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What was on the mind of the feature assignment desk at NBC and ABC? The brain.
NBC's Mika Brzezinski, newly arrived from CBS, filed an In Depth look at a "medical community sharply divided" over whether to prescribe anti-psychotic drugs to children. She told us the story of Carly Rambish, a Connecticut three-year-old who threw horrible tantrums, tried to jump out of a moving car, even tore a closet door off its hinges. After three years of consultation she was diagnosed as bipolar. Then came the question of whether to medicate her. "No, no no no," insisted psychiatrist Peter Breggin, author of Toxic Psychiatry "Every drug causes a biochemical imbalance. We do not want to be doing that to the growing brain." Her parents decided otherwise. So every day for breakfast, the child gets a bagel plus Risperdal plus Depakote before going off to a special school for bipolar students. "She acts more like a little girl," her mother Tina explained.
Babyboomers, too, worry about their brains, ABC's Gigi Stone (subscription required) told us, leading to "an emerging industry" offering that "cognitive fountain of youth." Nintendo sells Brain Age a memory boosting videogame. The Neurowave Chair offers multi-sensory brain stimulation. A memory gym in Florida offers workout software for the mind for a $125 monthly fee. Stone conceded that some of mental fitness schemes "might just be marketing ploys." Why not just do Sudoku?
Andrew,
This is an excellent blog, and it raises some very important questions especially about the efficacy of medicating children. Secondly, adult cognitive capacity is something very near and dear to my heart. I had been searching for a while for a program to help me keep my edge and all of the research I did lead me to a company called Posit Science, www.positscience.com. They have very transperant scientific data on their website detailing the bennefits of the program, and it really is great! It is absolutely worth a look for anyone looking to stave off old-age for a while longer.
Cheers!
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