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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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Does Growth in Childhood ADHD and Depression Symptoms Predict Binge-Eating During Adolescence

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the extent to which ADHD symptoms, depression symptoms, and these symptoms together predict binge-eating symptoms. But the degree to which developmental patterns of symptom severity for both ADHD and depression symptoms remain consistent from childhood to adolescence is also unclear.
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Assessment of Adult ADH: Current Guidelines and Issues

TL;DR: This paper will present the most current information available on standard assessment procedures and outline limitations in knowledge that need to be addressed in future research.
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Elevated levels of hoarding in ADHD: a special link with inattention

TL;DR: Adult ADHD patients had a high frequency of hoarding symptoms, which were specifically linked to inattention, and should be routinely assessed in ADHD patients, as they do not typically disclose associated difficulties, despite these potentially leading to impaired everyday functioning.
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Neurocognitive deficits in adult ADHD : preclinical and clinical studies

TL;DR: A novel animal model of the core symptoms of adult ADHD is characterised by utilising a translational behavioural paradigm and shows the need for a patient stratification approach in adult ADHD; as different responses are dependent of differences in symptom expression.

Attention and Executive Functions Performance in Postsecondary Students with AD/HD and Dyslexia

TL;DR: This review discusses the literature review of attention and executive functions in AD/HD and Dyslexia, and discusses the roles of executive functions and attention in these disorders.
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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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