Medications and Car Accidents
It is not clear why older adults have a higher rate of car accidents. Some speculate that vision loss or slowed reaction time plays a role. But a recent Canadian study suggests that a class ... Read more... »
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Regina Bussing, MD's Archive
Choosing the Best SSRI
As the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia & Depression in Great Neck, N.Y., pointed out, mood disorders are caused by a flaw in chemistry, not character. That's why medications that alter brain chemistry play ... Read more... »
Symptoms of Attention Deficit Disorder
Exactly when a short attention span or a high energy level becomes a psychiatric disorder is often debated. And ADHD symptoms may not be consistent. A student may remember to bring home school assignments one ... Read more... »
What Is Attention Deficit Disorder?
Since the early part of this century, doctors have ascribed an array of names to this constellation of behaviors—among them hyperkinesis, hyperactivity, minimal brain damage and minimal brain dysfunction. In the late 1970s, attention deficit ... Read more... »
What Disorders Are Linked to ADHD?
An estimated 50 percent of people with ADHD also have other behavioral, emotional or academic problems that co-exist with the disorder. That can make diagnosis tricky. These other conditions also make living with ADHD even ... Read more... »
Diagnosing ADHD/ADD in Children
Health professionals who suspect ADHD hunt for the presence of a spectrum of characteristic behaviors and base their assessments on a battery of exams. They compare the results to the criteria set forth by the ... Read more... »
What Causes Attention Deficit Disorders?
Doctors do not know exactly what causes ADHD. Through the years, they have speculated that toxins, abnormal fetal development, diet, injury or poor parenting are to blame.
The earliest research into what is now known as ... Read more... »
Diagnosing ADHD/ADD in Adults
For years, health professionals believed the signs and symptoms of ADHD vanished by the time a child became a teenager, with no long-lasting effects. Now they know that as many as two out of three ... Read more... »
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