What Causes Attention Deficit?
ADD and ADHD are common terms and diagnoses that affect adults and children alike. Whether they are real medical conditions, or modern excuses for poor behavior and impulse control, they are still a problem that has plagued the last two generations. That is, 40 years ago, no one had ever heard of ADD or ADHD. In 1902, a physician first described and documented “hyperactivity” and over a century later, we still don’t have a complete understanding of the cause of this problem, and that may be because the problem is not from any single factor. Among other factors such as genetics, the mainstream scientific theories to date have blamed disruptions in the dopamine neurotransmitter pathways in the brain for the disorder. The disruptions were believed to be somewhere that accounted for normal behavior, the ability to concentrate, impulsiveness and activity levels. Recently, comparative studies of brain scans of “normal” and ADHD patients have allowed researchers to pinpoint the area in the br
