The parent’s cocaine use during ovulation and maternal gestation and its consequence in the intellectual development of children with ADHD

Abstract

This work was developed from a psychological intervention program in primary and secondary, public and private district of Lisbon. Attended by 45 children with ADHD. The evaluation of our sample was made through a medical history, which had the participation of children, parents and teachers and a battery of psychological tests consisting of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC III) and the Test of Human Figure Goodenough. The results of this study indicate a significant cognitive difference between patients with ADHD whose parents effected cocaine consumption in the period of ovulation and pregnancy and parental ADHD patients whose parents did not make cocaine consumption in the period of ovulation and pregnancy progenitor.