The disorder of ADHD can be difficult to detect, and provide a long road ahead with treatments, however, help is available. The general public is still in need of information on this disorder that is accurate and most of all trustworthy. Parents need to do as much research as possible on understanding the disorder of ADHD, and the treatment options available. The Mayo Clinic offers peace of mind and help to those seeking it, and is a great place to start with on research of the disorder of ADHD. The author is unbiased, informative and extremely talented with his writing ability on the topic of ADHD, a disorder that haunts thousands of kids and young adults each day.…
The general public can use this website for education or research on ADHD or other disorders in children. They will be able to understand and navigate the website without any difficulty. Therefor this would meet the goal of proving the general public with in-depth information on ADHD and its prevention. This allows the authors to express their opinions on treatment not curing ADHD. “Early diagnosis and treatment can make a big difference in the outcome,” Jensen PS (expert…
Teachers and parents everywhere do their best to teach the next generation how to behave in polite society. The only problem is they assume all kids should be able to pick it up with ease without looking at any outside variables. ADHD gets diagnosed too quickly due to the impatience of teachers, the ignorance of parents, lack of objectivity,…
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Six million children in the U.S. are on medications for ADHD and a total of nine million with neurobiological psychiatric diagnoses are on one or more psychotropic drugs. Several researchers have stated to suggest this disease is a fraud, that somehow children are being abused by these treatments is really an outrage, because for these kids, to not get treated is really the greatest abuse and neglect (Baugham, 2001). Dr. Russell A Barkley a clinical professor of psychiatry at the Medical University of South Carolina, also an author of “Taking Charge of Adult ADHD” responded to questions that the readers of the book asked. Dr. Barkley was asked is ADHD even a real illness? Dr. Barkleys response was “So while it may seem that every aspect of…
Typically, ADHD continues to be prevalent in more than half of these children as they move on into adulthood. There is few medical knowledge about ADHD, such as the causes, however there are many factors that pertain to ADHD, such as genetic and environmental factors. Although, its genetic influence nature is still currently unknown, one of the facts that holds to be true is that it is highly heritable. Studies have also shown that ADHD share genetic influences with other conditions such as dyslexia (inattentive symptoms),…
Through vast amounts of research, we have come to slowly understand many different things about ADHD. One of the most important findings is what ADHD is actually classified as, ADHD is neurological disorder that causes a developmental impairment of the brain. These impairments consist of organizing skills, motivation, attention issues, effort managements, processing information, memory issues and many more developmental issues. With the power of research, we have not only understood what ADHD is we have found also that there is not only one type of psychiatric ADHD there are several. According to doctor Amen the first type of ADHD is classic which is a combination of both hyperactive and impulsiveness.…
According to the author of “No Child Left Undiagnosed”, in the past 20 years the rate of ADHD has tripled,” 11 percent of all kids in this country have ADHD”. The problem is there are children being overmedicated for ADHD.According to The Center for Disease Control some symptoms that the child had ADHD are: they day dream,they lose things,they squirm or fidget, talk a lot, make careless mistakes, have trouble taking turns, and have trouble getting along with others. Children are being overmedicated for ADHD because their doctors think the children have ADHD when the children really don 't have ADHD. Children are being overmedicated for ADHD because their doctors think the children have ADHD when the children really don 't have ADHD. According…
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Treatments of ADHD Imagine a student in first grade who is always talking to another student and is always somewhere around their chair, but never in it. Imagine this student getting a note sent home for their poor behavior in class stating that they should be checked for Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD). Now imagine their parent getting the note, going to the doctor and being told that their child has been diagnosed with ADHD. This parent now has to make a choice between having their child medicated, finding a different treatment, or just letting the situation slide. This very situation has happened, and is still happening, to many families around the world.…
According to the national institute of mental health “ADHD is a common mental disorder that begins in childhood and can continue through…
ADHD formally was recognized as a disorder by the medical community and included in the DSM II in 1968 under the title hyperkinetic reaction of childhood. This then expanded to include criteria for adults in the DSM 5 of 2013. However before the inclusion in the DSM II there were several examples of attention problems by early physicians and philosophers. The earliest reference to attention was made by William Shakespeare.…
There are two common disorders that affect the ability of a person to pay attention or focus on tasks. Though they are often used interchangeably, they have distinct differences that make them unique. One in called Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), and the other is called Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Both of them cause a dysfunction in the brain 's ability to concentrate, but ADHD also causes a pronounced amount of excitation, which makes someone have an excessive amount of nervous energy all of the time. Sitting still or even getting a good night 's rest is very difficult for someone who has this disorder.…
Many studies have taken place on whether Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is an actually disorder or not. Although many have been diagnosed with ADHD and we have science and evidence to back it up many people still believe that ADHD is not a disorder. ADHD is very prominent in todays children. “Approximately 2 million children in the united states have ADHD…that means in a classroom of 25 to 30 children its is likely that 1 student will have ADHD (Gantt and Slife, 2006, p. 3.)” ADHD being the controversial topic because there are may competing theories on whether ADHD is just a natural occurring behavior in which some have a higher functioning of the disorder and others have it lower.…
In this paper I’m going to be talking about ADHD, and what it means, how you get it, what it can do to the body, the signs and systems, etc. I picked ADHD because one, I have it, two, I want to learn more about it, and three how I got it. There are probably other people out there wondering how or why they got it. So what is ADHD? It affects millions of children and often persists into adulthood.…
For the most part, the cause of ADHD is still unknown. While scientists believe there is a genetic factor, environmental issues may also play a role. International research on twins with ADHD indicates that it occurs in family members often. Identical twins are at an extremely high rate of having ADHD is their twin also has it. Fraternal twins have an almost 40% likelihood of having the disorder if their womb partner also does.…