tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184208181444239184.post8299547641548815256..comments2024-03-29T01:56:37.975-04:00Comments on Child in Mind: Taking stimulants for SATs: sadly we taught them thatClaudia M. Gold, MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13081419560269676730noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184208181444239184.post-25559929519359333342012-06-10T18:20:48.123-04:002012-06-10T18:20:48.123-04:00At the student mental health center at the Univers...At the student mental health center at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center where I used to work, one quarter of the patients were on stimulants. They did not have to say much to convince the doctors to prescribe them.<br /><br />Many had not been diagnosed as ADHD as kids, but were nonetheless able to get into highly competitive graduate and professional schools (we had no undergraduates there). <br /><br />One of our psychologists gave one of those "screening" measures for ADHD to those students who were on stimulants, and compared them to a sample of students who had no mental health complaints. The results were nearly identical!David M. Allen M.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06280912088483192599noreply@blogger.com