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Levels, Labs, and Lessons

Psychiatric Times

Cambridge University Press; 2019. Laboratory Medicine in Psychiatry and Behavioral Science. American Psychiatric Association Publishing; 2023. Meyer JM, Stahl SM. The Clozapine Handbook. Stahl’s Handbooks. Meyer JM, Stahl SM. The Clinical Use of Antipsychotic Plasma Levels. Cambridge University Press; 2021. Stahl’s Handbooks.

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Change of Heart: Understanding Cardiovascular Disease in Women with ADHD

ADDitude

Unless their ADHD, sleep problems, and mood disorder are treated first, they will likely be too exhausted, forgetful, or disorganized to make changes to their lifestyle. Nat Genet 51 , 6375 (2019). Tailoring Treatment to ADHD Patients When treating patients with cardiac problems, doctors often start with lifestyle changes.

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Dear Mr. Kennedy

ADDitude

2, 3, 4 Lifestyle factors such as nutrition, exercise, and sleep exert epigenetic changes on DNA that influence how strongly or weakly ADHD genes are expressed. Levels of dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin also increase with exercise, thus improving focus, working memory, and mood to enable better learning. Epub 2019 May 20.