Concerns about the generic formulations of ADHD medications
I love generic brand products. I will fight to the last breath for my Shoppers’ Choice Adhesive Bandages rather than pay an extra $0.49 for Band-Aids. So why, then, have I been paying up to $395 every month for brand-name medication for the last two years instead of getting the generic version for $7.56? AfterRead more …Concerns about the generic formulations of ADHD medications originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 25, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/jolene-won" rel="tag" > Jolene Won < /a > < /span > Tags: Meds Medications Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Separating brain-healthy wheat from chaff is becoming more urgent by the day
A) New video game company aims to develop therapeutic games (The Verge):
Video game-based tools can help with conditions like depression and ADHD, research shows. DeepWell Digital Therapeutics plans to build on those studies. “There was an amazing amount of science that had already been done,” Douglas says. “We started to recognize exactly how therapeutic these games already were.”
Often, a game used as a therapy would be designed as a therapy first, with fun or engaging gameplay elements layered on top, he says. But DeepWell wants developers to build games in the most engaging way possible — and ...
Source: SharpBrains - March 21, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Technology & Innovation adhd Bayer DeepWell depression digital therapeutics Woebot Health Source Type: blogs
Canadian study finds causal link between time playing videogames at age 12 and ADHD symptoms at age 13
Recent studies have linked screen time — including video game play — to concerning outcomes in children, including low self-esteem, low life satisfaction, and depressive symptoms. Screen time has also been found to be correlated with symptoms of ADHD in children and adolescents, even when earlier attention difficulties are taken into account.
These findings suggest that excessive video game play may be a risk factor for the development of ADHD symptoms. Other research suggests the possibility of reverse causation, i.e., that ADHD symptoms predicts the development of excessive video game play.
Determining whether causal...
Source: SharpBrains - March 7, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dr. David Rabiner Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Education & Lifelong Learning Technology & Innovation adhd ADHD-symptoms adolescence screen time screens video-games videogames Source Type: blogs
What Has A.I. In Medicine Ever Done For Us? At Least 50 Things!
Remember Monty Python’s brilliant Life of Brian movie scene where the Judean Jewish insurgent commando, planning the abduction of Pilate’s wife in return for all the horrors they had to endure from the Roman Empire, asks the rhetorical question: what have the Romans ever done for us? With the hype and overmarketing, not to speak about the fears around A.I, we asked the same question. What has A.I. in medicine ever done for us? Well, we found at least 50 things.
I have 50 responses to the pressing question on everyone’s mind who is interested in healthcare but tired of the hype or the doomsday scenarios around A.I....
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 1, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Future of Medicine AI cancer diagnostics digital health Healthcare Innovation medical Radiology technology medical imaging treatment administration digital health technology Source Type: blogs
Autism And ADHD May Double Risk Of Early Death
The link between autism and early death appears to be mostly due to natural causes. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - February 21, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: ADHD Autism Source Type: blogs
Progress in adulting
Progress in adultingWhen asked to do something he doesn ' t want to do #1 rants for shorter and shorter periods of time and often then just does it. (Assuming he sees the point of it.) Or he comes up with a reasonable compromise.#2 has a line on a reasonable government job that he can do well and that is well suited to him. (Government jobs have lots of accommodations and support for neuroatypical.)#1 hasn ' t gotten a handle on his diet (he ' s classic ' metabolic syndrome ' ) but he understands the need and sometimes he tries. He cheerfully does his 300 calorie a day bike trainer routine. Every day.#1 has done a go...
Source: Be the Best You can Be - February 12, 2022 Category: Disability Tags: ADHD adult autism cognitive impairment Source Type: blogs
A few slow-paced breaths are enough to significantly reduce physiological stress
Welcome to a new edition of SharpBrains’ e‑newsletter, sharing important brain & mental health news plus a couple fun brain teasers to test your mental self-rotation skills.
#1. Study: Education and lifestyle helped over a million older Americans avoid serious cognitive problems in 2017
Let’s kickstart 2022 with some good news: “The prevalence of serious cognitive problems in the US population aged 65 and older declined from 12.2% to 10.0% between 2008 and 2017. Had the prevalence remained at the 2008 levels, there would have been an additional 1.13 million older Americans with serious cognitive problems in 201...
Source: SharpBrains - January 31, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health SharpBrains Monthly eNewsletter Technology & Innovation ADHD-medication Akili Interactive APA Big Health Breathing Cognitive Neuroscience cognitive problems consumer technology digital therapeutics Headspace He Source Type: blogs
When Does Research Become a Fixation?
I pull back the curtain a bit today, revealing a deep, dark secret about myself —a secret so dank, surely I’ll lose the last three readers I have.I’ve been reading far too many Japanese light novels lately.It started as a form of research, but now I actually like the darn things. I can’t get enough of them. They’re my personal Pandora’s Box. I opened the beautiful, ornately engraved box, saw the plentiful wonders inside, and now I can’t shut the lid. Is this anADHD obsession, or a newfound joy? I can’t tell, which is why I’m troubled. Have you seen myGoodreads timeline? I r...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - January 28, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Tags: ADHD Depression Writing Source Type: blogs
Digital therapeutics pioneer Akili Interactive plans to go public in mid-2022 at a $1B valuation
Palihapitiya-Led SPAC to Merge With Akili in $1 Billion Deal (Bloomberg):
Akili Interactive, a startup that has developed a video game to help treat attention-deficit disorders in kids, has agreed to go public through a merger with one of Chamath Palihapitiya’s blank-check companies.
The deal, which confirms a Bloomberg News report, values the combined entity at about $1 billion, Akili and Social Capital Suvretta Holdings Corp. I said in a statement seen by Bloomberg. It will provide as much as $412 million in gross cash proceeds, the companies said.
Led by Chief Executive Officer Eddie Martucci, Akili has developed the ...
Source: SharpBrains - January 26, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Attention & ADD/ADHD Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation Akili Interactive attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Chamath Palihapitiya cognitive-impairments digital therapeutics EndeavorRx FDA neuropsychiatric neuropsychia Source Type: blogs
Are ADHD medications overprescribed or underprescribed? (Quick answer: both)
Although medication treatment for ADHD has been shown to significantly reduce core ADHD symptoms in hundreds of studies, important concerns remain about it being prescribed inappropriately to children and teens who do not have ADHD. There is also evidence that many youth with ADHD who could potentially benefit from medication treatment do not receive it, and may realize poorer outcomes in as a result.
Estimating the rate of the over- and under-use of ADHD medication is challenging, and a recent study provides the most comprehensive examination to date of this important issue: Assessing under-treatment and over-treatment of...
Source: SharpBrains - January 25, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dr. David Rabiner Tags: Attention & ADD/ADHD Brain/ Mental Health Source Type: blogs
On schools, mental health, digital surveillance, student privacy and parental input
Op-Ed: School surveillance on students’ laptops will not help solve the youth mental health crisis (Los Angeles Times):
In the past year, school districts in California and elsewhere have contracted with digital surveillance companies to spy on students at school and home, citing the need for mental health support during the pandemic.
Despite being a vigilant and involved parent, I found out only recently that my own kids, who attend high school in the Corona-Norco Unified School District, have been under constant digital surveillance for the past year.
Gaggle.net has a contract with Corona-Norco to monitor email account...
Source: SharpBrains - January 5, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation digital surveillance Gaggle mental health crisis Neuroethics Neurotechnology parental notification Source Type: blogs
Top 10 Digital Health News Of 2021
From the approval of a new prescription VR treatment to renewed privacy concerns, 2021 has been full of digital health developments. Indeed, some news might have gone under the radar or might require a quick refresher; so we’re wrapping up 2021 with a round-up of 10 of the most important digital health news of this year.
1. FDA-approved prescription VR treatment for chronic back pain
In mid-November, the FDA authorised a virtual reality (VR) system as a prescription treatment for chronic back pain. Called EaseVRx, it combines cognitive behaviour therapy techniques and breathing exercises to help relax, distract...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 16, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: TMF Covid-19 3D Printing Health Sensors & Trackers Portable Medical Diagnostics Security & Privacy Telemedicine & Smartphones apple telehealth blood pressure A.I. 23andme news remote care 2021 Source Type: blogs
My biggest blind spot is me
I tend to size people up pretty quickly. Adult ADHD? I can diagnose it in about two minutes. Borderline personality disorder? About one minute. Bad actors on the Dr. Phil show? About 30 seconds (with the benefit of Dr. Phil ’s preamble). I can’t help it. I attribute my habit of analyzing people to my trainingRead more …My biggest blind spot is me originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 7, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/arthur-lazarus" rel="tag" > Arthur Lazarus, MD, MBA < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Practice Management Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
We All Have ADD Sometimes. It ’s Not A Thing. Explain Adult ADHD
Part of #ExplainAdultADHD. A campaign to reduce the ignorance, misinformation, and stigma against adults with ADHD.
We All Have ADD Sometimes. It’s Not A Thing.
“I was up late last night not sleeping. Thinking about how to to describe ADHD to someone who doesn’t understand it or doubts it. The Stigma that comes with it.
How do I respond to the all too often minimizing statement? “ We all are ADD. I have that too. What you experience is normal for everyone”
Ok then: take a bad day. You’re off day.
You misplaced your keys, glasses, phone and you are panicking, running around and turning the place upside do...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - October 14, 2021 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Pete Quily Tags: Explain Adult ADHD To Non-ADHD Adults Source Type: blogs
