Tag Archives: ADHD

Be careful of assigning the diagnosis of ADHD to young children just entering school

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common diagnosis in children today, and is increasingly a diagnosis assigned to adults, too. ADHD is a real thing, despite some having some skeptics and a few outright denialists; differences in brain scans between persons who have it and who don’t show there is a definite physiological basis… Read More »

If My Child Has ADHD, Do I Have It?

Your child has just been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and your struggling to understand how she developed it. The first question that comes to your mind, “does this mean that I, or my spouse, gave it to her?” The question of whether or not a parent of a child with ADHD has… Read More »

The Difference Between ADD and ADHD

Introduction ADD and ADHD are both deficit disorders that mostly affect children, even though grown-ups can also show signs of these. Even though the two might look like one and the same to the untrained eye, they do differ on several points. In this article, we will see exactly what ADD and ADHD stand for,… Read More »