Cynthia Gerdes’ attention deficit disorder fuels her creativity (sadly story’s been removed) and has boosted her business success. She gives examples of how ADD effects her, i.e., forgetting to put in some ingredients in a birthday cake, fidgeting in business meetings, and stopping in the middle of one task and getting diverted to 4 etc. “I […]
Yahoo mindset is a very cool new demo tool from the yahoo research labs for searching the Net. Thanks to Lee at the Online Marketing Blog for letting me know about this. This is what this beta tool does …applies a new twist on search that uses machine learning technology to give you a choice:
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A study by Harvard Medical School showed that teenage girls with ADHD were more likely to be clinically depressed, to have anxiety disorders and to have conduct disorder by age 17. About 10 boys are referred for ADHD treatment for every girl “and 99% of the childhood ADHD research is on boys,” Biederman says. He
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A new Canadian study may offer hope to some for whom dieting and exercise have proven ineffective in the battle against obesity. In a study published in the journal Eating Weight Disorders, Vol. 10, N.1, researchers have outlined a possible link between ADHD and severe obesity. They found that 26.7 % of the severely obese
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By combining behavioral therapy and medication researchers at the University at Buffalo have found they could reduce the amount of medication that children with ADD needed by two-thirds, according to a new study published in the May issue of Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology. “One of the major findings of the study is that when using