Automatic Thoughts Inside Your Brain

Automatic Thoughts Inside Your Brain

The Matt Townsend Show - Season 2, Episode 35

  • Mar 21, 2013 9:00 pm
  • 1:29:07 mins

As you think about those little luxuries you just have to have and how angry we get when those go missing. Matt talks with Dr. Charles Parker, psychiatrist and author of "New ADHD Medication Rules," who does a lot of work with brain imaging and cutting-edge brain science. Dr. Parker says we need to get away from labels and truly consider the environment ADHD patients, especially children, struggle or thrive in. A good doctor, he says, looks beyond the neurophysiological brain scans but also learns who the person is. Most diagnostic tests focus on emotions and totally ignore cognitive function, which Dr. Parker says is a mistake.