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Hours Of Sleep Sleep Deprivation
1,911 wordsTeenagers grow more and more busy by the minute. Unfortunately, this means less and less sleep. Sleep deprivation can cause many serious negative side effects to teenagers already harried lives. These side effects can range from such common problems as sleepiness during the day to more serious problems such as headaches, to the most extreme effect of all death. Misdiagnosed or undiagnosed, sleep deprivation is one of the hardest disorders to detect. Truthfully, the only way to correct it is by a...
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Childhood Onset Bipolar Disorder
1,471 wordsChildhood Onset Bipolar Disorder (COBPD) is one of the most debilitating mental disorders affecting children today. Bipolar Disorder is a mood disorder usually affecting adults that causes sometimes severe changes in mood. Childhood Onset Bipolar disorder is just what it sounds like, a bipolar disorder that occurs during childhood. Persons suffering from a bipolar disorder experience mood swings ranging from depression to mania. During a depressive episode patients can experience feelings of ext...
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Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
1,753 words... he U. S. in 1990 spent an estimated 148 billion on treating mental disorders. Childhood Disorders Several Mental disorders are evident first in infancy, childhood, and adolescence. Mental retardation is characterized by the inability to learn normally and to become as an independent and socially responsible as others of the same age in the same culture. A retarded person go through a lot of emotional problems because of the society making fun of these people. A retarded person has an IQ of l...
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Should Stimulants Be Prescribed For Adhd Children
739 wordsIn this day and age, drugs are being prescribed without hesitation. In fact, many of these drugs are being prescribed for children with various disorders. One of these disorders is called Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). An estimated five to ten percent of children are diagnosed with this syndrome (Taylor 11). One of the methods to treat this disorder is to use stimulants, specifically Ritalin. This method is controversial because it has many side effects and its long-term effect...
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American Psychiatric Association Children With Adhd
1,411 wordsSeven years ago I was diagnosed with ADHD or Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. In other words, I had a chronic problem paying attention. As a form of treatment for ADHD, I was put on a controversial drug called Ritalin. Now being at the age of sixteen, it was not really my choice whether I wanted to take a doctors prescription or not. Now that I have grown up a bit and understand things better, I am questioning the benefits of prescribing Ritalin to treat ADD. My personal experience with...
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American Psychiatric Association Children With Adhd
1,701 words'Why didn't the ADHD boy introduce his girlfriend to any of his friends? A) He can't remember her name; or better yet, How would they diagnose ADD in a chicken? A) It never gets all the way across the road because of all the distractions. You could say growing up was hard; everyday I had to endure cruel teeny bopping teenagers who didnt understand my condition. What really made it hard was that I didnt even understand my condition. Seven years ago I was diagnosed with ADHD or Attention Deficit/ ...
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Year Old Boy Disorder Adhd
1,605 wordsAlthough American culture has changed over the years, parents today still want what is best for their children. Why then, are parents allowing their children to be put on medications that may have an adverse effect on their children? Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) have increasingly been diagnosed among young children today. Parents should become more informed about the over diagnosing, side effects, results of the medication and all other perti...
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Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Adhd Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
1,714 wordsTourette Syndrome (TS) is an inherited, neurological disorder characterized by repeated and involuntary body movements and uncontrollable vocal sounds. In a minority of cases, the vocalizations can include socially inappropriate words and phrases. These outbursts are neither intentional nor purposeful. Involuntary symptoms can include eye blinking, repeated throat clearing or sniffing, arm thrusting, kicking, shoulder shrugging or jumping. These, and other symptoms, typically appear before the a...
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Attention Deficit Disorder Department Of Education
1,248 wordsWe are all created equal, albeit unique; and yet, some of us are different from "everybody else." Adults and children come in all shapes and sizes, with many different characteristics and traits, different abilities and inclinations. Some are smarter than others, some are quick, some are slow, some are left behind. At the age of 5 or 6 children begin their long journey in the world of education. They are taught how to read and write, how to AD/HD, subtract and multiply, some history, grammar, li...
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Attention Deficit Disorder Bipolar Disorder
1,292 wordsWhat is unipolar illness? When the mood is just depressed. This is far more common than bipolar illness. What is bipolar disease? Bipolar disorders (manic-depressive illness) are marked by periods of manic, greatly elated moods or excited states as well as by periods of depression. Although the manic-depressive psychosis may alternate from one of its phases to the other, one or the other phase is usually dominant for a while. Depression is more often dominant than mania. Manic-depressive patient...
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Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
1,516 wordsIS RITALIN OVERPRESCRIBED? Stimulant medications such as Ritalin have received some bad press over the years. Because of lack of accurate information, parents are understandably fearful of side effects. Ritalin has been studied carefully for the last 20 to 30 years. The two most commonly mentioned side effects of Ritalin are loss of appetite and sleep problems. Irritability and weight loss are the next most often reported symptoms. Approximately half of the children in one study who took Ritalin...
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Attention Deficit Disorder Brain Damage
1,727 wordsWhat exactly is ADD? This is a question that has remained unanswered for a very long time. ADD, also known as attention deficit disorder, has to do with the brain. This disorder was at one time thought to be related to brain damage. Nowadays however, it is actually quite common. It is reported that about 40 percent of the student body of an average school is ADD. Scientists think that this is at least one student per classroom in a school. ADD has really been recognized over the past twenty year...
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Parental Divorce Psychological Bulletin
3,038 wordsThe Affects of Divorce on Children As a child, there are many things that affect a view, memory, opinion, or attitude. Children have many of their own daily struggles to cope with, as peer pressures are an example. As an adult, we sometimes forget what it is like to be a child dealing with some of the childhood pressures. Many parents do not realize how something like divorce could possibly affect their children as much as it does themselves. As the case may be, children are strongly affected by...
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Attention Deficit Disorder Attention Deficit Disorder Add Ben
310 wordsThe main character in Eagle Eyes is a young boy named Ben. In the beginning Ben and his family are out on a trial. Ben scares all the birds away from his sister because of his clumsiness. He feels hi s family is better off without him. Ben also feels he is a pain and a burden to his family. When Ben does his homework for school he forgets it at home and gets in trouble with his teachers. Ben and his dad go to visit Dr. Lawson and she informs Ben he has Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). Ben reali...
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Attention Deficit Disorder Development Of Children
2,073 wordsOur generation has been raised in a technological advanced world and there has been definite controversy over many of these innovations that this new culture has brought. An innovation that has troubled the youth of America for many years is television. Although there is no certainty to eliminate this plug-in drug, there are many ways to control and monitor your television as a parent. Children between two and eleven years of age watch an average of 25 hours of television a week. (Children s Tel...
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Antisocial Personality Disorder Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
1,465 wordsThis study will be dealing with the delinquent behaviours, of antisocial persons, otherwise know as psychopaths, or more recently sociopaths. The study will be discussing their typical behaviours, then go on to give reasons why they might occur. Psychologists have studied criminals classified as psychopaths. These people are aggressive, highly impulsive, antisocial persons who appear to have little or no concern for societies values. Generally, antisocial behaviour does not appear in adult hood ...
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Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
1,494 wordsIn recent years, more and more kids seem to be on a prescription drug called Ritalin (methylphenidate). This drug is being handed out more and more by doctors as a way of treating Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, a complex neurological impairment that prevents kids from concentrating. According to the Drug Enforcement Agency, it rose fron 200 grams per 100, 000 people to over 1400 grams per 100, 000 people in the last fifteen years. The National Institute of Mental Health estimates that...
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Stimulant Medications Disorder Adhd
1,534 wordsRitalin Research Paper Drugs and Behavior Abstract Ritalin (Methylphenidate) is a mild CNS stimulant. In medicine, Ritalin's primary use is treatment of Attention Deficit /Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD). The mode of action in humans is not completely understood, but Ritalin presumably activates the arousal system of the brain stem and the cortex to produce its stimulant effect. Recently, the frequency of diagnosis for ADHD has increased dramatically. More children and an increasing number of adults...
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Personality Disorder Hyperactivity Disorder
1,240 wordsIn the world full of fears, perhaps a worse for the human being should have is that be afraid of his fellow man. The human that should be most feared is the one that has Anti-social Personality Disorder or in today s terms the psychopath. The psychopath is probably the most deviant mind that exists and treatment is not very successful because there is not a cure of drug to control it. It has been stated that a solution to this problem would be to let all sociopaths live in colonies together. The...
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Attention Deficit Disorder Psychiatric Disorders
2,937 wordsResults Studies On Ritalin Studies Results of 2 separate studies reveal that hyperactivity, and other behavioral conditions respond well to chiropractic care and even exceed results seen from medication. 6. &# 038; 7. There exists a positive relationship between cranial motion restrictions and learning disabled children, as well as children with a history of an obstetric ally complicated delivery. 8. Children with ADHD and coordination problems were more than twice as likely to have a mother who...
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