Children with ADHD experience up to a three year delay in brain development, especially in the areas of the brain that are involved in attention, planning, suppressing inappropriate actions, rewards and remembering from moment to moment. This comes from a new study that was published on Monday, November 12, 2007 in the online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The study, led by Dr. Philip Shaw, was completed with the Child Psychiatry Branch of the National Institute...
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