Nature and ADHD

09/27/2011

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home — so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person…Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.
Eleanor Roosevelt

A story in ScienceDaily (Sept. 19, 2011), shared with us by Zvia Dover described a study of more than 400 children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder which found a link between the children's routine play settings and the severity of their symptoms. Those who regularly play in outdoor settings with lots of green (grass and trees, for example) have milder ADHD symptoms than those who play indoors or in built outdoor environments, the researchers found. The association holds even when the researchers controlled for income and other variables.

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