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

Good afternoon it's Susan Coffin for Attitude magazine. Our guest today is

Dr. William Dodson, MD. Dr. Dodson is a board certified adult psychiatrist.

He's I think one of the few psychiatrists who's

specialized in adult ADHD for over 20 years. He has written extensively on how

basic research on ADHD can apply to everyday clinical practice. He's currently in private practice in

Denver, Colorado. He's received significant accolades for his work with people with disabilities and his upcoming book is titled

What You Wished Your Doctor New about ADHD.

Dr. Dodson is a pleasure to have you here.

Thank you so much for joining us. His topic today is the secrets of the ADHD brain on what you need to know about the condition. The ADHD brain is just beginning to be understood. It's quite unique. The characteristics that we think of it are not necessarily those of the myths.

And Dr. Dawson is going to talk briefly about some characteristics of the ADHD brain and then he will take your

questions. So again thank you Dr. Dodson and I will turn it over to you.

Thank you Susan. The reason that this whole topic is coming up is that a lot of the non-medicine-based treatments

for ADHD have failed to show any detectable lasting benefit.

You might have some benefit while the person's sitting in their room, but quite literally they

could take the research subject out in the hall and all of the benefits would have disappeared.

They were very situationally bound.

And so a lot of people have been looking around for a new way of understanding

ADHD that would then lead to what you could do that actually would be effective.

There is a growing recognition that people with ADHD are not so much damaged or defective

as really having just a second different wiring of the brain.

The 90% of people who don't have ADHD are referred to as being

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