Bias in ADHD Diagnosis

Bias in ADHD Diagnosis

Often when we think of someone with ADHD, a young white boy comes to mind, but while ADHD is more commonly diagnosed and treated in boys, the disorder is found across genders and races. For women, symptoms of ADHD can often be mistaken for something else, like anxiety...

This Didn’t Happen Last Night

Like many others, I slept very little last night as we waited for the results to come in. And as they did,  a sense of dread unfolded as the numbers came back: we have cancer. And then the finger-pointing started. Blame the independents. Blame the apathetic voters....

Anxiety

Wyner, J. (in press) Anxiety. In Michon, N & Fisher, D (Eds.), One Thousand Arms: Guidebook to Caring for your Buddhist Community. Richmond Hill, Ontario: Sumeru Press. Excerpt Anxiety is arguably the most human of our emotions. It comes from our ability to...
The Case for the $0.00 Allowance

The Case for the $0.00 Allowance

You’ve decided to give your child an allowance, but can’t decide how much to give them. You head over to your new online parenting specialist, Google, and find the following suggestions: $0.50 per Year of Age $1.00 per Year of Age $100 for the Year, Up...

Doctor’s Bias

I recently wrote an opinion on what I believed to be sloppy journalism in the NY Times. Briefly, this article described recent research that suggested “being overweight” was actually protective. I argued that the use of BMI as a primary measure of body fat...

Being overweight is a lifesaver!

A recent NY Times article claims that people who are slightly overweight have “less risk of dying than people of normal weight.” The author goes on, as any responsible author should, to hedge her claim with quotes from various doctors suggesting that we...