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...drugs in question were created to treat attention deficit hyperactive disorder, which is a behavioral disorder that is typified by hyperactivity, an inability to concentrate, and impulsive action. Medications, most commonly the amphetamine Adderall, have been developed to help those who have ADHD concentrate and to improve their ability to work efficiently. A person without ADHD who takes these drugs might feel a surge of motivation and energy and be able to cram for a test the night before...

Author: By Peter L. Knudson | Title: Academic Asterisk | 5/7/2010 | See Source »

...suffer from a mental illness each year. Harvard cannot overlook this inconvenient truth—many of its students have mental illness that requires specific supports for the student to succeed in an academic environment. I am one such student—diagnosed with mental illness, including anxiety and ADHD, I have trouble concentrating in class as well as during exams. The simple act of someone coughing can send my mind into the abyss, causing myself to lose focus for an indefinite amount of time...

Author: By Christopher Mejo | Title: Harvard Oppresses the Mentally Ill | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

...series is often hilarious; there are so many jokes, it is statistically impossible for it not to be. It has a fantastic sense of showmanship (MacFarlane, who voices dad Peter and others, loves writing musical numbers to show off his Broadway side) but suffers from comic ADHD. A send-up of Family Guy on South Park revealed it to be written by manatees picking colored balls with random joke topics inscribed on them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family Guy Offers Hyper Animation, in Triplicate | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

...sleep in until noon. Ian suffers from mild carpal-tunnel syndrome, but that doesn’t stop him from playing five or six days a week, occasionally eight hours in a day. He usually has no more than 10 tables open (He has a friend with ADHD who juggles...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Playing for Keeps | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

...Fears of a Clown Beck is 45, tireless, funny, self-deprecating, a recovering alcoholic, a convert to Mormonism, a libertarian and living with ADHD. He is a gifted storyteller with a knack for stitching seemingly unrelated data points into possible conspiracies - if he believed in conspiracies, which he doesn't, necessarily; he's just asking questions. He's just sayin'. In cheerful days of yore, he was a terrific host of a morning-zoo show on an FM Top 40 station. But these aren't cheerful times. For conservatives, these are times of economic uncertainty and political weakness, and Beck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mad Man: Is Glenn Beck Bad for America? | 9/17/2009 | See Source »

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