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Author Ellison, Katherine, 1957-

Title Buzz : a year of paying attention / Katherine Ellison.

Publication Info. New York, N.Y. : Voice, [2010]
©2010

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Edition 1st ed.
Description ix, 289 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-278) and index.
Summary The author recounts her journey to understand and reconnect with her twelve-year-old son after they were both diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Contents The predicament: "Understand me!" -- History: stuck on input -- Emergency: crossing lines in the Ritalin wars -- Biology: the anatomy of distraction -- Relationships: the cookie of peace -- Society: the attack of the chronophages -- Education: the rules of engagement -- Add-vocacy: the strength in numbers -- Wired: braving the new world of neurofeedback -- Meditation: "No one ever died of restlessness" -- The white contender -- Knots to undo -- What else worked.
Subject Attention-deficit-disordered children -- Biography.
Attention-deficit-disordered children.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Attention-deficit-disordered adults -- Biography.
Attention-deficit-disordered adults.
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder -- Diagnosis -- Humor.
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder -- Diagnosis.
Genre/Form Humor.
Biographies.
Humor.
ISBN 9781401340889
1401340881