Developing ADHD.
Over the past 50 years the concept of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has developed from the notion of a specific form of brain dysfunction to that of a heterogeneous set of related behaviours. The great advances in genetics, neuroimaging and neuropsychiatry have made it one of the best understood forms of complex mental disturbance--but much remains to be done to translate understanding into practice. More effective treatment may come from identifying and treating more specific components of disorder and by a focus on identifying the factors determining course in the longer term so that they, as well as the core features of disorder, can become targets for intervention.
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King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Department Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, London, UK. e.taylor@iop.kcl.ac.uk
D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology; D002648:Child; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D007174:Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D015995:Prevalence; D011596:Psychomotor Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology