Feeling Smarter and Smarter

In this ground-breaking book, Dr. Harold Levinson, a renowned psychiatrist and clinical researcher, provides his long-awaited follow-up work about truly understanding and successfully treating children and adults with many and diverse dyslexia-related disorders such as those found on the cover. This fascinating, life-changing title is primarily about helping children who suffer from varied combinations and severities of previously unexplained inner-ear-determined symptoms resulting in difficulties with:

• reading, writing, spelling, math, memory, speech, sense of direction and time

• grammar, concentration/activity-level, balance and coordination

• headaches, nausea, dizziness, ringing ears, and motion-sickness

• frustration levels and feeling dumb, ugly, klutzy, phobic, and depressed

• impulsivity, cutting class, dropping out of school, and substance abuse

• bullying and being bullied as well as anger and social interactions

• later becoming emotionally traumatized and scarred dysfunctional adults
  Feeling Smarter and Smarter is thus also about and for the millions of frus-trated and failing adults who are often overwhelmed by similar and even more complicated symptomsas well as for their dedicated healers. Having laid the initial foundations for his many current insights in an earlier bestseller, Smart But Feeling Dumb, Dr. Levinson now presents a compelling range of enlightening new cases and data as well as a large number of highly original discoveriessuch as his challenging illumination that all dyslexia-related manifestations are primarily inner-ear or cerebellar-vestibularnot cerebrallydetermined and so do not impair IQ, and an ingeniously simple explanatory theory of symptom formation. Most important, all the dyslexia/inner-ear based impairments and their symptoms were discovered by Dr. Levinson to respond rapidly and often mi-raculously in 75 to 85 percent of cases when treated with simple and safe inner-ear enhancing medicationsthus enabling bright but dumb-feeling children and adults to feel smarter and smarter.

Expands and elaborates on the concepts put forth in the author's 1984 best-seller, Smart But Feeling Dumb, which sold more than 100,000 copies worldwide A fuller and more comprehensive title than Smart But Feeling Dumb, covering more learning disorders and with a new body of patient vignettes and state-of-the-art data further verifying the author's earlier work Written for both lay and professional readers, the book includes a rich and fascinating new body of favorably responding patient-voiced improvements and case studies that serve to illuminate this treatment approach, while also finally unmasking and clarifying dyslexia's mystifying complexity since first recognized in 1896

Autorentext
Harold N. Levinson, MDMedical DirectorLevinson Medical Center for Learning Disabilities98 Cutter Mill Road, Suite 90Great Neck, NY 11021Tel: (800) 334-READFax: (516) 482-2480

Klappentext
In this ground-breaking book, Dr. Harold Levinson, a renowned psychiatrist and clinical researcher, provides his long-awaited follow-up work about truly understanding and successfully treating children and adults with many and diverse dyslexia-related disorders such as those found on the cover. This fascinating, life-changing title is primarily about helping children who suffer from varied combinations and severities of previously unexplained inner-ear-determined symptoms resulting in difficulties with:

• reading, writing, spelling, math, memory, speech, sense of direction and time

• grammar, concentration/activity-level, balance and coordination

• headaches, nausea, dizziness, ringing ears, and motion-sickness

• frustration levels and feeling dumb, ugly, klutzy, phobic, and depressed

• impulsivity, cutting class, dropping out of school, and substance abuse

• bullying and being bullied as well as anger and social interactions

• later becoming emotionally traumatized and scarred dysfunctional adults
  Feeling Smarter and Smarter is thus also about and for the millions of frus-trated and failing adults who are often overwhelmed by similar and even more complicated symptomsas well as for their dedicated healers. Having laid the initial foundations for his many current insights in an earlier bestseller, Smart But Feeling Dumb, Dr. Levinson now presents a compelling range of enlightening new cases and data as well as a large number of highly original discoveriessuch as his challenging illumination that all dyslexia-related manifestations are primarily inner-ear or cerebellar-vestibularnot cerebrallydetermined and so do not impair IQ, and an ingeniously simple explanatory theory of symptom formation. Most important, all the dyslexia/inner-ear based impairments and their symptoms were discovered by Dr. Levinson to respond rapidly and often mi-raculously in 75 to 85 percent of cases when treated with simple and safe inner-ear enhancing medicationsthus enabling bright but dumb-feeling children and adults to feel smarter and smarter.

Inhalt
Dyslexia by Any Other Name.- The Bottom Line.- A Bit of Historyand Discovery.- The Turning PointSolving The Dyslexia Riddle.- Listening to Dyslexics: My Clinical Path Proved Key to Discovery.- The Castro FamilyBatting 1,000.- Kathy: The Intriguing Complexity of Dyslexia.- Asking the Right Questions: The Self-Diagnostic Test.- Kathy and The Mistaken Theories of Dyslexia.- A Theory's Validity is Entirely Dependent on its Explanatory Capability.- Some Important Questions and Answers.- Another Remarkable CaseHighlighting the Dyslexia/ADHD/Phobia Connection.- Making the ConnectionsAn Introductory Overview.- New Insights into ADD/ADHD.- Three Steps Towards Conviction: The CVS/Phobia Link.- The Phobia ConnectionA Full House: Three Adults and Two Children Referred For Anxiety Disorders.- The More, The MerrierBetter Understanding Phobias and Panic Disorder.- The Reading Process in Dyslexia.- The Super Ten Basic Mechanisms Explaining The Dyslexia Syndrome.- All The Many Therapies.- FourSteps to a Certain Diagnosis.- I Didn't Want Medical Treatment, But Depression vs. Dyslexia Without Dyslexia.- Real Smart Drugs and Treatment.- An Effective Partial Medical Treatment for Autism or Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD).- Kathy's New Beginning.- Summary.- Closure: The End is Just a New Beginning.