Over the past several years, more evidence suggests that there is a strong emotional component to ADHD. Here are some tips to help you find ways to express the anger and resolve the problems that trigger it.
Date Posted: October 16, 2015
Categories: Adult ADHD
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Once seen as a disorder affecting mainly children and young adults, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is increasingly understood to last throughout one’s lifetime.
Oct 1
Categories: Adult ADHD
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The app is designed to “improve your focus and attention abilities, helping you decrease impulsivity, lengthen your attention span and learn to keep focused while avoiding the endless everyday distractions” as described on the Apple iTunes store.
Sep 25
Categories: Adult ADHD
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Children at risk of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are being enrolled in a pioneering “babylab” that aims to detect the condition years earlier than is currently possible.
Sep 22
Categories: Adult ADHD, Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development, ...
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Sami Timimi sees ADHD as a “cultural barometer” of society’s attitudes towards children. We think of ourselves as being increasingly tolerant towards children, but the rise in medication for the young is an indication of the opposite trend.
Sep 22
Categories: Adult ADHD, Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development, ...
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The practice of mindfulness provides tools for cultivating focus, resilience, and well-being--both yours and your child's. They take advantage of the brain's innate capacity to rewire itself, an ability we all maintain at any age.
Sep 19
Categories: Adult ADHD, Mindfulness, Parenting
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When it comes to treating ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, the standard care of therapy has traditionally centered around medication. And while this can be extremely effective, now there's a new tool on the market that takes more of ...
Sep 18
Categories: Adult ADHD
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When you’re first diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), you might have mixed emotions. On the one hand, you might feel relieved to finally have an explanation for your symptoms. On the other hand, you might feel ...
Aug 13
Categories: Adult ADHD
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Typical ADHD interventions target at reducing hyperactivity which is different from what we want to do for majority of ADHD children.
Their movements need to be facilitated and maintain at a level of alertness for cognitive activities.
Apr 24
Categories: Adult ADHD, Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Oppositional & ...
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While most start-ups have opted to market and sell their mobile weight loss games and diabetes trackers directly to consumers, Akili has decided to pursue the long, expensive, risky path of clinical trials through the Food and Drug Administration. ...
Apr 15
Categories: Adult ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Autism ...
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Children exposed to tobacco smoke at home are up to three times more likely to have attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) as unexposed kids.
Apr 4
Categories: Adult ADHD
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The core symptoms of ADHD frequently cause significant impairment in academic, social and behavioral functioning that adversely impact individuals’ quality of life.
Mar 9
Categories: Adult ADHD
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders of childhood, often lasting into adulthood. Though it is commonly treated with a "stimulant" medication, there have been concerns that such drugs could ...
Sep 2
Categories: Adult ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Child ...
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Research indicates that ADHD sufferers are more likely to have sleep abnormalities, a harder time getting to sleep, and a harder time staying awake during the day.
Aug 30
Categories: Adult ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Sleep ...
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Researchers at the University of Montreal and CHU Sainte-Justine Research Centre have traced the origins of ADHD, substance abuse and conduct disorder, and found that they develop from the same neurocognitive deficits, which in turn explains why ...
Aug 13
Categories: Addictions, Adult ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ...
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Paying attention or mindfulness comes naturally to all of us and is our birth right yet many humans have to be taught all over again how to stay anchored and undistracted in the present moment. This has presumably always been the case but in the ...
Jun 23
Categories: Adult ADHD, Mindfulness
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