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By response rate, extended release stimulants are among the most effective medicines in psychiatry, and most people tolerate them well. That is worth hearing plainly, particularly from people who are not generally keen on medication.
What the long acting form buys you is coverage. A dose that has faded by four in the afternoon leaves the evening bare, and the evening is where home…
Better usually means smaller, rarer, or shorter. Pick something you can count, like losing your keys twice a week instead of every day.
Vague goals cannot be reviewed, so a few months later nobody can say whether anything changed and you are left going on mood alone. Choose two or…
You are going to look things up anyway, so start somewhere with proper review behind it. CHADD and Understood both have professionals checking what goes on the page.
Telling anyone to stop searching online has never worked and only means they search without saying so. Better to hand over two or three places worth…
Brain training and therapeutic games raise one question above all others. Does the improvement show up anywhere except inside the game, and does it last once you stop playing?
People do get better at what they practise, and the scores go up, which makes for a persuasive chart on a website. The harder question is whether…
Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.
Supplements are not checked before they go on sale, so what is in the bottle may not match the label. Look for a third party mark such as USP or NSF before you buy.
This is not about whether a given supplement helps. It is about the plainer question of whether you are getting the dose written on the front, since…