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Additionally, there was no evidence of next-day residual effects
(i.e. Among
adults with ADHD who were currently employed and had more than one job in the
last 10 years, 43 percent reported that they lost or left one or more of those
jobs in some part because of their ADHD symptoms.adhdsupport.

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Additional information
is available at: http://web. Similarly, just 19 percent of the adults with ADHD graduated from
college compared to 25 percent of the adults without ADHD . These emotional and
physical effects can cause people with ADHD to "lose" days of their lives,
Biederman explains. Psychostimulants,
medications that stimulate areas of the brain that control attention,
impulses, and self-regulation of behavior, remain among the most successful
treatments for people with ADHD.NMHA.

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"Her
ground-breaking research in attention deficit disorder,
obsessive -compulsive disorder and child-onset schizophrenia have
benefited thousands around the globe while fundamentally changing the
way in which we view child psychiatry. In addition, she is well known for,
"The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing," a book that was on The New York
Times Bestseller list for 10 weeks, and which brought new hope to
families throughout the world.

About the McGovern Institute at MIT

The McGovern Institute at MIT is a research and teaching institute
committed to advancing human understanding and communications. Evaluating, diagnosing
and treating this condition may not only improve the quality of life, but may
save adults with ADHD billions of dollars every year. They also accounted for personal and family characteristics,
including characteristics closely tied to ADHD status, to arrive at the
estimate of yearly household income losses due to the condition .4 jobs. The risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, risks
associated with the inherent uncertainty of pharmaceutical research, product
development, manufacturing and commercialization , the impact of competitive
products, including, but not limited to, the impact of those on Shire 's ADHD
franchise, patents, including but not limited to, legal challenges relating to
Shire's ADHD franchise, government regulation and approval, including but not
limited to Health Canada's suspension of ADDERALL XR(R) sales in Canada and
the expected product approval dates of MTS (METHYPATCH ) (ADHD), SPD503 (ADHD),
SPD465 (ADHD), SPD476 (ulcerative colitis), SPD480 (ulcerative colitis) and
NRP104 (ADHD), including its scheduling classification by the Drug Enforcement
Agency in the United States, Shire's ability to consummate and benefit from
its proposed acquisition of TKT, Shire's ability to secure new products for
commercialization and/or development and other risks and uncertainties
detailed from time to time in Shire's filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year to December
31, 2004.

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Scolnick Prize in
Neuroscience , an annual award recognizing an outstanding discovery or
significant advance in the field of neuroscience , has been awarded to
Dr. Rapoport was selected for her
groundbreaking studies of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
(ADHD), Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and Childhood Onset
Schizophrenia . Desimone."
Dr. The SCN regulates 24-hour biological rhythms
including the sleep-wake cycle and is also called the body's
"master clock., Professor of
Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and Chief of Pediatric Psychopharmacology
at Massachusetts General Hospital.

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MIT's McGovern Institute Selects Dr. Judith Rapoport as Winner of 2005 Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience

She received her B. Led by
a team of world-renowned, multi-disciplinary scientists, The McGovern
Institute was established in February 2000 by Lore Harp McGovern and
Patrick McGovern to meet one of the great challenges of modern science
- the development of a deep understanding of thought and emotion in
terms of their realization in the human brain. BOCA RATON, Fla.,

WHAT: Results from a Phase 3, three-way crossover study presented at the
National Institutes of Mental Health New Clinical Drug Evaluation
Unit (NCDEU) Scientific Conference on Wednesday , June 8, showed
that ramelteon, an investigational compound currently undergoing
review with the FDA for the treatment of insomnia, helped elderly
patients with chronic insomnia fall asleep faster and sleep longer
compared to placebo. Biederman.

The "Capturing America's Attention" survey was conducted among more than
1,000 adults aged 18 and older by Roper Public Affairs (formerly Roper ASW)
via telephone interviews.

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-- 2nd Annual International Award for Neuroscience Research
Honors Groundbreaking Researcher on the Development of the
Human Brain --

Dr. She is an author or coauthor of over 350
scientific papers.
Scolnick who stepped down as President of Merck Research Laboratories
in December 2002, after holding Merck + Co., recall memory, level of alertness and concentration ) in
patients taking ramelteon. household income losses due to
attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) total nearly $77 billion each
year, according to a new analysis of the national large -scale survey,
"Capturing America's Attention," presented today at the American Psychiatric
Association (APA) annual meeting in Atlanta.

About ADHD
Although many people tend to think of ADHD as a childhood problem, up to
65 percent of children with ADHD may still exhibit symptoms into adulthood,
according to the National Institute of Mental Health. For
further information on ADHD please visit http://www.

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However, approximately 17 percent of the adults surveyed with
ADHD did not graduate from high school, compared to 7 percent of those without
ADHD. "Lost days" may manifest as a day absent from work or
several times throughout the month when the person is not fully engaged both
physically and emotionally.

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Rapoport, Chief of the Child Psychiatry Branch at the
National Institute of Mental Health.

ADHD affects educational attainment
According to the "Capturing America's Attention" survey results, adults
with ADHD reported lower educational achievement and were less likely to be
high school or college graduates. Such forward-looking statements involve a number of risks
and uncertainties and are subject to change at any time.

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Her laboratory investigates the clinical
phenomenology, neurobiology and treatment of psychiatric disorders in
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Biological psychology is a cross-disciplinary field that integrates psychology, biology, and culture at the level of the human body.

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for 17 years. suffer from insomnia,
and approximately half of all older adults experience one or more
symptoms of insomnia at least a few nights per week. "The same ADHD symptoms that may cause
young patients to perform poorly in school or miss classes may also cause
these patients, as adults, to lose a significant amount of income each year. Most
employers offer employee assistance programs primarily targeted to helping
employees deal with psychological issues, or work/life programs that focus on
balancing work and family responsibilities.

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Rapoport has been Chief of the Child Psychiatry Branch within
the NIMH since 1984. The award is named in honor of Dr.

$77 Billion in Lost Income is Attributed to Attention -Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Annually in the U.S.

The compelling results of this survey show that ADHD is a serious medical
condition causing significant, life-long impairments.
Over eight million adult Americans, or 4. With
this large-scale survey, researchers examined a weighted sample of 500 ADHD
adults and 501 gender- and age-matched healthy adults that reflect the general
U. About one in four (24 percent) adults with ADHD
said that on 11 days per month, on average , they were prevented from normal
activities such as work, due to poor mental or physical health, compared to
only nine percent of the adults without ADHD.
Shire US Inc.

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HOW: Ramelteon works through a novel mechanism of action, targeting
receptors in an area of the brain called the suprachiasmatic
nucleus, or SCN. But even when the investigators accounted for
educational attainment and achievement, they found the average loss of
household income per adult with ADHD ranged from $8,900 to $15,400 per year,
depending on the econometric model used.

3 percent of working-age adults,
struggle with the inattention, impulsivity and hyperactivity of ADHD .

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Nearly a quarter of the U. Higher education is associated with an
expected higher income, and also is associated with higher rates of full-time
employment. Although there is no
cure for ADHD, physicians and advocates are finding ways to help people with
the condition learn to adapt to their school, home, social and work settings. In fact, at least 70 percent of children
with ADHD respond positively to psychostimulants.
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WHY: An estimated 60 million people in the U.

ADHD impacts employment
In the survey, adults with ADHD had more jobs during the last 10 years,
averaging 5.
ADHD usually can be successfully managed with a combination of treatments ,
such as medication and structured coping techniques.

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Biederman and his colleagues found that adults with ADHD have a lower
educational attainment and achievement than healthy adults -- factors that not
only significantly impact employment rates and income, but cause difficulties
in the workplace as well. workforce (28 million workers ages 18 to 54)
experience a mental disorder, according to a 2002 study by the University of
Michigan. Of
those surveyed, only 52 percent of the adults with ADHD were currently
employed , compared to 72 percent of the adults surveyed without ADHD.

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risks or uncertainties materialize, Shire's results could be materially
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Study Shows Ramelteon Reduced Insomnia Symptoms in Elderly

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Robert Desimone, Director of the McGovern Institute for Brain
Research at MIT, announced today that the Edward M. Rapoport pioneered the fields of neuroanatomy and
neurochemistry ADHD studies, was the first to document that the
symptoms of OCD in children and adolescents are similar to those seen
in adults, and was the first to use structural magnetic resonance
imaging to examine developmental changes in brain size and structure
in children with schizophrenia.mit.

ADHD causes "Lost Days"
ADHD adults in the survey were three times more likely to suffer from
stress, depression or other problems with emotion .

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Rapoport will present a public lecture at MIT,
hosted by the McGovern Institute and followed by a gala awards dinner.D.
The Scolnick Prize provides an important focus for the
international neuroscience community, building bridges that will
promote future collaborations and an accelerated pace of neuroscience
research.

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4 jobs compared to adults without ADHD, who had 3.

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Dr. It consists of an award equal to $50,000 and is awarded each
year to one recipient.S.com/

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WHO: Thomas Roth, PhD, director of the Sleep Disorders and Research
Center, Detroit, Mich.S.

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from Harvard Medical School in 1959. Rapoport is an elected
member of the Institute of Medicine and a Fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences., Inc. Employers are now starting to provide services that could be
helpful to affected families including flexible work hours, family leave
arrangements and childcare assistance, according to Dr. The sample list was comprised of households where
it was indicated in a health profile survey that there was a member in
residence, at least 18 years of age or more, who had been diagnosed with ADHD. Shire has operations
in the world's key pharmaceutical markets (US, Canada, UK, France, Italy ,
Spain and Germany) as well as a specialist drug delivery unit in the US.shire.

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Dr. Rapaport has contributed significantly to our current
understanding of the human brain," said Dr.
Dr. She obtained her
clinical and research training at the Massachusetts Mental Health
Center in Boston, the Children 's Hospital in Washington, D., and the
Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden.S.
"ADHD, a life-long disorder, may be one of the costliest medical
conditions in the United States," said Joseph Biederman, M. Medication should be
considered part of an overall multi-modal treatment plan for ADHD.

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supported this survey.