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Study reports medications for ADHD have little detectable impact on how much a child with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder learns in the classroom. However, the medications helped children retain attention, improve classroom behavior, and improve seat-time work.
/PRNewswire/ For decades, most physicians, parents and teachers have believed that stimulant medications help children with attention deficit hyperactivity.
In the first study of its kind, researchers at FIU s Center for Children and Families found medication has no detectable impact on how much children with ADHD learn in the classroom.