Ritalin is not intended to improve cognitive functioning. Rather, it helps children to focus, setting the stage for improve learning in the future. Thus, whereby Ritalin is unlikely to improve a children’s academic performance overnight, it may help improve over time.
Ritalin is not intended to improve cognitive functioning. Rather, it helps children to focus, setting the stage for improve learning in the future. Thus, whereby Ritalin is unlikely to improve a...
... (more)Apparently so. A 12-year study on depression recently concluded that the use of medication to control both depression and ADHD has doubled. Learn more at http://www.dbtechno.com/health/2010/08/13/more-college-students-are-depressed/
Apparently so. A 12-year study on depression recently concluded that the use of medication to control both depression and ADHD has doubled. Learn more at...
... (more)Parents with children with ADHD are all too familiar with the difficulty of getting their son or daughter to “switch gears.” Similarly, children with ADHD can over-focus on seemingly insignificant details like a bird outside a classroom window. In his book Attention Deficit Disorder, Thomas E. Brown describes this tendency as “hyperfocus” or the inability to disengage one’s attention from a task, sight or sound. That said over-focusing is not among the symptoms listed in the DSM-IV's formal criteria.
Parents with children with ADHD are all too familiar with the difficulty of getting their son or daughter to “switch gears.” Similarly, children with ADHD can over-focus on seemingly insignificant...
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