Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine.

I'm Susan Glauffin and you're listening to Attitude Magazine's ADHD experts audio.

Our guest today is Dr. Daniel G. Aeman, a physician, double board certified psychiatrist, teacher, eight-time New York Times bestseller

author. Dr Aaman is the founder of six clinics around the country. He has a great website

Aaman Clinics.com that has tons of helpful information about brain disorders.

So with that, let me turn it over to Dr. Aeman with our thanks.

Well, it's such a joy to be back.

I think this is my third or fourth webinar with my friends from Attitude.

And it's a topic that's near and dear to my heart which is how do we optimize

AEDD and my book Healing Edd has been very important to us because I have it in my family and it's been one of the primary issues that our clinics have dealt with

over the last 25 years and I'm a child psychiatrist by training and half the kids we see have AEDD and one of the things I learned early on is you really cannot effectively treat children who have it unless you treat,

unless you diagnose and treat the parents they got it from.

AEDD is a genetic disorder as we will soon find out. So I like to start with people

at AEDD have many strengths. They're often very bright, creative, spontaneous, successful.

It's been Sott Edison had A.D. as well as Michael Phelps, the most decorated athlete in

Olympic history. Also, Justin Timberlake and Terry Bradshaw come out and said that they have AEDD.

They're often people who think outside of the box and it's well known in the business community

that many CEOs have AEDD. But there are also significant challenges.

When it is left untreated, there's a higher incidence of school failure, drug and

alcohol abuse, obesity because of the impulse control problems that can go

along with it, depression, job failure, divorce, incarceration, even

Alzheimer's disease.

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