Twenty-Time Project

I worked on this project with Ananya. When I learned that she was working with ADHD I wanted to join her because my family friend has been recently diagnosed with ADHD. The project itself was learning about the diagnosis of ADHD and how specialists could improve it. Our initial plan was to create an actual test to diagnose it properly, but after realizing the complexity of the process, we just decided to write up options on how to improve the actual diagnosis. We also planned on actually testing subject with and without ADHD, but because it was a subject that people often don't wish to disclose, we also were unable to do that. Based on what we have information wise, our next step would be educating people of the unreliability f current diagnosis and treatment, and other steps that can be taken to help people with this learning disorder. I also learned that children with ADHD often have smaller brains than children without, and also they have significantly more grey matter in their brains. They also have smaller frontal lobes which plays a part in impulse control as well as hyperactivity. If I had a chance to redo this project, I would actually create a test and test it on human subjects to see whether our analysis is valid or not. I learned that as a person however, since we finished the analysis decently soon, I took the free time in class to listen to music and just do background research instead of trying to do more real work to push our project forward. Our next step would be sharing what we have learned with others as well as trying to see if we can test it on subjects.