Attention Deficit

Data from the study were used to evaluate whether stimulant medication effects physical growth in children. The data collected over three years indicates that both height and weight are decreased in children using stimulant medication.

Co-author, Professor William Pelham, of the University at Buffalo, says: “The children had a substantial decrease in their rate of growth so they weren’t growing as much as other kids both in terms of their height and in terms of their weight. And the second was that there were no beneficial effects – none.”

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A University of British Columbia research study has demonstrated that cognitive training can improve attentional control, impulse control, and other executive functions.

Furthermore, the study’s authors cite that practice of cognitive skills in early development years may decrease incidence of ADHD.
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In research published in Pediatrics, [December 2007; vol 120: pp 1494-1501], lead author, Almut G. Winterstein, PhD, assistant professor of pharmacy health care administration, University of Florida College of Pharmacy, Jacksonville, found that common stimulants used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) don’t often cause serious heart complications in children. However, she warns that their safety is undetermined for prolonged use.

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Test subjects performed a computer-based task that required them to respond to target visual images with or without distractions. The test subjects were alerted when a target image would contain irrelevant distracters with the target images. Under this circumstance, Klingberg and McNab cited increase blood flow in the basal ganglia and the prefrontal cortex before the visual display appeared. This, they interpreted as the brain preparing to “filter out” the upcoming distracters. They theorize that these preliminary findings may be related to ADHD.

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