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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Placental inflammation and autism?

The placenta . Quite an important part of the nine months that makes us; an organ exquisitely evolved to provide oxygen and nutrition to the...

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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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'Somali autism': a phenotype?

" Results lend support to previous studies that found higher rates of ASD  [autism spectrum disorder]   intellectual disability in chi...

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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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