Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on Jul 20th, 2009 No Comments »
Kids’ Lower IQ Scores Linked To Prenatal Pollution Researchers for the first time have linked air pollution exposure before birth with lower IQ scores in childhood, bolstering evidence that smog may harm the developing brain.
Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on Jul 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Artistic tendencies linked to ‘schizophrenia gene’ …the mutation dampens a brain region that reins in mood and behaviour, called the prefrontal cortex. This change could unleash creative potential in some people and psychotic delusions in others. This is fascinating and an early piece of a larger understanding of both mental illness and creative thought and [...]
Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on Jun 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Learning Disability specialist and Educational Consultant Sanford Shapiro’s radio interview on connections between learning disabilities and emotional/ behavioral health. Shapiro and host Dore Frances discuss the need for greater awareness about how learning styles potentially impact personal growth, both positively and negatively. http://www.latalkradio.com/images/Dore-061509.mp3
Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on Jun 16th, 2009 No Comments »
ADHD Drugs: Sudden Death Risk Higher? Study Suggests Link Between Some ADHD Drugs and Sudden Cardiac Death in Children
Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on Jun 15th, 2009 1 Comment »
Kids with ADHD need to fidget, study says Duh.
Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on May 24th, 2009 No Comments »
Eczema’s link to asthma uncovered This may be meaningful to many people in the LD world who have allergies and other autoimmune problems.
Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on May 9th, 2009 6 Comments »
Brain Gain Margaret Talbot at The New Yorker has an incredible piece on the use of drugs like Adderall and Ritalin to give “regular” non-ADHD students a competitive edge by allowing them to concentrate. New psychiatric drugs have a way of creating markets for themselves. Disorders often become widely diagnosed after drugs come along that [...]
Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on May 6th, 2009 1 Comment »
Stop worrying about your children! Kids today are just as safe as they were in the ’70s, says “Free-Range Kids” author Lenore Skenazy, and what’s really distressing is an alarmist culture that refuses to let them grow up. Tell that to “helicopter parents.”
Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on Apr 27th, 2009 No Comments »
Elizabeth Svoboda at Salon has an interesting piece up today: “I am not a puzzle, I am a person”. People with autism don’t need to be “cured,” argues the burgeoning “autism culture” movement. Not all parents or medical experts agree.
Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on Feb 13th, 2009 No Comments »
Editorial: Vaccines Exonerated on Autism A special federal vaccine court issued three devastating verdicts on Thursday that should help demolish lingering fears that childhood vaccines can and have caused autism. The verdicts won’t satisfied die-hard adherents of the theory that the medical establishment is recklessly harming their children. But the vast majority of parents ought [...]