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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): Diagnosis, Treatment, and Management
202 pages, Hardcover
Published January 16, 2025
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February 23, 2026
It's a collection of 12 studies about ADHD from 2024, picked by Marious Adamou, a big-brain UK Phd psychiatrist and ADHD researcher. Apparently he has additional Master's degrees any various areas like law, history, mental health studies, business administration etc. So smart.
The studies encompass a wide variety of aspects of the syndrome and give a pretty good overview of where we are at in general with regard to understanding and treating ADHD. Coming at it with skepticism, I would say it's still a big mess of overlapping and co-occurring mental health problems, many of which produce identical symptoms to ADHD. Depression, childhood trauma and consequent anxieties and brain changes come to mind, for example. Separating these from ADHD is not easy at all, if not impossible, and from what I've seen "from the field" is not done at all.
It all comes down to the broader question of the practice of psychiatry and how the basis of it all is the subjective evaluation of the psychiatrist. At the moment psychiatrists are taught to medicalize mental health problems, i.e. to see them as biological problems with the brain so that's how most psychiatrists view mental health. Add to that the (governmental) system of diagnosis codes which also adds pressure to medicalize mental health and try to fit mental problems into codes. This is not in the interest of patients. I digress...
My favorite study from the book is this one:
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/13/19/...
It talks about an interesting framework to approach ADHD with and describes the interviews with ADHD patients in detail. The framework is called CAT - creative awareness theory and doesn't view ADHD as necessarily a disorder but tries to understand and help the patients understand the mental processes of the ADHD mind in a systematic way. This helps them to understand their behavior and motivations and thus better their self-regulation. They claim it's not a form of therapy but it's quite similar and in any case, it's interesting and I'd love to read about it more in-depth. I'm also glad to see more of this kind of treatment of mental health emerging.
There's also this one:
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/13/23/...
It demonstrates that computerized exercises for children show positive results in attention and executive functions that persist long-term in the 3 month follow-up. Good stuff.
The studies encompass a wide variety of aspects of the syndrome and give a pretty good overview of where we are at in general with regard to understanding and treating ADHD. Coming at it with skepticism, I would say it's still a big mess of overlapping and co-occurring mental health problems, many of which produce identical symptoms to ADHD. Depression, childhood trauma and consequent anxieties and brain changes come to mind, for example. Separating these from ADHD is not easy at all, if not impossible, and from what I've seen "from the field" is not done at all.
It all comes down to the broader question of the practice of psychiatry and how the basis of it all is the subjective evaluation of the psychiatrist. At the moment psychiatrists are taught to medicalize mental health problems, i.e. to see them as biological problems with the brain so that's how most psychiatrists view mental health. Add to that the (governmental) system of diagnosis codes which also adds pressure to medicalize mental health and try to fit mental problems into codes. This is not in the interest of patients. I digress...
My favorite study from the book is this one:
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/13/19/...
It talks about an interesting framework to approach ADHD with and describes the interviews with ADHD patients in detail. The framework is called CAT - creative awareness theory and doesn't view ADHD as necessarily a disorder but tries to understand and help the patients understand the mental processes of the ADHD mind in a systematic way. This helps them to understand their behavior and motivations and thus better their self-regulation. They claim it's not a form of therapy but it's quite similar and in any case, it's interesting and I'd love to read about it more in-depth. I'm also glad to see more of this kind of treatment of mental health emerging.
There's also this one:
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/13/23/...
It demonstrates that computerized exercises for children show positive results in attention and executive functions that persist long-term in the 3 month follow-up. Good stuff.
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