Hyperactivity

angered, and hostile. A child may have a tendency to be headstrong, which can include rule-breaking, stubbornness, noncompliance or a direct refusal to obey, ignoring the requests of others, such as parents, high rates of exploratory activity (hyperactivity), impulsive, excessive, and even defiant verbal behavior, and physical resistance to the demands of another…

The controversy around pesticides use! Reading all the different articles in the American Earth book highlighted many important issues and concerned about our society regarding the environment and its impact on our health and the health of the wildlife around us. Though, I can say that the one topic that made me really stop to think and felt that it hits closer to home, was the one about pesticides. After all my dad died 4 years ago because of stomach cancer. What did my dad eat, and how safe…

A. Introduction In the American school system, focus is the key to success. Whichever class one may be in, whichever project one may be working on, constant undivided attention is essential. Unfortunately, that method in the school system is exclusive to students with the disability, Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder, also known as ADHD. Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder is a chronic disorder in which there is a different level of neurotransmitters in the brain. Having Attention…

self-healing that have the potential to be as effective if not more so than a little pill that promises happier days. I remember being in sixth grade when a teacher told my mother that she should consider getting me evaluated for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, also…

Over the course of time from 2001 to 2011 the amount of people diagnosed with ADHD rose 24% (“Neurologists”). With the certain rise in people being diagnosed, the number of bottles of the medication being sold has shot up tremendously, but is that a good or bad thing? Granted medication for ADHD does help with focusing in school or sports, there are some effects that can be life threatening. Many Hospitals and labs have been researching about ADHD medication, in particular the Boston Children’s…

history, Americans have used prescription drugs as a quick and temporary solution for psychological problems. In difficult and stressful times, it is easy for individuals to turn towards a medication that will make them feel better and free them of their problems. When looking at the birth of prescription benzodiazepines in America, history tends to inexorably repeat itself. Beginning in the 1960s, doctors began to prescribe Valium in extremely high quantities. The same goes for more recent…

Evaluation of a Website ADHD affect the lives of children without any regard to sex or race. He’s bouncing off of the walls; there’s my little tornado; can’t you ever sit still? These are a few of the things one might hear the parents of an ADHD child say. The website KidsHealth on ADHD, by Nemours, was written with the promise to parents “that with proper treatment, kids with ADHD can learn to successfully live with and manage their symptoms” (ADHD, 2016, p. 1). The website under the parent…

The Rosenhan Study showed how psychiatric hospitals could not differentiate between actually sick, insane patients from patients who were faking the symptoms and completely sane. Many people have been suspicious of the pharmaceutical industry and believe they will lie and manipulate the public. There are select minorities that believe that many diseases could be cured, but the treatment has not been made public due to the damage it would do to the pharmaceutical industry. In Rosenhan’s study,…

In the old days, it was simple: Men hunted for food and women raised the kids. Gender is the range of characteristics about, and differentiating between masculinity and femininity. On the other hand, crime has two meaning. First, an action or error that constitutes an offense that may be prosecuted by the state and is punishable by law. Second, an action or activity that, although not illegal, is considered to be evil, shameful, or wrong. According to Myers (2010) from studies of females may be…

ADHD Medication and Bullying University of Michigan (2015), medical researchers have studied the effects of ADHD medications in children, explains that from 2003 to 2011, there was a 42 percent increase in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) cases diagnosed in the U.S.; during this time the use of stimulants to treat ADHD increased 27 percent. Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) is the most common neurodevelopmental disorder plaguing children today. Children with ADHD have…