ADHD News

Children who wake up frequently through the night may have double the chance of developing asthma, research has found.

However, the neuroscience that underlies these different forms of arousal has, for the most part, remained a mystery.

The first thing to learn about controlling ADHD without medication is that a multidisciplinary approach is by far the best way to cope with ADHD in children.

Is medical marijuana for kids a prescription for abuse? The battle over medical marijuana has shifted to a new front with reports that California clinics have been prescribing pot to patients as young as 14 to treat ADHD symptoms, while parents are feeding kids as young as 9 pot-infused cookies as a last resort to help them cope with autism.

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

Bipolar disorder is a chronic brain disorder that affects changes in mood, energy, thinking and behaviour.

Environmental factors may increase a child's risk for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder .

The risk of ADHD was higher among children exposed to tobacco and lead. More than a third of cases of ADHD in children age eight to 15 could be reduced by eliminating pregnant mothers' exposure to tobacco and children's exposure to lead, a new U.S. study estimates.

Are phthalates really safe for children? Phthalates are important components of many consumer products, including toys, cleaning materials, plastics, and personal care items.

A new arena in the medical marijuana debate is the use of the drug for teenagers who have conditions such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, according to a story by Katherine Ellison in Sunday's Bay Area Report.

The causes of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, are still largely unknown.

The goal of this continuing education offering is to provide an overview of the treatment of ADHD in children, adolescents and adults.

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Exposure to both tobacco smoke before birth and lead during childhood increases a child's risk of developing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder more than eight-fold, according to new research from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

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.

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.

A new study warns that phthalates, a family of chemical substances used primarily to make polyvinyl chloride soft and flexible, may be associated with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder .

Posted in Science at 1:00 pm by David Bradley -- A couple of years ago, I re-posted an old article of mine about homeopathy discussing its ludicrous claims, its feeble attempts to provide a scientific explanation for those claims, and basically pointing out that no solid evidence has ever been found that infinitely diluted solutions of spurious ...

Studies to date on phthalates have been inconsistent, with some linking exposure to these chemicals to hormone disruptions, birth defects, asthma, and reproductive problems, while others have found no significant association between exposure and adverse effects.