Ritalin, Methylphenidate News

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have uncovered evidence of a primitive emotion-like behavior in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster .

The topic of fish oil and ADHD has been often discussed lately in the news, magazines and on the internet.A By the time you finish reading this, youa ll have a better understanding of how the use of fish oil impacted a group of children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and also why fish oil and ADHD are so often used together in the ...

Emiley Cooper and mother Allysia at their home in Nambucca Heads in northern New South Wales.

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.

CONTROVERSIAL guidelines on ADHD have been pulled by the Federal Government following claims drug company payments to a doctor have tainted the work.

Patients line up as marijuana is dispensed for medical use at Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana, a collective in Santa Cruz.

Neptune Technologies & Bioressources Inc. announced today the first preclinical research up-date on NeuroBioPharm Inc.

After years of speculation and rare case reports, a recent FDA-funded study by The National Institute of Mental Health claims that drugs such as Ritalin widely used to treat Attention Deficit Disorder in children increase the risk of sudden death by five hundred percent among children and teens.

UA researchers present evidence that the Ritalin is effective in treating preschoolers with Autism in a first-ever clinical trial to test the medication's efficacy with children with the disorder.

Some kids with Attention Deficit Disorder may be over-medicating. HealthFirst reporter Leslie Toldo tells us about a new program that's helping kids find the right dose.

The letter about the little girl arrived, not from the paediatric consultant, but from the nurse "specialist". "**** was seen in clinic today with her parents who report her behaviour as increasingly challenging.

November 16, 2009 - Shire plc , the global specialty biopharmaceutical company, announced new study results on INTUNIV Extended-Release Tablets published in the October Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology .

At Saturday's "Star Wars: In Concert'' matinee at the TD Garden, the costumed Luke Skywalkers and Darth Vaders in the audience were almost all pint-size. Their parents grew up on the three original George Lucas films in the 1970s and '80s, but many of these children weren't even born when the second trilogy debuted in 1999.

When Jonathan Santos, an easy-going 18-year-old who smiles genially and speaks in quiet, polite half-sentences, began elementary school, his mother could already tell something was wrong.

A fourth-grader who bought her lunch at her school cafeteria in San Antonio tasted something unusual in her cup of pears.

For "Star Wars: In Concert,'' Anthony Daniels is onstage to narrate some of the story from the movies.

A 9-year-old elementary school student discovered a Ritalin pill inside a piece of fruit Tuesday.

Most of us know it as Ritalin: the brand name for the drug methylphenidate. For a nearly a half-century, doctors have been writing millions of prescriptions for it, mostly to kids diagnosed with attention deficit disorder.

ADD is a neurological disorder causing problems with attention span, hyperactivity and impulsive behaviors.

Action selection is modulated by external stimuli either directly or via memory retrieval.