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What's better for a child with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder--behavior therapy or medications like Ritalin? The answer is, well, complicated. A new report shows medication alone or combined with therapy is decidedly more effective than therapy alone in reducing overt symptoms of adhd--the off-the-wall jumpiness and inattentiveness that exhausted parents know all too well. But combining drugs with behavior therapy seems to benefit kids in ways that drugs alone don't--like enabling them to make friends more easily and even score higher on achievement tests...
Facing an early 1-0 deficit against the Huskies, Moore set up his younger brother Dominic with a pass across the crease for the team's first goal. Then, in the third period, Steve struck again by recovering a loose puck in the Northeastern end and notching an unassisted goal to give the Crimson a two-goal lead...
...comeback, the Huskies also showed off their poise and experience. Even though they had been outrebounded all day, with 2:06 to go the Huskies got three straight offensive rebounds which took 1:21 off the clock and left the Crimson with almost no time left to overcome the deficit. Hammick had two of those rebounds, including one off his own shot...
Harvard had to battle back from an early deficit, thanks to a bench minor issued to the Crimson for a protocol violation. Northeastern center Bobby Davis worked the puck down low and pushed it past junior goaltender Oliver Jonas to light the lamp first...
Increasingly, it looks as though children with Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder, rather than being brats by choice, are really governed by a medical condition. According to a study in the current issue of the medical journal the Lancet, children with ADHD may have a lower-than-normal amount of the chemical dopamine, which is associated with concentration and motivation. ADHD children, says the report, have an average of 70 percent more dopamine transporters in their brains than other children - evidence, researchers think, that these brains developed the extra transporters in a vain effort to compensate for a lack of dopamine...