OBJECTIVE In 1998, the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation developed algorithms for medication treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Advances in the psychopharmacology of ADHD and results of a feasibility study of algorithm use in community mental health centers caused the algorithm to be modified and updated. METHOD We convened a consensus confere...

BACKGROUND ADHD is a common childhood onset mental health disorder that persists into adulthood in two-thirds of cases. One of the most prevalent and impairing comorbidities of ADHD in adults are substance use disorders. We estimate rates of ADHD in patients with substance abuse disorders and delineate impairment in the co-morbid group. METHOD Screening for ADHD followed by a research diagnos...

attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd) is the most common behavioral problem during childhood and in school-aged children. various projection drawings have been designed for assessing children's personality and psychological disorders including the tests of draw a person (dap) and draw a family (daf). we aimed to compare the differences between typically developing children and childre...

conclusions adhd is a common co-morbidity among suicide attempters. hence, early diagnosis and treatment with consideration of adhd may reduce suicide attempt risk. results the results of our study showed that a history of psychiatric disorders and a family history of adhd and suicide were significantly higher (p > 0.01) in the case group than the control group. in addition, both children and a...

inherited and disabling developmental disorder with early onset. Symptoms of ADHD often persist into adulthood. A recent meta-analysis of population-based studies across several countries estimated the pooled prevalence of adult ADHD to be 2.5% (95% CI 2.1–3.1). However, most of the populations in these studies were unbalanced with regard to gender and age, and applied different tools to diagno...

BACKGROUND Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is among the most commonly diagnosed mental disorders in childhood and is associated with substantial deficits in executive functioning and lost academic and occupational attainment. This study evaluates symptoms of ADHD and their association with neurocognitive deficits in a cohort of rural Ugandan children who were born to HIV-infecte...

Background: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is one of the most prevalent psychiadric disorders starting from Childhood and is considered as an important mental health problem of a society. Behavioral disorders including ADHD may have distractive effects on peoples social, educational, personality, and behavioral relationship in their childhood and adulthood. Therefore, we decide...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is highly prevalent among adults with addictive disorders, but little is known about addiction patterns associated with ADHD diagnosis. This study examined addiction severity in patients with co-occurring addictive disorders and ADHD controlling for the potential influence of associated psychiatric comorbidity. Data were collected in French outpat...

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a highly heritable disorder affecting some 5-10% of children and 4-5% of adults. The cannabinoid receptor gene (CNR1) is a positional candidate gene due to its location near an identified ADHD linkage peak on chromosome 6, its role in stress and dopamine regulation, its association with other psychiatric disorders that co-occur with ADHD, and i...

BACKGROUND In adults, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and bipolar disorder (BD) have certain overlapping symptoms, which can lead to uncertainty regarding the boundaries of the two disorders. Despite evidence of cognitive impairments in both disorders separately, such as in attentional and inhibitory processes, data on direct comparisons across ADHD and BD on cognitive-neurophys...