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People Typically Experience Shifting Mental Disorders Over Their Lifespan, Study Finds

An anonymous reader quotes a report from PsyPost: New research based on four decades of longitudinal data indicates that it is rare for a person to receive and keep a single mental disorder diagnosis. Rather, experiencing different successive mental disorders appears to be the norm. The findings, published in JAMA Open, suggest that psychiatrists and other mental health professionals should move…

Are People With ADHD Better at Creative Tasks?

“ADHD may also bring with it an advantage: the ability to think more creatively,” argues a new article in Scientific American:
Three aspects of creative cognition are divergent thinking, conceptual expansion and overcoming knowledge constraints… Previous research has established that individuals with ADHD are exceptionally good at divergent thinking tasks, such as inventing creative new uses for everyday objects, and brainstorming new…

Acetaminophen In Pregnancy May Be Linked To Higher Risk of ADHD, Autism

schwit1 tipped us off to an interesting new study. Newsweek reports: Babies of women who took acetaminophen — a common painkiller marketed in the U.S. under the brand name Tylenol — near the end of pregnancy had a higher likelihood of being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders or with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to a study published in JAMA…

Greta Thunberg became a climate activist not in spite of her autism, but because of it

Source: https://www.vox.com/first-person/2019/5/6/18531551/autism-greta-thunberg-speech…