Childhood Revealed takes us into the hearts and minds of children who live with a specific challenge in their cognitive, psychological, or physical aspect of their life. For these children, drawing, and writing about their drawings, are ways of finding solutions or communicating with anyone that wi...

In the United States, where there are over 63 million children, three to five percent of these children are diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Skeptics suggest psychiatrists are too ready to make a diagnosis of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), or Attention Deficit Hyperactivit...

Attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurobehavioral disorder that affects 3-5 percent of all American children. It interferes with a person's ability to stay on a task and to exercise age-appropriate inhibition (cognitive alone or both cognitive and behavioral). This research pape...

Attention Deficit Disorder Explained Eric Zacharias Brigham Young University Abstract Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD is a disorder which afflicts millions of children in the United States. Research has brought to light many facts about ADD,...

Attention Deficit Disorder Five year old Danny is in kindergarten. It is playtime and he hops from chair to chair, swinging his arms and legs restlessly, and then begins to fiddle with the light switches, turning the lights on and off again to everyone's anno...

Attention DeficitHyperactivity Disorder Diagnosis And Treatment Introduction Attention deficit/ hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD) is a diagnosis, which has increased dramatically over the last few years. This issue has both a medical and emotional side to it making discussion of the topic somet...

The Wonder Drug? In today's society we believe in a quick fix in anything that ails us society. Most Americans want to be healed quickly; we want a quick fix for all our aches and pains. There is a fairly new drug on the market that ...

The "Cat Cry Syndrome", Its Causes and Consequences Cat Cry or Cri du Chat Syndrome literally means "cry of the cat" in French. It was named for the cat-like cry made by infants who have the disorder. The consequences for the disorder are many and extremely wide ranged. It m...

Ritalin The most widely used treatment for the disease Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is the stimulant Ritalin. Use of the drug in the United States has been growing at an alarming rate since it was first prescribed for ADHD in 1981. Of the 8.5 million tons produced, over 90% of Ritalin ...