Letters to the Editor

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 482-482
Author(s):  
J. Swanson
Keyword(s):  
Laboratory Test ◽  
Test Procedure ◽  
Drug Trial ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Letters To The Editor ◽  
Stimulant Drug ◽  
Stimulant Drugs ◽  
Hyperactive Children ◽  
Initial Work ◽  
Conservative Bias

In their letter, McLaughlin and Tso have misinterpreted the purpose of the short-term diagnostic drug trial we have proposed (Pediatrics 61:21, 1978). We developed our laboratory test procedure to screen out potential adverse responders, in order to prevent their mistreatment with stimulant drugs. We feel that this conservative bias is necessary, since there has been general agreement since Bradley's (1939, 1950) initial work that not all behaviorally hyperactive children have a favorable response to stimulant drug.1,2

FACTORS INFLUENCING THE SUPPRESSANT EFFECTS OF TWO STIMULANT DRUGS ON THE GROWTH OF HYPERACTIVE CHILDREN

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 660-667
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Safer ◽  
Richard P. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Stimulant Medication ◽  
Growth Suppression ◽  
Height Growth ◽  
Significant Suppression ◽  
Stimulant Drug ◽  
Stimulant Drugs ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Hyperactive Children ◽  
Regular Intake

The effect of the regular intake of stimulant medication for two or more years on growth in weight and height was evaluated for 63 hyperactive children, 29 of whom received dextroamphetamine, 20 of whom received methylphenidate, and 14 of whom received no medication because of parental objection. Major findings were: the long-term use of dextroamphetamine in hyperactive children causes a highly significant suppression of growth in weight and height; the long-term use of methylphenidate causes a less striking growth suppression only when daily doses over 20 mg are administered; tolerance develops to the weight suppressant effects of dextroamphetamine, but not to is inhibition of height growth; increasing the total degree of stimulant drug use over time generally increases the degree of growth suppression.

Shame and Guilt Inducing Drugs

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S24-S24
Author(s):  
G. DiPetta
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Stimulant Drug ◽  
Stimulant Drugs ◽  
The World ◽  
Shame And Guilt ◽  
The Common ◽  
Competing Interest ◽  
Sedative Drugs

The Author in this presentation examines the role of two complex human experiences, the Guilt and the Shame, in the field of the substances addiction. The population of abuser can be divided between users of sedatives and users of stimulants. Sedative drugs and stimulant drug belong to two different way of being-in-the-world. Sedative drugs are able to medicate the internal pain, which is constitutive of the guilt. Stimulant drugs are able to medicate the dysphoria, which is constitutive of the shame. In the realm of psychopathology Tellenbach with the concept of premelancholic personality in the guilty man and Kohut with the concept of narcissism in the tragic man have put the bases for a different typification. In both cases, the common final result, from a psychopathological point of view, is a severe crisis of the temporalization.Disclosure of interestThe author has not supplied his declaration of competing interest.

The Misuse of Statistics

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 586-587
Author(s):  
Dennis F. Hoeffler
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Effect ◽  
Recent Article ◽  
Probability Analysis ◽  
Treatment Groups ◽  
Stimulant Drugs ◽  
Basic Assumptions ◽  
Hyperactive Children ◽  
Mathematical Analyses

The increased utilization of probability analysis in medical publications has been accompanied by recurrent examples of the misapplication of biostatistical technique. A recent article in Pediatrics is a case in point. The authors support their premise that stimulant drugs have an adverse effect on the growth of hyperactive children with sophisticated statistical evaluations. They have, however, violated some basic assumptions that underlie their mathematical analyses. The most evident error is the lack of randomness in the "treatment" groups.

Letters to the Editor

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 938-939
Author(s):  
GEORGE M. WHEATLEY
Keyword(s):  
Child Health ◽  
Practical Problem ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Letters To The Editor ◽  
South Vietnam ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
International Child

Dr. Siebenthal's letter points up an important practical problem of which our Committee on International Child Health has been much aware ever since we began to function. There is a need for pediatricians to help in many foreign countries and in a variety of conditions including short-term assignments. The organization sponsoring short-term medical assignments with which I am most familiar is MEDICO. They have been quite successful in enlisting orthopods and gynecologists for one-month assignments, notably in Jordan and South Vietnam.

In Situ Short Term Test Procedure For Large Solar Thermal Systems

2000 ◽  
pp. 126-130
Author(s):  
Th. Beikircher ◽  
N. Benz ◽  
M. Gut ◽  
P. Kronthaler ◽  
C. Oberdorf ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Test Procedure ◽  
Solar Thermal ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Thermal Systems ◽  
Short Term Test

Effects of a Stimulant Drug on Extra Version Level in Hyperactive Children

1978 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald L. McManis ◽  
Mike McCarthy ◽  
Randy Koval
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Vigilance Task ◽  
Lemon Juice ◽  
Reactive Inhibition ◽  
Stimulant Drug ◽  
Follow Up Study ◽  
Hyperactive Children ◽  
Visual Motor

7 hyperactive children in a pilot study, and 15 hyperactive and 15 non-hyperactive control children in a later study, were assessed for salivation to lemon juice stimulation, reactive inhibition on an audio-vigilance task, and visual-motor maze errors. Hyperactive children were tested under stimulant drug and nondrug conditions and nonhyperactive children twice under nondrug conditions. Pilot study hyperactive children displayed significantly fewer maze errors and somewhat greater salivation and lesser reactive inhibition levels under the drug than the nondrug conditions. Follow-up study control children did not differ significantly between test occasions on any measure, while the hyperactive children displayed significantly fewer maze errors, mote salivation, and less reactive inhibition under the stimulant drug, indicating significant decreases in extraversion after the stimulant drug.

scholarly journals Critical analysis of the concept of adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder

2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (9) ◽  
pp. 334-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Moncrieff ◽  
Sami Timimi
Keyword(s):  
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ◽  
Drug Therapy ◽  
Attention Deficit ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Adult Adhd ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Stimulant Drugs ◽  
Hyperactivity Disorder ◽  
Reinforcing Effects

SummaryWe question whether adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) represents a discrete condition that is distinguishable from ordinary behaviour and other psychiatric disorders, and whether it is related to the childhood disorder, since adult and childhood ADHD are said to be characterised by a different range of symptoms. Although studies of stimulant drugs find marginal short-term effects, which can be explained by their known psychoactive properties, there is little evidence that there are any sustained long-term benefits of drug therapy. We suggest that adult ADHD represents one of the latest attempts to medicalise ordinary human difficulties, and that its popularity is partly dependent on marketing and the reinforcing effects of stimulants.

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