I have to exercise every day.  Partly out of necessity, and partly because the dogs would stage a mutiny if I didn’t walk them twice a day.  When I exercise, my ability to focus improves, and I sleep more soundly.  Exercising raises the amount of dopamine in the brain.  Since people with ADHD have a [...]

Clinical trials are studies for drugs that are seeking FDA approval.  Clinical trials have a high standard of care, including study subjects being seen by a physician at every visit.  For information on available clinical trials, go to www.centerwatch.com http://clinicaltrials.gov/ The clinicaltrials.gov site also lists non-drug research studies and research studies on drugs already approved [...]

I love these Manolo Blahniks.  I covet them.  Then again, I’m a sucker for any great Mary Jane shoe. However, sometimes a great idea can be taken, well, into another dimension.  And it is not always a dimension of good taste.  I present to you…the Mary Jane gone wrong.   Do I covet these shoes?  [...]

I think that inventing your own color automatically makes you a very cool person.  Yves Klein was a French artist that, with the assistance of a chemist, created and patented his own shade of blue.  He called it International Klein Blue, or IKB.  It’s my favorite shade of blue.  Yves Klein, Blue Monochrome, 1961.  The Sidney [...]

In a six-year study of 9,000 children, it was discovered that growing up with a dog leads to a low level of sensitization to allergens.  This was also true of children who did not have a dog in the home, but had frequent contact with dogs.  The children were not only less sensitive to animal [...]

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I’m one of those people who continually changes radio stations or songs on CD/mp3.  Even if I like a song, I will inexplicably change it.  I will then wonder why I’ve changed it.  This is particularly an issue when I am working on the computer.  I spend about 50% of my time changing songs. Not [...]

Yay!  Thank you to Lisa and John at Blu Dove Designs for the new website!  It was up for only 30 minutes before someone called me after seeing the new site!  Wow. New additions to the website include podcasts, printable resource handouts, and the ability to purchase books.  My blog now has posts listed by [...]

Animal behavior is fascinating. And I’ve never heard the term “investment strategy” applied to a cephalopod. But it works. Male octupi (that’s plural for “octopus”) guard the dens of their partners and will even strangle rivals that get too close to their partner’s den. Male octupi who want to mate with another octopus’ partner will [...]

Here’s another study on how taking stimulant medication for ADHD does NOT increase the chances of substance abuse. People who started taking stimulant medication at 6 or 7 years of age had the same substance abuse rate as non-ADHD people. In addition, people who started taking stimulant medication when they were 8 to 12 years [...]