This article is from the magazine Les Dossiers de Sciences et Avenir n°220 dated January/March 2025.
Always agitated, sometimes even aggressive, this child may suffer from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). A syndrome that has a genetic component – 30 to 40% of those affected have a parent who has the same disorder – and which affects 3.5 to 5.6% of schoolchildren in France, according to the High Authority for Health (HAS). In half of the cases, other disorders are associated with it, for example dyslexia, which affects reading and writing, or autism.
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