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Overall nutritional status in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) shows that this patient population is at risk for low trace mineral status, including deficiencies in zinc and copper — minerals that may play a crucial role in the production of dopamine, norepinephrine, and melatonin, which regulates sleep. Presented here at the American Academy [...]

Over the past decade, concerns over traditional childhood diseases such as measles and whooping cough have been supplanted by developmental disorders such as autism and attention-deficit disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD). Autism now affects 1 in 150 eight-year-olds in the United States,[1] while more than 4 million children nationwide qualify for a diagnosis of ADD/ADHD.[2,3] [...]