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ADHD Experts Podcast

45- Dr. Amen on the 7 Types of ADHD: Understanding Your Type and the Best Way to Treat It

ADHD Experts Podcast

ADDitude

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2014

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Daniel G. Amen, author of Healing ADD, discusses his proposed seven types of attention deficit disorder. Learn which type you or your child may have, and the best way to treat symptoms.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:12.0

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

0:17.0

Today's topic is one of huge interests to all of us in the ADHD community and

0:22.4

that's how to diagnose what it is we have and how to develop

0:26.3

the correct treatment plan for each person with ADHD, ADHD, ADHD and coexisting conditions.

0:32.8

Our guest today is Dr. Daniel G. Aeman, a physician, double board certified psychiatrist,

0:38.0

teacher, eight time New York Times bestseller author, and I think a really breakthrough thinker in our field.

0:46.0

Thank you so much Dr. Aeman for being here with us today.

0:48.8

We're so grateful to you for spending this time with us.

0:51.6

Dr Aeman is the founder of six clinics around the country. He has a great

0:55.2

website a man clinics.com that has tons of helpful information about brain disorders. On his

1:01.4

website you can also find out about his newly revised book, Healing

1:04.9

AEDD, his really fabulous course called Healing AEDD in 30 days, and his PBS

1:11.4

television broadcasts which are running this week and next.

1:14.0

The program schedule is on the website.

1:16.0

Dr Aemann's really well known for taking a multidisciplinary approach

1:20.0

and an individualized approach to diagnose and treating brain-based disorders including DNA and ADHD

1:26.0

he's a pioneer in the use of spect brain scans and he uses scans along with other

1:30.8

diagnostic techniques to develop an individual and targeted treatment plan for each patient.

1:36.0

As he says, quote, one treatment does not fit everyone.

1:39.0

Shortly after he began brain inspect imaging imaging in 1991 he realized that ADHD was not a single or a simple

1:47.1

disorder. What he says is spring so true just as there are many different causes of chest pain, he noticed that there are many

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