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HCPSS To Host 10th Annual ADHD Awareness Evening, Nov. 3

October 25th, 2016

The Howard County Public School System will host a free workshop called “ADHD and Irritability: Is There a Connection?” The workshop will address how adults trying to help children with ADHD should think about irritability. The workshop also will discuss research that is beginning to offer clues about brain mechanisms and underlying irritability, and new ways to approach treatment.

The workshop features speaker Dr. Kenneth E. Towbin, chief of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the Emotion and Development Branch at the National Institute of Mental Health Intramural Research Program. Towbin’s interests include emotional dysregulation in children and adolescents, bipolar disorder, tic disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and pervasive developmental disorders. The Intramural Research Program focuses its research on identifying and treating childhood bipolar disorder and severe irritability in children.

The workshop will be held on Thursday, November 3, 7–9 p.m., at River Hill High School, 12101 Clarksville Pike, Clarksville, Maryland 21029.

The program is free and open to the public. No pre-registration required. For more information, please contact Sally Dorman, HCPSS Psychological Services, at 410-313-1252 or sally_dorman@hcpss.org.