adhd

I recently had a short conversation with some one close to me (I'l call him Joe) that was disturbing. I have a friend who was recently diagnosed with Asbergers. He tends to be one who seems to like attention due to things out of his control (very slight Munchausen's maybe?), and I said to Joe...

http://www.talktalk.co.uk/news/pa/uknews/2010/09/30/adhd-may-be-genetic-condition.html The Lancet paper can be found here: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(10)61109-9/fulltext

A friend on facebook put up a video of some news report on a girl who is treating her ADHD with chiropracty. This got me thinking of all the other bs treatments out there for ADHD. Now this girl was having great results, which leads me to believe she never had ADHD in the first place, or is...

A story was released by the associated press that a medical study done on children with ADHD showed that taking St. John's Wort fared no better than placebos. St. John's wort fails to help kids with ADHD I hope to see more stories like this in the future. Homeopathy does not work.

I apologize in advance if this topic has been done to death, but others have expressed a desire to discuss this, so... Recently in the CT subforum a topic that spawned from another was the issue of ADHD, its over or under diagnosis, the role of the pharmaceutical industry and others in its...

This is in the CT section, because I think ADHD is a myth peddled by big pharma to lazy parents via overworked doctors. Also, the following section is from my book (I used to link to my webpage in my sig, but took it out when I traced a vandal to this site. but anyway, I´ve written a book)...

I don't know what to say. Will this and/or should this affect the amount of ritalin prescriptions given to kids? Are we really giving 5-6 million children a drug that stunts their growth and doesn't have the intended effect? Seriously...

Source Very interesting.

when i was about i think 11 or so i was diagnosed with ADD. They ( i mean my doctor and mother) gave me the next miracle drug ritalyn to control me. Let's just say i got addicted to it because when i would debate my mom, SHE OVERDOSED ME ON IT. It helped during footbal and wrestling but when it...

At least according to Radio 5 this morning. Apparently doing simple exercises, twice a day for 10 minutes each time cures Autism and ADHD. It works by stimulating the cerebellum which enables more tasks to be processed in the background leaving the rest of the brain to handle learning. They...