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ADHD & Criminal Negligence: Psychiatrists
ADHD & Criminal Negligence: Medical Schools
ADHD & Criminal Negligence: Schools
ADHD & Criminal Negligence: The APA
ADHD and Trauma: Star Trek has always been a safe place for the neurodivergent.
For decades, clinicians, especially those working with ASD and ADHD, have screamed for at least some acknowledgment of how unresolved childhood trauma impacts behavior in adulthood. The APA DSM paid lip service to this issue about eight years ago and…
The Missed Steve Jobs Story: A Path to Empathy
The Missed Steve Jobs Story: A Path to Empathy The big swing and miss in Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs is his portrayal of Jobs’s journey to empathy during the 1990s. There is another perspective, as shared by retired…
Social Media-Based Severe Sleep Deprivation & ADHD/ASD
During my time teaching mathematics at Poinciana High School, the school’s grade improved from a C to an A. With the principal’s approval, I investigated how severe sleep deprivation caused by late-night social media use on electronic devices had become.…