This week’s Sunday New York Times Magazine contains an article about treatment for ADHD (click here). It is written by a well-known psychologist, L. Alan Sroufe. Dr. Sroufe has published research about treatment for ADHD for many years; he is now about 70, and is Professor Emeritus of psychology at the University of Minnesota’s [...]
Newspapers are reporting on a new study, released this morning: Kids are watching more TV, and upper-income kids are playing more video games on cell phones. (Read it here.) No surprise, right? But it’s not good, and not inevitable! Here’s the comment I posted about this NY Times article. (Or see the posting HERE.) —————————– [...]
Every few years, the CDC surveys the rate of ADHD in American children. Last week, in the edition of MMWR dated 11/12/10, the CDC reported that 9.5% of American children under 18 had been diagnosed with ADHD in 2007, a 22% increase since 2003. (Apparently it took 3 years to collect and report the data.) [...]
What would your family life be like, if the TV weren’t blaring all the time? You can find out! Next week (Sept. 19-25, 2010) is “National Turn Off the TV week.” The idea is to unplug all the TV’s in your house for 7 days. Check out the AAP’s website, or the Center for Screen-Time [...]
A new study suggests a link between pesticides and ADHD. Kids with high urine organophosphate levels are twice as likely to have some symptoms of ADHD. Click here for the study, published in the May 2010 issue of Pediatrics. Is this true? It’s hard to know. The data are 5-10 years old, and appear to [...]
