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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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