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?
Researchers at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute and McGill University in Montreal have spent years examining the sleep of children diagnosed with ADHD. In a study published in 2007 in the journal Sleep, Dr. Ruet Gruber and colleagues looked at the performance of ...
Doctors Brian and Giuseppe discuss three recent stories on familyanatomy.com: Should you let your kids win when you play games? Anti-psychotic meds may be overprescribed for kids without ...
This past fall a panel of experts in the U.S consulted with the Food and Drug Administration. The focus of their presentation was the over-prescribing of anti-psychotic medications to kids who do not have psychosis. It is important to note that the FDA has not approved anti-psychotic medications in children, that there have been no ...
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 ...
As of Fall 2009, some nonprescription, orally-administered cough and cold medicine will have additional warnings on their labels: "Do not use this cough and cold product in children under 6 years of age." Over-the-counter (OTC) cough and cold medication with dosage information only for children under 6 will be removed from store shelves. The Scientific ...
This year has been particularly difficult for the makers of anti-depressant medications as studies questioning the effectiveness and validity of research into SSRI's has come into question. In January of this year, the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine published a study showing that research pointing to the ineffectiveness of anti-depression medication is either never published ...
The study's a few years old, but since we recently talked about ADHD on Episode 13 of the podcast, here's some info: A study posted in the November 2006 issue of the journal Biological Psychiatry suggests the possible mechanism by which Ritalin affects attention and decision-making. The drug seems to have an impact on the ...
Doctors Brian, Giuseppe, and Richard argue about - er - discuss Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and treatment options. Listen here: [audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/familyanatomy/FA013_-_Anatomy_of_ADHD.mp3] ... or get your free subscription in iTunes. If you use iTunes, you can leave a review! Leave us a comment, or you can e-mail suggestions or questions to
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