Category: ADHD

Shareholder Alert: Brower Piven Notifies Investors of Class Action…

The securities litigation law firm of Brower Piven, A Professional Corporation, announces that a class action lawsuit has been commenced in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of purchasers of Alcobra, Ltd. securities during the period between August 13, 2015 and January 17, 2017, inclusive . Investors who wish to become proactively involved in the litigation have until April 18, 2017 to seek appointment as lead plaintiff.

CHOSEN: Escape Support Group chosen as Rumwell’s charity

Children’s charity Escape Support Group has been selected by the team and customers at the shop to benefit throughout 2017. Anne Mitchell, joint owner of the farm shop, said: “Escape Support Group has been supporting families who have a child, or children, who have disabilities or specific individual needs in the Somerset area for 17 years.

Florence Williams to Chat the Nature Fix at Music Hall

Prize-winning author Florence Williams sets out to uncover the science behind nature’s positive effects on the brain in her latest work, THE NATURE FIX. Williams will discuss the book at The Music Hall Loft on Wednesday February 22 at 7 p.m. In this informative and entertaining account, Williams investigates cutting-edge research as she travels from cypress forests in Korea to meet the rangers who administer “forest healing programs,” to a river trip in Idaho with Iraqi vets suffering from PTSD, to the West Virginia Mountains where she discovers how being outside helps children with ADHD.

Catholic schools embrace new approaches to special education

In a classroom one recent weekday at St. Benilde Catholic School in Metairie, teacher Jennifer Kelly kept a group of children’s eyes trained on her as she read aloud questions on an English worksheet. A few feet away, a fourth-grade girl read with another teacher’s help, while a third-grade boy stood on a trampoline and finished his work on a laptop.

Invisible Disabilities Association Review

… as debilitating pain, fatigue, dizziness, cognitive dysfunctions, brain injuries, learning differences and mental health disorders, as well as hearing and vision impairments. These are not always obvious to the onlooker, but can sometimes or always …

A brain injury is two times more likely to develop attention problems

Washington D.C. [USA], Feb. 11 : People with mild to moderate brain injuries are two times more likely to have developed attention problems and those with severe injuries are five times more likely to develop secondary Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in an average of seven years after injury, reveals a study. Researchers from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in the US presented the study at annual meeting of the Association of Academic Physiatrists in Las Vegas.

If you give a kindergartner a Chromebook

Although even the youngest children are considered tech-savvy today, there exists a difference between a child who knows how to use a tablet to watch videos and a child who knows how to navigate a device for active learning. The thought of giving 30 kindergarten students their own Chromebooks might be daunting.

Don’t judge parents over – smart pills’ for ADHD kids

Christian Chan says the recent furore over the supposed overuse of stimulants to help children with ADHD may be hypocritical, given the realities of the rat race in a winner-takes-all world A Hong Kong psychiatrist recently said in a Facebook post that some primary school children diagnosed with mild symptoms of attention deficit hyperactive disorder were using prescribed medication – which are essentially stimulants – to enhance their attention and, in turn, their academic performance. He claimed that this was becoming a problem in some schools.

More information

On Sunday, February 5, 2017 a Naples-based running club, RunDurance, will hold a 5K Run Super Bowl Sunday morning at 7am at North Collier Regional Park to benefit IMAGINE Children’s Health Center. To register for the run, visit www.rundurance.org.

Early learning hub prepares young children for school and life

The Douglas Education Service District’s Early Learning Hub was the topic of a Talking Health program on News Radio 1240 KQEN. Analicia Nicholson, director of education services at the E.S.D. in Roseburg, was interviewed about parenting education and the goal of the Early Learning Hub to equip young children with needed skills for success in schools and life.

Parental Attention and ADHD

I saw a painful sight yesterday afternoon: a father was wheeling with a baby carriage with one hand and text-messaging with his other hand. Totally absorbed in his smartphone, he didn’t hear the pleas of his 5-year old walking alongside, “Abba, I’m cold!” A sudden strong wind blew in from the southwest, carrying heavy rain clouds and reducing temperatures suddenly.

Aevi Genomic Medicine Announces Enrollment of First Patient in Phase…

“We are pleased to have the first patient enrolled into this important study,” said Garry Neil, Chief Scientific Officer of Aevi Genomic Medicine. “Patients with 22q Deletion Syndrome often suffer from a range of debilitating psychiatric conditions, including anxiety disorders, ASD, and ADHD, with many patients progressing to psychosis and schizophrenia.

Guest column: Open letter on DeVos

Betsy DoVos, Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Education could drain much-needed funds from public education, writes Kim Jockush. As we transition to a new administration whose leadership can make our country greater, or whose leadership can dismantle the institutions that made our country great in the first place, I implore you to consider carefully the credentials of those appointed by Mr. Trump.

Ontario children and youth with ADHD often prescribed antipsychotics, study finds

A study by the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences found almost 12 per cent of kids and youth with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, were prescribed antipsychotics like Risperdal, Zyprexa and Seroquel. One in 20 Ontario children and youth have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and many are prescribed antipsychotic drugs, despite having no other mental health diagnoses, researchers have found.

Sunovion Announces Pivotal Study Results for Novel Drug Candidate…

Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. today announced that results of a pivotal Phase 2/3 study evaluating novel drug candidate dasotraline in children ages 6 to 12 years with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder showed statistically significant improvement in the 4mg/day dose arm compared to placebo. The 2mg/day dose arm did not demonstrate a statistically significant difference from placebo.

Be Worried About Boys, Especially Baby Boys

… developing brain, severe apoptotic parcellation of subcortical-cortical stress circuits, and long-term detrimental health consequences (McEwen & Gianaros, 2011). Relational trauma in early critical periods of brain development thus imprints a …

Her Lost Year

Welcome to Childhood Made Crazy, an interview series that takes a critical look at the current “mental disorders of childhood” model. This series is comprised of interviews with practitioners, parents , and other children’s advocates as well as pieces that investigate fundamental questions in the mental health field.

Diagnoses as Descriptions of Behavior

Welcome to Childhood Made Crazy, an interview series that takes a critical look at the current “mental disorders of childhood” model. This series is comprised of interviews with practitioners, parents, and other children’s advocates as well as pieces that investigate fundamental questions in the mental health field.

Double or Nothing?

… children in the U.S. have been diagnosed as bipolar. According to a study commissioned by the National Institutes of Health, the frequency of doctor’s-office visits resulting in bipolar diagnoses among people under 20 has increased by 40-fold since …