:: June 2009

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Head Injury in Young Kids May Predict ADHD Diagnosis “Very young children who sustain a head injury may be more likely to be diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) later, researchers report. The head injury is not a cause of ADHD, but rather a result of excessive risk-taking, according to the paper published in the Nov. 8 online edition of the British Medical Journal.”

AHRQ - National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality (NICHQ) Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Practitioners' Toolkit: Parent Information and Support (2004)

AHRQ - National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality (NICHQ) Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Practitioners' Toolkit: Treatment (2004)

ICSI - ADHD: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Primary Care, Diagnosis and Management of (for patients & families) (2007)

ICSI - Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Primary Care for School Age Children and Adolescents, Diagnosis and Management of (2005)

NGC - Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. (2005)

NGC - Diagnosis and management of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in primary care for school age children and adolescents. (2005)

NGC - Evidence based clinical practice guideline for outpatient evaluation and management of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. (2004)

Featured site

NIH - Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

ADDA

ADHD Resource Center

Behavior Advisor

Gifted and ADHD

NIH - Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity

NIMH - Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder

Autism - Asperger

Behavioral and Learning Disorders

Autism - Asperger

[Large-scale genotyping in research into autism spectrum disorders and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.] (Rev Neurol. 2005) "Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are two neuropsychiatric disorders beginning in childhood that present a high degree of familial aggregation. É Genetic linkage studies have pointed to about 20 chromosomal regions that could well contain genes that grant susceptibility to autism, to ADHD or to both disorders."

Behavioral and Learning Disorders

A meta-analysis of working memory impairments in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. (J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2005) "OBJECTIVE: To determine the empirical evidence for deficits in working memory (WM) processes in children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). É RESULTS: Children with ADHD exhibited deficits in multiple components of WM that were independent of comorbidity with language learning disorders and weaknesses in general intellectual ability."