The January meeting was hosted at the home Dr. John Fanning, and our guest speaker was Dr. Richard Niolon, who presented on The Things We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About ADHD.
Presentations on ADHD seem to generally focus on children, questions about the effectiveness of medication, and alternative treatments. However, conversations about ADHD seldom include discussion of the problems with the MTA study of treatment outcomes for ADHD, and the final results after the eight-year follow-up data was analyzed. Conversations about ADHD seldom include discussions about ADHD and driving, and the links between ADHD treatment for children and life satisfaction and health outcomes for adults. Often conversations about ADHD include discussions of fish oil, essential oils, a healthy diet, exercise… but fail to include the research, which indicates they have very little, if any, effect on the symptoms of ADHD.
Handouts from Dr. Niolon:
