In the last two decades, parents and teachers reported epidemic levels of children with concentration problems, impulsiveness and so much e...
In the last two decades, parents and teachers reported epidemic levels of children with concentration problems, impulsiveness and so much energy to bounce off the walls. Educators, politicians and scientists have spent an attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, as a national crisis called and have to address billions of dollars the cause.
They had air genetic, brain development, to lead exposure, the dynamics in the early years of study, and many other factors. If the answer to at least some cases of ADHD is most clearly?
And if, as a growing number of researchers suggest today many children are not only getting the sleep they need to lead problematic behaviors that mimic ADHD?
This provocative and controversial theory has gained ground in recent years, several studies suggesting links between ADHD and duration, time and sleep quality. In a time when even children know the words of Netflix and Hulu , demand expanded by perfectionism and many children preschool squirmy elementary school students more school activities juggles every day, is a question of whether some children are encouraged so or not stressed it in the are able to sleep much or as well as they should.
Growing evidence suggests that a segment of children with ADHD is diagnosed and actually suffer from a lack of sleep, insomnia, airway obstruction, or other known sleep disorders. But perhaps thought that the most difficult paradigm that ADHD may be a sleep disorder in itself. If true, this basic idea, the way ADHD could change is examined and treated.
as the natural cycle of sleep and waking - the most recent data on this topic looked presented at the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology meeting in Paris, the circadian rhythms of the people of this month. He showed that study participants with ADHD had melatonin levels, a hormone that increases of 1.5 hours later at night than those without ADHD. Accordingly, they fell asleep later and sleep less overall, with consequences for other bodily processes.
When the rhythm of day and night disturbed, researchers Sandra Kooij UniversiteitMedical Vrije Center said in Amsterdam, as are temperature, motion and meals. Any change can lead to inattention and challenging behavior.
"[I] s looking more and ADHD and insomnia are two sides of the same physiological and mental currency," Kooij said in his presentation.
Sleep problems can be divided into three categories: to, insomnia and respiratory diseases. All are common in young children. Some studies estimate the prevalence of achieving 20 to 40 percent in young children.
Karen Bonuck, a professor of family and community medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, is known for his work on a studyof 2,012 11,000 children published in the journal Pediatrics known. It was found that those who (is interrupted in breathing by a person during sleep) with snoring, mouth breathing or apnea was 40 percent to 100 percent more likely than those without sleep problems have behaviors that resemble ADHD 7 years.
"There is much evidence that sleep is an important factor behavior in children," Bonuck said in a recent interview.
Previous studies have shown that about 75 percent of people have trouble sleeping with ADHD and sleep less to get the most severe symptoms. In an article that showed that scientists a group of children with breathing problems during the night has with ADHD and no diagnostic criteria for the disease met have been diagnosed to after treat their polyps or almonds sleep problem.
New works by Bonuck, funded by the National Institutes of Health, was an awareness campaign aimed at teachers, parents and encourage children to help sleeping bears and classic book "Goodnight Moon" plush. As investigators based data to collect before any intervention, she said she is shocked that many preschoolers to discover at 11 pm sleep or later, but had to be 8 hours ago to go to school. They received less than nine hours of sleep, much lower than 10 to 13 hours, the American Academy of Pediatrics for children aged 3 to 5 recommended.
"I thought it was a mistake," Bonuck said. "Behavioral disorders are a major problem in the classes of the country, and sleep deprivation symptoms can be much like the symptoms of ADHD. "
William Pelham, ADHD specialist has long been the center for children and families in Florida International University directed against recognizes that some children are diagnosed with ADHD when they actually have a sleep problem. However, he said he that saw only a "handful" of cases of thousands of people.
The link says, is exaggerated and the diagnosis of ADHD is a very real and potentially very severe. According to the latest study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 6.4 million children, or one in 10 children aged 4 to 17 years in the country of the disease in old age, have been diagnosed with ADHD, and believes that the diagnosis is correct in the most cases.
"Sleep is a problem for all attempts to measure attention. But I do not think [that] ... It represents the large majority of ADHD in the United States, "he said.
But Pelham noticed a growing number of children with ADHD and sleep problems in recent years. This has brought less with the kind of ADHD with the changes by the pharmaceutical industry to do, he said.
In the 1980s and 1990s, the most popular stimulant treatments were carried out for four to six hours. Most children are now taking the last 12 hours, he said.
"If you have children that are drug-sensitive. This might not be tired until midnight. So there is an increase remain children before the result of a change in society through the long-acting drug, "he said. So to meet this afternoon, more children are taking another drug - "antidepressants, melatonin or, God forbid, an antipsychotic medication," he said.
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