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    • Teachers, Social Workers, Youth Offending Teams, Police Officers
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    • Parents of children with ADHD
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    • Play Therapy – Dee Cracknell
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    • Real Life Stories
      • “Why do you work with ADHD…?”
      • Surviving College as a Student with Disabilities
      • My Life with ADHD
      • Back from the Brink – by Connor Jordan’s Mum
      • Life with Louis – an ADHD Journey
      • “Good luck Michael – you’re going to need it!”
      • Defeating Depression and Anxiety
    • ADHD
      • Let’s begin with the basics: So what is ADHD?
        • Assessment and diagnosis
        • Stimulant medication
        • How stimulant medication works; mechanisms of action
        • Side effects and limitations of drug treatment
        • Education
      • Interventions and behaviour management
        • Tips on structure, routine and reward
        • Communication
        • Designing creative posters
        • Communication in the classroom
        • Occupational Therapy
        • Reiki
      • The adolescent brain
        • Unmanaged ADHD and risk factors
        • Criminal behaviour and gang affiliation
      • Parenting: Tips on how to stay sane
      • Myths and early medical citings
      • ADHD in adults
        • ADHD and the risk of addiction
        • Substance-use disorders (SUDS)
          • Chris Hill
      • Basic stuff about genes
        • ADHD and genetic influences
        • Heritability
        • ADHD and me: Radio 4 interview
        • Epigenetics (The interplay between nature and nurture)
    • Neuroscience & Nutrition
      • Structural and functional neuro-imaging in ADHD
        • Brain regions implicated in ADHD
        • Reward processes and the role of the ventral striatum
      • Brain maturation
      • Neuroplasticity
      • Nutrition: The brain’s requirement for fuel
        • Western diet and so-called diseases of civilization
        • Omega-3 and cell signalling
        • Nutritional deficiencies and brain development
        • Developmental outcomes and dietary patterns
        • DHA and brain function
        • Nutritional influences on anti-social behaviour
        • A word of caution: Not all PUFA’s are the same
        • School meals
        • Back to basics: Nutritional sciences
        • Gut and Psychology Syndrome
        • Food advice by Dr. Jocelyn Weiss founder of an unprocessed life
        • Some useful web links
    • Education
      • ADHD: Why change is necessary in education
      • Inclusion, inclusion, inclusion
      • Special educational needs: the current miserable state of affairs
      • The need to better integrate clinical research into educational policies
      • So what is the answer to the ADHD question?
      • Creating a new model of education: A translational curriculum
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    Thanks for stopping by and welcome. The idea of developing a website for the purpose of raising awareness and disseminating information and knowledge surrounding ADHD has been in the forefront of my mind for a long time.

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