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Reduced ability to name smells by hyperactive children has revealed for the first time a link between an impaired smell processing and the disorder. The one-year-study of 88 children aged six to 16 - 44 with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) - was led by the University of Melbourne and Murdoch Children's Research Institute. It shows how the children with ADHD had reduced ability to identify odours. The study was published in September's Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. The study involved using scratch and sniff tests of common smells such as orange, chocolate and pizza. Felicity Karsz of University of Melbourne's...

Go outside and playhttp://www.cleveland.com/living/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/living/1158309564312510.xml&coll=2 http://tinyurl.com/pg6bd That's the advice nature educators have for increasingly reined-in kids and their very protective parents Friday, September 15, 2006 Susan Glaser Plain Dealer Reporter When Steve Cadwell was a kid, he had the North Chagrin Reservation in his back yard, and he used to disappear for hours. "My mom said, 'Go outside, and don't come back until the streetlights are on,' " said Cadwell, 47, now executive director of the Nature Center of Shaker Lakes. Rare is the mother who issues that directive these days. Thanks to everything from fears about stranger danger to video...

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Check your local listings for airtimes. (Current show is updated every weekday at 5pm EST.) HEALTH Health Experts Warn of Antidepressant Dangers for Children, Teens By Darla SittonCBN News Producer In America, Prozac is the only drug the FDA has "approved" for pediatric depression. CBN.com – (CBN News) - As many as one in eight adolescents suffers from clinical depression. And these kids are often treated with anti-depressant drugs that have been tested and approved for adult use. But the drugs may not be safe for children. Corey Baadsgaard doesn't remember storming into his honors English class with a...

Common food additives cause "substantial effects" on some young children's behaviour, increasing temper tantrums and hyperactivity, according to a UK study. However, the results have been deemed inconclusive by other scientists and the paper has been rejected by peer-reviewed journals. The study involved giving children fruit juice laced with low levels of common food and drink additives. It was commissioned by the UK government in 1999 and completed in 2001. The results have now been discovered in the library of the Food Standards Agency by a campaign group called the Food Commission. Researchers at the David Hide Asthma and Allergy...

Hyperactive children have smaller brain By David Derbyshire, Science Correspondent (Filed: 09/10/2002) Hyperactive children have smaller brains than other children, according to research published today. A 10-year study of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder found that their brains developed normally but were around three per cent smaller than average. The differences were not caused by drugs, such as ritalin, used to treat the condition, the researchers found. Dr Xavier Castellanos, a child psychiatrist at New York University school of medicine who led the research, said: "Our study should provide a certain amount of reassurance to parents that medications are...