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Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity

"Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

A behavior disorder originating in childhood in which the essential features are signs of developmentally inappropriate inattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity. Although most individuals have symptoms of both inattention and hyperactivity-impulsivity, one or the other pattern may be predominant. The disorder is more frequent in males than females. Onset is in childhood. Symptoms often attenuate during late adolescence although a minority experience the full complement of symptoms into mid-adulthood. (From DSM-IV)


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 2186 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 121 publications in 2008
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.