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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most prevalent childhood psychiatric disorders of our time. The condition is defined by levels of inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity that are in impairing and developmentally inappropriate. Increasingly, there is a growing appreciation that for many individuals the disorder may persist into adulthood and be associated with significant social and economic burden.
Conditions, such as ADHD, that are manifestly heterogeneous in terms of their clinical presentation, underlying neurobiology and treatment response, must be tackled on multiple fronts. This Handbook of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder provides a state of the art position on each of these fronts from leading clinicians and researchers from around the world. Broad in its scope and comprehensive in its detail, this book should be as useful to the student as it is to the experienced clinician or researcher.
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| Title of eBook: Handbook of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder | |
| Release Date: 04-30-2007 | |
| Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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Handbook of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Chapter One
The History of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity DisorderLOUISE SHARKEY AND MICHAEL FITZGERALD
1.1 OVERVIEW
The condition now referred to as Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (DSM-IV) (American Psychiatric Association, 1994) or Hyperkinetic Disorder (ICD-10) (World Health Organization, 1992) was first described by George Still in 1901 (Still, 1902). In his lectures to the Royal Academy of Physicians he described a case series of 20 children presenting with problems of overactivity, inattention and deficits in 'volitional inhibition'. He also described symptoms of aggressiveness, defiance, resistance to discipline and dishonesty, which in today's nomenclature would be diagnosed as Oppositional Defiant Disorder or Conduct Disorder which are often comorbid with ADHD. Subsequent to Dr Still's lecture a number of different diagnostic labels were assigned to the same symptoms, including Minimal Brain Damage and Minimal Brain Dysfunction to refer to children presenting with overactivity and inattention, subsequent to a pandemic of encephalitis lethargica in 1917. The condition which we now refer to as ADHD was first included in the second edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in 1968 and labelled 'Hyperkinetic Disorder of Childhood'. The definition of the condition changed in subsequent editions of DSM, in keeping with changes in diagnostic nomenclature and delineation of subtypes. The most recent edition, DSM-IV, requires pervasive symptoms of inattention or inattention, hyperactivity and or impulsivity, which are clinically impairing with an age of onset prior to age seven. The
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