Increase in Child ADHD Diagnoses: Sleep Disorder to Blame?
If your child’s been diagnosed with ADHD, you’d better first have a sleep study done on them before you start doling out the ADHD drugs. Read more…
What Causes ADHD in Kids & Adults? Probably Bad Sleep
Drugs aren’t the answer for kids and adults whose ADHD is caused by sleep problems, and sleep problems can easily be missed by parents, spouses and the patients themselves. Read more…
Simple Signs Your Child Was Misdiagnosed with ADHD
There are clear signs that indicate your child was misdiagnosed with ADHD. In fact, ADHD is simply an acronym that merely describes a symptom group, and there is no diagnostic test known that definitively confirms Read more...
Can a Child’s ADHD Be Caused by a Bullying Parent?
If you think your child has ADHD, examine your behavior: Maybe you bully your child and have caused the ADHD. But parent bullies rarely admit they do this. A bullying parent doesn’t necessarily use corporal Read more...
10 Conditions that Mimic ADHD in Kids: Misdiagnosis Common
Conditions that mimic ADHD and lead to misdiagnosis in kids Has your child been diagnosed with ADHD, because if so, he or she may have been misdiagnosed. Numerous conditions mimic the diagnosis that is known Read more...
ADHD Symptoms Expanded, Bigger Profits for Drug Companies?
The ADHD symptom checklist seems to grow by leaps and bounds every few years, so that more and more people can be included in the checklist. For this article I interviewed Shane Ellison, a pharmaceutical Read more...
What to Do After ADHD Diagnosis for Kids AND Adults
If you’ve been diagnosed with ADHD, you might really have sleep apnea and were misdiagnosed. The symptoms of ADHD mimic the symptoms of sleep apnea. It’s not at all uncommon for people (kids and adults) who’ve been Read more...
Increase in ADHD Diagnoses: Drug Company Ads vs. Genes
The drug companies are behind the surge in ADHD diagnoses all over the world. And this is something that many people have believed for years—including doctors. America used to account for 90 percent of Ritalin Read more...
Should My ADHD Child Take Drugs? Doctor Says NO
Can the answer to the ADHD child's situation really be corrected with drugs? Though many kids are given an ADHD diagnosis simply because they exhibit poor manners, impatience or other annoying traits that, in adults, Read more...
Can a Child Have Sleep Apnea WITH ADHD?
Can ADHD and sleep apnea occur in the same child? “Yes, and if both are not treated, it's a disaster!” says Dr. Frank Barnhill, MD, board certified family physician practicing child and adult preventative care/ADHD-behavior Read more...
Kids’ ADHD, Sleep Duration and Quality Strongly Linked
A new investigation shows a compelling link between ADHD symptoms and sleep variations in children. Parents who reported short sleep times (and poor quality) in their preschoolers, consistently reported a few years later that their Read more...
Genetic Link to ADHD Not Proof Bad Parenting Isn’t to Blame
When children are subjected to a harsh, stressful or otherwise unstable environment, it would only be natural – and expected -- of them to develop peculiar behaviors as a result. Many of these behaviors are Read more...
What’s the Best ADHD Drug for Children?
There's so many drugs out there that are prescribed for kids diagnosed with ADHD, but certainly, some of these drugs work much better than others, but which? I posed the question, “What is the best Read more...
Causes of ADHD: Bad Parenting or Brain Wiring?
Okay, so which is to blame for causing ADHD? Bad parenting or some kind of fluke in the natural wiring of the child's brain? It's easy to blame the brain, right? This gets parents off Read more...
Birth Order & ADHD: Is There a Link?
When one child out of several in a family has been diagnosed with ADHD, it's not uncommon for the parents to suspect that birth order had something to do with it. To some parents, it Read more...
ADHD & Depression in Teens: How Parents Can Help
Here are guidelines from an ADHD specialist regarding how a parent should approach management of depression in their child. The link between ADHD and depression is there. For this article I consulted with Dr. Robert Read more...
Fidgeting: Link to ADHD & Its Benefits
A psychologist who specializes in ADHD talks about fidgeting. Many people who’ve been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) would like to know if fidgeting is a behavior that comes with this collection of Read more...
Can Leg Shaking Be Caused by ADHD?
A psychologist who specializes in ADHD comments on leg shaking. For this post I interviwed Dr. Robert Myers, creator of the Total Focus program at Legacy Publishing. Dr. Myers is a clinical Read more...
Is Walking on Toes Caused by ADHD?
Here is what a psychologist says about the connection between walking on one’s toes and ADHD. Where did the idea ever originate that walking on one's toes is a symptom or indicative of attention deficit Read more...
Can Bedwetting Be Caused by ADHD?
Here’s what an ADHD specialist says about bedwetting. For this article I consulted with Dr. Robert Myers, creator of the Total Focus program at Legacy Publishing. Dr. Myers is a clinical psychologist with 25 years of Read more...