Posted by desolationrower on March 17, 2009, at 14:22:39
In reply to Re: ADD meds/motivation/concentration » desolationrower, posted by garnet71 on March 17, 2009, at 8:40:58
> Thanks D/R - except I'm going to have to read that 10 times to know what you just said. lol
youre a quick study for someone with add?
> Something I read about ADD last night (that I could easily understand lol) really interested me so I have to write it.
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> The difference between ADD and ADHD. Actually, I've never read anything about different neurotransmitter effects from meds between ADD or ADHD symptoms, but I'm guessing that might be relevant. Both my son and I are ADDers. When I was reading about ADD/ADHD symptoms, I noticed all the symptoms I did not have, mostly the "H" in ADHD, my son had. WHile we had some overlapping symptoms, this is why in all these years I would never have thought I had ADD even though my son was diagnosed years ago. My son is right handed and I'm left handed. When I read the lists of symptoms, it was apparent that my son and I combined are the entire spectrum of the ADD/ADHD disorder.hm. the hyperactivity seems to decline into adulthood. not too much study on what the differences are, almost all of the study is on gradeschool age white boys. the handedness thing is interesting, in southpaws some brainfuctions are switched, and some are sort of half-way and divided equally between hemispheres, and some aren't. i wonder if it could cause mood improvement for lefthanders to use their right side much more, using right hand for most activities. i haven't thought about it too much, but it could be connected
Hemispheric Functioning in Children With Subtypes of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Objective: The authors investigated line bisection performance in children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD) subtypes. Previous research with neurotypical children found a rightward bias with right-hand use and a leftward bias with left-hand use; however, research with AD/HD participants has failed to similarly measure the effects of hand use, which was the focus of this study. Method: Line bisection was used to measure differences in right hemisphere functioning in children (7 to 12 years) with AD/HD-I and AD/HD-C. Results: Initial AD/HD group findings (without subtype differentiation) replicated previous research. However, further subtype analyses showed that the ADHD-I and ADHD-C groups perform significantly differently. Specifically, the ADHD-I group showed a leftward bias, irrespective of hand use, and the ADHD-C group showed a rightward bias, irrespective of hand use. Conclusion: These findings suggest that the subtypes represent two distinct disorders and that, unlike ADHD-C, ADHD-I may not be the result of right hemisphere dysfunction.look into it and tell me what the answer is? ok. :)
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