I don't know if it is worth even looking for this book, which from its
title sounds a bit premature and grandiose to say the least, but I am
curious as to what "FDA medicine" (such a phrase alerts one to the
possibility that this account comes from someone with a somewhat weak
grasp of the fundamentals) she is talking about.
Can you tell us what drug she is referring to?
I don't know everything there is to know about ADD, but I know a fair
amount (currently involved in editing a book based on NYNG conference
on Adult ADD a couple of years ago), and none of this sounds familiar.
There IS a small literature on possible right-hemisphere deficits in
ADD (in contrast to the usual emphasis on frontal structures, without
reference to laterality); and of course a fairly large literature on
the role of the right hemisphere in various aspects of attentioon in
other conditions and in normal functioning.
Accordingly, there is some plausibility to the idea of shifting
"dominance" (in some sense or other) more to the right hemisphere,
either pharmacologically or by EEG biofeedback or (a very recent
possibility) Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.
Not sure this is what you mean by "shift perception from hemisphere to
hemisphere", however. "Shift PERCEPTION from hemisphere to
hemisphere"? Meaning--??
Can't help but wonder how one would validate the claim that some people
are "aware that their consciousness can shift...(etc.)" . If this book
is the "most reliable account" of this reported phenomenon, I wonder
where the less reliable accouunts were reported. Again, doesn't sound
familiar (and here I am going beyhond the ADD literature in my memory
search).
I DO recall this one provocative VERY brief report I read perhaps 20
years ago, regarding awareness of "eye of origin" of a visual stimulus:
both retinas mediate both visual fields, and both transmit to both
hemispheres, so normally one can't say which eye has received the
stimulus if one eye is (secretly) occluded; but patients with a
unilateral cerebral lesion were reported to be able to distinguish
between right and left eye inputs.
F. Frank LeFever, Ph.D,
New York Neuropsychology Group
In <7n5aqt$7cs$1 at nnrp1.deja.com> c_thomas_wild at my-deja.com writes:
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>...(There actually are a few reports of women and men who are aware
>that their consciousness can shift from primarily left brain to
>primarily right brain and so on: the most reliable account I know of
>is contained in a 1981 book titled How to Cure Hyperactivity by Anita
>Uhl Brothers, M.D., of Berkeley, California, et. al which reports that
>an FDA medicine would shift perception from hemisphere to hemisphere.
>The book is available through the national library system)...
