ADHD - (Biographies of Disease) by Paul Hammerness (Hardcover)

About the Book

Diseases have a history, and understanding that history helps us understand how best to treat and control disease today. Today's students are confronted with a panoply of often-frightening illnesses and afflictions - the Biographies of Disease series provides students with the information that they need to understand the origin of various maladies, how they impact contemporary society, and how doctors and researchers from around the world are fighting to devise treatments to alleviate or cure these diseases. This volume, ADHD, examines Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, the controversial affliction with which millions of boys and girls are diagnosed every year.
The volume includes a glossary of important terms and a bibliography of accessible works that discuss the disorder.

Book Synopsis

Diseases have a history, and understanding that history helps us understand how best to treat and control disease today. Today's students are confronted with a panoply of often-frightening illnesses and afflictions - the Biographies of Disease series provides students with the information that they need to understand the origin of various maladies, how they impact contemporary society, and how doctors and researchers from around the world are fighting to devise treatments to alleviate or cure these diseases. This volume, ADHD, examines Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, the controversial affliction with which millions of boys and girls are diagnosed every year.

Review Quotes

"Like a biography, this volume tells the complete story of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), with information on its history, diagnosis, risk factors, drug development, treatment, complications and associated conditions, and effects on the family. Hammerness (pediatric ADHD research, Harvard Medical School, and child and adolescent psychiatry, Newton Wellesley Hospital) reviews and summarizes the scientific literature for general readers and concludes with a chapter on recent advances, including genetic investigations, brain imaging, and adult ADHD." --SciTech Book News

"...the Biographies of Disease series provides students with the information that they need to understand the origin of various maladies, how they impact contemporary society, and how doctors and researchers from around the world are fighting to devise treatments to alleviate or cure these diseases. This volume, ADHD, examines attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, the controversial affliction with which millions of boys and girls are diagnosed every year." --Adolescence

About the Author

PAUL GRAVES HAMMERNESS is the Scientific Coordinator for Pediatric ADHD research at the Clinical and Research Program in Pediatric Psychopharmacology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He is also consulting physician in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Newton Wellesley Hospital.