The best article about ADHD I’ve read to date is “Running from Ritalin” by Malcolm Gladwell, from the New Yorker, 15 Feb 1999 (p80).
>”Is the hectic pace of contemporary life really to blame for A.D.D.? Not so fast.”
Read it here.
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Site: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=12033281&SrchMode=1&sid=3&Fmt=6&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1205792003&clientId=28381
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Not sure exactly what’s going on here… but when I try to view a “formatted document” from ProQuest in Firefox, it shows a page with two frames. A small frame at the top with a header, and a blank white frame below, which seems to be linked directly to a pdf or something (since I can’t even right click on it). The page views fine in IE, and I can open PDF’s in Firefox w/out incident (except for in this case). Now it says in the status bar “The document has been closed by Acrobat - press the Refresh button to reload”. Also, I installed the “pdf download” plugin that intercepts pdf’s before they are handled by the adobe viewer (hoping this might somehow solve my problem) and the plugin doesn’t even intercept the pdf.
Platform: Win32
Product: Firefox/2.0.0.12
OS: Windows NT 5.1
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Build Config:
–enable-application=browser –enable-update-channel=release –enable-official-branding –enable-optimize –disable-debug –disable-tests –enable-static –disable-shared –enable-svg –enable-canvas –enable-update-packaging
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Data presentation can be beautiful, elegant and descriptive. There is a variety of conventional ways to visualize data - tables, histograms, pie charts and bar graphs are being used every day, in every project and on every possible occasion. However, to convey a message to your readers effectively, sometimes you need more than just a simple pie chart of your results. In fact, there are much better, profound, creative and absolutely fascinating ways to visualize data. Many of them might become ubiquitous in the next few years.
So what can we expect? Which innovative ideas are already being used? And what are the most creative approaches to present data in ways we’ve never thought before?
Let’s take a look at the most interesting modern approaches to data visualization as well as related articles, resources and tools.
[From Data Visualization: Modern Approaches | Graphics | Smashing Magazine]
From an article by Gualtieri CT, Johnson LG published in J Atten Disord. 2008 Jan;11(4):459-69. Epub 2007 (pubmed)
OBJECTIVE: Although ADHD medications are effective for the behavioral components of the disorder, little information exists concerning their effects on cognition, especially in community samples.
RESULTS: Significant differences were detected between normals and untreated ADHD patients. Treated patients performed better than untreated patients but remained significantly impaired compared to normal subjects.
CONCLUSION: Even with optimal treatment, based on parents’ and teachers’ opinions, subtle and not-so-subtle neurocognitive impairments persisted in the ADHD patients. Some ADHD patients may require additional educational assistance, even in the face of successful medication treatment.
Synergy Advance is still in the early stages of its roll out so it does not yet feature all the features of Synergy (although it does feature some things that Synergy does not and never will have because of its architecture). By the time the roll out is complete Synergy Advance will do everything that Synergy can do and much more (see the road map).
[From Synergy Advance]
and yet it hasn’t been updated since MARCH 2007?! (And that was a beta!!!!)
and yet Synergy “Classic” is constantly updated…
3.5a (27 November 2007)
Rewrite in Objective-C 2.0.
This release is the first Leopard-only release of Synergy; for users of older versions of Mac OS X the 3.2 series is still available for download here.[From Synergy: history]
It’s updated every few weeks, and was completely rewritten… for Leopard only!? How is this a “successor” app?
I guess they say that Synergy Advance is a “preview”, and maybe that’s why it doesn’t have the urgency of keeping the ‘mature’ Synergy Classic polished and running… but I was hoping to be getting in on a cutting-edge product that would grow over time, yet it has remained pretty stagnant since I bought my license months ago…
Though an unprotected human would not long survive in the clutches of outer space, it is remarkable that survival times can be measured in minutes rather than seconds, and that one could endure such an inhospitable environment for almost two minutes without suffering any irreversible damage. The human body is indeed a resilient machine.
COOOOL
via mefi
But cosmetic neurology, as some call it, has risks. Ritalin, Adderall and other ADHD drugs can cause headaches, insomnia and loss of appetite. Provigil can make users nervous or anxious and bring on headaches, while beta blockers can cause drowsiness, fatigue and wheezing.
Martha J. Farah, a bioethicist who teaches undergraduates at the University of Pennsylvania, said she was beginning to detect resentment toward students who used the drugs from classmates who did not. She has wondered whether improving productivity through artificial means also might undermine the value of hard work.
[From Pumping up your brain with legal drugs -- baltimoresun.com]
OH NO! I’m sure fear of headaches, insomnia and loss of appetite are going to dissuade people from taking ADHD drugs to improve their academic performance. *rolleyes*
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