Psychiatrist & Author · The Authority
Dr. Ned Hallowell spent four decades proving ADHD is a gift worth unwrapping, not a deficit to manage.
Founder, The Hallowell ADHD Centers · Boston
Founder, The Hallowell ADHD Centers · Boston
Ned Hallowell has ADHD and dyslexia himself, and he built a career out of a single reframe: he doesn't treat disabilities, he unwraps gifts.
Dr. Hallowell is a board-certified child and adult psychiatrist and a world authority on ADHD. A graduate of Harvard College and Tulane Medical School, he spent 21 years on the Harvard Medical School faculty before founding The Hallowell ADHD Centers, now operating in Boston MetroWest, New York City, San Francisco, Palo Alto, and Seattle.
In 1994 he co-authored Driven to Distraction with Dr. John Ratey, the book that launched the Distraction series and sparked a revolution in how ADHD is understood. He has since written 20 books, become a New York Times bestselling author, and appeared on 60 Minutes, Oprah, PBS, CNN, The Today Show, Dateline, Good Morning America, and more. He is a regular columnist for ADDitude Magazine.
His best-known metaphor: ADHD is like having a Ferrari brain with bicycle brakes, strengthen the brakes and you have a champion. Four decades into his practice, that strength-based approach to neurodiversity remains the core of his work.
Edward (Ned) Hallowell, M.D. is a board-certified child and adult psychiatrist and world authority on ADHD. He is a New York Times bestselling author of 20+ books, including Driven to Distraction, and the founder of The Hallowell ADHD Centers.
He takes a strength-based approach to neurodiversity, built on the idea that ADHD traits, properly understood and supported, are gifts rather than deficits. He has ADHD and dyslexia himself and says he doesn't treat disabilities, he unwraps gifts.
Four decades of clinical authority on ADHD, from the psychiatrist who wrote the book on it.