ADHD and medication by Jessica Nelson https://padlet.com/jessican/h5cm35y5oggx After reading the article add your thoughts here. en-us 2017-05-30 17:38:08 UTC 2017-05-30 18:17:34 UTC hello@padlet.com Courtney Deist, Tara Schroller, Ashley Wegeng, Brittaney Warnow Cdeist https://padlet.com/jessican/h5cm35y5oggx/wish/174477349 Medication is used to improve the symptoms, it does not cure ADHD.

Psycostimulant meds help important networks of nerve cells in the brain to communicate more effectively with each other.

Children who are given meds can sometimes develop ticks... meds don't cause them but they bring out ticks earlier than normally would happen. 

70-80% of children on meds respond positively. 

Children can benefit from meds outside of school because it can help them succeed in social settings- peer relations, home environment and homework. 

Nonstimulants are used when psychostimulants aren't effective. 





]]> 2017-05-30 18:04:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jessican/h5cm35y5oggx/wish/174477349 Abby Webb, Brianna Thummel, Jensyn Ford, Maddie Jewett msjewett https://padlet.com/jessican/h5cm35y5oggx/wish/174477618 Non-stimulant Medication: Non-stimulant medicine works just as well as non-stimulant, or even better in some cases. If a child is taking non-stimulanet medication, the doctor can refill a prescription more easily but the medicine doesn't work as easily. 

Possible Side Effects: we didn't realize that tics were a side effect. We also didn't realize that most of the side effects are pretty mild.

Psychostimulant: they are most widely used to treat ADHD. Fun fact: there is no specific dose per age or weight, it has to be individually determined for each patient.

]]> 2017-05-30 18:06:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jessican/h5cm35y5oggx/wish/174477618 ADHD and Medication: Brianna Hammond, Kristen Houser, and Ryan Emmett bri_hammond1 https://padlet.com/jessican/h5cm35y5oggx/wish/174479370 Medication does not cure ADHD just eases the symptoms. The medication acts as eyeglasses would, improving and offers balance rather than taking total control of the behavior. Tourette’s syndrome and ADHD can go hand in hand but they are different topics of discussion. But the medication doesn’t cause these tics but may bring the light onto them earlier then they would without medication. The research does say that about 7% of children with ADHD have tics or Tourette’s syndrome. Some side effects of ADHD medication may be weight gain and height. 

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