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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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Kapitel 25 – Die Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit-/Hyperaktivitätsstörung (ADHS) des Erwachsenenalters
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Hacia un diagnóstico más objetivo del TDAH: el papel de la Vergencia Ocular
Hans Supèr,José Cañete +1 more
TL;DR: The measurement of eye vergence responses appears to be an objective tool to support the clinical diagnosis of ADHD, and using machine learning techniques it reaches an accuracy of 96% between healthy controls and ADHD patients, and an accuracy of 85% between the two clinical groups.
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A Mind of its Own: The Lived Experience of Adult Students who are ADHD
TL;DR: This paper used hermeneutic phenomenology and existential psychology to describe the lived experience of adult students who are ADHD and found that the experience of adults with ADHD remains little researched or understood, despite the growing trend towards recognizing that attention deficit hyperactive disorder occurs beyond childhood.
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Avaliação da associação entre obesidade e transtorno de déficit de atenção/hiperatividade em crianças e adolescentes
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Investigating the relationship between adult attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (aadhd) and personality correlates related to sensation seeking
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether the personality trait of Sensation Seeking, and its accompanying sub-dimensions of: (i) Boredom Susceptibility; (ii) Disinhibition; (iii) Experience Seeking, (iv) Thrill and Adventure Seeking; (v) Novelty; and (vi) Intensity of stimuli can explain a statistically significant amount of adult ADHD variance.
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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.