Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Alex's Wake: trauma, creativity, and healing

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Martin Goldsmith's new book, Alex's Wake: A Voyage of Betrayal and a Journey of Remembrance is at one level a history lesson as mem...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Antipsychotics for foster care kids with ADHD?

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A recent study , one that received relatively scant media attention (compared with a concurrent  New York Times piece about a new psychiatr...
Thursday, April 10, 2014

Autism: difference or disorder?

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About 2 years ago, when the change in diagnostic criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorder proposed for DSM 5 was in the news, I wrote a blog p...
Thursday, March 27, 2014

Rising numbers of kids expelled from preschool and diagnosed with autism: are they linked?

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Two alarming news items compete for attention. The first,  a New York Times editorial entitled Giving Up on Four-Year-Olds describes a rec...
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Monday, March 24, 2014

Huge increase in ADHD diagnosis in young women a worrisome trend

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"I know its my ADHD acting up," a mother of three young children recently said  to me as an explanation for her inability to reca...
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Monday, March 10, 2014

Take new smartphone use study with a hefty dose of empathy for parents

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A new study documenting the ubiquitous use of smartphones by parents at fast food restaurants with their young children is getting a lot of ...
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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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