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

This is Susan Koffman. I'm here for Attitude magazine. This month we're talking about ADHD myths.

I'm extremely pleased to have Dr. Thomas Brown of Yale University with us today.

He's the author of a new book called A New Understanding of ADHD and Children and Adults

and it specifically addresses the myths about ADHD and presents a broader understanding of the disorder, one that takes it from, has previously thought of a mere behavioral problem to a much larger and more synthetic view of the ADHD brain

and emotions and what the disorder actually is about. Any of you I think would find

his book fascinating and I urge you to look for it.

So with that let me welcome Dr. Brown. Thank you him so much for being our guest today.

We're very grateful for the time that he gives us.

So thank you so much Dr. Brown. We're very grateful for the time that he gives us.

So thank you so much, Dr. Brown.

Well, thank you.

I'm really glad to be here and to be able to share this information with you folks.

The first one is one which says ADHD isn't a real disorder and there are a number of people

who still believe that even though there's a mountain of scientific evidence about it.

I'm not going to review all that evidence right now, but I think that one way of thinking

about it is, well, if somebody has ADHD, what are the impairments that they have? What sort of

of difficulties does this create for people? And the other question is, what kind of

evidence do we have about there being something that's going on in the brain

uh... that might uh... you know provide uh... uh... as something more solid in terms of

evidence of of of this being something that's actually going on and not simply a matter of people

being lazy or or not very smart.

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