HLTHAGE 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Effects Of Cannabis, Substance Abuse, Methylphenidate
16 Dec 2014
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Office hours: m&w, kth 241, 5-6 or by appointment savellm@mcmaster. ca. Emergence of hyperactivity: emma pendleton bradley home in rhode island. Painful procedure involving a spinal tap in neurological assessment of children. To combat headaches, one physician (charles bradley, a relative of the hospital"s founders) gave children amphetamine benzedrine. Staff noticed the children had an easier time focusing and behaving in class after taking the drug. Published his findings in american journal of psychiatry. these findings for nearly 30 years. Despite their publication, nothing really happened with. Well, there was no demand for treatments for hyperactive children in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Hyperactivity is born: before late 1950s, hyperactivity hardly mentioned in psych literature, 1957, researchers from bradley home publish on. Symptoms included hyperactivity, short attention span, irritability, impulsiveness, poor school work, variability of behaviour. Stressed that all children were prone to this behaviour more than adults and that these children were more like normal children than severely disturbed.
