ESS 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Substance Abuse, Locus Coeruleus
15 Nov 2017
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The speaker himself has add, but wasn"t diagnosed until his late 30s. Women has higher chance of being undiagnosed because their symptoms are usually inattentive. Men are more likely to get adhd or the combined type. Rate of adhd in children is between 3-7% But among all children that are diagnosed of psychiatric disorder, 50% are them receive adhd treatment. Thus, adhd are said to have been over-diagnosed. If one of the parent has add, children are twice as likely to have add. If one sibling has add, more chance of the other children having add. People born in september has higher chance of getting add. Foster children with add parents will still have add (environmental factor excluded) Make some of the most diffuse connections in the brain. "involved" in regulation of attention, arousal, sleep wake cycles, learning and memory, anxiety, pain, mood and brain metabolism. People with add were found to have decreased perfusion in the frontal lobe.
