Such choice appeals to attention-deficit-disordered baby boomers like myself. n Helping the old get young.
The new cognition-enhancing drugs are designed to treat debilitating diseases such as Alzheimer's, attention-deficit disorder and schizophrenia.
It used to be red-flag disorders like autism and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder that attracted attention in early childhood.
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Medical residents (who you might think might know better) routinely take attention-deficit-disorder medication so they can keep up.
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One reason is that in the land of attention-deficit disorder the media cannot sustain its focus for long.
Some hoarders show signs of dementia, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and attention-deficit disorder.
Psychiatrists have long trained the brain's pre-frontal cortex to fight against acute conditions like anxiety, post-traumatic stress and attention-deficit disorder.
With some childhood conditions, like autism or attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, social problems are one of the primary characteristics of the disorder.
Lilly has another promising brain drug nearing the end of its development as well: Strattera, a non-stimulant treatment for attention-deficit disorder.
Most have other conditions as well, like attention-deficit hyperactivity disorders, sleep problems or epilepsy, which may affect their functioning, Dr. Gillberg said.
They affect your IT budgets, investment portfolio, workforce productivity and attention-deficit disorder.
As a youngster, he says, he struggled with attention-deficit disorder and dyslexia.
He gave a physical exam to a 12-year-old, a follow-up exam to a head-injury patient and evaluated a child on attention-deficit medication.
H. grant to investigate various mental illnesses, like obsessive-compulsive disorder and attention-deficit disorder, in terms of the ability to control and direct attention.
Following the mosaic convention of TV procedurals, it leaps from one crisis to another with an attention-deficit alacrity that occasionally borders on absurdity.
But it was accepted that medicine he had been taking for 10 years to control attention-deficit disorder was the reason for the failed test.
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As a youngster, he says, he struggled with attention-deficit disorder and dyslexia, which still make it difficult for him to read long documents or books.
"To be honest with you, I have a bad memory anyway, " Zimmerman said, adding that he has attention-deficit (hyperactivity) disorder and takes medication for it.
Work by other researchers, however, has suggested such supplements do improve the performance and behaviour of school-age children with specific diagnoses such as dyslexia, attention-deficit disorder and developmental co-ordination disorder.
Psychiatric evaluations turned up little more than attention-deficit disorder.
Those medications include phentermine and several other stimulants approved for weight loss in the 1950s, as well as drugs to treat diabetes, depression and attention-deficit disorder that have weight-loss as a side effect.
Another effect: behavioral abnormalities such as attention-deficit disorder.
Or turned us into hyper-clicking, attention-deficit browsers.
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It would be easy to point the finger at lazy journalists for this state of affairs, and a journalistic version of attention-deficit disorder is, no doubt, partly to blame, for the press has a natural bias towards the new and exciting.
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While medications like Adderall and Vyvanse can be life-saving for those who suffer with an attention-deficit disorder, when people who are not afflicted with such a disorder use the same meds to enhance attention and concentration for work or school there are serious risks and dangers that must be managed.
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Thing is, for us (and likely many of you), they last far longer than our clinically-diagnosed Gadget Attention Deficit Disorder would ever tolerate -- but for your dad, your sister, your college buddy with the hand-me-down ZEOS Pantera running Windows 95, or anyone weary of re-upping a two-year commitment, a handset can easily become a serious long-term investment.
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Autism, attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder and schizophrenia all share several genetic risk factors, according to a major study.
This kind of doublespeak became more and more troubling, and my career came to an end over a job involving revising a manuscript supporting the use of a drug for attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), with a duration of action that fell between that of shorter- and longer-acting formulations.
"It's clear that as we come out of this economic downturn, we really need to turn our attention to the longer-term deficit problem and take steps that will bring the deficit under control, which will, I believe, necessarily lead to dealing both with reductions in spending and increases in revenue, " he said.
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For someone with a deep attention deficit, its time-management component is certainly a challenge.
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