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Mentes dispersas: As origens e possíveis curas do Transtorno de Déficit de Atenção e Hiperatividade (TDAH)

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Uma visão completa, otimista e profundamente sensível do Transtorno do déficit de atenção e hiperatividade (TDAH)




Escrito por um dos mais respeitados pensadores em saúde mental, este livro desfaz o mito de que o TDAH é uma simples questão de genética.

Com base na sabedoria adquirida em quarenta anos de prática clínica e em sua própria luta para superar a desatenção, Dr. Gabor Maté defende que as experiências da infância e o ambiente em que vivemos desempenham papel determinante tanto na causa quanto na cura do transtorno.

Trazendo um mapeamento completo do TDAH – suas origens, características, efeitos, consequências e tratamentos – este

• Demonstra que o TDAH não é uma doença genética, mas uma deficiência reversível

• Permite que os pais descubram como seus filhos com TDAH funcionam, e que os adultos com o transtorno compreendam suas emoções e seus comportamentos

• Apresenta um programa para promover o desenvolvimento neurológico em crianças e adultos

• Explora a relação entre cultura, dinâmicas familiares e temperamento, explicando de que modo esses fatores moldam a biologia e a psicologia do cérebro humano

• Explica que os circuitos do cérebro responsáveis pela autorregulação emocional e pelo controle da atenção não se desenvolvem adequadamente – e por quê.

384 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 6, 2025

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Gabor Maté

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Dr Gabor Maté (CM) is a Hungarian-born Canadian physician who specializes in the study and treatment of addiction and is also widely recognized for his unique perspective on Attention Deficit Disorder and his firmly held belief in the connection between mind and body health.

Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1944, he is a survivor of the Nazi genocide. His maternal grandparents were killed in Auschwitz when he was five months old, his aunt disappeared during the war, and his father endured forced labour at the hands of the Nazis.

He emigrated to Canada with his family in 1957. After graduating with a B.A. from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and a few years as a high school English and literature teacher, he returned to school to pursue his childhood dream of being a physician.

Maté ran a private family practice in East Vancouver for over twenty years. He was also the medical co-ordinator of the Palliative Care Unit at Vancouver Hospital for seven years. Currently he is the staff physician at the Portland Hotel, a residence and resource centre for the people of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Many of his patients suffer from mental illness, drug addiction and HIV, or all three.

Most recently, he has written about his experiences working with addicts in In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts.

He made national headlines in defense of the physicians working at Insite (a legal supervised safe injection site) after the federal Minister of Health, Tony Clement, attacked them as unethical.

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