ADHD

Research Provides New Insights Into Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Medindia Health News (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009

U.S. scientists have found primitive emotion-like behavior in fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. According

Scientists find emotion-like behaviors, regulated by dopamine, in fruit flies

Biosingularity (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have uncovered evidence of a primitive emotion-like behavior in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. Their findings, which may be relevant to the relationship between the neurotransmitter dopamine and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), are described in the December issue of the journal Neuron. The Drosophila brain contains...

Luddite revival: Our tech-driven haste leaves no room for depth

post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009

Maybe being a Luddite isn't such a bad thing. The original Luddites were 18th-century British artisans who protested the increasing use of the factory system to produce cloth, destroying their livelihood. Considering the nasty working conditions in factories of the time, the Luddites may have had a point, but they were crushed in the name of progress. Today, the term is used to describe, in a derogatory...

U.S. scientists discover emotion-like behavior in fruit flies

People Daily (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009

U.S. scientists have uncovered evidence of a primitive emotion-like behavior in the fruit fly, and their finding may facilitate studies of the relationship between a corrective medicine and a learning disability. The evidence, published by researchers with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in the December issue of the journal Neuron, may be relevant to the relationship between the neuro-transmitter...

• Caltech Scientists Find Emotion-Like Behaviors, Regulated By Dopamine, In Fruit Flies - Red Orbit

mental breakdown

mostly common sense blog (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009

According to the census bureau, the US has 217.8 million adults, ages 18 and over. California has the highest number of adult resident at 26.1 million, followed by Texas, at 15.9 million and New York at 14.7 million. Florida has 13.1 million. All other states have less than 10 million. According to the National Institutes of Mental Health, there are approximately 14.8 million adults suffering from...

Kids with ADHD prescribed medical marjiuana in California

NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009

Hey, hyperactive kids, in California you can get stoned -- legally. California doctors are now prescribing marijuana to children diagnosed with attention hyperactivity disorder, Sphere reports.

Lead and Tobacco Exposure Raises Risk of ADHD in Kids

dBTechno (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009

Boston (DbTechNo) - Results of a new study suggest that women who smoke during their pregnancy are putting their unborn child at an increased risk of developing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Furthermore, children exposed to lead, are also at an increased risk of developing the neurological condition. Researchers from the US performed this study, analyzing health records [...]

Tobacco and lead boost ADHD risk

Mental Health Update (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009

Researchers at the Cincinatti Children's Hospital Medical Center have added to the evidence linking exposure to substances in the womb to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). They studied 2,588 children aged between eight and fifteen of whom 8.7% had ADHD. Children who had been exposed to high prenatal levels of tobacco were 2.4x more likely to have ADHD while children whose mothers had...

Exposure To Tobacco And Lead Linked To ADHD In Children

Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009

Researchers in the US found that exposure to tobacco in the womb and to lead during childhood was linked to a particularly high risk for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children, suggesting that while we tend to focus on treatment for ADHD, eliminating such exposures might prevent the condition in many hundreds of thousands of children.

• ADHD Risk Increases With Exposure To Lead, Tobacco - The Inquisitr
• Exposure to Lead, Tobacco Smoke Elevates ADHD Risk in Kids - Medindia Health News
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Meg Kissinger: 'A Soldier's Story'

FREEDOM EDEN (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009

In Sunday's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , Meg Kissinger wrote the story of Army Spec. James Weigl, a Iraq war veteran who committed suicide. On Monday, Mark Belling discussed the article, noting that Kissinger's piece lacked context. He took issue with the fact that she used Weigl's personal story to make a larger point about military service and suicide that just wasn't there. Kissinger writes: Weigl's...

Smoking when pregnant is linked to hyperactive children

Nipper News (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1230123/Smoking-pregnant-linked-hyperactive-children.html Mothers who smoke during pregnancy more than double the chances of their children suffering from hyperactivity, claim researchers. The risk goes up 2.4 times, according to a new US study. It estimates one-fifth of ADHD – attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder – cases could be eliminated...

Phthalate Exposure Linked To ADHD

NewsInferno (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009

Phthalates, chemicals that make plastics and vinyls more flexible, have been linked to many adverse health events. So much so, that stringent phthalate levels have been imposed as part of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA). Now, an emerging report found a link between phthalate concentrations in urine to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), reports Science [...]

Medical Marijuana for Teens?

New York Times (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009

The medical community debates the use of marijuana to treat psychiatric conditions such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Smoking During Pregnancy, Lead Exposure Raise ADHD Risk in Kids

VitaBeat (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009

Children whose mothers smoked during pregnancy or who were exposed to lead have more than double the risk of having attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as other children, new research shows. And with exposure to both cigarettes and lead, the chances of having ADHD soared. Children whose mothers smoked during pregnancy and whose blood showed signs of lead exposure had eight times the risk...

Dubious prescriptions

Opinion Dominion (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009

Medical Marijuana - No Longer Just for Adults - NYTimes.com The New York Times reports that: Several Bay Area doctors who recommend medical marijuana for their patients said in recent interviews that their client base had expanded to include teenagers with psychiatric conditions including attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. I like this response: “How many ways can one say ‘one of...