Attention Deficit Hypertension Disorder: Don't Get Mad, Get Informed
...Deficit Hypertension Disorder, or ADHD, but many, including myself, may not really know what it is all about. In my paper I will discuss what Attention Deficit Hypertension disorder is, what causes it, it’s many symptoms, and how it can be treated.
What is Attention Deficit Hypertension Disorder?
Attention Deficit Hypertension Disorder is a neurobiological disorder. It is a disability because a child’s behavior manifests as school failure, conduct disorder, and antisocial personality disorder (DMS III 43-44). It is not a learning disability. Although ADHD obviously effects the performance of a person in a school setting, it will also effect other domains of life which can include relationships with others, running a home, keeping track of finances, and organizing, planning, and managing most areas of ones life.
The most recent research shows that the symptoms of ADHD are caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. To understand how this disorder interferes with ones ability to focus, sustain attention, and with memory formation and retrieval, it is important to understand how the brain communicates information. Each brain cell has one axon, the part of the cell that sends messages to other cells; and many dendrites, the part that receives messages from other cells. There is a space between the axon and the next brain cell. They do not connect or touch. This space is called a neural gap.
Since the nerve endings don’t actually touch, special chemicals called neurotransmitters carry the message from the end of the axon to the dendrites that will receive it. With ADHD there is a flaw in the way the brain manages the neurotransmitter production, storage and flow, causing imbalances. There is either not enough of them, or the levels are not regulated, swinging wildly from high to low.
What causes ADHD?
Scientists have not been able to determine the...
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