ADHD. Where Did It Come From and How Can We Treat It?

 

 

Dr. Walt Karniski, MD, a developmental pediatrician, trained at Boston Children’s Hospital joins eHealth Radio and the Children's Health & Health News Channels. Over the forty years he has been practicing, Dr. Karniski approaches each child as a unique individual, with distinctive strengths and weaknesses, where the diagnosis does not matter as much as understanding the specific needs of that child. His new book is ADHD Medication: Does It Work and Is It Safe?

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Dr. Walt Karniski discuss the following:

1. Many people have suggested that ADHD is a fabricated diagnosis, invented by doctors and pharmaceutical companies to sell more drugs or invented by schools that can’t teach or by parents who can’t parent. How do you respond to that
2. What should be done to confirm the diagnosis of ADHD?
3. What causes ADHD? Is it too much time on their phones? Not enough sleep? Poor diet?
4. You imply that medication should be used in almost all cases of ADHD. Shouldn’t counselling or behavioral management strategies be used first? And instead of medication, couldn’t ADHD be treated with changes in diet?
5. Do children outgrow ADHD? Do they outgrow their need for medication?
6. With so many different medications available, how does a doctor choose which medication is right for a child?

Dr. Walt Karniski, MD is a developmental pediatrician, trained at Boston Children’s Hospital. He was director of the Division of Developmental Pediatrics at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida, for fifteen years. He then opened a private practice and for twenty years, evaluated and treated children with ADHD, autism, anxiety, learning disabilities, and other developmental difficulties. During that time, he developed and operated three private schools for children with ADHD, anxiety, and learning disabilities.

Over the forty years he has been practicing, he has evaluated and treated close to ten thousand children, conducted numerous studies of brain activity in children, and has been director of a child abuse program and a program for enhancing development in children born prematurely.

Dr. Karniski approaches each child as a unique individual, with distinctive strengths and weaknesses, where the diagnosis does not matter as much as understanding the specific needs of that child. His new book is ADHD Medication: Does It Work and Is It Safe? (Roman & Littlefield, May 15, 2022).

Website: https://adhdmedicationbook.com