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The JQC filed charges against Sloop last April seeking his removal, saying that he was unfit to serve due to having 11 people arrested and subjected to strip searches for minor offense because they had accidentally gone to the wrong courtroom.

Sloop says that he’s now on medication, seeing a psychologist and psychiatrist and attending anger management classes.

Sloop, 57, appeared before the JQC for a hearing on his removal.

The commission will now make a recommendation to the Florida Supreme Court on Sloop’s future on the bench.

The 11 defendants were due to appear in court on Dec.

3, 2004 on traffic charges but had mistakenly been directed to another courtroom.

When they failed to appear in Sloop’s courtroom even though two other judges and a bailiff advised him of the mistake, he ordered them arrested and jailed for failure to appear before him.

Although the attorney prosecuting Sloop said that although a tentative plea deal had been reached with Sloop which would have allowed him to stay on the bench, the commission refused to agree to it.

This is Sloop’s fourth appearance before the judicial commission.

In 1991, Sloop was charged with drawing a handgun in court in order to keep a suspect from leaving and in 1992 and 2002, he was charged with being rude or making inappropriate comments from the bench.

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Strauss of the Clinic for Special Children said this collection of symptoms has appeared in the Amish population for generations, but previously had gone unnamed and its cause unknown.The next step for researchers at the Phoenix institute will be to develop drugs to prevent the disorder by changing the way the brain responds to the mutated gene, said Dr.

Dietrich Stephan, director of its neuro-genomic division.Strauss, like Puffenberger and Stephan, said the findings could have broad implications outside the Amish community.“This could be a ‘Rosetta Stone’ to what some other fruitful avenues of autism or epilepsy research can be,” said Strauss.According to Puffenberger, the research began with a study of two siblings and two of their cousins among the “Belleville” Amish, who live in Mifflin and Juniata counties.After isolating DNA from the four affected children and their six parents, researchers traced the disorder to a genetic mutation in a nervous-system protein named CASPR2.Later the study group was expanded to a total of 10 children, including three from Lancaster County, all of whom showed the same symptoms.In addition, 105 healthy Old Order Amish were studied as a control group.

Four of this group were found to carry the recessive genetic mutation in the CASPR2.Strauss and Puffenberger emphasized that the research not only led to the cause of the newly named disorder, but t...

...ba href=/hyperactivity/a/b disorder (ADHD) in adolescents and young adults has been the risk that they will be misused or diverted to those for whom they have not been prescribed.

A new study from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers has found that, while the great majority of young people with ADHD use their medications appropriately, a small percentage are likely to abuse or to sell prescribed stimulants.

The report, appearing in the April 2006 Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, also identifies factors that may characterize those most likely to misuse their drugs and suggests potential strategies to reduce the risk.

"In finding that misuse of stimulants prescribed for ADHD typically takes place in the context of abuse of other substances, our results show remarkable convergence with previous surveys of stimulant abuse among college students," says Timothy Wilens, MD, director of Substance Abuse Services in MGH Pediatric Psychopharmacology, who led the study.

"By putting a face on these patients, we can start to address the problem with targeted strategies." The current investigation enrolled participants in a long-term study of young men treated with medications for a variety of behavioral and psychiatric disorders.

Ten years after originally joining that study, 98 participants – 55 with ADHD and 48 who did not have ADHD – were interviewed about their overall progress and current symptoms.

The young men, with an average age of 21, also ...