ADHD: Attention-deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Children and Adults - Hardcover

Wender, P.H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195113489 ISBN 13: 9780195113488

Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, 2000

Synopsis

A handbook on the subject on the topical subject of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), adding more case histories, expanding the section on adults, and outlining drug treatments that have appeared since the last edition. Reviewing what is known about ADHD, its symptoms, its life course, its etiology, the usefulness of various treatments, and the value to the patient of education about the disorder, Wender brings together a wealth of information not available in any other volume. A clinician who has treated patients with ADHD for many years, he offers firsthand accounts from men and women with dramatic insight into what it feels like to have ADHD and how it responds to medical treatment.

About this title

About the Author

Paul Wender, M.D. was formerly Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Psychiatric Research at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Known as the "Dean of ADHD" by his colleagues, he is a pioneer in identifying and treating this disorder and he ran some of the first clinical trials on Ritalin. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195113489
• ISBN 13: 9780195113488
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 320