ADHD was once thought to be limited to only to childhood. Symptoms, however, frequently persist into adulthood. For some people, adult ADHD can cause significant problems and lead to unstable relationships, poor work or school performance, and low self-esteem.

Learn more at about adult ADHD at this event, co-sponsored by the Michigan Institute For Clinical Health Research and the U-M Department of Psychiatry. Featuring Chandra Sripada, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan, the session will highlight new research in this area, and attendees will also learn more about clinical and health research opportunities available through UMClinicalStudies.org.

Chandra Sripada, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan. He uses neuroimaging and other brain-based methods to study the neural mechanisms that enable people to exert control over attention and motivation. Dr. Sripada is an Adult ADHD specialist and the former director of the U-M Adult ADHD Clinic.

This Saturday (September 21) the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra kicks off a season of musical delights at the Michigan Theater with a stirring performance of Stravinsky’s famous Rite Of Spring and other musical masterpieces. Learn more about the meaning, history and importance of these works when local music expert Richard LeSueur presents this fascinating pre-concert lecture with recorded music.

1966 was the end of the beginning of The Beatles. They’d had it with playing on tour, appearing on the radio, and making movies. But they were still thrilled to make music—to compose, perform, and record it—and on the LP Revolver they made better music than they’d ever made before. The album includes the acidic “Taxman” to the apocalyptic “Tomorrow Never Knows,”

Revolver is not just the album after Rubber Soul and before Sgt. Pepper. It’s the beginning of a whole new era in the Beatles’ career—and, some would add, their best record.

Freelance musicologist Jim Leonard will talk on the composition, recording, and reception of Revolver as well as its impact nearly fifty years later. This event is co-sponsored by the Michigan Theater and held in conjunction with their April 5 concert featuring the Fab Faux performing Revolver.

Join Ann O' Hagan for a fascinating photographic travelogue to Norway - a winter visit to Norway’s coastal towns from Bergen to Kirkenes at the Russian border. Topics include Norway’s beautiful winter light, its economy, the Aurora Borealis, aqua culture, oil and gas, the Sami reindeer people, and the beautifully unique Ice Hotel.

Photographer Ann O' Hagan, a native of southeast Michigan, now resides in the Ann Arbor area. Retired after thirty-five years of teaching high school, she directs her energies to national and world travel and the pursuit of creative photography.

Join author and journalist James Mitchell to celebrate the release of The Walrus and the Elephants: John Lennon’s Years of Revolution. A reading and discussion on John Lennon’s special relationship with Ann Arbor will be followed by an audience Q&A and book signing. Books will also be for sale at the event.

The opening chapter of the book takes place in Ann Arbor and details the historic benefit concert that Lennon headlined that was held for poet-activist John Sinclair to challenge his ten year prison sentence for possessing two joints.

Based entirely on new interviews and research, "The Walrus and the Elephants" is the first book about John Lennon to show how his emergence as a solo artist, his embrace of radical politics and feminism, and his love affair with New York City coincided. From controversial television appearances, to benefit concerts, to his new, post-Beatlemania band, the book is Lennon’s story told by a cast of close friends and fellow activists who got to know the man behind the legend.

James Mitchell is the author of "But for the Grace: Profiles in Peace from a Nation at War," the story of an orphanage in Sri Lanka's war-torn northeast, rock biography "It Was All Right: Mitch Ryder's Life in Music," and tales from a rural newspaper, "Applegate: Freedom of the Press in a Small Town." A reporter and editor for more than twenty years, his writing has appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The Humanist, and Starlog.

As energy prices and greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, it has never been more important to identify and capture opportunities for energy efficiency. Speakers from the City of Ann Arbor, the Downtown Development Authority, and Clean Energy Coalition will tackle this important topic and encourage discussion by highlighting local efforts including electric vehicles, electric vehicle charging stations, and building energy efficiency.

The event, co-sponsored by the Clean Energy Coalition of Ann Arbor, will target the intersection between the transportation and built environments while touching on steps local businesses and residents can take to reduce fossil fuel use. Speakers include Matthew Naud, City of Ann Arbor Environmental Coordinator; Dave Konkle, Energy Program Director For The Ann Arbor DDA, and Mark Rabinsky of the Clean Energy Coalition of Ann Arbor.

Local music expert Stuart Johnson returns to discuss the history of early Jazz and Dixieland music from its start in 1917 through Dixieland's demise in the 1950's. His fascinating presentation will include an extensive back story, homage to New Orleans, historic slides and delightful music recordings by several jazz and Dixieland icons.

A member of the Michigan Jazz Record Collectors, Johnson has presented jazz-related lectures at AADL as well as other numerous libraries, colleges and organizations including the International Association of Jazz Record Collectors Convention.

Join us for an evening with Luis Carlos Montalvan, the bestselling author of Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever Who Saved Him. Accompanying him will be Tuesday, the golden retriever mentioned in the title of Luis' compelling memoir. The event includes a book signing and books will be for sale.

Captain Luis Montalvan, a 17-year veteran of the U.S. Army, including multiple combat tours in Iraq, was decorated with numerous awards including two Bronze Stars, the Purple Heart, the Army Commendation Medal for Valor, and the Combat Action Badge. After returning home from combat, the pressures of his wounds, traumatic brain injury, and crippling post-traumatic stress disorder began to take their toll. Haunted by the war and in physical pain, he soon found himself unable to climb a simple flight of stairs or face a bus ride to them hospital. Alienated and alone, he began to wonder if he would ever recover.

Then Luis met Tuesday, a beautiful and sensitive golden retriever trained to assist the disabled. Tuesday had lived amongst prisoners and at a home for troubled boys; he could turn on lights, open doors, and sense the onset of anxiety and flashbacks. But because of a unique training situation and sensitive nature, he found it difficult to trust in or connect with a human being--until Luis.

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the infamous Daisy Zick murder, which remains one of the most puzzling unsolved murders in Michigan's history.

On a bitterly cold morning in January 1963, Daisy Zick was brutally murdered in her Battle Creek home. No fewer than three witnesses caught a glimpse of the killer, yet today, it remains one of Michigan's most sensational unsolved crimes. The act of pure savagery rocked not only the community but also the Kellogg Company, where she worked.

Join us as author Blaine Pardoe (recipient of the 2011 State History Award by the Historical Society of Michigan) discusses this shocking crime and his new book Murder In Battle Creek: The Mysterious Death Of Daisy Zick. This event includes a book signing and books will be for sale.

As summer draws to a close, children frequently experience a range of emotions about the upcoming challenges and opportunities associated with the start of the new school year. Feelings of excitement and anxiety are often intensified for children and families living with autism and other mental health issues.

This presentation begins with an overview of common social, academic, and cognitive challenges experienced by children living with ASD and also includes a workshop format where parents and caregivers will have an opportunity to work through a method for specifying concerns, exploring coping strategies, and preparing their children for the start of the next school year.

The speaker for this event (which is co-sponsored by the U-M Center For Human Adjustment) is Dr. Fiona Miller, a licensed clinical psychologist who directs the program in the diagnosis and treatment of ASD at the University Center for the Child and the Family (UCCF) in Ann Arbor.