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?
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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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 37 six to twelve year olds with ADHD on a test [...]
What is up with all of the Attention Deficit studies coming out lately?
The July 2008 issue of Pediatrics has a study examining children with an ADHD diagnosis to determine if they were at an increased risk of being overweight. Researchers looked at data from a representative national sample of kids and youth aged 5 to [...]
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 prefrontal [...]
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