A new study suggests that kids who suffer head trauma are more likely to develop attention disorders during early stages of development. The study looked at two groups of children between ages six and thirteen. One group of children had suffered head trauma and lost consciousness for longer than 30 minutes. The other group of …
Researchers have discovered a similar pattern of grey-matter loss in the brain across a broad range of psychiatric disorders, suggesting that mental illnesses with differing symptoms could arise from the same neurological basis. Their findings challenge the assumption of differentiating mental disorders by symptoms rather than by brain pathology. Dr. Amit Etkin of Stanford University, …
There have been concerns that a “stimulant” medication, commonly taken by children with ADHD, is connected to stunting a child’s growth. However a new study by the American Academy of Pediatrics’ (AAP) found that this medication does not affect children’s final height in adulthood. For the study, researchers examined 340 children with ADHD who were …
A new way to diagnose ADHD may be in the near future, as researchers from Tel Aviv University have determined involuntary eye movements accurately reflect the presence of ADHD. “We had two objectives going into this research,” said Moshe Fried, Ph.D., who as an adult himself was diagnosed with ADHD. “The first was to provide …
