Friday, February 28, 2014

Legal marijuana, antidepressants, and the danger of not listening

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  A popular blog post Why I Tried to Kill Myself at Penn is making its way around the college-age crowd. The author calls attention a high-...
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Sunday, February 16, 2014

ADHD, bipolar disorder and the DSM: A need for uncertainty?

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A recent article in the New Republic, provocatively titled “ ADHD Does Not Exist ,” starts out well enough. The author, a psychiatrist with...
Thursday, February 6, 2014

Lessons from Atticus: is "ADHD" a problem of not listening?

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Recently I reviewed my son's high school essay on To Kill A Mockingbird . I was surprised and pleased to rediscover, or perhaps discover...
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Music and mental health: a tribute to Pete Seeger

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This morning while driving my son and two friends to practice for their high school singing group, we listened, as part of an  NPR report on...
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Thursday, January 16, 2014

Social responsibility to support new parents must follow demise of Isis Parenting

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"Where I live (Paris) women are very lonely when having a baby.  Is it the same in the US?" A French journalist posed this questi...
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Friday, January 10, 2014

Misuse of ADHD label as symptom of a broken health care system

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When the American Academy of Pediatrics came out with new guidelines a couple of years ago extending the age of diagnosis of ADHD (attenti...
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Monday, December 30, 2013

ADHD, the aggressive child and the elephant in the room

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(Three recent news items lead me to republish a post that predated my Boston.com days. The first is a new study showing that antipsychotics...