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...results, which were published today in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), offer new insight into why kids usually seem to outgrow their ADHD, says Dr. Philip Shaw, who led the research team at the Child Psychiatry Branch of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). "It doesn't mean we can just sit back and do nothing," Shaw says, but the findings complement "what psychiatrists have been telling parents for years," that most kids with ADHD do get better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADHD Kids Can Get Better | 11/12/2007 | See Source »

...Shaw and his colleagues compiled data from the brain scans of 446 children, half of whom had ADHD. The scans used new imaging technology that allowed researchers to "watch" some 40,000 points in the subjects' brains over time, and to figure out which specific regions of the brain developed, or thickened, at different rates. On average, in children with ADHD, the age at which 50% of the 40,000 points on the cortex - the brain's outer mantle - achieved peak thickness was 10 1/2, three years behind the typically developing kids whose cortex matured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADHD Kids Can Get Better | 11/12/2007 | See Source »

Aside from the timing of maturation, the brains of children with ADHD appear to develop the same way typical brains do, from back to front. "Do [kids with ADHD] have basically have the same sequence of brain development? That's a yes," says Shaw. "Do they completely catch up with other kids? That's what we're looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADHD Kids Can Get Better | 11/12/2007 | See Source »

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article named Anthony R. Shaw Jr. as the chair of the chemistry department. In fact, he is director of laboratories for the department...

Author: By Angela A. Sun, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Top Harvard Chemist Is Leaving, MIT Chair Says | 11/11/2007 | See Source »

...privacy regulations for financial institutions.“Jim always had good reasons,” Cox, the SEC chairman, said. “He didn’t always convince everyone he talked to, but he never lost an argument.”Former Rep. E. Clay Shaw Jr. (R-Fla.), a House colleague of Leach for 26 years, said Leach’s quiet manner had helped him carry off disagreements with his Republican colleagues.“If he were some kind of firebrand with his voting record, there would have been tension,” said...

Author: By David K. Hausman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: More Prof Than Politician | 10/31/2007 | See Source »

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