On ADHD medication and motor vehicle crashes

" Among patients with ADHD  [ attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder ] , rates of MVCs  [motor vehicle crashes]  were lower during pe...

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Injury risk and ADHD: part 2

Consider this short post a sort of follow-on to a previous entry on this blog concerning the elevated risk of injury following a diagnosis ...

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Trends in ADHD medication use in the US and Europe: is this a bad thing?

I don't want to dwell too much on the findings reported by Christian Bachmann and colleagues [1] observing that in five Western countri...

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Cochrane does methylphenidate for ADHD

' Cochrane does ' in the title of this post refers to the Cochrane Library  and the sterling work that is done by the Cochrane Revie...

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KPAX002 for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?

My attention was grabbed recently by the paper published by Jon Kaiser [1] ( open-access available here ) detailing the results of a 'p...

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ADHD primes for psychosis and/or schizophrenia?

My efforts turn once again to Taiwan today and the results reported by Yu-Chiau Shyu and colleagues [1] that: " Compared to the contr...

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Methylphenidate: a repairer of the 'oxidative balance' in ADHD?

A fairly quick post for you today based on the findings reported by Esra Guney and colleagues [1] who examined whether markers of oxidative...

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