Main description:

Beyond ADHD weaves Emmerson's personal story of his ADHD diagnosis, exploring along the way the latest medical, scientific and societal explanations and tools for managing and living with the condition. Including interviews with a number of experts at the forefront of next-generation ADHD diagnostics and treatment, he questions the cookie-cutter way ADHD is commonly diagnosed and treated. Suggesting that the list of symptoms often used to identify ADHD can be attributed to many other disorders and conditions, he explores how and why ADHD diagnoses have increased by 50% in the last ten years.

Emmerson advocates a different approach to ADHD, arguing that it should be a diagnosis of exclusion rather than the other way around, and that we must look past the label, recognizing that individual symptoms vary and treatment plans should be better tailored to the individual. He examines mental and behavioral issues from all sides, including the possibility that nurturing - rather than trying to alter or suppress - the active, "360-degree" mind is a viable way for those diagnosed with ADHD to realize their gifts and lead purposeful lives.

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART ONE
1.In the Doctor's Office
2.Peeking Behind the ADHD Curtain
3.Optimal Health, Interrupted: Decoding ADHD (Part One)
4.Optimal Health, Interrupted: Decoding ADHD (Part Two)
5.So Easy to Diagnose, So Tricky to Understand
6.Why Personal History Matters in Diagnosing
7.The Larger Problem of Misdiagnosis
8.Prescribing in An Open Ocean
9.What We're Up Against
10.The ADHD Buy-In
11.What About Our Boys?

PART TWO
12.What Is With My Brain?
13.Exploring the Deeper Causes
14.New Ways of Working with ADHD
15.Towards Collaborative Diagnosing & Care
16.Problem Child? Or Gifted Child?
17.Nutrition's Necessary Place
18.Shaking off the Label
19.The World Beyond ADHD