"Attention problems" refers to difficulties in focusing, being easily distracted, or struggling to pay attention to tasks or information for a sustained period of time.
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Children who suffer from
attention problems in first grade fail to acquire key academic skills, and their performance suffers in later years as a result.
The goal of the present study is to examine genetic and environmental influences on maternal and teacher ratings
of Attention Problems (AP) in 7 - year - old children.
The letter also described studies showing that television exposure at ages 1 through 3 is associated
with attention problems at age 7.
Participants who completed the program showed
fewer attention problems than wait - listed controls and those improvements were maintained three months later.
However,
because attention problems can seriously interfere with school performance, they often accompany academic skills disorders.
If attention problems are already present the side effect risk appears to be significant increased, as well.
The effects of working memory and planning (but not response inhibition) on social problems were mediated
by attention problems in both teacher - and mother - reported models.
They also were significantly more likely than children exposed to low levels to
experience attention problems and delays in cognitive and motor skills [PDF].
In fact, it seems as if just about everyone I know knows someone who has (or had)
attention problems serious enough to bring isolation, medication, or punishment in school.
Level and change in reading scores and
attention problems during elementary school as predictors of problem behavior in middle school.
Parents and teachers of children with
attention problems almost universally agree that these children can easily sustain their focus while playing video games, surfing the Internet, or using other digital media.
But the new study is the first to identify the impact
of attention problems that emerge in first grade versus those that emerge just a year later.
There was no evidence of efficacy
for attention problems, positive mood, substance abuse, eating habits, sleep or weight control.
Results: ROC analysis showed that the CBCL Delinquent Behavior and Aggressive Behavior scales predicted the structured interview derived diagnoses of conduct and bipolar disorder, the Anxious / Depressed and Aggressive Behavior scales predicted major depression, and the Anxious / Depressed and
Attention problems scales predicted anxiety disorders.
In addition to biologically - based structures and networks described below that can shed light on the associations between inadequate sleep and ADHD (as well
as attention problems more broadly), adolescents with ADHD experience a host of functional impairments that often extend to multiple domains of functioning.
Outcomes: Psychosis vulnerability assessed using the thought, social and
attention problem subscales of the youth self - report (used at T2 and T3 assessments) and the adult self - report (used at T4 assessment).
Findings suggest that the association
between attention problems and internalizing and externalizing problems occurs via an indirect mediated pathway, through peer problems.
New York City children exposed in the womb to high levels of pollutants in vehicle exhaust had a five times higher risk of
attention problems at age 9, according to new research
Internalizing Problems includes Emotionally Reactive, Anxious / Depressed, Somatic Complaints, and Withdrawn, Externalizing Problems
includes Attention Problems and Aggressive Behavior, and Total Problems includes Internalizing Problems, Externalizing Problems, Sleep Problems, and Other Problems.
The study, which was recently published online in the Journal of Attention Disorders, says the age at
which attention problems emerge makes a critical difference in a child's later academic performance.
Elementary school children who play video games more than two hours a day are 67 % more likely than their peers who play less to have greater - than -
average attention problems, according to the study, which appears in the journal Pediatrics.
Here's a list of additives that may
aggravate attention problems, although none (with the exception of Yellow No. 5) has been studied alone in humans.
The Fifth Estate (Touchstone, Blu - ray, DVD)-- Benedict Cumberbatch makes such a fascinating Julian Assange that it only
focuses attention the problems with Bill Condon's portrait of Assange, WikiLeaks and the Bradley Manning revelations.
For adolescents with ADHD,
reduced attention problems and improved executive functioning are found after a mindfulness - based program (Van de Weijer - Bergsma et al. 2012; Zylowska et al. 2008).
Data from 357 healthy subjects, obtained from the NIH MRI Study of Normal Brain Development, noted that a thinner cortex and slower cortical thinning was associated with higher
attention problem scores, suggesting a link between attention and cortical maturation.
One of the reasons, the name of the condition is helpful is because there are organizations, there are support networks, there are societies parents can go to, places like Understood who talk
about attention problems or ADHD.
POSITIVE feedback could help children at risk of
attention problems excel at learning exercises, maybe even enabling them to overtake their peers.
«This is the essence of ADD, ADHD, and measures of impulsivity,» and he says, «that's
why attention problems are more strongly related to impulsive aggression than to premeditated aggression.»