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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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Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit-/Hyperaktivitätsstörungen in der Lebensspanne

C. Klein
- 01 Jan 2012 - 
TL;DR: The Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit-/hyperaktivitatsstorung (ADHS) as discussed by the authors is eine Entwicklungs-Storung, e.g., eine Storung with a Pravalenzschatzung of 5,3% zu den haufigsten psychiatrischen Erkrankungen im Kindes- und Jugendalter.
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Conflict-specific mechanisms of cognitive control and their neural implementation

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether these control processes are modulated by concurrent working memory demands and found that high WM demands led to a suppression of conflict-triggered cognitive control, whereas this suppression effect is rather due to WM updating than to maintenance demands.

Stopping and changing in adults with ADHD

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors found that the stop-signal reaction time (SSRT) was significantly more pro- longed than the go-stimulus reaction time in patients with ADHD.
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The translational genetics of ADHD and related phenotypes in model organisms

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors provide an overview on the functional work performed in rodents, zebrafish and fruit fly and highlight the generated insights into the biology of ADHD, with a special focus on genetics and epigenetics.
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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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