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Can We Really Multitask?

Sunday, April 18th, 2010

Recently, many states have begun passing laws about not texting and driving at the same. The rise in traffic fatalities due to the distraction caused by attempting to text and drive at the same time has been cited as the rationale. Scientific evidence is growing to support the notion that whatever we might think otherwise, [...]

Taming ADHD With Thought-Controlled Games

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

On the surface, it appears to be a premise straight out of a science fiction film – using the mind to control a virtual reality without the use of a joystick or mouse. But in a growing number of classrooms, this strange concept is taking hold in an extraordinarily promising field – the use of [...]

ADHD and the Literary Tradition

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Writing is both mask and unveiling. – E.B. White Any editor will tell you – writers can be a notoriously difficult group. Prone to perfectionism, deep melancholy, and the sense that – given a little extra time – literary genius would be available for the taking. This is, of course, only slightly in jest. However, [...]

ADHD and Composers

Friday, December 4th, 2009

The myriad of factors responsible for the development of ADHD may be still largely unknown to us, but while medical research into the causes of the disorder is only recently beginning to shed some light on the condition and its genesis, the symptoms have been well-documented throughout the centuries. This idea appears most notably in [...]

Terry Bradshaw – Winning the Battle with ADHD

Friday, November 6th, 2009

Terry Bradshaw is a hard guy to ignore – not that you’d want to. The four-time Super Bowl champ has become a fixture of the American football tradition – known as much for his legendary professional career as for his informed yet brash commentary as a game analyst on Fox NFL Sunday. Quick-witted, and quick-to-laugh, [...]

Fighting on Two Fronts – Mariette Hartley’s Struggle with ADHD and Bipolar Disorder

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

From the outside in, Emmy award-winning actress Mariette Hartley appeared to have it all. A successful career acting on stage, film, and television, co-authoring a best-selling memoir, Breaking the Silence, and performing an acclaimed one-woman show. But is the life behind the scenes that is raising public awareness of an entirely different sort of existence [...]

ADHD Awareness Week – The Power Understanding Brings

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

‘Knowledge is Power.’ This quote by Sir Francis Bacon was the premise of a speech presented on behalf of New Zealand’s Minister for Disability Issues by Hon. Tariana Turia, at the kick-off seminar for their observance of ADD/ADHD Awareness Week. And although this quote can be used in a myriad of contexts, on this particular [...]

Sports and ADHD

Friday, September 11th, 2009

The Water Cube was filled to capacity, with thousands of fans waiting in anticipation to see one of the greatest Olympians of all time take the starting block. At the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps was under intense pressure, but you wouldn’t have known it. Amid his anxious competitors, Phelps [...]

ADHD and Health Care Reform

Saturday, August 29th, 2009

For tens of millions of Americans, the current debate over health care insurance reform is not – at heart – a solely political issue. It is a question of fundamental rights. Do we, as citizens who pay taxes, vote, and thereby join in the ongoing evolution of our democratic experiment, deserve the right to ‘universal [...]

In Celebration of the Americans with Disabilities Act

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

For millions of Americans, July 26,1990 was a landmark moment. When President George H. W. Bush signed into law the Americans with Disabilities Act, it was a momentous step forward for civil rights – and one that has had profound effects on those citizens living with physical and mental disabilities. In the past 19 years, [...]