Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Children with ADHD often feel misunderstood, judged or shamed but with support, they can thrive. "Kids with ADHD would like to do well and they can with the right resources," Saline tells TODAY ...
The behavioral response to stimulants in children is similar regardless of whether they have ADHD or not. [39] Stimulant medication is an effective treatment [40] for adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder [41] [42] although the response rate may be lower for adults than children. [43]
This meant up to 10% of children in the U.S. were described as having ADHD. Current estimates suggest that ADHD is present internationally in about 7.2% of children. [33] ADHD is diagnosed around 5 times more often in boys than girls. Reasons for this disparity are debated, but likely involve both biological and social/diagnostic factors.
Girls born in December had a diagnosis and treatment percentage increase of 70% and 77% respectively compared to those born in January. Children who were born at the last three days of a calendar year were reported to have significantly higher levels of diagnosis and treatment for ADHD than children born at the first three days of a calendar year.
Routinely sleeping less than you need can lead to sleep deprivation, which has many health effects. But even one night of too little sleep can impact you the following day. Short-term health ...
A set of triplets who refuse to sleep are cracking each other up — and TikTok is laughing along. “They feed off each other so when one is laughing, so are the others,” Julia Platsman, a ...
Children with CDS seem to have more difficulty with consistently remembering things that were previously learned and make more mistakes on memory retrieval tests than do children with ADHD. They have been found to perform much worse on psychological tests involving perceptual-motor speed or hand-eye coordination and speed.
Large, high quality research has found small differences in the brain between ADHD and non-ADHD patients. [1] [15] Jonathan Leo and David Cohen, critics who reject the characterization of ADHD as a disorder, contended in 2003 and 2004 that the controls for stimulant medication usage were inadequate in some lobar volumetric studies, which makes it impossible to determine whether ADHD itself or ...