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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurological behavioral problem characterized by inappropriate degrees of impulsiveness, hyperactivity, and attention deficit.1 “It is one of the most common behavioral disorders in children, affecting 3-7% of school-aged children.”2 Children with this disorder often struggle in school due to difficulties focusing, listening, following instructions, and processing information. As the individual…

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder affects 1 of 20 children in the world. Because of the impact of this mental disorder, and how it affects school age children. For this research paper I will review the key elements of ADHD and the way this disorder effects school age children. This paper will present the way that medication and treatments impact and help ADHD in school age children. The key characteristics of a child with ADHD. And how to receive help from the school to give a child a…

Melchior Adam Wiekard was a German physician who, in 1775, wrote a medical text book in which five and a half pages in the third chapter are devoted to an Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) like illness. This appears to be the first record of such a disorder, predating Still by more than a hundred and twenty years. Wiekard describes inattentiveness as more common in children and women, more common in the young than the old, more common in someone who is happy than in someone who is…

Attention-Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder: The Case of Raja Raihan Michael Raihan Metropolitan State University Of Denver Abstract What is Attention-Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)? How does this disorder play in someones life? How to spot the symptoms if someone you knew had this disorder? Many people today are diagnosed with this disorder but few really know the underlying reason for it. This paper will discuss an outlook on my brother Raja Raihan by providing a detail…

In the world of psychiatry nearly all drugs in use today were created between 1950 and 1969. It’s hard to imagine with so many drug commercials on TV revealing new and groundbreaking products, that the same products being advertised today were actually created based on chemistry performed more than 60 years ago (Klein, p.259, 2014). The reason behind this is simple. The creation of new drugs based on finding new molecular entities is extremely costly. For the Federal Drug Administration (FDA)…

1.0 INTRODUCTION: 1.1 Oral Drug Delivery System: Oral route is the most common route of drug administration. Modern drug delivery strategies try to improve oral drug delivery.1 When a new drug is discovered, a pharmaceutical industry asks one of the first questions is whether the drug can be effectively administered for its intended effect by the oral route or not. If patient self administration cannot be achieved, the sale of drug constitute only small fraction of what the market would be…