

Through vivid stories and case histories of patients-both adults and children-Hallowell and Ratey explore the varied forms ADHD takes, from hyperactivity to daydreaming. Now the bestselling book is revised and updated with current medical information for a new generation searching for answers.

Klappentext Groundbreaking and comprehensive, Driven to Distraction has been a lifeline to the approximately eighteen million Americans who are thought to have ADHD. is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and is in private practice. He lives with his wife, Sue, and children, Lucy, Jack, and Tucker. Hallowell, M.D., is in private practice in adult and child psychiatry and has offices in both the Boston area and New York City. The Boston Globe Informationen zum Autor Edward M. Healy! Ph.D.! author of Endangered Minds and Different Learners The first comprehensive book on the subject for the lay reader. Kramer! M.D.! author of Listening to Prozac This is an important and much-needed book! Wise! practical! and reassuring. The New York Times Book Review Conversational in tone! encyclopedic in content! and! best of all! utterly convincing because of its grounding in clinical experience! Driven to Distraction should make Attention Deficit Disorder comprehensible even to the most distractible reader.Peter D.

Zusatztext A very readable! highly informative and helpful book.
