Sleep Apnea
There is also new evidence that brief pauses in breathing (apnea) during infancy may be a cause of ADHD. Dr. Glenda Keating of Emory University presented data at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in October 2004, showing that repetitive drops in blood oxygen levels in newborn rats similar to that caused by apnea in some human infants is followed by a long-lasting reduction in dopamine levels, associated with ADHD. Apnea occurs in up to 85% of prematurely born human infants.
Disorders & Disabilities
- ADHD
- Agoraphobia
- Angelman Syndrome
- Asperger Syndrome
- Autism
- Bipolar Disorder
- Blindness
- Cerebral Palsy
- Childhood Disintegrative Disorder
- Cluttering
- Conduct Disorder
- Deafblindness
- Deafness
- Depression
- Development Delay
- Developmental Language Learning Impairments
- Down Syndrome
- Dyscalculia
- Dysgraphia
- Dyslexia
- Dysphasia
- Dyspraxia
- Expressive Language Disorder
- Fragile X Syndrome
- Hyperlexia
- Language Delay
- Lisp
- Mitochondrial Disease
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Oppositional defiant disorder
- P.A.N.D.A.S.
- Rett Syndrome
- Selective Mutism
- Sensory Integration Dysfunction
- Serious Emotional Disturbance
- Social Anxiety
- Stereotypic Movement Disorder
- Stuttering
- Tourette Syndrome (TS)
- Usher Syndrome
- Williams Syndrome