Word: adhd
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...article on Slate provocatively titled "TV Really Might Cause Autism." The piece cited an as yet unpublished study from Cornell University, although not from its medical school. Economist Michael Waldman, of Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management, got to thinking that TV watching--already vaguely associated with ADHD--just might be the culprit that tips vulnerable toddlers into autism. That there was no medical research to support the idea didn't faze him. Nor was he deterred by the fact that there are no reliable large-scale data on the viewing habits of kids ages...
...Enter Michael Waldman, of Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management. He got to thinking that TV watching - already vaguely associated with ADHD - just might be factor X. That there was no medical research to support the idea didn't faze him. "I decided the only way it will get done is if I do it," he says. Waldman and fellow economists Sean Nicholson of Cornell and Nodir Adilov of Indiana University-Purdue were also undeterred by the fact that there are no reliable large-scale data on the viewing habits of kids ages 1 to 3 - the period when...
...blossomed in several countries, "it's ground to a halt in the U.S.," says McGorry, president of the International Early Psychosis Association. American health activists "are so confused in their thinking," he says. "They've clouded this issue with the whole business of overmedication of younger children for adhd." But McGorry believes more strongly than ever in what he's doing. Buoyed by the Australian government's recent $A54 million funding of a National Youth Mental Health Foundation, he wants to apply the principle of early diagnosis and treatment to "a range of mental health problems in young people: substance...
...exam exhausted and bleary eyed, having not slept for 24 hours. Aside from being unfair, it can also, like steroids, pose health problems to those that use it. A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee recently voted in favor of putting warning labels on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) drugs such as Adderall akin to those on cigarette boxes, noting that these drugs increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and sudden death. It is true that ADHD is a difficult disorder to diagnose. Informed patients can easily bluff their way into a diagnosis with a correct enactment of symptoms...
Meanwhile, doctors wrote more than 31 million prescriptions last year for stimulant ADHD drugs, according to IMS Health, a marketing and strategic consulting firm specializing in the healthcare industry...