New evidence that the “chaotic mind” of ADHD brings creative advantages
Participant drawings from White, 2018
By Christian Jarrett
Focus and concentration, while normally considered beneficial attributes, can stymie creativity – especially the generation of novel ideas. This has led some to wonder whether people with “leaky attention“, and especially those with ADHD – who have what Holly White, writing recently in the Journal of Creative Behaviour, calls “chaotic minds” – might have a creative advantage when it comes to breaking free from prior examples. White, who is based at the University of Michigan, has tested this possibility, and though she acknowledges h...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - October 19, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: ADHD Creativity Source Type: blogs
Brain Sensing Tech Support to Mindfulness – The Muse Review
Do you want to control your brain? The Muse brain sensing headband promises to help you get the most out of your meditation practice by giving you real-time biofeedback about what’s going on in your mind. It’s not some dystopian headset trying to alter your brain. Instead, its makers, the InteraXon team, want to train you to modify it yourself by knowing your brain activity better. Here you find our experience with the headband – even the comparison for the early and latest versions: our big fat Muse review.
Measuring brainwave activity? Really? How?
For answering that question, we have to introduce you the electroen...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 18, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers Medical Professionals Patients Researchers digital health future headband health technology Innovation Medicine meditation mental health mindfulness muse review stress stress release Source Type: blogs
Neurofeedback or medication to treat ADHD?
CONCLUSION: Neurofeedback is a promising alternative treatment for ADHD in children who do not respond to or experience significant adverse effects from ADHD medication. (Source: SharpBrains)
Source: SharpBrains - October 17, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dr. David Rabiner Tags: Attention and ADD/ADHD Cognitive Neuroscience Education & Lifelong Learning Health & Wellness brainwave medication methylphenidate Neurofeedback Ritalin Source Type: blogs
The decision to not vaccinate is driven by fear and misinformation
I was browsing the internet one day and came across a photo of a group of women who appeared educated and influential. They were wearing blue T-shirts with claims that vaccines cause autoimmune diseases, seizures, ADHD or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, learning disabilities, death, autism, sudden infant death syndrome and infertility.
I couldn’t help but laugh at them! I shared this photo on my Facebook page. To my surprise, one of my educated friends shared her concern about vaccinations and declared that she had withheld immunization from her own children. I decided to write this paper for young women like m...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 8, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/lubna-mirza" rel="tag" > Lubna Mirza, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Co-Occurring Mental Health and Addiction
What is a Co-Occuring disorder?
The coexistence of both a mental health disorder and a substance abuse use disorder is referred to as a co-occurring disorder. Any combination of mental health and addiction can be referred to as having a co-occuring disorder. The combinations can be seemingly endless, and can even include more than one of either a mental disorder or an addiction. Combinations may include depression and alcoholism, anorexia and cocaine addiction, bipolar disorder and heroin addiction and the list goes on. Surprisingly, as many as 6 in 10 substance abusers also have at least one other mental disorder.
There i...
Source: Cliffside Malibu - September 26, 2018 Category: Addiction Authors: Jaclyn Uloth Tags: Addiction Addiction Recovery Addiction Treatment and Program Resources ADHD Alcohol Alcohol Rehab Information Alcoholism Anxiety Behavioral Addictions Depression Depression Treatment Drinking Drug Treatment Dual Diagnosis and Eat Source Type: blogs
Parents Guide for Disciplining Kids with ADHD
Receiving our son’s diagnosis of ADHD shed light as to why standard parenting advice wasn’t really working in our home. Understanding our son’s non-neurotypical condition enabled us to be more effective parents as we researched beneficial parenting techniques for children with ADHD.
For those parents who have been struggling to discipline their children with ADHD, I will go through the research we found which revolutionized our parenting practices and helped our son improve his behavior.
Discipline Starts with the Parents’ Personal Discipline
The behavioral foundation for any child starts in the home, and ...
Source: World of Psychology - September 7, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tyler Jacobson Tags: ADHD and ADD Children and Teens Parenting Students Success & Achievement Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Discipline Reinforcement Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 3rd 2018
Fight Aging! provides a weekly digest of news and commentary for thousands of subscribers interested in the latest longevity science: progress towards the medical control of aging in order to prevent age-related frailty, suffering, and disease, as well as improvements in the present understanding of what works and what doesn't work when it comes to extending healthy life. Expect to see summaries of recent advances in medical research, news from the scientific community, advocacy and fundraising initiatives to help speed work on the repair and reversal of aging, links to online resources, and much more.
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Source: Fight Aging! - September 2, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
ADHD and Addiction
What is ADHD?
ADHD is a behavioral disorder, which stands for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. It is a condition that either makes it difficult to keep mental focus on a single topic, control the impulse to act out, or both. While it can be diagnosed as an adult, people with ADHD are usually diagnosed in childhood. This is the period of time in one’s life when symptoms become most prevalent. Children with ADHD are often misunderstood and looked at as troublemakers or class clowns in school. It’s difficult for them to stay still, to focus and to control their impulses while in the classroom.
ADHD symptoms can v...
Source: Cliffside Malibu - August 30, 2018 Category: Addiction Authors: Jaclyn Uloth Tags: Addiction Addiction Recovery Addiction Stories ADHD Alcohol Alcohol Rehab Information Alcoholism Behavioral Addictions Drug Rehab Information Drug Treatment Dual Diagnosis and Eating Disorder Treatment behavioral disorder Source Type: blogs
The Futility of Attempts to Rigorously Distinguish Age-Related Disease from Aging
Aging is caused by damage. Age-related diseases are the end result of sizable amounts of that damage, branched out into a network of interacting downstream consequences and system failures. Aging and age-related disease are points on a continuum; age-related disease is an integral part of aging. Yet the predominant way in which researchers and clinicians view aging and age related disease remains one in which an artificial, arbitrary line is drawn between these two things. There is "normal aging" and there is disease. What to make of this when there is very little difference between the level of damage and dysfunction in t...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 29, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
When You Can ’t Afford ADHD Coaching
ADHD coaching can be incredibly transformative. It can help you better understand yourself, identify and harness your strengths, achieve your goals and build a meaningful, satisfying life.
But depending on your budget, it also can be pricey. It’s absolutely worth the investment, but you might not have the funds available right now.
So what can you do?
For starters, it’s important to take a closer look at your budget, and reevaluate. Maybe you can spend less somewhere else. Maybe you can go without a few of your normal but non-essential expenses (like cable). Maybe you can use your holiday bonus. Maybe you can take mone...
Source: World of Psychology - August 11, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: ADHD and ADD Disorders General Self-Help Stress Success & Achievement Source Type: blogs
Mental Health Makeover: Tips to Improve Your State of Mind
“If you’re happy, if you’re feeling good, then nothing else matters.” – Robin Wright
Everyone’s familiar with the concept of a makeover. From hairstyles to cosmetics to wardrobes and home décor, makeovers convey a sense of self-empowerment, accomplishment and doing something positive for yourself and/or your environment. What about a mental health makeover?
Statistics from the World Health Organization (WHO) show that one in four people have mental health problems at some time in their lives, yet two out of three never get treatment. Even those of us who are relatively healthy occasionally have emotional issu...
Source: World of Psychology - August 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Suzanne Kane Tags: Psychology Self-Help Source Type: blogs
Co-Occurring Conditions in Children with Autism: Assessment to Intervention
In an online chat, SLP Donna Murray discusses how to address co-occurring conditions to create an effective learning environment for children with autism spectrum disorder.
Participant: If a participant was to remember or put into practice only one idea from your session, what would that one key takeaway be?
Donna Murray: I think the most important takeaway is to consider co-occurring conditions when making accommodations for successful intervention. For example, anxiety is very common in children with ASD and providing use of visual supports to predict upcoming activities as well as ending of activities can be very helpfu...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - August 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Donna Murray Tags: Academia & Research Health Care Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology anxiety autism Autism Spectrum Disorder social communication disorder Source Type: blogs
Can cell phone use cause ADHD?
Anyone who has spent any time around teens, and seen the way they often seem surgically attached to their phones, has likely wondered: is all that time on the phone affecting their brains?
A study in JAMA suggests that maybe it is.
Researchers from California studied the digital media use of more than 2,500 high school students who did not have symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) at the beginning of the study. The most common symptoms of ADHD include inattentiveness (being easily distracted, having difficulty getting organized or remembering to do things), hyperactivity (having difficulty sitting st...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - July 31, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Children's Health Parenting Source Type: blogs
Common food additives and chemicals harmful to children
What do a can of corn, a take-out pizza, a reusable water bottle, a bright green yogurt, and an inflatable pool toy have in common? They all contain food additives or chemicals that can be dangerous for children.
Over the last few decades, the number of chemicals added to foods and other products has skyrocketed. We have created all sorts of plastics that are used in innumerable ways. We add preservatives to foods to keep them fresh. We add chemicals to foods to make them look more appealing. We have made food packaging to keep food fresh. We add chemicals to lotions and beauty products to make them feel, look, and smell ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - July 24, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Children's Health Environmental health Parenting Source Type: blogs
Think twice before taking Aderall for cognitive enhancement: It may actually impair working memory and other cognitive abilities
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ADHD drugs do not improve cognition in healthy college students (ScienceDaily):
“Contrary to popular belief across college campuses, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medications may fail to improve cognition in healthy students and actually can impair functioning, according to a study by researchers at the University of Rhode Island and Brown University.
Study co-investigators Lisa Weyandt, professor of psychology and a faculty member with URI’s George and Anne Ryan Institute for Neuroscience, and Tara White, assistant professor of research in behavioral and social sciences at Brown University, had a...
Source: SharpBrains - July 23, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Attention and ADD/ADHD Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness amphetamine attention deficit hyperactivity disorder cognitive-abilities emotional improve-cognition medications neurocognition prescription prescription stimulant medic Source Type: blogs
