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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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Long-term safety and effectiveness of mixed amphetamine salts extended release in adults with ADHD.
Joseph Biederman,Thomas J. Spencer,Timothy E. Wilens,Richard H. Weisler,Stephanie C Read,Simon J. Tulloch +5 more
TL;DR: Treatment with MAS XR 20–60 mgl day for adult ADHD was generally well tolerated and was associated with sustained symptomatic improvement for up to 24 months.
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Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder symptoms in adults: Relationship to Gray’s Behavioral Approach System
TL;DR: This article investigated claims that Gray's Behavioral Approach System (BAS) is linked to a disinhibitory deficit and can account for hyperactive-impulsive AD/HD behaviors.
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The Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS): utility in college students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
TL;DR: Investigation of the utility and psychometric properties of a widely-used rating scale for adults with ADHD, the Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS-V1.1), suggests that the ASRS provides an easy-to-use, reliable, and cost-effective approach for gathering information about current symptoms of ADHD in college and university students.
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Obesity and ADHD may represent different manifestations of a common environmental oversampling syndrome: a model for revealing mechanistic overlap among cognitive, metabolic, and inflammatory disorders.
TL;DR: It is proposed that obesity and ADHD represent different manifestations of the same underlying dysfunction, a phenomenon the authors term environmental oversampling syndrome, and the overlapping effects of medications provide further evidence towards the existence of shared etiologic pathways.
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Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and early-onset substance use disorders.
TL;DR: Theoretical mechanisms that may explain the relationship between ADHD and SUD are explored and current research and recommended clinical practices related to the diagnosis and treatment of ADHD with SUD in adolescents are discussed.
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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.