OBJECTIVE: This review aims at providing pediatricians with an update on the main causes involved in low school achievement. A more detailed approach is given for the management and treatment of attention deficit hyperactive disorder. SOURCES: Data was obtained by a systematic review of published literature in Medline, through a search on Pubmed in the last five years. The key words used were l...

Introduction: ADHD is one of the most common disorders among school children throughout the world. Parents of these children are faced with more conflicts than normal children's parents. The Purpose of his study was to evaluate and compare the mental health status of mothers having children with attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder versus mental health of mothers having normal primary sch...

Autism, Pervasive Development Disorder (PDD), Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD), and Obsessive and Compulsive Disorder (OCD) involve significant frontal and temporal lobe dysfunction. This conclusion is based on NeuroSPECT work now in progress on children afflicted with these disorders. We have been using NeuroSPECT to image cerebral abnormalities of perfusion/function in Autism, AD...