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Volume CXXXII, Number 20 |
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ADHD authority speaks
LAUREN MCNALLY
CONTRIBUTOR
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| Ned Hallowell, M.D. speaks to a packed Kresge Auditorium last week. (Hans Law, Bowdoin Orient) |
Ned Hallowell, MD, lecturer and author of numerous books on cognitive and emotional health for children and adults, spoke at Bowdoin last Thursday evening in Kresge auditorium.
Dr. Hallowell addressed the Bowdoin community with a general discussion about Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and its effects on the lives of those who deal with it on a daily basis. Hallowell also talked about how ADHD affects an academic career, family relationships, business environments, and other personal and professional endeavors.
Delivering a humorous and lighthearted discussion on a topic that is a source of overwhelming frustration for hundreds of thousands of individuals in America, Hallowell gave clinical examples of problems related to ADHD and how individuals who have it can compensate-via medication, exercise, therapy-and noted that it was usually a combination of the three that proved to be most consistently beneficial to those individuals. Hallowell also provided anecdotal advice from his personal struggle with ADHD.
Dr. Hallowell is a child and adult psychiatrist and the founder of The Hallowell Center for Cognitive and Emotional Health in Sudbury, MA. He is also on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School.
He has written several books dealing with the topics of focus, attention, and worry. He has two national bestsellers, Driven to Distraction and Answers to Distraction, which discuss attention deficit disorder in children and in adults.
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