Among adolescents suffering from attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), comorbid anxiety disorders are common, and symptoms need to be recognized early minimize the potential impact on their quality of life. Anxiety by using validated screening tools such as Screen for Child Related Emotional Disorders Spence Children’s Scale. Clinicians should first optimize ADHD therapy ensure is no...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the presence of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and Dysthymic Disorder (DD) in a sample of Italian children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and to explore specific features of comorbid depressive disorders in ADHD. METHODS Three hundred and sixty-six consecutive, drug-naïve Caucasian Italian outpatients with ADHD were recruited and comorbid disorders...

Introduction With increased consensus regarding the validity and reliability of diagnosing Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) in adolescents, clinicians express concern over distinction between BPD Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity (ADHD), its co-morbidity clinical settings. Objectives The goal this study was to evaluate differences BPD, ADHD + terms co-morbid psychiatric disorders a range sel...

Objectives: The progression to depression in children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is not clearly understood. To clarify this relationship we tested the following hypotheses in a population based study: 1) Children with ADHD have a higher risk of developing depression than children without ADHD; 2) The pathway from ADHD to depression is mediated (partly) through anxiety ...

OBJECTIVE ADHD is often comorbid with other disorders, but it is often assumed that academic, language, or motor c skills problems are secondary to ADHD rather than that attention problems are secondary to the other disorder or both disorders have a shared etiology. We assessed for comorbid developmental disorders and which cognitive processes were impaired in children with ADHD. METHOD Measu...

BACKGROUND Despite long-standing clinical concerns, relatively little is known about the comorbidity between attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and tic disorders. Therefore, we examined tic disorders in an ongoing prospective follow-up study of male subjects with ADHD, a sample unselected for any comorbid disorder. METHODS One hundred twenty-eight male children and adolescents wi...

BACKGROUND Family risk analysis can provide an improved understanding of the association between attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), attending to the comorbidity with conduct disorder (CD). METHODS We compared rates of psychiatric disorders in relatives of 78 control probands without ODD and CD (Control, N=265), relatives of 10 control prob...

Background. A relationship between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and obesity has been consistently documented. Obesity metabolic syndrome have associated with misalignment daily activities circadian rhythm. ADHD patients a high prevalence of delayed sleep phase syndrome, which is rhythm disorder. Understanding this important for the evaluation obese population at risk. Objecti...

Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are highly heterogeneous neuropsychiatric disorders, that frequently co-occur. This study examined whether stratification into single-incidence (SPX) and multi-incidence (MPX) is helpful in (a) parsing heterogeneity and (b) detecting overlapping and unique underpinnings of the disorders. ASD and ADHD traits were...

The objective of this study was to assist those in psychiatric clinical practice in the identification and management of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adults, with an emphasis on ADHD in the presence of comorbid mood disorders in adults. PubMed was searched to identify relevant studies and critical reviews published in English between 1988 and 2008 on the prevalence, persis...