Excerpt from The New York Times: (click for entire article) THREE million children in this country take drugs for problems in focusing. Toward the end of last year, many of their parents were deeply alarmed because there was ...

THREE million children in this country take drugs for problems in focusing. Toward the end of last year, many of their parents were deeply alarmed because there was a shortage of drugs like Ritalin and Adderall that they ...

Blaming parents for A.D.H.D., and for the overuse of drug therapies, isn't the best way to bring about change.

Anxiety on Ritalin Ritalin. ... I've been taking a low dose of Ritalin for almost a year. I take 2.5 mg ( half of a 5 mg) 1 to 3 times a day most days of the week. I usually take 1 or 2 days off every week. I really like some of the benefits but each ...

More unraveling: ADD and Ritalin. I've posted a little bit about the intense and widespread criticism of the DSM-5. (For up-to-the-minute news and commentary, see The Blog Formerly Known as DSM-5 Wat…er, Dx Revision ...

Diffusion MRI Tractography in the brain white matter. Some drugs work well because they are designed to hit a single, well understood target. Consider penicillin. In a simplified sense, penicillin destroys a single enzyme that ...

Participants needed for a Ritalin and Adderall study. Thursday, February 2, 2012. By SU News Services • (315) 443-3784. You are invited to participate in a confidential study conducted by the Psychology Department of Syracuse University.

Surely this happens to everyone from time to time. The question is, how do you handle it? What do you do about it? Take Ritalin? That might not be the best approach, as recently reported. Sometimes I write about these things.

L. Alan Sroufe, professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Minnesota's Institute of Child Development explains the failings of Ritalin in the New.