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Maternal Food Choices Determine Risk of Overweight Kids

...nt Breakfast and Pediasure, and perceived appetite stimulants were used by 43 percent and 12 percent of the sample respectively. This is one of the first studies to focus on how food insecurity may influence maternal choices of food that increase the risk for a child to become overweight. Although a lack of a...

The Scent of a Safe Driver

...ush's research on peppermint and cinnamon odors as stimulants of the central nervous system. According to Dr. Raudenbush the significance of Esgro’s study in creating more safety avenues for long–distance driving, minimizing highway accident s and related risks is what make his study worthy of mention. Gene...

ADHD Drugs Should Have All The Warnings On The Label

...ct problems and drug abuse. // Ritalin and other stimulants are prescribed to treat this disease. But drug experts say that these drugs prescribed for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) should carry the most serious type of warning labels. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) committee insist...

Children With ADHD May Just Be Sleepy

...stay alert. Researchers say this could explain why stimulants – which induce alertness by increasing activity in the central nervous system – are effective for treating children with ADHD. The research team had studied 66 children with an average age of 12; 34 had already been diagnosed with ADHD, and the rest...

Clinical Comparisons Between ADHD Drugs Are Less

...ned before in a systematic review, including newer stimulants such as modafinil and non-stimulant drugs such as Strattera (atomoxetine), antihypertensive drugs such as guanfacine and older antipsychotic drugs such as clozapine. Limited evidence suggests that the antihypertensive drugs clonidine and guanfacine ...

Sensations Generated By Cocaine And Methamphetamine Abuse Are Not Same.

...thamphetamine. Cardiovascular responses to the two stimulants are similar at onset but responses to cocaine decline more rapidly. The study was published in the journal Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior. Researchers said that these differences help explain patterns of use by addicts. Methamphetamine use...

Virtual Reality For Treating Stress Disorders

...e set in whenever they are exposed to any possible stimulants connected to their terrible experience. Researchers said that this therapy could work best for patients like soldiers who had gone through the ravages of the war, or the victims who had survived the catastrophe of September bombing of WTC, or perhaps...

Zinc Supplements Found To Be Effective In Treating Children With ADHD

...zinc supplements may increase the effectiveness of stimulants for children with attention deficit hyperactivity ... the children were given the standard treatment of stimulants along with zinc supplements and half were given stimulants along with a placebo. Researchers say the...

Marijuana 'gateway' theory strengthened by study of twins

... commonly used harder drugs were cocaine and other stimulants as compared to 26 percent of the non-early marijuana users. Hallucinogens were the second most common, used by 35 percent of the early marijuana twins versus 18 percent of the others. The study, whose lead researcher was Michael Lynskey, was reporte...

Abuse of prescription drugs among youths on the rise

...g the most abused prescription drugs, while use of stimulants and tranquilizers were also rising. Researchers claim that young people who abused prescription drugs were also more likely to use illegal drugs, such as marijuana, cocaine, or hallucinogens. They added that once one gets caught in the pattern of ab...

Drug Combo Works Better for children with ADHD, Tics

... for treating ADHD's symptoms– is a stimulant, and stimulants were thought to worsen tics. But so far, there has been no evidence proving this to be true. Hoping to lay this question to rest, researchers set out to study the most effective drug therapy for children with this combination of disorders. In the s...

Drug Combinations May Boost Stroke Risk

...ciation may indicate that people who use SSRIs and stimulants should do so cautiously, and be aware that there may be risk for drug interaction....

Ritalin May Lower Cocaine Abuse

...tion-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) who use stimulants like Ritalin are not at risk for cocaine addiction later in life. The study in rats suggests that stimulant treatment in childhood may blunt the pleasurable effects of cocaine in adulthood. // Many children and teens with ADHD are treated with stim...

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