{"id":205418,"date":"2025-02-03T23:46:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T05:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/adhd-can-be-diagnosed-by-looking-at-brainwaves-heres-the-neuroscience-behind-it"},"modified":"2025-02-03T23:46:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T05:46:47","slug":"adhd-can-be-diagnosed-by-looking-at-brainwaves-heres-the-neuroscience-behind-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/adhd-can-be-diagnosed-by-looking-at-brainwaves-heres-the-neuroscience-behind-it","title":{"rendered":"ADHD can be diagnosed by looking at brainwaves. Here\u2019s the neuroscience behind it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/adhd-can-be-diagnosed-by-looking-at-brainwaves-heres-the-neuroscience-behind-it.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) do not have a behavioral disorder, nor are they lazy, or lacking in manners and boundaries. Their brains mature in a different way, with different patterns of neurological activity and a number of neurochemical differences. For this reason, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/adhd\/about\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">ADHD is considered to be a neurodevelopmental disorder<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These neurological imbalances manifest as attention difficulties, disorganization, or hyperactivity and impulsivity. While these are most noticeable in childhood, where prevalence is estimated at 5%, ADHD can persist into adulthood, where prevalence is 2.5% of the population. ADHD can therefore have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/development-and-psychopathology\/article\/abs\/attentiondeficit-disorder-attentiondeficit-hyperactivity-disorder-without-hyperactivity-a-neurobiologically-and-behaviorally-distinct-disorder-from-attentiondeficithyperactivity-disorder-with-hyperactivity\/A514B3DD207C6B037F45197B820CFFA9\" target=\"_blank\">social, academic<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/psycnet.apa.org\/record\/2007-18100-000\" target=\"_blank\">occupational<\/a> impacts throughout a person\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>Although there are risk factors (such as mothers smoking during pregnancy or <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/low+birth+weight\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">low birth weight<\/a>), these have not been shown to directly cause ADHD. Genetic factors play a more significant role, as <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC6477889\/\" target=\"_blank\">74%<\/a> of cases are hereditary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) do not have a behavioral disorder, nor are they lazy, or lacking in manners and boundaries. Their brains mature in a different way, with different patterns of neurological activity and a number of neurochemical differences. For this reason, ADHD is considered to be a neurodevelopmental disorder. These neurological [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}