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A behavior disorder originating in childhood in which the essential features are signs of developmentally inappropriate inattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity. Although most individuals have symptoms of both inattention and hyperactivity-impulsivity, one or the other pattern may be predominant. The disorder is more frequent in males than females. Onset is in childhood. Symptoms often attenuate during late adolescence although a minority experience the full complement of symptoms into mid-adulthood. (From DSM-V)
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- ADDH
- ADHD
- Attention Deficit Disorders with Hyperactivity
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders
- Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder
- Hyperkinetic Syndrome
- Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorders
- Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder, Attention
- Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorders, Attention
- Disorder, Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity
- Disorders, Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity
- Syndromes, Hyperkinetic
- Attention Deficit Disorder
- Brain Dysfunction, Minimal
- Minimal Brain Dysfunction
- Attention Deficit Disorders
- Deficit Disorder, Attention
- Deficit Disorders, Attention
- Disorder, Attention Deficit
- Disorders, Attention Deficit
- Dysfunction, Minimal Brain
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, virology.
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not confined to children; do not confuse with HYPERKINESIS; may appear in the literature as ADDH or ADHD
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84; was HYPERKINETIC SYNDROME 1981-83; was MINIMAL BRAIN DYSFUNCTION 1969-80 (Prov 1969-72)
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- Brain Damage, Chronic (1966-1968)
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- National Library of Medicine. Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D001289. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D001289
- Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_deficit_hyperactivity_disorder
- Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q181923