Word: adhd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There has been intriguing work to suggest that at least some children with ADHD may respond to nutritional treatments, including the addition of certain fatty oils or the elimination of other foods from their diet. But in a phrase that was repeated so often last week that it could become a registered trademark, panelists concluded that more research is needed...
Lawrence Diller's Running On Ritalin is the book most people are talking about these days, but it's hardly the only one out there. In the past 18 months a flurry of ADD and ADHD books have hit the shelves, each with its own view on whether to medicate or not to medicate...
...Ritalin is not a panacea. It won't boost IQ or take away the learning disabilities that affect 15% of youngsters with ADHD...
...always clear how to treat children whose main symptom isn't hyperactivity but "inattention" or daydreaming, a problem that affects more girls with ADHD than boys...
...Preliminary evidence suggests that the brains of children with ADHD are somehow different from those of their unaffected peers. But no one knows for sure whether that is due to normal variation or the result of a true biochemical defect...