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Everything Has a Neurobiological Correlate

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

I hate to beat the drum of obviousness, but everything we think, feel or do has a neurobiological correlate. If ...

ADHD, Stimulants, Children and Sudden Death

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

Imagine if your child was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder (ADHD) and was started on a course of stimulant psychiatric medications (like Ritalin), a standard treatment used for ADHD. Now imagine that suddenly, your child dies ...

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Chasing the Genetic Ghosts of Mental Illness

Monday, June 29th, 2009

For decades, scientists have been making claims about the genetic roots of mental illness, ranging from schizophrenia and depression, to bipolar disorder and attention deficit disorder (ADHD). And for ...

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MentalHealthCamp Soon

Monday, April 20th, 2009

The unconference MentalHealthCamp on social media and mental health happens on April 25 in Vancouver, BC and online. Organizers hope it will become a model adopted elsewhere in the world. The one day ...

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Dealing with ADHD While Away at College

Monday, April 20th, 2009

Planning on attending college or university in the fall, but also grapple with attention deficit disorder (ADHD)? Tara Parker-Pope last week wrote a fantastic article in The New ...

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Troll or Activist?

Monday, April 13th, 2009

An article about ADHD treatment for adults attracted some negative comments today. Some Twitter friends described them as trolls, and when I nitpickingly said that they aren't trolls, they're antipsychiatry activists, I was asked ...

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Treatment Update for ADHD

Saturday, March 28th, 2009

The conventional wisdom is that a child or teen with attention deficit disorder should be started on ADHD medications (such as Ritalin or Adderall) right away. Sometimes some type of psychotherapy may be recommended, with ...

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A Child’s ADHD Can Stress Your Marriage

Friday, March 6th, 2009

Perhaps not surprisingly, research published last year showed that more marriages ended in divorce when the parents had a child diagnosed with attention deficit disorder (ADHD). The statistic researchers found is eye-opening -- such marriages ...

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Adderall Drug Price Up 20%

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

If you're a company and need people to stop using your old widget and start buying more of your new widget, what's the best way to do that? If you're a pharmaceutical company, you also need ...

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Overprescribing Medications in Children

Monday, December 15th, 2008

Yesterday, the L.A. Times published an op-ed piece from a psychiatrist describing the epidemic of over-prescription of medications for our children. The boy, a quiet slip of a 10-year-old, had been prescribed two antipsychotics, two ...

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FDA Advisors: Stop the Overuse of Atypical Antipsychotics in Children

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

During a routine review of the safety of Johnson & Johnson's atypical antipsychotic Risperdal and Eli Lilly’s Zyprexa, a panel of experts consulting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expressed their concern for ...

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ADHD Experts Promote Drugs

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

With the focus on conflicts of interest by U.S. researchers in the spotlight in the past year (due to Sen. Grassley's continuing investigation into researchers who failed to disclose millions of dollars in incomes from ...

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