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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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ADHD matures: time for practitioners to do the same?

TL;DR: More resources are needed to effectively assess and treat ADHD in the adult, as adults with this disorder suffer from increased rates of unemployment and psychiatric comorbidity, including substance use disorders.
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Adapting an Emerging Empirically Supported Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Adults With ADHD and Comorbid Complications An Example of Two Case Studies

TL;DR: In this paper, a case study of adults diagnosed with ADHD is presented to illustrate the heterogeneity associated with ADHD cases and the unique challenges they present, issues related to comorbid disorders and symptoms with ADHD, and how to cope with them.
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Paternal ADHD symptoms and child conduct problems: is father involvement always beneficial?

TL;DR: The presence of adult ADHD symptoms may determine whether father involvement in childrearing has a positive or detrimental influence on comorbid child conduct problems.
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Role of psychiatric comorbidity on cognitive function during and after the menopausal transition.

TL;DR: The evidence for a primary effect of menopause on cognitive function and contrarily the effect of cognition on the menopausal transition are examined and evaluation and treatment strategies for the symptomatic menopausal woman distressed by changes in her day-to-day cognitive function with or without psychiatric comorbidity are presented.
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Characteristics of adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and past conduct disorder.

TL;DR: The present study investigated subsequent psychopathological characteristics of this proposed subtype in adults of Attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder comorbid with DSM‐IV conduct disorder in childhood/adolescence.
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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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