Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: ADHD
Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is not a defined illness. Rather it is a collection of symptoms and behaviours characterised by inappropriate degrees of inattention, impulsivity and/or...
Tag: children
Bad brains
Bad behaviour may be wired into adolescent brains early in life, according to a study which we published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. Young men...
Feverish children – bacteria or virus?
Every year, thousands of children throughout Britain are taken to their local GP or A&E with a high temperature. They may have no other symptoms...
Go nuts for allergies
Peanut allergy affects around one in 30 children (that's one child in each school class). We think that the rates of peanut allergy have probably stabilised -...
Is a baby worth more than an old man?
Is your beginning worth more than your end? Helplessness defines both ends of life: our need to be washed, fed, carried (or hoisted) in a...
Clean air for London school children
Poor air quality in London affects everyone. Children and people with lung conditions are particularly at risk of suffering ill health effects. 330,000 London children...
A Sabbatical in Italy
Rigoletto was the catalyst. It had been 12 years since I last lived in Italy and sitting in Covent Garden listening to this opera, I...
