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A discovery that may someday help to explain human social behavior and disorders such as autism has been made in a species of pudgy rodents by researchers.
Learning obedience is an important part of child development. This is the tool that allows you as parents to train your child. Through obedience your child will learn self-control and develop other positive character traits that he will need as an adult.
Fragile X Syndrome is one of the most commonly inherited forms of mental retardation, with an incidence of 1 in 4,000 males and 1 in 8,000 females. Researchers have shown that it is possible to reverse some of the symptoms of the disorder using drugs that dampen specific neuronal overactivity.
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a serious mental illness characterized by pervasive instability in moods, interpersonal relationships, self image, and behavior. People with Borderline personality disorder often have highly unstable patterns of social relationships.
Slowing down helps the people who have ADD to get centered, relivestress, and gain control.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD, also referred to as ADD) is a common health issue among children. While many people have heard of it, they may not fully understand what ADHD is and how it is treated. Misunderstandings are widespread.
Auditory integration training (AIT) was developed by French otolaryngologist Guy Berard, in order to treat auditory processing problems. Berard claims that abnormal auditory processing results when there is discrepancies in how well someone hears different sound frequencies. For example, a person may be hypersensitive to the frequencies 2,000 and 8,000 Hertz, but hear all the other frequencies normally. Berard developed Auditory Integration Training as a way to reduce sensitivity to specific sound frequencies.
When people who have ADD becomes immersed in the shopping, cooking, traveling and family interactions, their ADD can complicate matters.
How sugar influences ADHD is one of those controversial areas in medicine. There are two sides to the debate. On one side, there is the official medical establishment that claims numerous scientific studies show that children do not react to sugar and that sugar does not play a role in ADHD. On the other side, there are all the mothers who have personally witnessed that when they give their children sugar, within a few minutes, their children are bouncing off the walls. So, the question is with whom does the truth lie.
Evidence for the Medical Establishment
About 8% of children, ages 4 years and under, are deficient in iron. Between the ages of 5 and 12, the percentage rises to 13%, and then settles back to 8% in people above the age of 15. Anemia is the best-known repercussion of iron deficiency. However, even minor deficiencies in iron may weaken the immune system, affect the thyroid, and impair general physical performance. Iron deficiency has also been implicated in a number of psychiatric and neurological conditions, including learning disabilities and ADHD.
Many adults with ADD (ADHD) have a hard time slowing down their brains. Thoughts often come at whirlwind speed, and it can be hard to concentrate on the tasks at hand when so many other thoughts are floating around in the brain. I call this "mental clutter."
If you don't have ADD you can still benefit from these 3 methods for clearing your mental clutter.
Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) often feel \nlike they are running behind schedule, and just don't have \nthe time get everything done. As a result, many ADDers end \nup sacrificing their own self-care in order to scratch off \nitems on their to-do lists.
Social Phobia or SAD is a type of anxiety disorder characterized by extreme fear, anxiety, or distress when exposed to a social gathering or when doing something before a group of people.\n\n
When an ADHD child is given a task requiring attention, instead of increasing beta waves, sometimes he increases theta waves, the daydreaming brain wave. These children have what is known as a high theta/beta ratio. Using neurofeedback, a technique was developed to train ADHD children to increase the beta/theta ratio.
Neurofeedback is probably the most interesting and promising treatment modality for ADHD in use today. The goal of the treatment is to teach a person to change the way his brain works, so that the person no longer functions like he has ADHD. That means that with neurofeedback your child could teach his brain not to have ADHD. Would such a thing interest you? We are now going to go into how it works.
You, as a parent, have the ability to help your child accomplish this important social goal of relationship building.
There is a common misconception in the world that having Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) is a bad thing. While the ADD wired brain certainly presents some challenges, it also offers some incredible benefits. The following is a list of characteristics that I consistently see in my clients, friends, and colleagues with ADD.
Unfortunately, many ADDers spend too much of their time focusing on what they think they do wrong. This is understandable; as most of us have spent a lifetime learning how to deal with attention inconsistency, impulsivity, hyperactivity, emotional reactivity, and other challenges that our ADD has presented.
Practicing positive thinking allows people with ADD to focus on our strengths and accomplishments, which increases happiness and motivation. This, in turn, allows us to spend more time making progress, and less time feeling down and stuck.
As an adult with ADD and an ADD Coach, I have observed some \nskills that I believe are essential for successful ADD \nmanagement. Last month, we looked at the essential skill of \nPracticing Excellent Self-care. This month, let's look at \nanother essential skill: Planning the Time to Plan.
The primary reason that adults with ADD have poor \ninterpersonal relationships is that they have underdeveloped \nsocial skills, the major one being empathy. The way the \nspouse of the ADD partner often copes with this lack of \nempathy is to become codependent. \n
I used to be one of those people who are constantly overwhelmed and always disorganized. Through dedication, hard work, and lots of time and practice, I've gotten to a place in my life where I know how to manage my ADD. (The key word here is "manage.")
Exercise is a powerful tool for ADD management. Medical professionals recommend that adults get at least 30 minutes of aerobic exercise (such as running or biking) 3-5 times per week to improve their general health. For ADDers, this type of exercise is particularly beneficial, because it may balance production of neurotransmitters and reduce stress levels.
With an increasing number of our teens suffering ADHD, stress syndromes, unemployment, depression, drug use, crime and higher rates of youth suicide than ever before, today's parents and teachers are finding their roles more and more difficult.
The most common complaint found in someone with hypothyroidism is fatigue, which is unbearable and no amount of sleep can eliminate it. Weight gain, depression and myalgias/arthralgias are three more very commonly found complaints.
Information on skills that are needed for successful Attention Deficit Disorder management.
Information on skills that are needed for successful Attention Deficit Disorder management.
