William Dodson
Dr. Bill Dodson is a board-certified adult psychiatrist who has specialized in adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder for the last 25 years. In recognition of his clinical contributions to the field of ADHD he was named a Life Fellow of the APA in 2012. He was the 2006 recipient of the Maxwell J. Schleifer Award for Distinguished Service to Persons with Disabilities. Dr. Dodson has a book for clinicians and patients on the practice of ADHD medicine coming out in the Fall of 2023.
A Review Of ADHD Medications Part 2: Using Medications for Optimal Outcomes with Bill Dodson, M.D.
Part 2 of the presentation deals with the day-to-day use of the 3 main classes of ADHD Medications. It starts with choosing among the more than 40 medications and then fine tuning that medication to optimal performance and minimal side …
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A Review Of ADHD Medications Part 1 Why Medications and what medications do we use? with Bill Dodson, M.D.
Various medications are the treatment of choice for ADHD at all points in the life cycle. And yet they have been called “The powerful tools that everyone loves to fear.” There is no area of medicine in which there has …
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Management of Side Effects, a Perennial Problem with Bill Dodson, M.D.
Sticking with ADHD medications is notoriously poor. Fifty per cent of people who start ADHD medications do not fill the 3rd prescription. This happens for many reasons but the reasons that we can do something about are that the medications …
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ADHD as a 2nd type of fully functional nervous system with Bill Dodson, M.D.
Since the beginning of the concept of ADHD it has been viewed as 1) a disorder or deficit of 2) Neurotypical people who are broken in some way. This approach has failed completely to develop therapies that could show any …
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Webinar: Is That All There Is? Optimizing ADHD Medications with William Dodson
The medications used to treat ADHD are among the most effective and safe medications in all of medicine. Often, however, they are not fine-tuned to the unique individual patient and forfeit a significant amount of their benefits unnecessarily. Worse still, …
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What To Do When ADHD Medications Don’t Work
About 15% of people do not respond to or can tolerate the standard ADHD medications. That is one in every 7 people so it is a common problem. Add to that the unknown number of people who initially get a …
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ADHD Diagnosis Mistakes Doctors Make – with William W. Dodson, M.D.
The diagnosis of ADHD is often missed and the person gets a wrong diagnosis instead. 54% of people with ADHD contact a mental health professional in any given 12 month period but 9 times out of 10 they are misdiagnosed with something else (usually a mood disorder). Consequently, it is the patient who must know how to distinguish between ADHD and other disorders
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What You Need To Know About Stimulant Medications – with Dr. Bill Dodson
This webinar covers the 1st line stimulant medications. An easy-to-follow methodology will be proved to choose the most effective medication at all ages across the lie cycle, fine-tune the dose to optimal benefit, and then manage any side effects that may happen. Techniques to enhance sticking with treatment will be discussed.
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Managing the Passionate Moods and Emotions of ADHD – with William W. Dodson, M.D.
The emotional components of ADHD have been largely ignored by research in spite of being one of the most troubling and disruptive aspects of ADHD. People who have an ADHD type of nervous system lead intense, passionate lives. The trouble happens when both they, their significant others, and their clinicians start with the premise that their moods and emotions are the same as those experienced by neurotypical people when, in fact, they are totally different.
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Part 2: Developing an Owner’s Manual for Your ADHD Mind – with William W. Dodson, M.D., LF-APA
This presentation is an introduction to how a person with ADHD can start the lifelong process of writing their personal Owner’s Manual of what works for their brain. It helps them get in the Zone on demand. When people learn how to do this, they can literally do anything.
FreePart 1: Developing an Owner’s Manual for Your ADHD Mind – with William W. Dodson, M.D., LF-APA
This presentation is an introduction to how a person with ADHD can start the lifelong process of writing their personal Owner’s Manual of what works for their brain. It helps them get in the Zone on demand. When people learn how to do this, they can literally do anything.
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