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Types of ADHD
Signs of ADHD
Miscellaneous
Medication
Facts
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The three types of ADHD.
What is Combined ADHD, Hyperactive/impulsive ADHD, and Inattentive ADHD?
100
True or False. Girls are diagnosed with ADHD at a younger age than boys.
What is true?
100
True or False. There are other ways to help ADHD in children.
What is true (ex. exercising, increased sleep, better nutrition, support groups, or therapy are other options)?
100
Name at least two common stimulant medications that are used to treat ADHD.
What is Adderall, Methylphenidate (Ritalin, Daytrana, Metadate, Methylin, Quillivant), Dextroamphetamine (Dexedrine), Pemoline (Cylert), Methylphenidate (Concerta), Lisdexamfetamine (Vyvanse)?
100
This gender is more likely to have ADHD.
What are males?
200
Most common type of ADHD in children.
What is the combined type (impulsive, inattentive, hyperactive)?
200
Children with ADHD have difficulties with these in their academic performance.
What is ability to finish assignments, lower grades, meeting deadlines, and more likely to be placed in special education classes?
200
About a quarter of children with ADHD also experience this disorder.
What is excessive anxiety disorder?
200
A drug used to treat ADHD. It consists of amphetamine and dextroamphetamine, which are stimulants that affect chemicals in the brain and nerves that contribute to hyperactivity and impulse control.
What is Adderall?
200
The average age a child is diagnosed with ADHD.
What is 7 years old?
300
Name at least two of the common behaviors associated with ADHD in children.
What is inability to stay still for long periods of time, the child appears to be distracted or bored when they are being talked to, difficulty with talking at appropriate times and often talks excessively, doesn't complete tasks, interrupts and has difficulty sharing with others, inability to follow instructions, or they get distracted easily?
300
Children with ADHD tend to be challenged in these academic subject areas.
What is reading, mathematics, and spelling?
300
The two main neurotransmitters involved with ADHD.
What is norepinephrine (NE) and dopamine (DA)?
300
The three nonstimulant drugs approved by the FDA to treat ADHD in children.
What is Strattera, Intuniv, and Kapvay?
300
The percent of children 3-17 years old that have been diagnosed with ADHD.
What is 11 percent?
400
A child who spends most of their time daydreaming while sitting still, probably has this type of ADHD.
What is inattentive ADHD?
400
A childhood diagnosis of these two disorders elevate the risk in ADHD in a child.
What is depression and bipolar disorder?
400
Two examples of mixed amphetamine salts (long lasting).
What is Adderall XR and vyvanse?
400
The first nonstimulant drug approved to treat ADHD.
What is Strattera?
400
True or False. ADHD is can be genetic and is a brain-based disorder.
What is true?
500
Children with this type of ADHD tend to have social problems. They tend to talk nonstop, interrupt others, have difficulty waiting for their turn, and act without thinking about the consequences.
What is hyperactive/impulsive ADHD?
500
Studies of kids with ADHD and kids without it have shown a difference of size and symmetry in which part of the brain?
What is the caudate nucleus; which is above the two gray nuclei of the corpus striatum in the cerebrum of the brain?
500
This gene is connected to severe ADHD and it regulates neurotransmitters in the brain.
What is the catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) gene?
500
The first drug used to to treat ADHD in which it was approved by the FDA in 1936.
What is Benzedrine?
500
The state with the highest percentage of kids between 4 to 17 diagnosed with ADHD in 2011.
What is Kentucky (18.7%)?