Antidepressant use in pregnancy and risk of offspring ADHD?

Here we go again. Antidepressant use during pregnancy comes under the spotlight yet again ( see here ) as per the findings reported by Tako...

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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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Secondary conditions impacting on obesity stats in autism?

" Decision makers, clinicians, and researchers developing interventions for children with ASDs  [autism spectrum disorders]  should con...

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People commit crimes not their clinical labels

" Oregon Killer’s Mother Wrote of Troubled Son and Gun Rights " and " The Myth of the ‘Autistic Shooter’ ". Those were j...

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Meclizine (Antivert) to Treat Dizziness - Bad Idea?

It seems almost reflexive that anybody who complains of dizziness gets a prescription for meclizine (aka antivert , dramamine , bonine , e...

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Delivering medicines in psychiatry the transdermal way: application to autism

The real iron man Pharmaceutical technology, and specifically the various research strategies looking at the way that medicines are delivere...

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Incontinence and paediatric autism

Urinary incontinence - " the unintentional passing of urine " - is a fairly common issue affecting millions of people of all ages ...

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Oxytocin moving on: ADHD and inattentiveness

Dare I mention the term 'cuddle hormone' when it comes to oxytocin ? Well, according to a recent news piece in Nature  ( see here ),...

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Pregnancy paracetamol use and offspring ADHD traits?

Poor old paracetamol (acetaminophen if you wish). Tablets (before tablets again) @ Wikipedia First it was the Brandlistuen correlation  [1]...

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