM5 is not categorically ineffective
On a brief positive note you will appreciate this NPR review of the diagnostic evolution with childhood bipolar diagnosis – a significant problem addressed repeatedly here at CorePsych Blog as kids are regularly, automatically slammed with atypical antipsychotics rather than considering the biologic underpinnings of emotional explosions. Been there, done that.

Labels, not science, still prevail
See this brief description in the LA Times and you will catch the drift and controversy on these new, already outdated diagnostic maps. Our books are outdated simply because we aren’t learning how to read the brain images and the lab reports. All the names will change when we recognize gluten sensitivity, bowel dysfunction, and the abundance of metabolic imbalances that effect brain function.

The Earth is Flat! DSM 5 Points at the Tips of Icebergs – Only What You See.
The tip-toe progress with these new superficial labels for office appearances misses altogether the complexity of new brain and body science. Neuroscience evidence is easily available, often paid for by insurance, and remains almost completely ignored by psychiatry. Real facts, not labels, will foretell the changes necessary for psychiatric practice, for treatment strategies to evolve with the rapidly evolving new science.

Neuroscience evidence changes thinking.
Yes, these refined descriptions may help some talk about psychiatric matters with a bit less confusion, but the new DSM5 conclusions are based almost completely upon 19th century vertical thinking, insufficient feedback with patients in the office, and questions that ignore modern neurophysiology and metabolism.

Psychiatrists will remain speculative with dreams and fantasies, while hard evidence from molecular and cellular physiology remains in the closet – frequently derided as quackery. Interestingly, psychiatry is held to a different standard on evidence than the rest of medicine, as SPECT brain imaging and the measurement of neurotransmitter biomarkers is still derided as non-specific, while patently non-specific biomarkers, such as cholesterol screening, are accepted uniformly in general medicine. It’s time for diagnostic change – but DSM5 is already old news.

Your Comments Count
Let’s see what you think… please comment here and weigh in on your views of psychiatric diagnosis – look forward to hearing from you!
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Intuniv for ADHD: Avoid Drug Interactions

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Bipolar, Cobra and ADHD: Are We Killing a Hognose Snake?

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Out in the metaphoric mind-woods? Think you have the diagnosis right? Let’s take a few more minutes to get the specific, correct identification. See what you think about this brief video

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Impulsivity Translated for Street Applications: The Impulsive Brain

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Pristiq For Major Depression – Clinical Details on CorePsych Radio

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Some think that Pristiq is just another Effexor XR – but they aren’t thinking about the details.

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The Impulsive Brain – Core Psych Radio

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This Explosion Does Work… – The Impulsive Brain Doesn’t. Many of the explosions we see at school, at work and in our daily lives create massive havoc. At CorePsych we will discuss diagnosis and treatment options.

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Brain, Impulsivity and Evidence: What To Do Next

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Been There With Impulsivity? Do you think you’ve seen enough impulsivity for a lifetime? Are there times when you are held hostage with subtle, uncompromising, relentless impulsivity, – read on…

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ADHD: Vyvanse – The Therapeutic Window Mystery

June 11, 2009 Beyond ADHD

Overlooked: Vyvanse has many interesting features for ADHD treatment – but this challenge is often missed. Take a quick look at this video, will only take a few minutes, – but can help find the Top of the Window with Vyvanse – the ‘forgiving amphetamine.’

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Neurotransmitters & Healthy Brain: CorePsych Radio

June 1, 2009 Autism Spectrum

This Thursday at 4 PM EDT/1 PM PDT my program at CorePsych Radio will give you an oppotunity to follow along an interesting presentation with a PDF slide show entitled Neurotransmitters and Their Role in Health.

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