affect

May 31, 2009

ADHD and Anxiety: ADHD Looks Like OCD

As you will see in this video, 'anxiety' can take on many different faces - and cognitive anxiety, you heard it first here, is simply not in the books yet - strange, but true. If we don't look for it we just can't see it - and so much of ADHD symptoms are associated with anxiety.
February 18, 2008

Psychiatric Diagnosis: Brain Function Changes our Perspectives

When I began training in psychiatry, almost 40 years ago, much of the diagnostic psychiatric world evolved from affect thinking: depression and anxiety, euphoria, and misperceptions of reality. That world is rapidly changing.