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 [...]
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.) [...]
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 [...]
