title: Reconsidering the attention deficit paradigm.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the inadequacies and criticisms of the current categorical paradigm of Attention Deficit Disorder both in children and adults.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  An alternative, more dimensional paradigm linking executive functions is described and its advantage over categorical diagnostic paradigms is argued. Consideration of a more discriminating and dimensional behavioural model would help psychiatrists operating in this area.
authors.affiliation: Mental Health Service, St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia. sjr@netspeed.com.au
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rosenman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D015984:Causality; D002648:Child; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D015897:Comorbidity; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D009517:New South Wales