In a study of the co-occurrence of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in early school-age children (four to eight years old), researchers at the Kennedy Krieger Institute found that nearly one-third of children with ASD also have clinically...
Researchers hope that more accurate diagnosis and assessment can lead to improved inmate behavior and reduce offences A new ADHD tool is being investigated in the UK prison population for the first time. Researchers from the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London are using the...
Breastfeeding has a positive impact on the physical and mental development of infants. A new study suggests that breastfeeding may protect against the development of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) later in childhood. The study is reported in Breastfeeding Medicine, the Official...
You’ve probably heard various claims that Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is being over-diagnosed in Americans, particularly in children, who are then*medicated and labeled as having a “learning disability” at school. However, this recent NYT article presents an even more interesting …...
The first large, population-based study to follow children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) into adulthood shows that ADHD often doesn't "go away," and that children with ADHD are more likely to have other psychiatric disorders as adults. Although numbers were small, they...
Criminal behaviour in people with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) dropped sharply during periods when they were on medication, according to a new extensive registry study conducted at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. The study that contained of over 25,000 individuals is...
Children who take Adderall, Ritalin, and other central nervous system stimulants, do not have a higher chance of developing serious heart conditions. This finding, confirming research from 2011, came from a study at the University of Florida and was published in the British Medical Journal. The...
Mayo Clinic researchers presented new findings on the early treatment of child and adolescent attention deficit hyperactivity disorder at the American Academy of Childhood and Adolescent Psychiatry annual meeting in San Francisco. They include a method to get better input from parents and...
There's a new fix-it for the*perpetual problem of low-income children's*poor performance in school: giving them Adderall, regardless of whether or not they've been diagnosed with A.D.D. or A.D.H.D. Apparently some doctors, including Dr. Micheal Anderson of Georgia, are prescribing Adderall and...
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Drugs used to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) do not appear to have long-term effects on the brain, according to new animal research from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. As many as five to seven percent of elementary school children are diagnosed with ADHD, a behavioral...
I hear all the time how classical music requires long attention span. If so is it possible for a person with attention deficit disorder to like it? Even though people with adhd often hyperfocus on something they are interested at.
What experts and the public have already long suspected is now supported by representative data collected by researchers at Ruhr-Universitat Bochum (RUB) and University of Basel: ADHD, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, is over-diagnosed. The study showed that child and adolescent...
A study by researchers at Mayo Clinic, Rochester Minn., and published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, reveals that children who have been under anesthesia many times when they are young have a greater risk of developing attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). According to David Warner...
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a developmental, neurobiological condition that is typically diagnosed in children but can also affect adolescents. The American Academy of Pediatrics define the main symptoms of ADHD as inattentiveness, impulsivity, and hyperactivity. In other...
Updated guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) offer new information on diagnosing and treating Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in younger children and in adolescents. Emerging evidence makes it possible to diagnose and manage ADHD in children from ages 4 to 18...
alright I avoided them like the plague the last one I was in that I became attached lasted for 3 years 3 years ago. I would obsessively think over analyze and tear my self apart and I had no control, and it greatly affect racing thoughts and triggered a pretty deep depression.
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The greater the severity of a child's Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) symptoms, the more negative impacts on the child's health-related quality of life from the perspective of the child and the parent, a new study by a Baylor University psychologist has found. Researchers...