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Hand Movements May Send ADHD Signals
By Nancy Walsh, Staff Writer, MedPage Today
Published: February 15, 2011
Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and Dorothy Caputo, MA, RN, BC-ADM, CDE, Nurse Planner


Measuring unintended hand movements in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may help reveal the severity of the disorder -- and ultimately may help shed light on its causes -- researchers predicted.
In a study that utilized a one-handed finger-tapping test and measured the excessive movements in the other hand, children with ADHD had twice as much of this "overflow" movement as normally developing children (P=0.01), Stewart H. Mostofsky, MD, of Johns Hopkins, and colleagues reported.

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