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Questioning The Need For More Funding
There never seems to be enough money in health or education. The calls for more “funding” become deafening. In Australia we have had numerous “education revolutions” over the last five years each...
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Rising Incidence Of “ADHD” Calls For Radical Rethinking
When the American Academy of Pediatrics changed the guidelines for ADHD to expand the age of diagnosis to include children from age 4-18 (from 6-12), that the number of cases would rise was, by...
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Some Run Faster
A new book by Dr Richard Saul claims that ADHD, as a “condition” does not exist. He claims that whilst the symptoms are real, there are a number of underlying reasons for them and that these are...
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Resilience And Brain Integration
Every child must undergo a rite of passage to become an adult. This journey is one that has become more complex in recent history due to the increasing complexity and challenges in their life and the...
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Out Of Control
Would it be big news if one third of athletes felt that using performance-enhancing drugs was not a form of cheating? Would this be even bigger news if 20% admitted doing so? I think it would be. Many...
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The Empire Strikes Back
In the Star Wars films there is a seesawing battle between the empire and the “rebels”. Through the initial three-film trilogy each side is in the ascendency at differing times. Whilst not a perfect...
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Using Medication as Social Control
Tom Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH,) in his recent blog post Are Children Overmedicated? seems to suggest that perhaps more psychiatric medication is in order....
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Today Show – Too Many Pills
We need to always question whether long term use of tablets is doing us more good than harm.[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIn6OZRjhvw[/youtube] Dr JoeMedical Doctor, author, speaker, media...
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New Discoveries Of Old Truths
There is an adage, which says that everything old will be new again. I have previously written about my late mothers take on fashion. If you had a laundry basket big enough to keep piling clothes into,...
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Houston – We Have A Problem!
Much work has been done over the last few years on the dangers of sitting. Whilst claims that sitting is the new smoking are way over blown, it is true that in modern western countries many of us spend...
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