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...nation on Prozac would miss the inherent value of struggle and strife. Dr. Kramer thinks there may be an intrinsic virtue in what he calls the "unmodified personality." Although this month the FDA approved Prozac for treating children and adolescents ages 7 to 14, Dr. Jerry Rushton, a pediatrician at the University of Michigan, bemoans its use for kids, fearing that it may interfere with their emotional development...
...York statute that allows the attorney general's office to launch broad investigations of securities companies. "Martin," Spitzer concedes, "is generous to prosecutors." His interest picked up the following month when he learned that Merrill Lynch had settled promptly and magnanimously with a New York City pediatrician who charged that his $1.2 million portfolio had been nearly wiped out by Blodget's allegedly tainted boosterism for tech stocks, including InfoSpace. The $400,000 settlement energized Spitzer. "I looked at that," he says, "and thought, There has got to be something there...
...colicky, cranky, crying baby: new parents' biggest bugbear. In his new book, this L.A. pediatrician says the problem may be too much quiet. By re-creating the biological ruckus of the mother's womb, including constant movement and the swooshing sound of blood flow, you can set off any baby's "calming reflex." Follow the "five S's," says Karp: 1) Swaddle the baby (using Karp's special tight technique); 2) place the baby on his side or stomach; 3) shush him loudly; 4) swing or bounce him rhythmically; and 5) give him something to suck on. Even dads...
Autism was first described in 1943 by Johns Hopkins psychiatrist Leo Kanner, and again in 1944 by Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger. Kanner applied the term to children who were socially withdrawn and preoccupied with routine, who struggled to acquire spoken language yet often possessed intellectual gifts that ruled out a diagnosis of mental retardation. Asperger applied the term to children who were socially maladroit, developed bizarre obsessions and yet were highly verbal and seemingly quite bright. There was a striking tendency, Asperger noted, for the disorder to run in families, sometimes passing directly from father to son. Clues that genes...
...EVALUATION: Take your child to a developmental pediatrician with expertise in autism or Asperger syndrome. The pediatrician will evaluate your child with a team of specialists (speech therapists, occupational therapists, behavior therapists) to determine the areas in which your child needs help...