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care provider. And now on to the show. Welcome to Helix Talk episode 93. I'm your co-host

Dr. Kaine. I'm Dr. Schumann. And today we're going to introduce episode

93 focusing in on ADHD treatment. And this is a chance really to go through and discuss a little

bit about stimulants and other medications for each treatment of ADHD. After decades of use,

technology has resulted in changes in how they're administered and the different dosage forms that

are available? There's newer agents, but really are they an improvement and a chance to kind

of look at even how the history of the diagnosis has evolved a bit over time. And Dr. Schumann,

just for time purposes, as I understand it, we're going to focus mostly on the stimulants,

knowing that there are other non-stimulant medications out there. We'll kind of touch on it a little bit,

but maybe that would be something ripe for a future episode, but maybe not today.

Certainly, there's actually so much just on the stimulants alone that I think it'd be a massive,

massive super episode, and so we'll kind of break it up a little bit. So what do we start with just,

you know, the definition of ADHD? I think that it's one of those things that people kind of casually, jokingly say, oh, I've got ADHD today. Clearly, this is a medical diagnosis,

right? So what are some of the things that play a role in that diagnosis? Correct. And so the big

thing, again, is you have the attention deficit, hyperactivity, and then there's also ADD

without the hyperactivity, but just the attention deficit. We're really going to focus on the ADHD component.

And so, again, we have the diagnostic and statistics manual,

which is the gold standard for listing the diagnostic criteria for mental illness.

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