The History of Brain Imaging Studies

The first person to prescribe stimulant drugs, a fora, the diagnostic label that we now call ad h d, was charles bradley. He worked with troubled children at the emma pemberton bradley home in rhode island. The drug did nothing for his for their headaches, but he found it affected their behavior. It made the children more subdued, quiet, better able to focus on boring tasks. These drugs produce the kind of changes in children that an exhausted parent or a harried school teacher would likely regard as improvements. But decades of study have not shown any data for any lasting benefit of these drugs to kids.