Meanwhile, masses of ordinary people + ubiquitous smartphones + omnipresent social media feeds seems, for the most part, to be resulting in a kind of mainstream attention deficit disorder.
Searching novel, safe and effective anti-inflammatory agents has remained an evolving research enquiry in the mainstream of inflammatory disorders.
The DSM notes that this condition is entering the sphere of mainstream mental health disorders, but there isn't a good medical model for diagnosing it yet.
There is an emphasis within attachment therapy on aggressive behavior as a symptom of what they describe as attachment disorder whereas mainstream theorists view these behaviors as comorbid, externalizing behaviors requiring appropriate assessment and treatment rather than attachment disorders.
The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy of these two interventions on the motor performance, isometric strength and cardiorespiratory fitness (aerobic and anaerobic capacity) of children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) attending mainstream schools in a low-income setting.
As I've been giving interviews and speeches about my new book, specifically the points it makes about the role the media have played in the allowing the Right to hijack our democracy, I've been struck by the public's frustration at the mainstream media's Attention Deficit Disorder -- the failure to pursue important stories that, once exposed, are quickly forgotten.
It's why every mainstream media depiction of eating disorders always centers around anorexia -- because we can romanticize that.
Reasons for this may include the fact that ED research is smaller and newer, and compared with disorders considered more "mainstream," EDs have been excluded from some large national surveys.
But as cuts to the education budget deepen, our clientele is changing; pupils with an autism spectrum disorder are sent to mainstream schools while we receive pupils whose needs are more related to behavioural issues.
It seems as if only mainstream articles available about this debilitating disorder are tabloid features about a celebrity's suicide attempt or expos?about the amount of Prozac in our drinking water.
