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Add Reaction Essay Essay, Research Paper

Psychology

ADD Reaction Essay

Mr. Fabrizio

ADD: Who does it effect and what are the treatments?

I chose this topic because being a young person I personally know a good

amount of people who have ADD and are treated with the drug Ritalin, and at one

time or another most people have a hard time focusing and think whether they

have a problem or not. While doing this report at times I found myself looking

away or doing other things but I realized that there is a difference between

getting lazy for a minute or two and not actually being able to do the project

at all which some people with ADD might have to put up with.

There have been many different people effected by ADD since it was first

described medically in 1902. Attention Deficit Disorder effects approximately 10

million Americans including adults and effects around 4% of school-aged children

and once it

was estimated that between 3 and 5 % of all children had it . What’s

interesting about these numbers is that there is an increasing amount of experts

who are examining the possibility that ADD may be genetic. For a long time it

was presumed that diet, like too much sugar, was the main cause of this

disorder, but this was later disproved by the National Institute of Health.

Another assumed cause of the disorder was environment like bad family life,

neglect, and/or divorced parents that caused this. But the more research was

done, the more counterexamples against these premonitions were found. What

experts realized through this research was that the only concrete cause was

genetics. Studies of twins revealed in the article by James Freeman (6th para)

shows that identical twins are more likely to get the disorder than fraternal

twins which suggest that the stronger the genetic relationship with a relative

who has ADD or ADHD, the greater the likelihood of developing one of the

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