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Attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder is the newest name for a clinical syndrome familiar to physicians, psychologists, and educators. The disorder is characterized by impulsiveness, distractibility and inattentiveness, aggressiveness, intrusiveness, and destructiveness. It is often accompanied by hyperactivity, especially purposeless motor behavior and gestures. Many clinicians will recognize this constellation by its older names: minimal brain damage, minimal brain dysfunction, and the hyperactive child syndrome. The new term reflects an increased understanding that hyperactive motor behavior is an inconstant feature of attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, whereas virtually all children with the disorder have cognitive problems, an inability to focus attention, difficulties in impulse . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder
Stein M. A., Leventhal B. L., Rowlett R., DeSpirito A. P., Hauser P., Zametkin A. J., Weintraub B., Ciaranello R. D.
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N Engl J Med 1993; 329:966-967, Sep 23, 1993. Correspondence

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