Study: Don’t overlook sleep difficulties in children with ADHD; they may impair functioning as much as ADHD itself

—– Prob­lems with sleep are com­mon in chil­dren with ADHD; in fact, past stud­ies indi­cate that sleep prob­lems occur in between 70 and 85%. Because of this, the Amer­i­can Acad­e­my of Pedi­atrics rec­om­mends that sleep dif­fi­cul­ties should be assessed as part of a com­pre­hen­sive ADHD eval­u­a­tion. In some chil­dren, sig­nif­i­cant sleep dif­fi­cul­ties may be an…

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Study: Fewer than 19% of ADHD treatment plans monitor treatment response according to guidelines

What did they find (at a recent study, pub­lished in the jour­nal Pedi­atrics, sur­vey­ing com­­mu­ni­­ty-based ADHD diag­noses and treat­ments)? For around 30 per­cent of chil­dren diag­nosed with ADHD, the evi­dence that DSM cri­te­ria were met was miss­ing. ADHD rat­ing scales were col­lect­ed from par­ents and teach­ers for only 56 per­cent of youth with an ADHD diagnosis.

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5 Reasons Why Parents of Children with ADHD Need to Become Proactive, Well-Informed Advocates

. Most chil­dren with ADHD receive their care from com­­mu­ni­­ty-based pedi­a­tri­cians, so it is espe­cial­ly impor­tant for that care to be con­sis­tent with best-prac­tice guide­lines. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, all too often it is not. The guide­lines Here is a brief sum­ma­ry of some key ADHD guide­lines pub­lished by the Amer­i­can Acad­e­my of Pediatrics

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To reduce ADHD epidemic, promote (concussion-free) sports and physical activity programs?

Exer­cise Is ADHD Med­ica­tion (The Atlantic): “This morn­ing the med­ical jour­nal Pedi­atrics pub­lished research that found kids who took part in a reg­u­lar phys­i­cal activ­i­ty pro­gram showed impor­tant enhance­ment of cog­ni­tive per­for­mance and brain func­tion. The findings…“demonstrate a causal effect of a phys­i­cal pro­gram on exec­u­tive con­trol, and pro­vide sup­port for phys­i­cal activ­i­ty for improving…

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Study: Neurofeedback brain training can complement ADHD stimulant medications

School-based brain train­ing shown to alle­vi­ate ADHD (The Boston Globe): “With more than one in 10 chil­dren diag­nosed with atten­tion deficit hyper­ac­tiv­i­ty dis­or­der, par­ents and doc­tors alike have been eager to find alter­na­tives to pre­scrip­tion stim­u­lant med­ica­tions like Rital­in or Adder­all. Some of these options include 

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