Scientists have found evidence of a link between social and economic status and childhood attention deficit disorder (ADHD) in the UK. A team led by the University of Exeter Medical School analysed data from the Millennium Cohort Study, a database of more than 19,500 UK children born between 2000 and 2002.
Date Posted: November 27, 2013
Categories: Adult ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a behavioral disorder characterized by the inability to focus and a lack of control over behaviors often leading to an overactive state. ADHD is often diagnosed in children, who are usually ...
Nov 8
Categories: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Child and/or ...
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Don’t rely on one source of information about your preschoolers’ inattention or hyperactivity. Rather, consider how your child behaves at home as well as information from his or her teacher and a clinician. This advice comes from Sarah O'Neill, ...
Oct 3
Categories: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Child Development
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Many people still believe that ADHD isn't a "real" diagnosis, or that it's the fault of the parent, or that the child is just ...
Jul 23
Categories: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a brainwave-measuring device to help diagnose kids with ADHD, a first for the disorder.
The device detects two different types of brainwaves, theta and beta, and how frequently they occur. Kids ...
Jul 18
Categories: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
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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 ...
Jun 6
Categories: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Autism spectrum ...
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UCLA research has shown that that children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder are far more likely than other kids to develop serious substance abuse problems as adolescents and adults. But do stimulant medications used to treat ADHD ...
May 31
Categories: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Drug Addiction, ...
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Scientists at Newcastle University have shed new light on how the brain tunes in to relevant information.
Publishing in Neuron, the team reveal the interplay of brain chemicals which help us pay attention in work funded by the Wellcome Trust and ...
May 25
Categories: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Inattention, ...
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As high schoolers prepare for final exams, teens nationwide may be tempted to use a “study drug” — a prescription stimulant or amphetamine — to gain an academic edge. But a new University of Michigan poll shows only one in 100 parents of ...
May 22
Categories: Addictions, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Child ...
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A new study conducted by researchers at the Child Study Center at NYU Langone Medical Center found men diagnosed as children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were twice as likely to be obese in a 33-year follow-up study compared ...
May 21
Categories: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
GOMost of us are on the Internet on a daily basis and whether we like it or not, the Internet is affecting us. It changes how we ...
May 9
Categories: Addictions, Adult ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ...
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Students who did about an hour of "mindfulness training" for eight days subsequently did better on the GRE as well as tests of working memory and mind-wandering.
The Internet is probably destroying our attention spans and working memories, but ...
May 8
Categories: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Mindfulness ...
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If you think your inability to concentrate is a hopeless condition, think again - and breathe, and focus. According to a study by researchers at the UC Santa Barbara, as little as two weeks of mindfulness training can significantly improve one's ...
Mar 27
Categories: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Mindfulness ...
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The first large, population-based study to follow children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder 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. ...
Mar 5
Categories: Adult ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
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Poor impulse control contributes to one's inability to control the consumption of rewarding substances, like food, alcohol, and other drugs. This can lead to the development of addiction. FDA-approved medications for alcoholism, like naltrexone ...
Feb 4
Categories: Addictions, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Drug ...
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