Consider it a gift this holiday season, the appearance of a nuanced children’s health article on the front page of the New York Times. It tops the news heavy-weight’s Most Emailed list today too with over a 1,200 comments and counting. The Selling of Attention Deficit Disorder. It’s a multi-page …
Adult males diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in childhood face nearly twice the odds of becoming obese according to a new study published online at Pediatrics. Witness the latest chapter of ADHD, the Diagnosis Eating Away at America: The prospective study included 207 white men diagnosed with ADHD at an average age of 8 …
Are kids getting labeled with Attention Deficit Disorder maybe just not sleeping well? For as long as there’s been ADHD there’s been talk about ADHD and sleeping or rather not sleeping. We all know kids with ADHD who have trouble getting a good night’s rest. Some parents blame the drugs. Some blame the ADHD. Now some wonder whether ADHD could …
Big news in mental health. In fact make that the health field because this discovery blurs the line between mental and physical… A new study published in The Lancet has linked several of the same genetic mutations to autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression. While no one …
Yesterday as Beyonce shook her famous booty, I read the tragic and deeply troubling story about a young man who took his life after becoming addicted to ADHD drugs. I could hardly miss the photo of the attractive twenty-something class president smiling in graduation cap and gown on the the front page of the Sunday New York Times, Drowned in …