:: November 2009

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View all Treatment articles in our Treatment Report . The most recent articles are listed on top (not in alphabetical order). Click on the Topic on our home page and then the subtopic - Treatment Report. Stay updated on drugs and their side effects, and various other treatments, including exercise, nutrition, and supplements.

Highlighted Article

How to Recognize ADHD Symptoms at Every Age

Clinical Guidelines

AHRQ - National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality (NICHQ) Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Practitioners' Toolkit: Parent Information and Support (2004)

AHRQ - National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality (NICHQ) Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Practitioners' Toolkit: Treatment (2004)

ICSI - ADHD: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Primary Care, Diagnosis and Management of (for patients & families) (2007)

ICSI - Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Primary Care for School Age Children and Adolescents, Diagnosis and Management of (2005)

NGC - Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. (2005)

NGC - Diagnosis and management of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in primary care for school age children and adolescents. (2005)

NGC - Evidence based clinical practice guideline for outpatient evaluation and management of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. (2004)

Internet Sites

Featured site

NIH - Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

NIH - Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity

NIMH - Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder

Related Topics - Highlighted Articles

Autism - Asperger

[Large-scale genotyping in research into autism spectrum disorders and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.] (Rev Neurol. 2005) "Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are two neuropsychiatric disorders beginning in childhood that present a high degree of familial aggregation. É Genetic linkage studies have pointed to about 20 chromosomal regions that could well contain genes that grant susceptibility to autism, to ADHD or to both disorders."

Behavioral and Learning Disorders

A meta-analysis of working memory impairments in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. (J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2005) "OBJECTIVE: To determine the empirical evidence for deficits in working memory (WM) processes in children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). É RESULTS: Children with ADHD exhibited deficits in multiple components of WM that were independent of comorbidity with language learning disorders and weaknesses in general intellectual ability."

In this newsletter:

Adult ADD
Diagnosis, Imaging, and Screening
General Information
Risk Factors
Risk Reduction

	Adult ADD

	Diagnosis, Imaging, & Screening
The macrostructural and microstructural abnormalities of corpus callosum in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A combined morphometric and diffusion tensor MRI study. (Brain Res. 2009) “Results showed that ADHD had decreased area of entire CC, anterior middle-body, and isthmus. Meanwhile, reduced FA value of the isthmus was found in the ADHD group compared with the controls. Our study indicated that not only macrostructural abnormalities but also microstructural alterations in CC, especially in isthmus occurred in ADHD. The abnormality of the isthmus, the subdivision that contains the fibers connecting posterior regions of brain, may play an important role in the pathophysiology of ADHD and may be implicated in the disorders of attention.”

	General Information
Children With ADHD at Risk for Zinc and Copper Deficiency New study reveals handwriting is real problem for children with autism

	Risk Factors
Phthalates, Common Plastics Chemicals, Linked To ADHD Symptoms “They found a significant positive association between phthalate exposure and ADHD, meaning that the higher the concentration of phthalate metabolites in the urine, the worse the ADHD symptoms and/or test scores.”

	Risk Reduction