UCLA researchers have found that children who take medications for ADHD are at no greater risk of using alcohol, marijuana, nicotine or cocaine later in life.

An article in today’s New York Times about perceptual learning, which relies largely on gut-instinct, cites studies by UCLA researchers and colleagues in which school students were asked to solve mathematical problems that often required more intuition than mathematical knowledge. Philip J. Kellman, UCLA professor of cognitive psychology, is quoted.