Jeff Karp, a professor at Harvard Medical School and MIT, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss his strategies for lengthening attention span coming from his experience with significant ADHD.
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Inside a mind with severe ADHD
Rebecca Schiller, a regular contributor to The Guardian, talks about her journey to be seen by specialists for severe ADHD and about learning to navigate her life in a new way.
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In A World Of Distraction, Your Attention Is Precious
Casey Schwartz joins us to talk about her experience of once being addicted to drugs that promised her better thinking, and about the pluses and minuses of distraction.
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How Food Affects Our Mood
Dr. Uma Naidoo is founder and director of the Nutritional Psychiatry Service at Massachusetts General Hospital and on the faculty at Harvard Medical School. She joins us to talk about how science shows foods like blueberries –-and sadly, not cookies — are keys to mental health and cogitative function.
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The ADHD Epidemic
This hour, we’ll talk about why ADHD diagnoses are on the rise – and if there’s cause for concern – with Alan Schwarz, author of “ADHD Nation: Children, Doctors, Big Pharma, and the Making of an American Epidemic.”
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How Screens Are Hijacking Kids
This hour, we’ll talk about how screen time can lead to ADHD, anxiety, depression and other disorders with Nicholas Kardaras. His new book is called “Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction is Hijacking Our Kids – and How to Break the Trance” (St. Martin’s Press).
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Reconsidering ADHD Treatment
We’ll talk about emphasizes therapy over medication for treating ADHD with family therapist Marilyn Wedge, author of A Disease Called Childhood: Why ADHD Became an American Epidemic.
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Raising Children With Invisible Disabilities
This hour, we’ll talk with Linda M. Blum, author of “Raising Generation Rx: Mothering Kids With Invisible Disabilities in an Age of Inequality” about the realities of caring for these children.
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Natural Treatments For ADHD
This hour, we’ll talk about the root causes of A.D.H.D., the limits of Adderall and Ritalin, and how simple solutions can sometimes be the most effective with Dr. Richard Friedman, professor of clinical psychiatry and the director of the psychopharmacology clinic at Weill Cornell Medical College.
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ADHD Over The Years
This hour, we’ll talk to Timothy Denevi about how he ultimately learned to live with the disorder, which he writes about in Hyper: A Personal History of ADHD.
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Teaching Special Needs Kids
We’ll talk this hour about how we can better teach children with ADHD, dyslexia and other challenges with David Flink, who writes about the topic in Thinking Differently: An Inspiring Guide for Parents of Children with Learning Disabilities.
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