HealthDay News — The brains of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder ADHD show abnormalities in certain areas involved with "visual attention," new research finds.Researchers performed functional MRIs fMRIs on 19 children aged 9 to 15 diagnosed with ADHD and 19 without the disorder while the children took a test in which they were shown a set [...]
HealthDay News — Children with specific gene variants respond better to the drug methylphenidate Ritalin, Concerta, which is widely used to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD, a new study says.The finding could help improve treatment of ADHD, according to the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center researchers."Physicians don’t have a good way of predicting who will [...]
(HealthDay News) — In new guidelines released Sunday, the American Academy of Pediatrics has expanded the age range for the diagnosis and treatment of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) to children as young as 4 and as old as 18. For the youngest children, the academy is emphasizing the use of behavior treatments over medication in [...]
Ah, summer. Is there any time of the year more dear to children’s hearts? Its bliss is only marred by what’s at the end of it – back to school. After months of nothing more strenuous than camp, children’s brains are just not ready for the rigors of the classroom and the structured format of [...]
HealthDay News — Preschool children with symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder ADHD have a smaller-than-normal structure in the brain that plays an important role in cognitive and motor control, new research shows.The finding may help efforts to develop ways to treat the common behavioral disorder in the early stages, according to the researchers at the Kennedy [...]
(HealthDay News) — One in six U.S. children now has a developmental disability such as autism, learning disorders or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to new research from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That number appears to be on the rise. In 1997-1999, about 12.8 percent of kids were diagnosed with a developmental [...]
I’m dropping my son off at morning daycare. There are three other children there already, and they’re playing with those rings you toss like a Frisbee. While I’m signing my son in, I hear him say, "I’ve got something that’s much better than those." He’s holding up a Star Wars ship. Uh-oh. Under the pretense [...]
Do you ever wish that there was some way that you could slow your racing thoughts, learn to focus your attention better and calm your life down? If the answer is yes, what about meditation and yoga? Okay, you can stop laughing now. I’m serious. Really. via ADHD – Meditation, Yoga and ADHD.
My son was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder last summer. His kindergarten teacher, who was wonderful, urged us to have him officially diagnosed so that the school would be obligated to accommodate him in first grade and beyond. I was reluctant to start giving him the medication, but after the first two weeks of [...]
Last year I was picking my son up at school. I was waiting on the bench outside his classroom with the other parents. His teacher, Mrs. D, always ran late, and our kids had just returned from the playground. They were lined up to use the water fountain. Because they line up by size, my [...]
