If Ritalin helps your child focus in class, he or she should learn more. But are parents correct in this assumption?
If Ritalin helps your child focus in class, he or she should learn more. But are parents correct in this assumption?
Kids with ADHD often have social problems – is it because they lack empathy?
Teens with other mental health concerns may be more likely to develop an Internet addiction, according to a study in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.
Doctors Brian and Giuseppe talk about three recent stories from the familyanatomy.com website, including:
Food ads lead to snacking, and some portray drug-seeking behaviour
Caffeine reduces memory loss, at least in mice
Ritalin works better for bad sleepers
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Parents and teachers who are told a child is taking ADHD medication, when the child is not, tend to be more sympathetic to the child’s behaviour and treat them more positively. This study, conducted by University of Buffalo Associate professor Daniel A. Waschbusch, was recently published in the Journal of Development & Behavioral Pediatrics. These [...]
Day 2 of the Canadian Psychological Association Conference in Montreal, Canada.
Doctors Brian and Giuseppe discuss:
Emotional Intelligence: Can it be taught to teens and school staff?
Positive Bias: Kids with ADHD and learning problems underestimate their difficulties. What are the implications?
Emotion Prediction: People have trouble predicting how they’ll feel after a walk in the park or an [...]
University of Washington researcher Theodore Beauchaine has found differences in the brain activity of teenage boys with ADHD. Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) was used to examine brain activity of teens with and without ADHD. Two brain areas were the focus of the study. The striatal region is involved in motivating people to engage in [...]
A study published in the January issue of Psychological Medicine looked at the impact of ADHD in work environments. Researchers surveyed over 8500 office and manual workers in a manufacturing firm. Almost 2% were found to meet criteria for ADHD. They looked at sickness, work performance and workplace injuries.
A 4 -5 % decrease in productivity [...]
Since the early 1990‚Äôs, The National Institute of Mental Health in the U.S. has been conducting the longest and most comprehensive study ever of treatments for children with ADHD. Many papers have been written with data collected from this ‚“Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with ADHD”. In a paper released in the last quarter of [...]
A controversial new study has found that parents who have children with an ADHD diagnosis are almost twice as likely to divorce by the time their kids are 8 years old as those without the diagnosis in the family. Families were recruited via a summer treatment program for ADHD. The researchers clarified that childhood ADHD [...]
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