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Brain clues to attention disorder

k p Collins kpaulc at [----------]earthlink.net
Thu Dec 25 05:20:12 EST 2003


I could not disagree more strongly.

First, I did not say or imply that Children 'should be
abandoned' by doing nothing.

I said exactly the opposite. Care for the Children by
teaching them, to the degree possible how nervous systems
process information, and why they process information as
they do [I've had success with 8th graders. With Younger
Children the teaching would have to occur through examples
on the parts of Adults who, themselves, have learned how
nervous systems process information.]

This is not 'doing nothing', and doing it this way has
enormous advantages over resort to drugs - be-cause the
Child who learns how and why nervous systems process
information as they do simultaneously acquires a very useful
set of cognitive 'tools' that are universally-applicable within
interactive dynamics, not the least of which is with respect
to comprehension of the 'blind'-automation that is inherent
in aggression.

More below.

<orkeltatte at hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:84da9680.0312240036.54fbf491 at posting.google.com...
> Okey!
>
> Trying to leave the microcosmos just for a little while and put a
> clinical view on this topic.
> I have´nt read all threads , so if I am repeating any earlier
> discussion or point of view, please bear vith me.
>
> As a clinician , prescribing any treatment, it always come to waying
> the risks against the benefits in a long term as well as short term
> timeperspective. There are a substantial body of evidence on treating
> children diagnosed as ADDH with amphetamine and metamphetamine , where
> we find on long term follow-up , that the child has a great benefit
> with treatment regarding academic achievements, family function,
> sociability,etcetera,etcetera. as opposed to the untreated wich has a
> signifiquant risk of future criminal behavior and drugaddiction.

Here, from the perspective from which I am addressing the dynamics
that have been referred to as 'ADHD', your use of "untreated" connotes
"allowed to languish without understanding".

Of course such is an instability-inviting circumstance.

Of course Children allowed to languish in the absence-of-understanding
will succumb to behaviorally-injurious circumstances into which they
have 'blindly' wandered

But such 'blind'-wandering is just not in the position I've taken.

> In a
> Swedish material it has been found that 50% of the heroineaddicts
> (intravenous) was diagnosed with ADDH in adulthood. 40% of the
> inmates> in prisons had a neuropsychiatric condition. and so on.

What is substantiated to come first, being allowed to languish in
absence-of-understanding or prison? Drug use or 'ADHD'?

> The problem lies in the fact that all mechanisms on cell level and
> transmittorinteractions are not fully understood (wich this board is
> an excellent example of) and the long-term consequences on the
> immature and developing brain still are to a great extent unknown.

The effects of teaching Children how nervous systems process
information, and why they process information as they do, are
known, and strongly-positive with respect to a Child's welfare.

> Anyway it is my strong opinion that the benefits from treatment
> strongly outmatches the today known risks , and that it is morally and
> ethically  impossible to refuse treatment with these drugs.
>
> orkeltatte

It's 'funny', I can verify that such is True with respect to the
position I've discussed, and there's no guessing inherent.

k. p. collins





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