Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD, it is one of the most common childhood brain disorders and can continue through adolescence and adulthood. Symptoms include difficult staying focused and paying attention, difficult controlling behavior and hyperactivity (over-activity). These symptoms can make it difficult for a child with ADHD succeeding in school, get along with other children or adults, or perform tasks and homework.

This type of disorder, prolonged adolescence and adulthood, although it may be damped with proper effort adolescent or adult as it matures and is relieve their different situation, can become a cause of social rejection, professional failure, addictions and family problems.

Brain imaging studies have revealed that young people with ADHD, the brain matures in a normal pattern, but is delayed, on average, about 3 years. The delay is most pronounced in regions of the brain involved in thinking, attention and planning action. More recent studies have found that the outermost layer of the brain, the cortex, and showing delayed maturation and overall, one of the brains structures important to establish proper communication between the two hemispheres, shows abnormal growth. These delays and anomalies may explain the characteristic symptoms of ADHD and help explain how the disorder develops.

Proper treatment combining medication and psychotherapy can alleviate and relieve many of the symptoms of ADHD, but currently no cure for the disorder and is necessary to prolong treatment, especially psychotherapy throughout the patient's life, although once be able to develop patient-control skills and deep reaction on their situation, visits to the psychotherapist can more spaced in time, looking more than a continued therapy, maintenance of progress.

With treatment, most people with ADHD can succeed in school, vocational training and college and lead a productive life and "normal". Over time, researchers are developing pharmacological and psychotherapeutic treatments more and effective and the use of new tools such as resonance imaging and contrast the brain to better understand ADHD and to find more and effective ways to treat and prevent it.

What are the symptoms of ADHD in children?
Inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity are the key behaviors of those affected by ADHD, whether they are children, adolescents or adults. It is normal that all children occasionally possess some inattention, hyperactivity or impulsivity, as children are, but for children with ADHD, these behaviors are more severe and occur more often. For the disorder is properly diagnosed, the child must be 6 years or more, manifest symptoms for 6 or more months and greater than other children of the same age level.

Easily distracted, loses details, forget things and often change from one activity to another 

• It has difficult to focus on one thing 
• They get bored when making a at area only take a few minutes, unless they're doing something they like 
• They have difficult focus on the realization or organization of a task or learning something new 
• They do not seem to listen when spoken to 
• They daydream and they go head and easily confused 
• They have difficult to process information quickly and accurately from others in their environment and age
• Questions and refuses to instructions 
• Similarly, children who have symptoms of hyperactivity often have the following behaviors: writhe in the seats and constantly changing posture 
• They talk endlessly 
• Play, play and tangled with everything they have in sight 
• They have trouble sitting still during dinner, school and lying to bedtime
• They are in constant motion 
• They have difficult for homework or quiet activities 
• Also, children who have symptoms of impulsivity often show the following behavior: 
• They are very impatient

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