Have you ever found yourself making careless mistakes or having a lot of difficulty paying attention? Do you forget the things you're supposed to do? We all get distracted at times, get disorganized, act impulsively but, the difference is that for most people these behaviors are relatively ...

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...

Attentional Deficit, Alcoholism, and P300 Amplitude Two of the largest issues concerning youth in the United States today are psychiatric illness and drug abuse. Increasingly large numbers of young people are being diagnosed with various neurological problems, such as depression, learning disa...

Officially identified as a condition in 1902, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is defined as a "persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that is more frequent and severe than is typically observed in individuals at a comparable level of development"...

In 1905, a German physician named Herinrich Hoffman, who wrote the tale" Struwel Peter" about a child with ADHD. Impulsivity and inattention are more likely to have serious problems at home and at school. (Baren, M. 1994) There are two types of Attention Disorders. The first type of dis...

Try to imagine living in a fast-moving kaleidoscope, where images, sounds, and thoughts are always changing. You feel bored, yet helpless to keep your mind on what you are supposed to be doing. Unimportant sights and sounds are constantly grabbing your attention, and your mind drives you from one th...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, ADHD, is a condition that results in easy distractibility, impulsiveness, and for some people, greatly increased activity levels.This increased activity may be learned compensation for a very under aroused centr...