ADHD is a neurological disorder that causes inattentiveness, hyperactivity, and impulsiveness. It has long been misunderstood but researchers have made progress in understanding its causes and symptoms. While low dopamine levels were thought to be responsible, recent studies suggest it may be due to faulty brain development. ADHD often begins in childhood but can continue into adulthood. Proper support from family and friends can help improve self-confidence for those living with ADHD.

1. ADHD EDUCATION

2. ADHD or Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder is a neurological disease that has
long been misunderstood and ill-treated.
The patients, generally children, have had to suffer from years of subdues self-
confidence and social embarrassment due to no fault of theirs. Though the exact causes
for this disease remain unknown, it is said that a variety of genetic, social and
environmental factors play a key role in determining that exact combination of genes
that render a person vulnerable to this ailment.

3. RESEARCH
George Frederic Still, in 1902, set the balls rolling to find the elusive cause of this
emotionally destructive disease when he researched on a group of twenty children
who were reported to exhibit atrocious behavior even when they had been subjected
to so-called “correct parentage.” Since then, many neurologists, scientists,
psychiatrists namely Eugene Kahn and Louis H. Cohen (1934) Charles Bradley (1937) to
Maurice Laufer, Paul Wender and Alan Zametkin and Rachel Gittleman-Klein and the
other current researchers, have been befuddled with false leads, multiple theories,
absolutely divergent researches to get to what little we know of ADHD today.

4. CAUSES OF ADHD
Though the widely accepted view is that ADHD is caused due to the improper functioning
of a chemical in the brain called DOPAMINE which acts as a neuro-transmitter, a recent
finding by a University in UK has also negated this theory by saying that it is not
dopamine but a faulty structuring of the grey matter in the brain that is the probable
cause. With so many opposing views, the only thing that is for certain is the symptoms
the patients have to go through. These include inattentiveness, constant fidgeting,
hyperactivity, a gross inability to manage time, tendency to procrastinate work, problem
in doing gross motor skills work, erratic mood swings leading to bipolar disorder etc.

5. SYMPTOMS OF ADHD
Symptoms sound like the traits of a lazy person? It is this notion that has resulted in
humiliation and embarrassment of ADHD patients, young and old alike, in front of
family, friends, colleagues etc. for events that are not in their control. It is a common
myth that ADHD, if exists, stays only during the childhood or late-teens of an individual
and gradually ceases to exist as they turn into adults. However, recent findings have
shown that 1 in 20 US adults suffers from the disease and 90% of them are untreated.
An attitude of understanding from the family and friends goes a long way in building
that long lost self-confidence of a patient. Many organizations have come forward to
spread ADHD education in adults so that they can help out a sufferer to create proper
itineraries and develop a sense of will power to overcome the mess that this disease
brings with itself.

6. RESOURCE
You can visit these entire links to find information on ADHD
ADHD Health Centers
National Institutes of Health: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/attention-
deficit-hyperactivity-disorder-adhd/index.shtml
WebMD: http://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/default.htm?names-dropdown=
Medium: https://medium.com/p/da22a394e65c
ADHD CME Providers
ADHD in Adults: http://adhdinadults.com/adhd-in-adults-treating-adult-adhd-in-
primary-care-brendan-montano-md/