Identifying Brain Differences In People With ADHDIRA FLATOW
No overall difference was found between ADHD and controls in total brain volume or total gray and white matter volumes. However, differences emerged when the researchers looked at specific regions within the brain. Alterations in the shape of three brain regions (left temporal lobe, bilateral cuneus...
ADHD’s effects on the brain are very real. How does ADHD affect the brain? There are both developmental and structural differences in the brain in both kids and adults with ADHD. The result of these differences does not reduce a person’s intelligence, but it can make daily activities invo...
Although ADHD research looking at sex differences has focused largely on functional comparisons, research evaluating brain structure of boys and girls with ADHD has been lacking, with onlyone other studylooking at differences in frontal lobe morphology. For this study, Dr Mostofsky and colleagues use...
With technological advances, researchers have been able to identify genes associated with ADHD, but they had not been able to determine how genomic differences in these genes act in the brain to contribute to symptoms until now. “Multiple types of genomic studies are pointing towards t...
ADHD doesn’t mean your child isn’t as smart as kids who don’t have it. But it might affect the way they perform or act in school, and other important areas of life. Experts have found differences in the brains of people with and without the condition. These might change as a chil...
The condition, which affects 5 percent of school aged children, is not fully understood in terms of its underlying mechanisms; however, it is typically characterized by inattention, impulsivity and hyperactivity. "Differences in the brain's overall structure may give rise to functional changes across...
It's important to invest in brain scans if you think you might have ADHD. They reveal the type you have and differences between them.
These findings were presented in a symposium at the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 54th Annual Meeting. "I did not expect to see no differences between women with ADHD and healthy controls," presenter Eve M. Valera, PhD, from Harvard Medical School, in Boston, Massachusetts,...
Orebro University in Sweden and her team set out to investigate whether children with ADHD show differences in the transport of the proteins tryptophan, tyrosine and alanine, since these amino acids are the precursors for brain chemicals which have already been implicated in the development of ADHD...