The Claim: Pesticides might contribute to the development of ADHD in school-aged children. You might have missed a study out of Harvard’s esteemed School of Public Health, the Environmental Health and Epidemiology wing to be exact: Children with higher concentrations of a certain organophosphate – breathe, it’s a scary word but hey, it looks …
Narcissism out. Asperger’s out. Pervasive Developmental Disorder out. The Autistic Spectrum collapsed. The new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, aka “the bible” of the mental health field, likely will include these revisions and more come 2013. The American Psychiatric Association hasn’t overhauled it since 1994 when we still thought of autism as a rare disorder marked by extreme deficits and impairments. Back then …
I try to buy organic fruits and veggies, at least the dirty dozen. Organic milk too. Pasta, once or twice. Pajamas, never. So you may not be surprised to learn I read the new study linking ADHD to pesticides as my children gobbled up grapes that were not organic, this being New Jersey and not the West Coast where …
Pregnant Mom Alert #523: Clear out your cosmetics. Ditch the deodorant. Trash your toiletries. Contact your Congressperson. Phthalates, again! In your beauty regime. Seems they harm your unborn baby’s developing brain eventually turning them into aggressive, surly kids, maybe even criminals. So says a Mount Sinai study published online in this …
Do we have any evidence ADHD drugs may be harmful to developing minds? With nearly 6 million children diagnosed with the condition according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it’s a fair question, especially when we consider children often take these drugs for many years. One of my …