ADHD and law enforcement contact: not a straight-forward relationship

Several times on this blog I've talked about how a diagnosis of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)  seems to place the reci...

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Pre-pregnancy weight and risk of offspring ADHD

" Compared to normal weight mothers, the risk of having a child with ADHD  [ attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder ]  was significan...

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Various childhood psychiatric disorders may be risk factors for later substance abuse

" Childhood ADHD  [ attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder ] , ODD  [ oppositional defiant disorder ] , CD  [ conduct disorder ] , an...

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Early pregnancy vitamin D levels and later offspring 'behavioral difficulties'?

Drawing on data derived from the  Rhea mother-child cohort based in Crete, Greece, the findings reported by Vasiliki Daraki and colleagues ...

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"medical disorders in children with ASD and ADHD appear to be widespread"

The quote titling this brief post is taken from the results of the systematic review undertaken by Jet Muskens and colleagues [1] (open-acc...

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Antidepressants during pregnancy and autism in offspring (with care)

There are a few topic areas in the quite vast autism research landscape that consistently seem to keep cropping up. The possibility of some ...

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Anxiety disorder is rife in 'high-functioning' autism

" Lifetime prevalence rates of 53.5% for depressive disorder 73.5% for anxiety disorders and 37.5% for ADHD  [ attention-deficit hype...

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Antidepressant use in pregnancy and risk of offspring ADHD?

Here we go again. Antidepressant use during pregnancy comes under the spotlight yet again ( see here ) as per the findings reported by Tako...

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"a potential link between serious delinquency and later schizophrenia"

I was rather intrigued by the results reported by Nina Lindberg and colleagues [1] in their study designed to " investigate if serious...

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Dementia risk in adult ADHD

" Adults with ADHD [ attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder ]  have a 3.4-fold risk of developing dementia . " That was the conc...

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1 in 8 kids diagnosed with ADHD also diagnosed with autism

" Approximately one in eight children currently diagnosed with ADHD  [ attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder ]  was also diagnosed w...

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ADHD and risk of injuries meta-analysed

I have already covered the growing peer-reviewed research base looking at the diagnosis of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) ...

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The strengthening relationship between eating disorders and ADHD

The results from Loretta Sala and colleagues [1] confirms a recent trend in research circles observing a potentially important relationship...

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Differentiating between autism and ADHD the machine learning way (again)

So: " These results support the potential of creating a quick, accurate and widely accessible method for differentiating risks between ...

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On ADHD medication and motor vehicle crashes

" Among patients with ADHD  [ attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder ] , rates of MVCs  [motor vehicle crashes]  were lower during pe...

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Injury risk and ADHD: part 2

Consider this short post a sort of follow-on to a previous entry on this blog concerning the elevated risk of injury following a diagnosis ...

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On vaccinated and un-vaccinated homeschooled children: the disappearing-reappearing-disappearing-reappearing studies

I originally began writing this post in the last week of November 2016 following first sight of the study abstract by Anthony Mawson and col...

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