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Not available Children ≥6 years & adults Monoamine reuptake inhibitor & releasing agent: Approved: Highly efficacious, therapeutic effects are usually seen within an hour of oral administration. Methylphenidate: Ritalin, Concerta [127] Children ≥6 years & adults Children ≥6 years & adults Children ≥6 years & adults NDRI: Approved
Methylphenidate, sold under the brand names Ritalin (/ ˈ r ɪ t ə l ɪ n / RIT-ə-lin) and Concerta (/ k ə n ˈ s ɜːr t ə / kən-SUR-tə) [citation needed] among others, is a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and narcolepsy.
The Ritalin class-action lawsuits were a series of federal lawsuits in 2000, filed in five separate US states. [1] All five lawsuits were dismissed by the end of 2002. The lawsuits alleged that the makers of methylphenidate (brand name Ritalin) and the American Psychiatric Association had conspired to invent and promote the disorder ADHD to create a highly profitable market for the drug.
Large, high quality research has found small differences in the brain between ADHD and non-ADHD patients. [1] [15] Jonathan Leo and David Cohen, critics who reject the characterization of ADHD as a disorder, contended in 2003 and 2004 that the controls for stimulant medication usage were inadequate in some lobar volumetric studies, which makes it impossible to determine whether ADHD itself or ...
Andrew Pyper, the Canadian author behind thrillers like Lost Girls and The Demonologist, has died, PEOPLE can confirm. He was 56. The bestselling novelist died of cancer complications on Friday ...
An Ohio man allegedly slammed a 15-month-old girl on the floor after she wouldn’t stop crying, fracturing her skull. Two weeks later, she died of her injuries. The man, Piqua resident Michael ...
I wonder if the middle-aged children of aging parents yield to parental obfuscations and equivocations — the little lies we tell — because they may not really want to know about the forgetting ...
The JPPI formed a team, which visited the CTW in New York to negotiate the production of 130 30-minute programs, [20] purchasing the rights to create an Arab version for US$2.5 million, and bringing in experts from throughout the Arab world "to introduce an all encompassing Arabic curriculum that would teach and cultivate Arab values and culture".