http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Leslye Nathe did not realize the profound effect that Ritalin was having on her mother's Alzheimer's disease until a doctor stopped the prescription. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-ritalin-apathy-patients-alzheimer-disease.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Tue, 05 Feb 2013 13:50:02 EST news279293507 Poor impulse control contributes to one's inability to control the consumption of rewarding substances, like food, alcohol, and other drugs. This can lead to the development of addiction. FDA-approved medications for alcoholism, like naltrexone (Revia) and disulfiram (Antabuse), are thought to reduce alcohol consumption by curbing cravings and creating unpleasant reactions to alcohol, effects which reduce the desire to drink alcohol. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-impulsive-modafinil.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:20:15 EST news278943602 Physicians in Canada should consider refusing to prescribe cognitive enhancement medications—also used to treat attention deficit disorder (ADD)—to healthy patients, states an analysis article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). Lack of evidence for benefits and possibility of harm, limited health care resources and professional integrity of physicians are reasons why this use is not acceptable. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-physicians-drugs-healthy-people.html Medications Mon, 17 Dec 2012 12:00:05 EST news274958998 A new study shows that newborns that have been exposed to nicotine from both active and passive smoking mothers show poor physiological, sensory, motor and attention responses. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-passive-affects-neurodevelopment-babies.html Health Fri, 14 Sep 2012 10:36:51 EST news266837803 Scientists studying the Chinese mindfulness meditation known as integrative body-mind training (IBMT) say they've confirmed and expanded their findings on changes in structural efficiency of white matter in the brain that can be related to positive behavioral changes in subjects practicing the technique regularly for a month. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-chinese-meditation-ibmt-prompts-positive.html Neuroscience Mon, 11 Jun 2012 15:00:01 EST news258645102 (Medical Xpress) -- "There has long been a popular consensus that physical activity is good for children with attention deficit disorder with or without hyperactivity [ADHD] because, by definition, these children are constantly moving. But no empirical study has validated this belief... until today," says Claudia Verret, an Université de Montréal kinesiology graduate. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-physical-beneficial-children-adhd.html Attention deficit disorders Thu, 07 Jun 2012 08:29:56 EST news258276578 (Medical Xpress) -- Scientists have developed a way to evaluate new treatments for some forms of attention deficit disorder. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-brain-scans-reveal-drugs-effects.html Neuroscience Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:48:56 EST news237804521 Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have uncovered new details of an unusual biological mechanism in the brains of diverse species that not only helps regulate how their brains develop, but also how they function later in life. The discovery could lead to new biomarkers for specific neurological diseases in humans and, possibly, the development of drugs to cure them. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-frogs-chickens-people-highly-dual.html Medical research Thu, 19 May 2011 15:10:01 EST news225033617