Types of adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): baseline characteristics, initial response, and long-term response to treatment with methylphenidate
| Autor: | Paul H. Wender, Thomas E. Gift, Tammy A. Steans, Frederick W. Reimherr, Barrie K. Marchant |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) media_common.quotation_subject Emotions behavioral disciplines and activities Double-Blind Method Emotionality mental disorders medicine Humans Personality Attention Psychiatry media_common Cross-Over Studies Methylphenidate General Medicine medicine.disease Emotional dysregulation Comorbidity Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Long term response Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity Baseline characteristics Female Psychology medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | ADHD Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders. 7:115-128 |
| ISSN: | 1866-6647 1866-6116 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s12402-015-0176-z |
| Popis: | Much recent research describes the importance of emotional symptoms in ADHD. While there is no accepted system for including emotionality in diagnosing ADHD, the Wender-Reimherr Adult Attention Deficit Disorder Scale (WRAADDS) provides a tool to facilitate this. It assesses a range of adult ADHD symptoms which load on two factors: inattentive and emotional dysregulation. The consistently high inattentive factor was used to define significant elevation on the more variable emotional dysregulation factor (which contains four WRAADDS domains: hyperactivity/restlessness, temper, affective lability, and emotional over-reactivity) allowing the definition of two ADHD diagnostic types. We compared these two types on a broad range of adult subject characteristics, including response to methylphenidate (MPH) treatment assessed during two clinical trials. Marked impairment in three of the four emotional domains reflected a symptom severity level equivalent to that of the inattentive factor. 59 % met this threshold, defining them as ADHD emotion dysregulation presentation, as opposed to 41 % with ADHD inattentive presentation. Cluster analysis validated these groups by generating similar clusters with 85 % agreement regarding membership. ADHD emotional dysregulation presentation subjects showed more childhood ADHD symptoms, adult symptoms of oppositional defiant disorder, and evidence of personality disorder. Both types showed similar improvement during the double-blind MPH arm of the trials and during a 6-month open-label phase. Based on the presence of symptoms of emotional dysregulation, ADHD in adults can be conceptualized as two types. Impairment and comorbidity in adults with ADHD are largely concentrated in ADHD emotional dysregulation presentation patients. |
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