Since its original publication in 2011 and its update in 2013, no other book has educated its readers about ADD as well as the Adult ADD Factbook. 

Dr. Sterling started on a huge intellectual adventure in 2008 which included the reading and analysis of over 20,000 pages of primary research literature related to ADD, dopamine, working memory, threat response capabilities, norepinephrine, sensory sensitivities, academic success, and intelligence. By 2011, he felt compelled to write about his findings, since the understanding of the underlying common denominator to ADD characteristics within the scientific community was far better and beyond anything available in the public domain. 

What you are purchasing here is the exact final version of the 2013 edition in the form of a fully searchable pdf file. 

This book could have been titled "The Dopamine Paradox." 

Dr. Sterling shines a bright light on the scientific findings which make it completely illogical to call the so-called ADD brain a "disorder." He points out clearly that the most powerful common denominator and force for producing almost all of the characteristics used for diagnosing ADD is "suboptimal dopamine presence and function for good working memory, but optimal dopamine presence and function for responding to threat." 

Reviewers have labeled the book as ground breaking and paradigm shifting. Give it some time to sink in and you will find yourself understanding so much more about why the Western Hemisphere brainsets are quite different from most other brainsets in the world.  

This website will be a reflection of what Seattle psychiatrist,  Dr. Sterling, has been reading and writing about since 2008. The thousands of pages of research literature that Dr. Sterling analyzed between 2008 and 2011 compelled him to write and publish ADD ebooks and paperbacks about what has been called ADD - ADHD for more than 40 years. 

The literature was and continues to be clear that the vast majority of all those ADD characteristics you may know about are produced by a powerful common cause. 

The literature also leads to no other possible conclusion than this:  What we currently call ADD is not logically a disorder. It has a downside and a significant upside. So does the non-ADD brain. Which one is the disorder, then? 

It is Dr. Sterling’s hope to make this knowledge more common not only among the public but also among his colleagues in health care. It is unfortunate that it is now over 10 years since a significant turning point took place in 2008 in the research and understanding of the major variables that create both the downside and the upside of both the ADD brain and the non-ADD brain.

It is way past time to start looking at ADD again in the new bright lights of recent significant research findings.