DAY THREE: Advances in managing ADHD
45 minutes
ADHD and ASD
Dr Uttom Chowdhury
Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Clinical Partners and Visiting Professor University of Bedfordshire
- Differential diagnosis and co-comorbidities – the dilemmas
- Associated mental health issues
- Treatment plans
- Executive Functioning and Planning
45 minutes
Dilemmas on clinical assessments
Dr Violeta Perez Rodriguez
Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- When parents and teachers have different views
- Screening measures and parents’ narratives – the discrepancies
- Benefits and pitfalls of school observations
- Children with complex social background
45 minutes
Tics, Tourettes and Lockdown
Dr Uttom Chowdhury
Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Clinical Partners and Visiting Professor University of Bedfordshire
45 minutes
ADHD in the child with intellectual disability
Dr Matthew Fernando
Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
- Diagnosis in children with moderate/severe disability
- The non-verbal child
- Multiple morbidities – multiple challenges
- Medication trial and sensitivity to side effects
45 minutes
ADHD and the looked after/abused child
Dr Rani Samuel
Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Biological aspects and social context in symptom manifestation
- Effects of exposure to drugs/alcohol in pregnancy
- Assessing the impact of early life adverse experiences
- Abuse as cause or effect of ADHD
45 minutes
Dilemmas on stimulant treatment
Prof Sam Cortese
Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Southampton University
- The challenges
- Children with personal/family history of cardiac abnormalities
- Drug of abuse and stimulants
- When stimulants are not the right medication
45 minutes
Transition - the challenges
Dr Anna Price
NIHR Senior Research Fellow, Exeter School for Primary Care Research, Children and Young People’s Mental Health Research Collaboration, University of Exeter Medical School
- Evolution and persistence of ADHD in adulthood
- Importance of transition
- Options and key issues with transition
- When it is a good time to plan transition
45 minutes
Neurotherapies for ADHD
Prof Katya Rubia
Prof of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Child &Adolescent Psychiatry King’s College London
- Rationale for alternative treatments
- How do they work?
- Controversies on efficacy
- What next?