It can be super tedious to have our typos pointed out, or to have quality assurance get back to us with clarification requests and follow-up questions about our documentation as clinicians. But I had another experience this morning with QA that reminds me that these are actually opportunities for us to improve our clinical practice […]
I get this monthly email (see image below) from TextExpander, the cloud-based macro app that I use and love. Warms my heart to think I saved over 5 hours (OF MY LIFE) in May, 2020 by typing in a quick abbreviation (most/some of which I can remember without checking?) rather than whole phrases/sentences/paragraphs that tend […]
Q: Hi Dr. Nowell, I’m working on the PESI ADHD certification, and am enjoying your presentation a lot. I did want to reach out regarding the breathing technique you mentioned that involved breath holding. My colleague and I have recently been undergoing an extensive lit review to try to find support for these techniques, which […]
I’ve been using this coffee mug for several years now. I specifically bought it for the inspiring quote and cool all caps font. But I am aware of some ambivalence about this quote. Just beneath the surface, I find myself asking “is it really? Is life about creating myself, and not about finding myself?” This […]
Q: Dr. Nowell, in your webinar you mentioned the ReVibe bracelet and the StayOnTask app as strategies to increase awareness of off-task behavior. But how do they work? A: The vibration of the bracelet, or the visual stimulus of the app, serve as reminders that the individual has arrived at a choice point. Prior to […]
Something nasty There’s this concept in the psychological literature, kind of gross, it’s called attention residue. I want to create an image here. Imagine your sleeper sofa, maybe it’s down in the family room and you don’t use it much. You go downstairs and take the cushions off and you pull the sleeper sofa up […]
A colleague recently connected me with an author wrapping up a book on adult ADHD. He shot me some questions on the topic of Executive Functioning and Dysfunction as it relates to adult ADD. Thought I’d share my responses to his questions right here — What is executive functioning? Executive functioning is an umbrella term […]
Q: Hi there – I am very interested in attending the upcoming ADHD workshop. However can you please advise how much if any information will be provided about theory and diagnosis. I ask this because I recently attended another such event and only the last 20 minutes of the whole day was given toward practical interventions. […]
Did you know folks with ADD and ADHD are more likely to have broken sleep architecture, referring to those nice 90 minute cycles of deeper sleep punctuated by lighter sleep and dreaming? students with ADD are more likely to have night wakings, delayed sleep onset, even nightmares and sleep walking. And on top of that, […]
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