Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a mental condition that causes excessive hyperactivity in a person. Furthermore, the illness is classified as a neurodevelopmental disorder. Most people are unaware that attention deficit disorder has been present for far longer than they think. Hippocrates, who lived from 460 to 370 BC,...
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The family is made up of a father (47 years old), a mother (40 years old), and four children, two boys (17 and 11 years old) and two girls (6 and 5 years). Everyone in the family is in good health. The eleven-year-old child was diagnosed with ADHD at the...
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Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADD or ADHD) is an illness that can have severe effects that can therefore be of great benefit to certain people with the diagnosis. It is one of the most prevalent psychiatric illnesses affecting children, but it affects so many adults (Parekh). The major signs of ADHD are...
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ADHD & Self-Control Attention deficient hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is closely linked with self-control due to the early onset of the disorder and its effects on self-regulation of behavior. Barkley (2005) suggests that ADHD individuals would not have had the ability to develop normal levels of self-control, which may contribute to...
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