PSY341H5 Lecture 6: Week 6 Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
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Want to focus on consequences and causes of these disorders. Neurological disorder to do with attention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. Adhd is exhibited as persistent age-inappropriate symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity that are sufficient to cause impairment in major life activities. Signs of adhd may be present at birth - no reliable or valid methods exist to identify it. Hyperactivity-impulsivity symptoms become more visible and significant at ages 3-4. Symptoms are especially evident when the child starts school. Many children with adhd do not outgrow problems and some can get much worse. At least 50% of clinic-referred elementary school children continue to stuffer from adhd into adolescence. If not being treated it tends to stabilize through late childhood. Look out for warning signs and look out for their children with adhd. Following the worldwide influenza epidemic from 1917 to 1926. Deficits in attention and impulse control, in addition to hyperactivity, were seen as the primary symptoms.
