By Sarah Johnson
ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) is a difference in brain development that can cause problems with doing simple tasks, such as sitting still and paying attention. It can affect anyone including adults and children.
In adults symptoms can come in different ranges. Symptoms can include impulsiveness, disorganization and problems prioritizing, poor time management skills, problems on focusing on a task, trouble multitasking, and many more indications. These manifestations can result in trouble at school, work, and many other areas of life. Symptoms such as restlessness and excessive activity can result in a child or adult being unable to concentrate on school work or other work related areas.
There is no cure for ADHD. Though there is some ways that people can keep ADHD under control. One way is through behavioral intervention. This teaches a child how to monitor their behaviors and then change if needed. This can lead to developing strategies in how to manage one’s behaviors in response to certain situations.
Social skills and training can be helpful for a child too. This could help them with how to be better at dealing with troubles around socializing. This can help a person with ADHD to learn techniques such as waiting their turn, sharing toys, asking for help, and deal with teasing. Learning these techniques will give them a better chance at a good childhood and making friendships.
Risks for brain functioning in ADHD have been found to be changes in different areas of the brain, the ones that are used for regulating behaviors. The areas are high order functions called executive functions. Such processes include inhibition, working memory, and planning, along with many others. Other main subjects that can cause changes, according to up to date research include exposure to toxic substances during pregnancy, exposure to lead, brain trauma from illness and/or head injury. Illnesses can be from hereditary, which is explained below.
Hereditary is most common cause for ADHD. Most of the common studies for ADHD are from family studies, twin studies, and molecular genetic research. For example, genetic-based trait would be expected to have a higher rate of occurrence for biological family members. Research states that ADHD runs in families. It states that 25% of first degree relatives who have children that have ADHD also have ADHD. Compared to this, only about 5% of control groups have the disorder. Then stating, if a child has ADHD, there is five- fold increase that that could cause an increase in family members to get it to.
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ADHD is a disorder is condition that causes difficulties in attention and self control. It can not be fully cured but there are ways of helping it. These include behavioral intervention and social skills and training. Causes are most commonly caused by hereditary but can be caused by many other things. ADHD is a disorder that is very complex, but can also be fun to learn about.
