Who is affected by ADHD?

Answer 1

ADHD is a grouping of behavioral or mental patterns: a mental disorder. It describes behavior but not an underlying cause. It’s like how a pain in your leg does not describe the cause of the pain. Is it broken, burnt or infected?

It looks like there are more ways to get ADHD: genetic, environmental and both. We just don’t know exactly what happens. Some recent Dutch research seems to indicate that for 80% of children with ADHD, most symptoms can be taken away by a personalized diet.

Full speculation mode - A big reason might be: The brain of someone with ADHD likes some food or activities too much. When consumed the brain makes so much dopamine that the body adapts and starts breaking it down faster. As a result normal dopamine production gets broken down faster too. On average you have to little dopamine in your brain, which is the stuff that makes you concentrate.

Answer 2

ADHD is a medical disorder, caused by a number of factors that affect how the brain develops and functions. Heredity is the most common cause of ADHD. Nicotine, alcohol, and lead exposure in the womb or at an early age may be implicated in some cases, but it is thought unlikely that they are major factors in most ADHD sufferers.

Answer 3

Between 3% and 5% of children worldwide are diagnosed with ADHD; 30% to 50% of those continue symptoms through adulthood.

Answer 4

ADHD more often affects male children than female children. However, ADHD has an in-direct affect on the families that have the challenge of an ADHD child.

Answer 5

ADHD is hereditary, so you can not "get" ADHD.

Answer 6

Answer: People with a family history of it.

Answer 7

adults and kids of both genders. however you need to be checked out by a doctor by age 7 or younger.