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<title>Dr Charles Parker - EzineArticles Expert Author</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Neuroscience Evidence Changes Thinking - Dr Parker provides ongoing updates to both public and professionals on the important ongoing changes in the core of evolving psychiatric practice. He strongly supports the observation that more specific information significantly improves all outcome measures in any mental health intervention. He regularly writes about these interesting and sometimes humorous observations at CorePsych Blog and CorePsych Podcast below for those interested in blog reports, and invites you to follow him and his interesting community on Facebook, Twitter, and the professionals at LinkedIn. Bio: Neuroscientist, author, practicing child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist with an active office ... ]]></description>
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<title>Deeper Recovery - Addictions Revisited With New Science</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:07:36 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler - Albert Einstein So many think that recovery is completely impossible - and it may be if your body and mind aren't tuned up for the process. Addictions create physical and neurophysiologic ruts that can be repaired to smooth the journey.]]></description>
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<title>Brain, Impulsivity, and Evidence - What to Do Next</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:39:07 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[New scientific insights provide multiple keys that will release us from our collective impulsivity imprisonment. This recent sea change in brain and body science dramatically corrects previous, incomplete intervention protocols. It's time to rethink old patterns.]]></description>
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<title>ADHD and Traumatic Brain Injury - Hopes, Cautions, Medication Protocols</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:44:49 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[After having seen thousands of SPECT brain scans, I can report with certainty that TBI is often missed in the ADHD differential, and is more frequently found than expected. TBI is where SPECT proves most useful to assess either or both ADHD and TBI as well as comorbid mood disorder. Both ADHD and TBI must be fully understood in context to avoid medication challenges.]]></description>
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<title>Sleep and ADHD - 10 Biological Tips For Consistent ADHD Recovery</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:00:03 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[These 10 Tips Provide Specific Treatment Considerations for Any ADHD Symptoms Associated with Sleep Disturbance. Untreated each of these issues aggravates symptoms of ADHD.]]></description>
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<title>ADHD Denial - Medical Ambiguity Creates Significant Problems</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:49:33 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Denial and misrepresentation of ADHD difficulties remains pervasive in spite of remarkable new science. One of the most important reasons, other than some simply not wanting to have a problem or take medications, is the fact that the basic new science is often overlooked. Most importantly, the psychiatric labels have not kept up with functional brain science.]]></description>
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<title>ADD and ADHD With Cognitive Anxiety - 7 Tips to Recognize This Frequent ADHD Symptom</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:23:44 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Cognitive anxiety with ADHD is the most frequently overlooked ADHD symptom. Different types of anxiety have different origins and must have different treatments to achieve complete correction. Yes, 'affective anxiety' is one obvious form of anxiety, but let's take a more careful look at 'cognitive anxiety' - often dismissed as OCD. Remember if it is more 'effectively based' it should be treated with an SSRI, an antidepressant. If the origin of the anxiety accompanies ADHD with 'cognitive anxiety,' SSRIs often aggravate the ADHD condition.]]></description>
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<title>Holidays, Spirituality and 7 Tips on Boundary Management in the Real World</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:34:18 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The absolutely most common emotional challenges witnessed with human beings are boundary disputes with those they love. Boundary issues arise more commonly during the Holidays than any other time of the year for several reasons, - and the solutions for those disputes, once the specific dispute becomes obvious, are often quite simple. The single most important interpersonal variable that increases in complexity with age is maintaining firm boundary negotiations over time. Home is a place to practice the boundary basics. If home life is managed well, the world most often is managed well. ]]></description>
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<title>Recovery, Living and Reality - Shooting the RAPIDS of Life</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:30:38 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The essential, undeniable truth about reality: it changes - often unpredictably. Interestingly, reality changes at a rate we often can't appreciate, most often too fast or too slow. Reality shocks our system which, for most of us, seeks security through predictable, non-changing or slowly changing daily existence. Understanding the rapids process before you get there will help you make it through.]]></description>
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<title>ADD ADHD Medication Treatment - 7 Tips to Solve Immediate Release Confusion</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:57:16 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you find yourself puzzled by the significant problem of being unable to specifically identify the Duration Of Efficacy, the 'DOE,' of your stimulant medication? Is it worse with the cheaper immediate release ADD medications? In this series of articles on the 'Therapeutic Window' I have been discussing in detail the specific ways that stimulant medications work well, and how to recognize either when they don't work well enough [the bottom], create toxicity [the top], or appear in a confusing on-and-off, cycling pattern that could mean either too much or too little. In this article these 7 Tips help to correctly adjust the Immediate Release Medications.]]></description>
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<title>ADD and Depression For a Lifetime - Grumpy Character - Diagnosis and Correction</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:14:22 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you know a Grumpy one? The Grumpy dwarf from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs [1937] lives on, and presents often as an untreatable 'character type,' but is often troubled by biologically corrected underpinnings. He/she doesn't have to live that Grumpy-way, they can could consider becoming Happy.]]></description>
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<title>ADD-ADHD Medication Treatment - 7 Tips on the Bottom of the Dosage - Insufficient Duration</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:06:42 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What is, without a doubt, the most common problem with stimulant medication management for ADD/ADHD treatment? Insufficient dosage of stimulant medication to adequately cover the day, into the late afternoon, even into the evening. This problems of inadequate DOE, Duration of Effectiveness, is easily correctable with new medications, but first it has to be on the treatment team's radar. This article is the fourth in a series of seven discussing insufficient dosage patterns.]]></description>
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<title>ADD-ADHD Medication Treatment - 7 Tips to Find the Most Challenging Pattern of Inadequate Dosage</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:24:10 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Remember the 'Top of the Window' is ranging too high in dosage, the 'Bottom of the Window' is too little dosage. The worst thing that can happen when you are working to carefully correct stimulant meds: an overdose upwards because that apparent 'bottom,' the apparent under dose, was actually too much meds and the patient was actually coming out of the 'top.']]></description>
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<title>ADD-ADHD Med Treatment - 7 Tips to Correct the Bottom of the 'Therapeutic Window' - 2-Precise Dosing</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:11:46 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you feel that using ADD-ADHD stimulant meds for you or your family member still remain a mystery? After first understanding that the 'Therapeutic Window' for meds does indeed have a bottom [my be insufficient], and that medications clearly have specific metabolic and delivery characteristics throughout the day - the next step is dialing the meds in for the very best action.]]></description>
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<title>ADD-ADHD Medication Treatment - 7 Overview Tips For Stimulant Dosage With the Therapeutic Window</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:55:04 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you wonder why so many have difficulties with stimulant medications? Are you a person who simply doesn't want to deal with stimulants because they seem so unpredictable? Stimulant medication dosage has some very simple guidelines that take out the guesswork, and significantly improve outcomes, and reduce side effects. These 7 Overview Tips on Stimulant Medications dosage will save you years of frustration if you use them consistently.]]></description>
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<title>ADD - ADHD Medication Treatment - 7 Tips on Finding the Challenging Sides of the Therapeutic Window</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:23:52 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you wonder if the ADD, ADHD medications are working effectively for you or your child? Do you think it is insufficient, and simply too imprecise to adjust medications based upon the global question: "Is it working?" Are you frustrated and harboring a suspicion that the treatment team is not addressing key issues with the medications? I completely agree that using imprecise targets 'from the outset,' and with subsequent ongoing confusion about treatment objectives 'during the process,' that 'unpredictable outcomes' are far more common. Problems with unresolved symptoms often continue in spite of years of treatment if we don't ask precise questions - so why not reduce some of the many variables using a more predictable treatment grid? This is the third in a series of foundation articles here that address the complexity of medication adjustment by using the simple, practical, and scientifically based measurement system of the 'Therapeutic Window.']]></description>
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<title>ADD-ADHD Treatment - 7 Essential Tips on Finding the Challenging Bottom of the Therapeutic Window</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:13:05 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you often find yourself wondering, "Just how do I get the medications straight for the best treatment for ADD/ADHD?" You are clearly not the exception, but the rule. So many find that stimulant medications are managed without clear objectives - with ineffective and vague assessment questions like: "Is it working?"]]></description>
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<title>ADD-ADHD Treatment - First Base With the Therapeutic Window - There is No Bottom</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:28:04 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Are The ADD/ADHD Stimulant Meds Working? Just what is an Underdose? Do you sometimes have trouble defining exactly what the *therapeutic window* is all about? Then, when you know you are looking for that specific dosage, do you have trouble finding if it is working at the absolutely best efficiency for you, or your child? Honestly, underdosing is not likely, but it can happen, and in my office I see it often - every day. As you might expect, most second opinions in my office are overdosed not underdosed, but if some are very careful and simply don't dose meds correctly based upon several easy clinical measures. This article will spell out more explicitly the first of 7 Tips to Find The Bottom of The Therapeutic Window.]]></description>
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<title>ADD-ADHD Treatment - 7 Tips on Finding the Elusive Top of the Therapeutic Window</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:41:24 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Most of the media and public outcry, most of the frustration with using stimulant medications for ADD/ADHD treatment is based upon one simple problem: Not knowing the absolute importance and effective use of the "Therapeutic Window" to assess treatment outcomes and achieve effective dosing. Without "Window" knowledge medications are adjusted either too high or simply too low, and important metabolic influences that slow or increase the "burn rate" are completely overlooked. Most importantly, and the reason for this article, the patient must know how this all works so they can effectively participate in their own treatment.]]></description>
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