The Effects of Trauma on ADHD

There is some evidence that trauma is a trigger for ADHD. If you want to think or if you believe your ADHD was caused by trauma, that's absolutely fine. But don't go telling other people that theirs was cause by trauma because you don't know that it was. There actually are some very rare single gene mutations that can cause ADHD, but there isn't an ADHD gene. What we know is that normally hundreds of small mutations add up to create a risk of developing ADHD. Now an environmental event, it could be prenatal exposure to toxins,. It could be institutional deprivation. That's the match that lights that fire. And what we know from really-really well designed studies is that the