John J. Ratey
Psychiatrist and author
John J. Ratey is an American psychiatrist and associate clinical professor at Harvard Medical School. He has written books on ADHD, exercise and the brain, and living in line with our DNA.
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American Born 1948
About John J. Ratey
John J. Ratey is an American physician and associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He also has a private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He began studying ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) in the 1980s with Edward Hallowell, and the two co-wrote Driven to Distraction. They later reunited for ADHD 2.0, published in 2021, which reviews current research and treatment approaches. Ratey also wrote Spark, published in 2008, about how exercise can affect learning, anxiety, depression and ADHD. In 2014 he co-wrote Go Wild with Richard Manning, which looks at how living by the needs of our core DNA can benefit body and mind.