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Attention Deficit Disorder ('Minimal Brain Dysfunction') in Adults: A Replication Study of Diagnosis and Drug Treatment
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Pemoline was demonstrably more effective than placebo in a random-assignment, parallel, double-blind trial of placebo and pemoline, a noneuphorigenic psychostimulant drug effective in children with ADD.Abstract:
This study replicated an earlier one dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of attention deficit disorder (ADD, or minimal brain dysfunction) in adults. Subjects who met provisional operational criteria for adult ADD were entered in a random-assignment, parallel, double-blind trial of placebo and pemoline, a noneuphorigenic psychostimulant drug effective in children with ADD. There was improvement in both the pemoline group and the placebo group, but the difference in improvement was not statistically significant. When the analyses were confined to that subgroup of patients whose parents had described them in the 95th percentile of childhood "hyperactivity" or when the hyperactivity score was partialled out statistically, pemoline was demonstrably more effective than placebo. Revised operational criteria for adult ADD are proposed.read more
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The Wender Utah Rating Scale: an aid in the retrospective diagnosis of childhood attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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Alan J. Zametkin,Thomas E. Nordahl,Michael Gross,A. Catherine King,William E. Semple,Judith M. Rumsey,Susan D. Hamburger,Robert M. Cohen +7 more
TL;DR: The hypothesis that cerebral glucose metabolism might differ between normal adults (controls) and adults with histories of hyperactivity in childhood who continued to have symptoms after treatment with stimulant medication is investigated.
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Patterns of psychiatric comorbidity, cognition, and psychosocial functioning in adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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Emotion dysregulation in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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