- ADHD Medications and Neurofeedback
Data from the study were used to evaluate whether stimulant medication effects physical growth in children. The data collected over three years indicates that both height and weight are decreased in children using stimulant medication.
Co-author, Professor William Pelham, of the University at Buffalo, says: "The children had a substantial decrease in their rate of growth so they weren't growing as much as other kids both in terms of their height and in terms of their weight. And the second was that there were no beneficial effects – none."
- ADHD Study: Faster Diagnosis Urged
Not surprisingly, Dr. Barkley and Lilly think this is too long as children could be started on medication and behavior modification much sooner. While one must agree that a proper, quick diagnosis should be available to all children and adults, sponsorship of the survey is hardly altruistic of Lilly who makes millions of dol
- ADHD: An Interest and Motivation Deficit?
Psychologists and research scientists have long known that executive functions can be improved through training. But the true question must be put: why do we consider ADHD a disorder that cannot be improved? Diffused attention can be improved thus improving subordinate deficits. Society will only become aware of this through a paradigm shift.
- ADHD: Difference or Disability?
In the landscape of spring there is neither better nor worse.The flowering branches grow; some short, some long.-- Zen sayingNo Known Biological Marker For ADHDDr. Russell Barkley essentially has created an industry surrounding his name and ADHD. While saying little that's new to the field, he regurgitates the repetitive paradigm that essentially places AD/HD children and adults into the minimal brain dysfunction category, i.e., ADHD people are brain damaged. He pathologizes ADHD even though no known biological marker exists; no certain neuropathology or brain abnormality exists that definitively establishes the presence or absence of the disorder. The NIH Consensus Statement - Diagnosis and Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, states: "Although research has suggested a central nervous system basis for ...
- Adult ADD: Many Children Maintain their Disorder into Adulthood
Dr. Fischer indicated that many children maintain their disorder into adulthood. The article is not clear whether this data was relevant to treated or untreated ADHD. However, clinical data suggests that perhaps 60% of ADHD children will carry their disorder into adulthood. This may be a conservative estimate.
While the data are compelling, the study is too small to conclude that ADHD alone causes these ill effects.
- Dr. Joe Biederman and ADHD
What interests me greatly is the fact that when the authors of these studies have close ties to the pharmaceutical industry, their data tends to be skewed in favor of medicine. When there isn’t a close tie, we tend to get contradictory data, which is what one would expect.
- Is the ADHD Brain Damaged?
...researchers can find numerous parts of the ADHD brain that seem dysfunctional. A major flaw in virtually all of this research is that they use very small groups that cannot depict the vast spectrum brain variability among the human species. This published research confuses many people as it seems the brains of those with ADHD are smaller, have damage in the basal ganglia, putamen, frontal lobes, cerebellum, and brain stem. This amounts to little more than neophrenology. Publication of this neophrenology allows media to portray ADHD individuals as irreparably brain damaged which is both harmful and flagrantly untrue.
- Three-quarters of ADHD diagnoses wrong
Diagnoses labeling children as AD/HD are wrong up to 75% of the time.
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