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around 8 or 9 oclock at night, depending on their age. So they have a lot of trouble getting to sleep, and there is a tendency fo...
with attention; hyperactive behaviors; and impulsivity. Children who have this condition have great trouble concentrating and payi...
226) and occurs in as much as 26 percent of the adolescent population, and include alcohol, tobacco and illegal substance use. Su...
in grades Kindergarten through 8 (Erford and Hase, 2006). It has 24 items that are rated on a scale of 1 to 5, almost never to alm...
motor vehicle crashes, substance abuse, and illegal behavior" (Visser, Lesesne and Perou, 2007, S99). Symptoms include irritabili...
and Perou (2007) report that an estimated five to eighteen percent of youth in the US are diagnosed with ADHD and most receive so...
with ADHD/ADD has only a very limited effectiveness, and the side effects and risks associated with it are simply too great. The ...
maintain that these individuals experience "deficits in behavioral, emotional, academic, and social functioning" that follow them ...
little learners in a class. Well half or so are girls and they are ready to sit and cooperate for the most part at this age. The...
possibly over-stimulating to the developing brain (Christakis, et al, 2004). ADD/ADHD is diagnosed on the basis of reports from ...
Students attempt to complete their homework in a very different setting than that in which they received instruction (Bryan and Bu...
conspiracy to boost the sales of Ritalin (Lan, 2001). The case, Hernandez v. Ciba Geigy alleges that that the APA colluded with th...
diagnosis of ADD is an extremely complex process, which is complicated by the fact that the symptoms are very similar to other emo...
In this paper of seven pages the gender discrepancies as they relate to this disorder are examined and the assertion that girls ar...
This paper of ten pages examines whether high school students with these disorders have less difficulty learning music than graspi...
In forty five pages this research paper presents a sociological overview of the implications of an Attention Deficit Hyperactivity...
In four pages these disorder types are presented in an informational overview and then their diagnostic issues are assessed with c...
In this paper of twelve pages the differences between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and attention deficit disorder are ...
Seven journals are cited in this paper consisting of twelve pages in order to discuss how children suffering from this condition c...
illness. A positive life leads to health in all areas, physically, mentally and spiritually. The negative side is a general lack o...
clinicians rely on the DSM to diagnose their patients. It is credible insofar as it is published by the American Psychiatric Assoc...
This paper begins by offering a diagnosis for an individual who suffered a trauma. The diagnosis is post-traumatic stress disorder...
with mental illnesses may reach out to drugs or alcohol to ease the pain they are feeling. It becomes very difficult to separate t...
What has been established thus far is the fact that depth and duration of consciousness, coupled with how old the individual is wh...
when the disease is treated and cured, the paralysis can disappear; however, nerve damage in the paraplegic is typically unable to...
11 pages and 8 sources. This paper considers the impacts of using Ritalin in the treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Dis...
Disorders (DSM-IV) of the American Psychiatric Association outlines the criteria for making a diagnosis of ADHD (Wilens, 1998). Ac...
environments? Bias Question that will be generated: If an ADHD child can focus for 1 hour of art therapy, does that provide suffi...
academic performance is widely written about and accepted. Studies indicate conclusively that ADD is associated with poorer academ...
and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...