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G F Ritchie

Researcher at Centre for Mental Health

Publications -  5
Citations -  1737

G F Ritchie is an academic researcher from Centre for Mental Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Dextroamphetamine & Methylphenidate. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 5 publications receiving 1699 citations.

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Controlled stimulant treatment of ADHD and comorbid Tourette's syndrome: effects of stimulant and dose.

TL;DR: A substantial minority of comorbid subjects had consistent worsening of tics on stimulants, although the majority experienced improvement in ADHD symptoms with acceptable effects on tics, and MPH was better tolerated than DEX.
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Cerebrospinal fluid homovanillic acid predicts behavioral response to stimulants in 45 boys with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined baseline cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of boys with ADHD in relation to response to three different stimulant drugs, methylphenidate, dextroamphetamine, and placebo, using stepwise linear regressions determined significant predictors of drug response.
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ADHD in girls : Clinical comparability of a research sample

TL;DR: It is confirmed that girls with ADHD do not differ from boys in response to methylphenidate and dextroamphetamine and that both stimulants should be tried when response to the first is not optimal.
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DSM-IV stereotypic movement disorder: Persistence of stereotypies of infancy in intellectually normal adolescents and adults.

TL;DR: DSM-IV stereotypic movement disorder can be diagnosed in intellectually normal individuals and prominent stereotypies in individuals meeting the DSM-IV criteria for stereotypy/habit disorder seem likely to include rocking and thumb sucking.