Drug treatments for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in young people
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Drug treatments for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in young people
The discovery of an effective drug treatment for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is conventionally attributed to Charles Bradley, a North American child psychiatrist who ran the family nursing home for delinquents in Rhode Island (Bradley1937). He described a case series of 30 children who received dexamphetamine, initially introduced as part of his idiosyncratic treatment for t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Advances in Psychiatric Treatment
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1355-5146,1472-1481
DOI: 10.1192/apt.bp.108.005561