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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, this piece in today's NYT has some interesting information. I think it would be great if schools routinely taught mindfulness.

[url]http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/?p=101340?src=dayp[/url][/quote]

Interesting article. Here is a quote:

[i]"In a large study published last year in The Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, researchers reported that while most young people with A.D.H.D. benefit from medications in the first year, these effects generally wane by the third year, if not sooner.

“There are no long-term, lasting benefits from taking A.D.H.D. medications,” said James M. Swanson, a psychologist at the University of California, Irvine, and an author of the study. “But mindfulness seems to be training the same areas of the brain that have reduced activity in A.D.H.D.”

“That’s why mindfulness might be so important,” he added. “It seems to get at the causes.”[/i]
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Where is "not randomized!" gal on this one? Probably giving her child more drugs. [/quote]

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