Dawn Kamilah Brown, M.D. is a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the American Board of Medical Specialties as a board-certified physician in both child & adolescent psychiatry and general/adult psychiatry. She is the owner, CEO and sole practitioner at ADHD Wellness Center and has 2 private practice locations in the […]

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The World Anti-Doping Association (WADA) revealed Russian hackers released the confidential medical records of certain U.S. Olympic athletes, including Biles.

How many hours do you spend at the office each week? Recently published in the journal PLOS One, A new study finds that workaholism is statistically linked with anxiety, depression, O-C-D, and A-D-H-D. The researchers found that 7.8 percent of the nearly 16,500 adults they studied were workaholics. Researcher Cecilie Andreassen notes in a press […]

Since establishing the Valentine Medical Center in 2007, Dr. Christy Valentine has delivered quality, affordable family and urgent healthcare to the New Orleans community in…

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Why are we medicating so many of our young African-American males for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)? Recent studies show that there’s a 70 percent increase…

Living with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or ADD/HD as a child is hard to handle, but how does one live with ADD/HD as an adult? With high-profile celebrities like NBC ‘The Voice‘ judge Adam Levine and TV news broadcaster Kaley O’Kelley publicly owning their ADHD diagnosis, Dr. Kevin Ross Emery shares the answers to finding the signs […]

An analysis by economist Todd Elder at Michigan State University suggests that about 900,000 children who have been told they have ADHD in America may not have the condition at all. The study will appear in the Journal of Health Economics.   An estimate of $320 million to $500 million is annually spent on ADHD treatments […]