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...likeliest first call, if only because some of the manic symptoms fit. The treatment of choice for ADHD is Ritalin, a stimulant that has the paradoxical ability to calm overactive kids. But giving Ritalin to a bipolar child can deepen an existing cycle or trigger one anew. Brandon Kent, a 9-year-old from La Vernia, Texas, in whom ADHD was diagnosed in kindergarten (they did not yet know he was bipolar), took Ritalin and paid the price. "It sent him into depression," says his mother Debbie Kent. "Within a couple of months, he was flat on the couch...
...bipolar, the sheer number of drug options is a real boon, as what works for one patient will not necessarily work for another. When Brandon Kent, the 9-year-old Texas boy, started taking Depakote and Risperdal, his body began to swell. Then he switched to Topamax, which made him lethargic. Eventually he was put on a mix of Tegretol and Risperdal, which have stabilized him with few side effects. Kyle Broman in Los Angeles is having a harder time but has grown calmer on a combination of Risperdal and Celexa, an antidepressant that for now at least does...
...start because he wears a black silk smoking jacket and uses words such as apropos.) Karl hires Eric (Chaplin), a master thief with the requisite heart of gold, to help him get the sharira. In turn, Eric involves his old girlfriend Lin (Yeoh) and her little brother Tong (Brandon Chang), star performers in a Chinese circus and descendants of the acrobatic family of destiny. The action careens from Qingdao to Dun Huang to Tibet, stopping for comic relief along the way. There is also some fighting, though not nearly enough...
...unclear how much fighting the three Afghanistan vets actually saw. One, Sergeant First Class Brandon Floyd, 30, who police say shot his wife to death and then killed himself on July 19, served with the elite and secretive Delta Force from November to January, the most intense months of fighting. Another sergeant first class, Rigoberto Nieves, who allegedly started the spate of killings in early June, was assigned to the 3rd Special Forces Group. He was deployed to Afghanistan from mid-March until just two days before he also shot his wife and himself, according to authorities...
...We’ve heard repeatedly how much he values diversity, and yet in this situation, he’s really done very little,” said then-president of the Black Students’ Association Brandon A. Gayle ’03, during the midst of a student campaign to collect signatures for a petition that urged West to remain at Harvard...