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Treatment of Children with Mental Illness | NIMH

October 28, 2009

Frequently asked questions about the treatment of mental illness in children Research shows that half of all lifetime cases of mental illness begin by age 14! Scientists are discovering that changes in the body leading to mental illness may start much earlier, before any symptoms appear. Through greater understanding of when and how fast specific [...]

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Executive Function Impairments in High IQ Adults With ADHD

October 12, 2009

by Thomas E. Brown, Philipp C. Reichel, Donald M. Quinlan, Yale University School of Medicine Journal of Attention Disorders Online First, published on May 6, 2009 as doi:10.1177/1087054708326113 Objectives: To demonstrate that high IQ adults diagnosed with ADHD suffer from executive function (EF) impairments that: a) can be identified with a combination of standardized measures [...]

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ADHD: An Overview by David Posner, M.D.

October 12, 2009

Attention Deficit Disorder – Conceptions and Misconceptions Written by Moss David Posner, M.D. * It seems that every day we open the newspaper or go online we see another article about Attention Deficit Disorder[i]. The subjects and titles of the articles vary from condemnation of the very notion of the existence of such an entity, [...]

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