When the same story hits National Review AND Democracy Now! on the same day, you know we have a problem.
Isn’t it interesting that ADHD doesn’t exist in other countries?
Not only ADHD, but autism and vaccination protocols. We’ve gone far past the time when we could take medical science at its word.
Mark my words. I have said this before. ANY prior indication a person has been prescribed Ritalin or the equivalent will be an automatic denial to receive a clear NCIS check when purchasing a gun. Likewise with visits to a psychologist or psychiatrist, any treatment for depression, sleep disorders, or anxiety.
You don’t think these ObamaCare felons (Navigators) are asking you those kinds of questions for nothing, do you?
Medical records are being digitized; not for medical expediency, but rather for government identification and adjudication.
On the tour of Thomas Edison's boyhood home, the guide states that troublesome TE as a youngster would've been diagnosed with ADHD. That's just one example. What is happening today is that often the most creative, artistically and intellectually, are having that creativity and potential for excellence destroyed by pharmaceuticals.
Why don't we ever see statistics about how many of these shooters have at some point been poisoned with Ritalin, Addrerol, or some other mind inhibitor?
We are learning new things everyday from our son. I find his view on life fascinating, but we do sometimes have our very frustrating moments.The nuns have no problem with our dietary and therapeutic treatments, but our pediatrician keeps pushing drugs. Luckily we only take our son to the doc once a year for his school checkup.
ADD and ADHD are very real conditions that reflect the progressive loss of fully functional gray matter in the brain. Loss of gray matter is illuminated by mri in toddlers through to Alzheimer’s and other other neurodegenerative diseases. This pathology does not occur in other primates. ADD and ADHD are intermediate states in this progression. The higher incidence in males is related to the fact that testosterone increases the rate of iron retention (excess intracellular iron accumulation in the gray matter of both sexes). This iron accumulation begins with the first bottle of iron fortified formula milk and accelerates at puberty with increasing testosterone production.
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Your Science posting is “spot on” but the author for the magazine article may have missed the insights of the researchers entirely. Progressive Brain Iron loading is an accepted fact and acknowledged by these researchers. There is a monstrous paradox here. The dopaminergic cells within the substantia nigra pars compacta appear to be iron loaded within the cytosol with lipofuscin bound iron that contributes nothing the to the ordinary function of iron in catalyzing the formation of dopamine and the other neural transmitters. Lipofuscin bound iron may comprise up to 60% of the total cell weight before the cells dies. Dosing these cells with iron will produce more neural transmitters at the cost of accelerating the aging of these cells. The hypothesized iron deficiency is related to the ongoing deficient insulin mediated uptake of transferrin bound iron that is able to routinely catalyze the neural transmitters. This iron will be dribbled out of an iron replete liver every night for five years or more from a modern human (iron replete) who consumes no iron in his diet for the next five years. Our daily iron losses are believed to be about one mg and we can store up to 35 grams of excess iron in our liver and other tissues.
http://www.ajnr.org/content/33/9/1810.long
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24080959
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22392846
MFC is sensitive to brain iron in GM regions and detects age-related iron increases known to occur from adolescence to adulthood. MFC may be more sensitive than R2 to iron-related changes occurring within specific brain regions.
During typical development and aging, brain iron concentration is extremely low at birth but progressively accumulates until the end of the fourth decade of life with varying rates depending on the region. Starting from the first few years of life, the highest iron concentrations occur in the basal ganglia.
In Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases, regional elevations in iron concentration are found, whereas iron is deficient in restless legs syndrome as well as in preliminary findings on attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (8 – 11).
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3371302/#R
The New York Times points out that the American Psychiatric Association criteria for ADHD include “often has difficulty waiting his or her turn” and “makes careless mistakes,”
Heck, I see this in traffic everyday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/health/the-selling-of-attention-deficit-disorder.html?_r=0
The Selling of Attention Deficit Disorder - the NYT article referenced in the article.
There are adults suddenly getting themselves diagnosed too, presumably for the disability benefits or other concessions.
IMHO, and to be incredibly politically incorrect, I believe a lot of this can be traced to the disappearance of corporal punishment.
When I was a kid and before I could be trusted to make reasonably correct decisions, I was usually good because I lived in fear of what would happen if I wasn’t. And it worked, as it always has for centuries.
Again, IMHO, much of this problem could be solved by, as my Dad used to say, “the application of the hand of wisdom to the seat of knowledge.”
It seems to me that today there’s a serious lack of behavioral consequences.
Video immersion, lack of real punishments, constant fructose intake, rapid fire enticements, low sleep, low exercise, low expectations.
Kids with ADHD get extra benefits ... or “mom” gets ‘em...
I barely made it through the title, never mind the article...