Background: Prenatal exposure to methylmercury (MeHg) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) has been associated with impaired performance on attention tasks in previous studies, but the extent to which these cognitive deficits translate into behavioral problems in the classroom and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) remains unknown.
In Japan, schoolchildren happily join one another and their teachers in policing their classrooms for debris and disorder.
For my kindergarten teacher, Mrs Bush at a public school in Brooklyn, however my reticence in the classroom was suggestive of a learning disorder.
Instead of creating a comforting classroom, he insisted, it was causing disorder and chaos.
But in a hectic classroom, children with diagnoses like attention deficit disorder, anxiety or autism can seemingly become defiant, edgy or aggressive on a dime — and the plan, if one exists, can go straight out the window, investigations have found.
In a recent prospective birth cohort study conducted near a PCB-contaminated harbor in New Bedford, Massachussets, higher PCB and OC levels in umbilical cord predicted attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD like behaviors reported by classroom teachers (Sagiv et al. 2010).
Randomised trials have been used to evaluate the effectiveness of driver-education programmes, job-training schemes, classroom size, psychological counselling for post-traumatic-stress disorder and increased investment in public housing.
After she started high school, Analeida Serrano began to experience an anxiety disorder triggered by situations like crowded classrooms.
Manville Moves is an exercise intervention designed to improve behavioral regulation and classroom functioning among children with neurodevelopmental and affective disorders within a therapeutic day-school environment.
It could be a powerful tool in the management of these disorders even when used in a classroom, at work, or elsewhere.
