'Maturational lag' hypothesis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: an update
| Autor: | P J Santosh, Jan-Olov Larsson, H E Persson, E. El-Sayed, Per-Anders Rydelius |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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Persistence (psychology)
medicine.medical_specialty medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Cognition General Medicine Electroencephalography medicine.disease Executive functions behavioral disciplines and activities Hyperkinetic disorder El Niño mental disorders Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health medicine Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Psychiatry business Normality media_common Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Acta Paediatrica. 92:776-784 |
| ISSN: | 0803-5253 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1651-2227.2003.tb02531.x |
| Popis: | UNLABELLED This article discusses the relationship of maturation to ADHD and hyperkinetic disorder (HKD), with an emphasis on current research in ADHD and HKD, persistence and remission of ADHD symptoms over time and brain maturational trajectories. CONCLUSION ADHD is a broad, heterogeneous syndrome and only a subgroup of subjects has a diagnosis of HKD, which is a subset of individuals with severe ADHD combined subtype. Children showing symptoms above the threshold for a diagnosis of ADHD are at risk of developing comorbid conditions and increasing stress in both parents and teachers. In some subjects, ADHD symptoms can improve over time during maturation and development. These children with a diagnosis of ADHD could be viewed as showing variants of normal childhood behaviour with maturational trajectories that are lagging behind but will catch up. ADHD could therefore represent a continuum from normality at one extreme to a severe disorder, HKD according to ICD-10, at the other extreme. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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