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Impaired concentration is not a disease but a symptom or manifestation of child developmental disorders. Impaired concentration or a lack of concentration, can be seen from the failure of a child in giving attention to something entirely. Children’s attention very easily switch from one subject to another.

In one study, found 4-20% of children at school age diagnosed with hyperactivity. Its ratio, boys are four times more than girls. Hyperactivity is a behavioral disorder, caused by chemical imbalances in the brain. This is due to a deficiency of one or more chemical compounds, which is responsible for regulating the concentration and attention.

Previously, many experts consider these condition related with diet. Such as certain foods known to act as the cause of autism. For example, foods containing gluten (which cause allergies) such as wheat. Excessive sugar in the diet, also causing a chemical imbalance in the body. This is because sugar can make children become more active, because it rapidly enters the bloodstream and increases adrenaline production.

The quality of distraction can be mild to severe. The quality of the concentration of children on something divided into several classifications. The most severe group is over exclusive, where a child is only focused on something that caught his attention and do not care about anything else extremely. For example, baby who continue to observe the buttons of his shirt and did not care about other stimuli. This pattern is called autism. The group with a mild degree, are children with a focus of attention is easily distracted. His attention can only survive a few moments, then switch because there are other, more powerful stimulus. This is called the attention problems or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

ADHD is a chronic disorder, began to emerge in early childhood or less than 7 years of age. What is the cause as yet unknown. But this disorder is often associated with the structure of brain anatomy, brain neurochemical factors and genetic factors. In fact, there is a research that indicates that hereditary factors contribute to the emergence of these disorders reaches 40-50%. When one family member suffering from hyperactive disorders, there may be other family members who also experienced similar conditions. Read the rest of this entry »