Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurobehavioral disorder that affects 3-5 percent of all American children. It interferes with a person's ability to stay on a task and to exercise age-appropriate inhibition (cognitive alone or both cognitive and behavioral). This research paper will go into the causes and research that is developing in the study of ADHD. This research paper will also go into various treatments and guidelines into understanding and dealing with children with …

…cognitive and attentional processing, impulse control, and attention/inattention; (2) studies of avoidance and early intervention to help a person's risk factors that may lead to later ADHD; and (3) brain imaging studies beginning before medical treatment and following a person through young adulthood and middle age. Lastly, there needs to be more studies on the other warning signs that are present with ADHD in both children and adults, and how these have an effect on treatment.