Hyperactivity - a genetic disease

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), which affects every 50 minutes a child is likely to have a genetic origin. To such conclusion the British scientists.

Researchers at Cardiff University have made this conclusion based on the study of DNA from 366 children ADHD As well as more than a thousand who did not have the disorder. "This is an amazing discovery, because it gives us the first genetic link with   ADHD - Says Anita Thapar, - professor of child and adolescent psychiatry. - We hope that it will help us to overcome the stigma surrounding the children with the disorder. Too often people believe that children show ADHD   due to poor parents or a poor diet. "

Suffer from ADHD   children can be difficult to concentrate, they are extremely mobile and restless, very impulsive and irritable, which often leads to various troubles in school. Recently there was a view that children with ADHD   It should not be considered sick and thus treat them with understanding, as the disorder itself is not that other, as a result of bad parenting.

"Now we can say with confidence that ADHD   this genetic disease And the brains of children who suffer from it, is different from the brain of healthy children, "- said Professor Thapar. She found that children with ADHD   twice as often duplicated or missing certain small segments of DNA.

Ordinary people have two copies of almost every gene are inherited from mothers and fathers. However, it happens that some copies are not available, and some, on the contrary, too much. This leads to such Genetic diseases As autism or schizophrenia. Similar violations were found in children with ADHD .

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