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

Hey everyone I'm Susan Kaufman and you're listening to Attitude magazine's

ADHD experts audio. Our topic today is a big one, it's anxiety and

according to today's expert guest Dr Thomas Brown,

anxiety is one of the conditions that most frequently occurs in conjunction with

attention deficit disorder and it's sometimes quite difficult to separate the symptoms of anxiety from the

symptoms of ADHD. Dr. Brown will be talking about how do we identify the different types

of anxiety disorders, how are those treated? Why children with ADHD are much more

likely to develop an anxiety disorder than their non- ADHD peers and he's going to

suggest some coping mechanisms for managing anxiety as well as tips for when you should be looking for professional help.

Dr. Brown is assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Yale University and an Associate Director of the Yale Clinic for Attention and related disorders.

He is the author of a number of really helpful books which I highly recommend to all of you.

One of his latest books is called New Understanding of ADHD,

has a great discussion of the overlap of ADHD

with anxiety and other disorders

and his most recent books, Mark, it's stuck,

a super readable case studies of young adults and college students.

In that book he focuses on the role of emotions.

In ADHD, it's pretty much been ignored until Dr Brown pointed it out. So with that, let me turn it over to Dr. Brown.

And again, thank you for being here today.

Thank you, Susan.

I'm really glad to be here.

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