Does snoring cause ADHD? A new study of more than 11,000 children in the UK shows a link between early “sleep-disordered breathing” and behavioral problems like hyperactivity and aggression. In the survey, published in the March 5th Pediatrics, researchers from Albert Einstein School of Medicine in New York looked at …
Would you want him to father your baby? Katy Grannan, Time Magazine Time magazine further confuses shyness with introversion, the former, a sometimes debilitating disorder characterized by anxiety, the latter, a personality trait found in those who find other people tiring in large doses and like their alone time. The recent …
Rehashed the claim Ritalin stops working over time at my new Momma Data perch at Psychology Today. Some new twists and turns in the piece – including confusion over study results thanks to NIMH. Anyhow, friends have reported feeling shy about commenting at Psych Today. Please! If you’ve gotten anything from this blog beyond momentary relief …
Newsweek, 1996: Ritalin on the ropes. Ritalin and other drugs for Attention Deficit Disorder don’t produce long-term improvements in behavior and worse may harm children who suffer not from a complex neurological disorder but from bad parenting, poverty and stress and thus cannot be cured with a simple pill. So reported L. Alan Sroufe, Professor Emeritus (University of Minnesota’s …
Is SpongeBob sucking the smarts out of kids? So hints a new study showing 4-year olds who watched a mere 9 minutes of the infamous cartoon did worse on memory and attention tests than kids shown an educational program or given crayons and paper. Why the malicious effects? The researchers suggest the fast-paced segments in the aquatic toon may require more brain power to process and thus ultimately sap …