Comment: Is it not time that we start listening to healthy siblings?
Nikos Myttas
pp 3-3
In families where one or more children are suffering from a behavioural neuro-developmental disorder that requires increased parental input, such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), the effect on healthy siblings can be dramatic. Numerous studies have demonstrated that the healthy child often feels neglected, victimised and unappreciated, and that their suffering is either minimised or ignored.
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The benefits of treating adults with ADHD: evaluation of a pilot service
Peter Mason and Taimur Rahman
pp 4-7
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has an estimated prevalence of 2.5% in adults. Untreated, ADHD carries with it significant psychosocial disadvantages, including academic, employment and relationship failure, increased rates of criminality and psychiatric co-morbidity.
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Implementation of the NICE guideline on ADHD in adults
Leon Rozewicz
pp 8-9
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) was established in 1999 with the aim of ensuring high quality care from the NHS and equal access to medical treatments for everyone living in England and Wales. Clinical guidelines are recommendations published by NICE on the appropriate evidence-based treatments and care, within the NHS, of people with specific diseases and conditions. Treatments have to be shown to be cost-effective, but the guidelines also aim to improve the quality of healthcare.
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Beyond medication: how exercise can enhance the effect size of treatment
Nikos Myttas
pp 10-13
It is by now well established and widely accepted that attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), the most common neuropsychiatric disorder in childhood and the most researched topic in medicine, typically emerges in childhood, has a prevalence rate of about 5% across Europe and North America, and persists through adolescence and into adulthood for a substantial number of affected individuals.
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Managing ADHD across Europe: the Italian view
Sara Carucci and Alessandro Zuddas
pp 14-16
In the past decade, interest in, and research into, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have increased substantially in Italy. This growing interest has been especially marked during the last three years, mainly as a consequence of the introduction, in 2007, of a national ADHD register. However, despite a significant growth of awareness and knowledge of the disorder among clinicians, some critical issues remain, and ADHD is still an underdiagnosed and undertreated condition in the Italian context.
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Book review: Common SENse for the Inclusive Classroom
Andy Bloor
pp 17-17
This could easily have been just another ‘top tips’ book about the various conditions that can be experienced by children as a barrier to learning in school. However, this book takes a novel, ‘menu-style’ approach, encouraging classroom teachers to dip into the sections that they consider the most useful to their situation.
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The impact of ADHD on siblings: a personal account
Anonymous
pp 18-19
This article describes, from a personal perspective, what it was like growing up as the older sister of two brothers suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), one of whom also had learning difficulties. The brother with additional learning difficulties, S, is now aged 17, and the brother with ADHD only, A, is 11.
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The effect of nutrition on ADHD symptomatology
Kiriakoula Vratchovska- Zachou
pp 20-22
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a complex condition that requires a multifaceted treatment approach. Nutritional management is one aspect that, to date, has been relatively neglected. However, there is increasing evidence that some children with behavioural problems are sensitive to one or more food components, and that these can impact negatively upon their behaviour. This article touches on relevant genetic research and theories that justify the nutritional approaches outlined below.
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