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Delay not deviance: brains of children with ADHD mature later than other

edyong | November 30, 2009

This article is reposted from the old Wordpress incarnation of Not Exactly Rocket Science. Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder is the most common developmental disorder in children, affecting anywhere between 3-5% of the world's school-going population. As the name suggests, kids with ADHD are hyperactive and easily distracted; they are also forgetful and find it difficult to control their own impulses. While some evidence has suggested that ADHD brains develop in fundamentally different ways to typical ones, other results have argued that they are just the result of a delay in the…