ADHD May be Related to Sleep Disorder

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the percentage of children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder rose to 22% from 2003 to 2007. On a yearly basis, ADHD diagnoses registered a 3% increase each year from 1997 to 2006 and from 2003 to 2007, the average increased to 5.5% per year for […]

Tips on How to Counter Insomnia

Insomnia is defined as the difficulty of falling and or staying asleep throughout the night. If the problem lasts for more than three weeks, it is no longer a simple sleep problem. It is insomnia. The lack of quality sleep can affect a person’s daily functioning. It may cause several incapacitating problems. There are some […]

General Facts about Stress

People experience stress at some point in time. Others recover from it, some don’t. Since people have different coping mechanism and capability, the level or degree of stress that they can tolerate vary as well. Everyone’s life is faced with problems, challenges, hassles and pressures. No one is exempted from that. For some, these experiences …

Everything You Need to Know about Anxiety Disorder

Worrying, nervousness, uneasiness – these are all normal human responses and emotions to certain things or situations like work or family-related problems, making critical decisions, taking an exam, etc. Anxiety is a person’s natural reaction when in a seemingly dangerous situation; an automatic alarm activated when threatened. While it …

Sleep and ADHD

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD in children may manifest symptoms that are similar to sleep disorders. Some of the shared symptoms are : restlessness, over-active behaviour and lack of focus or attention. Children apparently have the opposite reaction or response when sleep is disrupted. While adults with sleep problems tend to become …

ADHD Study Suggests Links that Fewer Crimes are Committed by ADHD Patients under Medication

  People who are diagnosed with ADHD in childhood years may have increased risk of problems with legal system, using illicit drugs or being less successfull in their adulthood. 2656 people witha diagnosis of ADHD were screened from Swedish national database to investigate whether taking ADHD medication play a role in patients’s participation …

Do stimulant medications effect the growth rate in children?

Most parents are concerned about the side effects of stimulants medications especially suppression of appetite, and possible negative effect on growth rate. They tend to stay away from the treatment of stimulnat medication and theyprefer behavioral management only. On the other hand, bbehavioral management may not enough in serious cases of ADHD. In …

Is ADHD underdiagnosed in among illicit psychostimulant users?

  Mental health providers may be overly cautious to diagnose ADHD in patients who abuse drugs because of the possible misuse of stimulnat mediactions in these patient population. A study was conducted in Sydney, Australia to investigate the nature and correlates of symptomatology consistent with adult ADHD among illicit psychostimulant users. The …