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Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in adults: an overview

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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.
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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.

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Behavioural phenotype and electroencephalographic profile of adolescent and adult snap-25+/- mutant mice.

A. Donzelli
TL;DR: The aim is to provide a clear picture of the aims and objectives that are desirable and achievable and to provide some examples of how these goals can be achieved in the laboratory.
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Executive Functions among Traumatic Injury Patients: Comparison of Normal Individuals and those with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the executive function of patients with traumatic injury admitted to Rajaei hospital, Shiraz, Iran and compare it with normal individuals and those with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
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Attention deficit and hyperactivity symptoms in a group of university students and relations with temperament and character profiles

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the relation between ADHD and personality characteristics in a population who did not attend a clinic for psychiatric problems and found statistically significant correlations between TCI subgroups and ADHD symptoms.
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Introduction à la psychopathologie développementale

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe a pathologie developpementale as an adaptation problematique, i.e. "a problem that n’a pas reussi, entre the personne and le contexte".
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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

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.
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