In this session, Dr. Russ Ramsay discusses why anxiety is the most common co-existing factor in adult ADHD, how executive dysfunction connects with negative thinking and anxiety, and what to do about it.
Dr. J. Russell (“Russ”) Ramsay is co-founder and co-director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Adult ADHD Treatment and Research Program and an associate professor of clinical psychology in psychiatry in the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. He has authored four books (and is currently working on his fifth, Thinking Through Adult ADHD, which will include a section on“procrastivity”), and numerous peer-reviewed professional and scientific articles, research abstracts, as well as book chapters on issues related to adult ADHD. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Attention Disorders, and is on the Professional Advisory Boards of ADDA, CHADD, and Totally ADD, on the Board of Directors of APSARD, on the scientific advisory board of Additude Magazine, is past winner of the Szuba award for excellence in clinical teaching and research at Penn, and is in the CHADD Hall of Fame.