Advocacy, Tics-blinking-etc

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Subj: [psychiatry-research] Parenthood in America

Date: 12/19/01 4:19:58 AM Eastern Standard Time

Curtesy of: ian.pitchford@... (Ian Pitchford)

Table of Contents - December 19, 2001

Vol 286, No. 23 pp 2899-3038

http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v286n23/toc.html

Parenthood in America: Undervalued, Underpaid, Under Siege (Westman, ed)

Reviewed by E. M. Alderman

http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v286n23/ffull/jbk1219-1.html

The Effect of Children on Parents (Ambert)

Reviewed by S. McGuire

http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v286n23/ffull/jbk1219-2.html

The History of Modern Epilepsy: The Beginning, 1865-1914 (Friedlander)

Reviewed by J. C. DeToledo

http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v286n23/ffull/jbk1219-5.html

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Subj: [ADHD_Bulletin_Board] Blinking, eye rolling and ADHD (article)

Date: 12/26/01 11:48:09 PM Eastern Standard Time

From: ctw1940@... (charles_w_2000)

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Curtesy of: T. Wild

Innocent tics like blinking and eye rolling can hold clues to a

child's learning disabilities (article).

According to the study published in the journal Neurology, mild tics

such as lip puckering, eye rolling, head tossing, and nose scrunching

are important clues to diagnosing other learning disabilities like

attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, and obsessive

compulsive disorder, or OCD...

Learning disabilities such as ADHD or OCD afflict between 50 percent

and 70 percent of children with Tourette's Syndrome, and Kurlan says

his study suggests that even mild tics alone, not necessarily

Tourette's, may represent an " identifiable sign of an underlying

brain developmental disorder that contributes to academic

difficulties, " or a barrier to learning.

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HREF= " http://dailynews./h/abc/20011226/hl/tics_011226_1.html " >http://da\

ilynews./h/abc/20011226/hl/tics_011226_1.html</A>

Source: Abcnews.com December 26, 2001

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Dyslexia: a webpage:

- abnormal distractibility, " twitchiness " and hyperactivity

- problems with fine motor control in handwriting

- visual problems associated with motor control of the eyes: lack of

smooth tracking, lack of smooth convergence, unstable ocular

dominance, intermittent mismatched focusing and poor stereopsis at

the midline.

<A

HREF= " http://www.dyslexia.org/corpus.shtml " >http://www.dyslexia.org/corpus.shtml\

</A>

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Blinking and eye rolling can also be associated with some types of

epilepsy.

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Merck (ADD):

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Mike Savory

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