Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurological behavioral disorder that begins in childhood and can persist into adolescence and adulthood. ADHD has also been referred to as attention-deficit disorder (ADD), hyper kinesis and even minimal brain dysfunction. It is the most common mental disorder among children today. Affecting an estimated three to five percent of all children, and two to three times more boys than girls are affected. It is believed that around sixty percent of children diagnosed with ADHD will retain the disorder as adults. It was first described in 1845, by Dr. Heinrich Hoffman, a physician who wrote books on medicine and psychiatry. Also in 1902 Sir George F. Still published a series of lectures to the Royal College of Physicians in England in which he described a group of impulsive children with significant behavioral problems, caused by a genetic dysfunction and not by poor child rearing. But it wasn't until 1998 that the National......

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