iant, excessively emotional, passionate, lawless, spiteful, and had little inhibitory volition. For every one girl, there were three boys in this group. George Frederic Still, MD wrote in his reports that it was striking how these children were brought up in environments with "good enough" parenting. He concluded that there may be a biological basis to this disorder, after finding out that these children's families had psychiatric difficulties such as alcoholism, conduct problems, and depression (Hallowell and Ratey 2). Today, the public is much more educated about the causes of ADHD/ADD. Information is now available that ADHD/ADD has a genetic predisposition and is largely biological. In 1970, C. Kornetsky proposed the Catecholamine Hypothesis of Hyperactivity. Catecholamines are a class of compounds that include neurotransmitters, norepinephrine and dopamine. Since the stimulants affect the norepinephrine and dopamine neurotransmitter systems by increasing the amount of these neurotransmitters, Kornetsky concluded that an underproduction or underutilization of these neurotransmitters possibly caused ADHD/ADD (Hallowell and Ratey 4). ADHD/ADD is a chemical imbalance that children can not control. It is not imaginary and if America's schools keep telling the
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