ADHD Parent–Pediatrician Letters to the School

ADHD Parent–Pediatrician Letters to the School

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Research-agenda Bias: letters to the editor

THE PREVALENCE OF ADHD IN PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN TEHRAN

 ABSTRACT Background: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is characterized by a developmental disorder involving inappropriate poor attention span or age-inappropriate features of hyperactivity and impulsivity and/or both. Methods: In order to assess the prevalence of children with ADHD in Tehran, a sample of 2667 children including both boys & girls aged between 7-12 years were sel...

Department of Psychology Graduate School of Letters

Capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) are sensitive to others " reward: 1 An experimental analysis of food-choice for conspecifics. Abstract 25 Whether non-human primates have other-regarding preference and/or inequity aversion 26 has been under debate. We investigated whether tufted capuchin monkeys are sensitive 27 to others " reward in various experimental food sharing settings. Two monkeys faced ...

Medicine Goes to School: Teachers as Sickness Brokers for ADHD

April 2006 | Volume 3 | Issue 4 | e182 Over the last twenty years, attention defi cit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has emerged as a disorder of importance in childhood. Prescription of psychostimulants for ADHD escalated in many countries through the 1990s. Between 1990 and 1995, prescriptions of methylphenidate for young people increased 2.5-fold in the US [1], and 5-fold in Canada [2]. In Ne...