Attention seeking

Many people around the world have to face the big challenge of ADHD. People have a 13% chance of having ADHD so it is no surprise that people like Michael Phelps, Justin Timberlake, and James Carville have all been diagnosed with this condition. As of 2011 6.4 million children had ever been diagnosed with ADHD. The first ever case of ADHD was in 1902, when a pediatrician named Sir George described the condition as “an abnormal defect of moral control in children”. He found that children with…

Lifting the Cloud You can see and hear the kids playing and laughing, enjoying the delights that the day has brought them. That’s our typical thoughts of children, but for some children that is not what daily life is like for them. It wasn’t until the 1970’s that doctors realized that depression does not only occur in adults, but also in children. Childhood depression is a condition that is serious and can cause changes in thinking, mood, and behavior. To diagnose children with depression,…

Tourette Syndrome is one type of Tic Disorder. Tics are repetitive, involuntary movements (twitches) and vocalizations. Tourette Syndrome is part of a spectrum of neurological disorders that typically first appear in childhood.The first noticeable symptoms of Tourettes are typically involuntary movements of the face, arms, limbs or trunk. These tics are frequent, repetitive and rapid. The most common symptom of this disorder is a facial tic (eye blink, nose twitch, or sneer), which over time…

The human brain weighs 3 pounds, uses 20% of the daily resources consumed, and is divided into 4 distinct lobes: the Temporal lobe, the Parietal lobe, the Occipital lobe, and the Frontal lobe. The Frontal lobe is responsible for the functions we usually connect the brain to, such as thinking, decision making, planning, and behavior. When a child is young, their frontal lobe is under major developments, and certain actions they carry out are rewarded or punished by the parents, like drawing on…

Because I've heard parents and grandparents say that their kids are acting up because they have growing pains, I wanted to know if there really is such a thing or if it's only a made up saying. Do kids really feel pain as they are growing or is it possible to feel pain while sleeping and growing. I want the truth so I went on line and did a Google search. I found a lot of information. The next time I hear someone say their kid has growing pains, I will laugh.…

Generalized tonic clonic (GTC) seizures Generalized tonic clonic seizures are the classic form of childhood epilepsy, having four phases namely a) aura, b) tonic c) clonic d) post-ictal phase. Aura is a premonitory symptom, that occurs before the onset of seizure. It can be sensory, motor, visceral or autonomic. Only one third of children can describe aura. Aura is followed by tonic phase, in which the skeletal muscles undergo spasm. Muscular rigidity is the typical feature of antigravity…

Melchior Adam Wiekard was a German physician who, in 1775, wrote a medical text book in which five and a half pages in the third chapter are devoted to an Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) like illness. This appears to be the first record of such a disorder, predating Still by more than a hundred and twenty years. Wiekard describes inattentiveness as more common in children and women, more common in the young than the old, more common in someone who is happy than in someone who is…

“The children also exhibit a marked deficit in prevalence of selection, attention to tasks, in particular in the auditory modality (Peyre, Galera,Wareden,Hoertel,Bernard,Melchior,Ramus 2016)”. The preceding study is unique in that it took place over two and a half years and the participants were all extremely young, most studies…

Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common childhood disorders. ADHD can continue through adolescence and adulthood, but can be treated. ADHD is considered a lifelong disorder, whereby 30% to 70% of children with ADHD experience impairing symptoms in adulthood (J Adnorm 437). ADHD consist of a pattern of behavior that is multiple settings where it gives rise to social, educational, or work performance difficulties (Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry, S44). ADHD has three…

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, is classified as a condition which encompasses hyperactivity, inattentiveness, and impulsiveness (Kids Health). Having ADHD is described ad being in a room with 1,000 TV’s with each TV showing something different. Now try and concentrate on just one TV without getting distracted (Damian DaViking Aird). Someone who has ADHD has been examined from different medical and psychological points of view in order to see if they have differences in brain…