Without going any further, yesterday we published a post about the benefit of dancing in hyperactive children.
But also other times we have talked about how difficult it is to diagnose these children, since sometimes the symptoms are confused with rebellion or simple lack of concentration.
Today there is another good news about a new technique that would diagnose hyperactivity.
One study found that hyperactive boys usually have a slightly smaller brain than the rest of the kids, around 3%. What would that mean?
It is evidence that doctors say "demonstrates that attention deficit and hyperactivity are not something of age and that it will pass over time, as many parents believe," explains the psychiatrist responsible for the study, Juan Antonio Hormaetxea. Nowadays, complex neuroimaging techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging and tomography would allow to verify if a child suffers from an attention and hyperactivity disorder and to verify the improvement experienced by patients in treatment.
Although many believe that hyperactivity is only a behavioral disorder, it is not as simple as that. It is a neurological complication, more typical in boys than in girls, which begins at three or four years and worsens at school age.
According to specialists, complicated deliveries, intrauterine infections and trauma occurred during the first years of life also influence the subsequent onset of hyperactivity.
We may be faced with the close possibility of proving in a scientific way whether or not a child suffers from hyperactivity syndrome and attention deficit.
