Children’s ADHD symptoms similar to those for chronic stress

At a time when many families are looking for back-to-school bargains, others are coming into their pediatricians’ offices looking for answers about their children’s behavior…Many of these concerns are legitimate. But the more we learn about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), the more we realize one label does not fit all, especially for more impoverished…

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More Choices for In-Office Cognitive Assessment Tools

New and recently US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)–approved tools to measure and monitor cognition aim to make in-office cognitive assessment faster and simpler. One of these is Cognivue (Cerebral Assessment Systems Inc), a computer-based tool designed to better and more easily assess, measure, and monitor brain function to detect early signs of dementia, according…

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Brain’s Response Inhibition Can Weaken Memory

New research discovers that when occasions call for the brain to make sudden changes, we often fail to remember why we halted the original action…The new results appears in the Journal of Neuroscience. The findings lend insight into how the ability to inhibit an action — a fundamental aspect of everyday life — affects other…

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School offers alternative to traditional classroom

The Connecticut State Certified Special Education school, with a class size of no more than 10 students, receives students in grades K-12 whom have been referred by the public schools as candidates that would not only benefit from the highly-structured environment that The High Road offers, but also may enable many of these students to…

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Top ADHD stories of the summer

As the month of August comes to a close and the beginning of the school year approaches, it may be the perfect time to revisit the latest research, treatment approvals and guidance associated with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Healio.com/Psychiatry highlights the top ADHD stories released this summer.

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Marriage Conflict May Create ADHD-Like Symptoms

A colleague of mine posted an article from The Atlantic on our Listserv called How Childhood Trauma Could Be Mistaken for ADHD. I was intrigued by the title as well as its hypothesis, as we have found in our experience as marriage counselors, that marriage conflict tends to create this scenario.

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