Contents

Healing ADD Starter Report: For Those Who Don’t Read Directions

A Brief Introduction to Your Brain and Brain SPECT Imaging

Preface to the Revised Edition of Healing ADD: Thirteen Years Later

PART I: ADD UNCOVERED

1. Why I Care: Plus ADD Throughout the Life Cycle

2. ADD: Core Symptoms and Why It Is Increasing in the Population

3. The Amen Clinics Method for Assessing ADD and More

4. Looking into the ADD Brain and the Discovery of the ADD Types

PART II: THE SEVEN ADD TYPES

5. The Amen Clinics ADD Type Questionnaire

6. Type 1: Classic ADD

7. Type 2: Inattentive ADD

8. Type 3: Overfocused ADD

9. Type 4: Temporal Lobe ADD

10. Type 5: Limbic ADD

11. Type 6: Ring of Fire ADD

12. Type 7: Anxious ADD

13. Soft Brain, Hard Skull: Head-Trauma-Induced ADD

14. ADD in Families: SPECT Studies Across Generations

15. Self-Medication, Self-Pollution: ADD and Substance Abuse

16. The Games ADD People Play

17. The Impact of ADD on Relationships, Families, School, Work, and Self-Esteem

PART III: THE AMEN CLINICS ADD BRAIN ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM

18. Enhancing ADD Brain Function: Effective Interventions for Treating ADD Types, Including Diet, Exercise, Medications, Supplements, and Behavioral Interventions

19. Dietary Interventions for ADD Types

20. Supplement Strategies for ADD Types

21. Medication for ADD Types

22. Neurofeedback Strategies for ADD Types

PART IV: OPTIMIZING THE ADD LIFE

23. Parenting and Family Strategies

24. School Strategies

25. Sleep Strategies for Getting Up and Going to Bed

26. Killing ADD ANTs: Thinking Skills for Overcoming Past Trauma, Fear, and Failure

27. Focused Breathing: The Immediate ADD Salve

28. ADD Coaching: With Master ADD Coach Jane Massengill, M.S.W.

29. Self-Hypnotic Reprogramming for Success: With Emmett Miller, M.D., Author of Deep Healing: The Essence of Mind / Body Medicine

30. How to Find the Best Help: A Resource Guide

31. What to Do When Treatment Doesn’t Work

References and Further Reading

Acknowledgments

Index

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