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Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in adults: an overview
Stephen V. Faraone,Joseph Biederman,Thomas J. Spencer,Timothy E. Wilens,Larry J. Seidman,Larry J. Seidman,Eric Mick,Alysa E. Doyle +7 more
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Assessment of clinical, family, psychopharmacologic, neurobiological, and outcome studies found multiple reports describing adults with clinical features highly reminiscent of the childhood ADHD, suggesting converging lines of evidence support the validity of ADHD in adults.About:
This article is published in Biological Psychiatry.The article was published on 2000-07-01. It has received 650 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder & Developmental disorder.read more
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Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
TL;DR: Empirical data collected during an update of the National Comorbidity Survey indicate that the prevalence of adult ADHD according to DSM–IV criteria is 4.4% in the United States.
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Neural correlates of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in adulthood.
Sherif Karama,Alan C. Evans +1 more
TL;DR: It was shown that higher rates of cortical thinning in specific regions are associated with a greaternumber of ADHD symptoms persisting into adulthood, and cortical developmental trajectories yield valuable information that cross-sectional analyses cannot provide.
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Smoking in adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: Interaction between 15q13 nicotinic genes and Temperament Character Inventory scores
Mirko Manchia,E. Viggiano,Arun K. Tiwari,Julien Renou,Umesh Jain,Vincenzo De Luca,James L. Kennedy +6 more
TL;DR: It is hypothesized that the allele 113bp in D15S1360 marker at CHRNA7 and the 2 bp deletion allele at CHRFAM7A are associated with increased smoking in a sample of 90 DSM-IV patients affected by Adult ADHD.
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Attitudes and preferences toward exercise interventions in adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: A survey study
TL;DR: In this article , the authors used an online survey to assess the attitudes and preferences to exercise in 117 medicated and unmedicated UK-based adults with ADHD and found that participants' willingness to engage in exercise as a standalone treatment differed based on medication use.
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The relationship between attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder and trauma in adolescents
Ali Reza Shafiee-Kandjani,Seyed Gholamreza Noorazar,Saeed Aslanabadi,Nasim Rashedi,Mehrnaz Dadkhah,Mohsen Jafarzadeh-Gharehziaaddin +5 more
TL;DR: The findings showed that there was a statistically significant relationship between hyperactivity-inattention and trauma intensity in adolescents, and to prevent traumatic events, ADHD screening at schools is suggested.
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Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Handbook for Diagnosis and Treatment
TL;DR: Barkley et al. as discussed by the authors discussed the nature of ADHD, primary symptoms, diagnosis criteria, prevalence, and gender differences, and the treatment of ADHD in adults.
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Executive Functions and Developmental Psychopathology
TL;DR: It is revealed that EF deficits are consistently found in both ADHD and autism but not in CD (without ADHD) or in TS, and both the severity and profile of EF deficits appears to differ across ADHD and Autism.
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Establishment of Diagnostic Validity in Psychiatric Illness: Its Application to Schizophrenia
Eli Robins,Samuel B. Guze +1 more
TL;DR: It was shown by follow-up and family studies that poor prognosis cases can be validly separated clinically from good prediction cases, and the authors conclude that good prognosis "schizophrenia" is not mild schizophrenia, but a different illness.
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Comorbidity of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder with conduct, depressive, anxiety, and other disorders.
TL;DR: The literature supports considerable comorbidity of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder with conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, learning disabilities, and other disorders, such as mental retardation, Tourette's syndrome, and borderline personality disorder.
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Externalizing behavior problems and academic underachievement in childhood and adolescence: causal relationships and underlying mechanisms.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed concepts and measurement issues surrounding externalizing behavior problems and academic underachievement, the strength and specificity of the covariation between these domains, and the viability of explanatory models that link these areas.