There was a report recently about an academic doing research into psycopaths. He had a sample of brain scans from people diagnosed as psychopaths and showing psycopathic behaviour patterns and a control sample of his work colleagues.
When doing the comparisons he was disconcerted to discover that one of the psychopathic scans had got mixed up with his control sample. When he investigated he discovered that the scan was actually of his own brain.
This led him to reconsider what made some one psychopathic. He came to the conclusion that while a psychopathic brain predetermined the possibility of someone becoming psychopathic, nurture or the lack of it was the switch that turned it on. He could, on reflection see mild psychopathic actions and reactions in himself, but came to the conclusion because he had good parents and a structured and disciplined upbringing, these psychopathic tendencies were disciplined and controlled
I wonder whether the same applies to ADHD/ADD. If a child with ADHD/ADD is brought up in a structured and disciplined way then the syndrome will generally only show in minor ways, but when a child with ADHD has a chaotic and inconsistent upbringing then they are more likely to develop serious problems.
Should Gransnet delay the first posts from new posters?
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