How Reality, undeniable Reality, encourages a deeper perspective of ADHD Diagnosis and ADHD Medication Treatment. How starts the process of addressing biomedical reality. Because if we don't face the biomedical realities of ADHD brain and body function, if we don't understand the ADHD science, more individuals will suffer. This is the second in a series of 3 SlidesShares - 1. Why, 2. How and 3. What we can do about ADHD Medication Rules.

1. How Reality
Changes The
ADHD Rules
New ADHD Medication Rules
Brain Science & Common Sense
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Dr Charles Parker

2. How
Does Ma6er
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3. Overlooked:
Biological ADHD
Realities
In Medical Diagnosis
1. Brain: Functional Reality
2. Body: Biomedical Reality
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4. ADHD Realities
Overlooked
Medical Treatment
1. Predictable: Medication Duration
2. Measurable: Therapeutic Window
3. Predictable: Drug Interactions
4. Predictable: Medication Seesaw -­‐‑
Antidepressants and Stimulants
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5. And, Diagnostic
Realities Do
Provide Traction
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6. -­‐‑ Even on
Slippery
Roads
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7. Start: The Diagnostic
Reality Of
Brain Function
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8. Brain Function: Is Based On
Changing Reality
Working Memory Manages
Changing Reality
Changing Reality Amplifies
ADHD
Labels Don’t Consider
Context or -­‐‑ Changing Reality
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ADHD
In
Action

9. Benefit Of Function: Useful
Diagnostic Criteria
1. Precise -­‐‑ Less Implicit Condemnation
2. Office Measurable -­‐‑ Not Categorical
3. Percentages -­‐‑ Closer to Reality
4. More Easily Evaluated as Progress, &
Improved Patient Participation
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10. What sets
our Brains
apart from cats,
cows and elephants?
Yes -­‐‑ Working Memory
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11. Working Memory Timed
Sequence:
1. Thinking About Reality
2. Acting Upon that Reality
3. Carrying Reality Results to
the next day
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12. Frozen Working Memory Is
Desynchronized by:
-­‐‑ Increased Variables
-­‐‑ Decreased Structure
-­‐‑ No Stimulating Focus
PFC Brain Desynched =
yes,… ADHD
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13. Timing is
Everything…
Working
Memory
Must Be, Timed,
Synchronized…
-­‐‑ In Sequence
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14. Desynchronized ADHD:
Acting ADHD
1. Acting without Thinking -­‐‑
more explicit than “Hyperactive”
and can be placed in each Reality
Context
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15. Thinking ADHD
2. Thinking without Acting,
-­‐‑ The Most Commonly Overlooked
-­‐‑ “Cognitive Anxiety”
-­‐‑ Often without Anxious Feelings
-­‐‑ Video: www.bit.ly/adhdanx
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16. Avoidant ADHD
3. Not Thinking & Not Acting
-­‐‑ See YouTube ‘Avoidant’ Video
-­‐‑ Biologically correctable
-­‐‑ Social Anxiety, Intimacy, Procrastination
-­‐‑ Avoidance of specific Realities
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17. Coaching & CorePsych Updates:
Treatment Options: CorePsych.com/services
Coach Partners: CoreBrain.org/coaches
Reviews & New Rules Excerpts:
New ADHD Medication Rules
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Free White Paper: Predictable Solutions:
hHp://corepsych.com/adhdbook
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18. HOW
Three Important
Complimentary
How To ADHD Medication
YouTube Tutorial Playlists at:
www.youtube.com/ drcharlesparker
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19. Many
Thanks!
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