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Answering the ADHD Skeptics

Started by Karoli · 7 months ago

Hold the presses! ADHD IS real, and is linked to a variant dopamine receptor gene.
A second study — led this time by Dr. Nora D. Volkow, director of the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse — suggests that the ADHD drug Ritalin works by increasing the brain&% ... Continue reading »

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  • Katharine

    1 year ago

    Gasp! You mean I haven't imagined that my father-in-law, husband, and one son have ADHD?!

    Maybe we should get T-shirts printed carrying the URLs to the two studies in Archives of General Psychiatry and saying "Told ya! Neener, neener, neener!" ;-)
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  • karoli

    1 year ago

    I like that! And no, you haven't imagined it...nor have I. I'm guessing this goes back several generations in my family on my father's side, definitely back three, and maybe more.
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  • researchagain

    1 year ago

    Good rebuttal article, Karoli. They have been doing genetic studies on it at UCLA.

    The bad press is mostly coming from press releases published by the CCHR (Citizen's Commission on Human Rights), the enforcement wing of the Church of $cientology.
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