Treatment for ADHD

He as well gets very frustrated in this area because it seems that they just catagorize it as a chemical inbalance in the frontal lobe of the brain and are happy with that and are not doing much more research beyond that. However my husband in working on his dissertation for his Doctoral Degree in Neuro-Psychology and he has a theroy, he thinks that either while the child was in the womb, or after birth the child experienced some type of minor to major brain injury, such as during childbirth the child lost oxygen for a brief period of time of even after birth and thus causing frontal lobe damage resulting in ADD/ADHD. My son was born with complications and therefore he fits this profile, but not all children are born with any knowledge to the parent or doctor that they were oxygen deprived for a few moments, so they (the medical world) has not made a definite connection with it. However the Children's hospital believes in the same theroy as my husband's dissertation, and they are looking at hiring him once he graduates this May to work on their study team of ADD/ADHD and E.C.M.O (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation). If you would like once he finishes his dissertation and it is published I could send you a copy if you are interested. His dissertation is not just his theroy he has done the research, he has had mothers of unborn children and during childbirth and after childbirth participate in his study, and then they allowed their children to come into the medical clinic he runs for further testing of developmental skills and more. Working as a Psychologist during the past 10 years while working on getting his Neuro-Psychology Doctorate, he has became so frustrated with all the amount of children that have ADD/ADHD and parents do not want them medicated and the teachers want them medicated to the gills. He believes in medication of children, but ONLY after they have gone through a series of testing to underline their cause of ADD/ADHD and what the right treatment would be,BUT until Strattera came out he DID NOT want ANY child on the past medications they had for ADD/ADHD. He also wants a program to be implimented to make the states make their teachers attend summer workshops that train them extensiely on how to handle ADD/ADHD children, and/or with the numbers of ADD/ADHD children increasing immensively there should be teachers that are specially trained and have classes just for these children just like the have classes for Special Ed Children. However my husband thinks that each child should go through extensive series of testing to make sure that they are ADD/ADHD and that it is not something else. He believes that there are so many children being mis-diagnosed as ADD/ADHD because they have a few symptons that fit so the doctor stops there and say they are ADD/ADHD. Anyway I guess I better stop ranting....lol. Anyway my husband is just very passionate about this, and has spent years studying and doing trial and error in his research. Like I said if you are interested in getting a copy of his dissertation when he is through and it has been published he said he would be happy to send/mail you a copy of it. Just let me know. Anyway have a great day!!!

Thank you Ozarkgirl. Psych major here, but we have yet to thoroughly cover the subject of ADHD. It was merely touched on in my child psychology class. Has your husband heard of any new developments in the possible causes of ADHD?

That is VERY interesting. I've actually never heard anything about that before. I will definitely be checking that out. I would prefer to understand the cause before I opt for treatment, so this might be right up my alley. Thanks.

I'm sorry, but this is garbage. Some kids are simply wired differently.