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Thursday, January 6, 2011

What is happening in our society that we need to drug five-year-old children?

A report in today’s newspaper says that children with attention deficit disorder (ADHD) can’t switch off the default mode network (DMN) in their brains, the daydreaming function. Stimulant drugs such as methylphenidate may help to switch off this DMN, turn down the volume, as it were, and enable the ADHD sufferer to focus on a task.

What is happening in our society that we need to drug five-year-old children?

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