Release Date: April 29, 2025 / Termination Date: April 29, 2028

Episode Transcript

Featured Guest: Kimberley Levitt, MD

Objectives

• Define the diagnostic criteria for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
• Understand varying presentations of ADHD including hyperfocus and agitation.
• Apply principles of psychopharmacology for the management of ADHD.

Resources

• Stimulant rebound: how common is it and what does it mean? (Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology)
• Meta-analysis: Risk of tics associated with psychostimulant use in randomized, placebo-controlled trials. (Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
• Hyperfocus: the ADHD phenomenon of hyper fixation. (Attitude)
• ADHD and behavior problems. (Child Mind Institute)
• Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. (American Academy of Pediatrics)
• Neurobiology of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) – a primer. (Pscyh Scene Hub).
• ADHD Neuroscience 101. (Attitude)

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