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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"ADHD diagnosis"”.
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Gender differences in ADHD diagnosis
… disparity in the amount of males diagnosed with ADHD compared to females. This paper reviews a large collection of literature ranging from the history of the disorder, neurological studies, potential genetic differences between genders, as well as potential gender biases. These topics are all …
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An Application of Variable Selection Methods to Identify Influential Factors of ADHD Diagnosis in Children
In 2011, there was the ADHD-200 Global Competition in which several teams around the world competed to produce a model that best categorized children as having ADHD or not having ADHD based on phenotypic and neu- roimaging data for each child. These data were gathered at eight locations in the …
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EXPLORING THE CORRELATION OF THE PRESENCE OF THE ST3GAL3 GENE IN INDIVIDUALS DIAGNOSED WITH ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER USING LOOP MEDIATED ISOTHERMAL AMPLIFICATION WITH COLORIMETRIC DETECTION
<p>Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, ADHD, is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders in children. Children who have been diagnosed with ADHD will likely have trouble paying attention, controlling compulsive behaviors, and staying within appropriate activity levels. Diagnosis of …
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Interaction of ADHD severity and neighborhood-level SES on Preschoolers’ Risk for Obesity at School-Age
… Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) oftentimes emerges during the preschool years. School-age children with ADHD are at an increased risk for obesity as compared to their non-ADHD peers, but it is unknown if this risk is observed in younger children. Socioeconomic status (SES) …
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The Behavior Assessment System for Children Third Edition (BASC-3)’s Classification Accuracy for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in Young Adults
<p>Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) was established as a condition initially considered to be outgrown; however, research later demonstrated that about one-half to two-thirds of children with ADHD had persistent symptoms into adolescence and adulthood (Resnick, 2005). It was …
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Organized Sports Participation In Children With and Without Adhd: The Roles of Self-Perceived Peer Relations and Physical Abilities
… <p>Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is characterized by impairing symptoms of inattention and/or hyperactivity and previous literature reported that children with ADHD have poor peer relationships and motor impairment which may lead to decreased participation in organized …
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Emotional disorders within neurodevelopmental disorders : a comparison of Icelandic youth with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and/or autism spectrum disorder
… attention- deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) remains scarce due to the late recognition of co-diagnosis of these disorders. This study explored the presence of anxiety and depressive disorders among youth with ADHD and/or ASD, while also examining …
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Adults referred to the ADHD clinic in Iceland : clinical characteristics
… the characteristics of adults referred to the ADHD clinic at Landspitali-The National University Hospital of Iceland from 2013 to 2015 (N=531) and compare those who did not meet screening criteria (N=136), those who did not meet diagnostic criteria for ADHD (N=90) and those who met diagnostic …
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The Relationship Between Age of Diagnosis and the Occurrence of Dysfunctional Career Thoughts Among College Students With ADHD
… between the chronological age of one's diagnosis and dysfunctional career thoughts among college students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. What is currently known about the timing of ADHD diagnosis and how it could potentially impact or have an effect on one's career …
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Attention-deficit / hyperactivity disorder and parent-child affective congruence in middle childhood
Attention-deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a developmental disorder associated with both social cognition differences (i.e., differences in facial affect categorization) and long-term detrimental social outcomes (i.e., difficulties with employment) among those with the disorder relative …
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‘It’s a problem with the brain’: A discursive analysis of parents’ constructions of ADHD
… to the talk of parents of children with an ADHD diagnosis. It uses data from 2 focus groups, 10 individual interviews and 3 mother/father interviews. The thesis adopts a synthetic approach to discourse and draws on the analytic concepts associated with both conversation analysis and with …
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Examining interview ground rules in formal interviews with children
… 2 investigated individual differences (age, ADHD diagnosis, and executive functioning) in how children understand the ground rules and whether, how, and under what circumstances children apply the ground rules. Results demonstrate that children did not differ based on individual differences …
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Stable attributions of child behavior and parenting stress in parents of ADHD children.
… was to explore the differences in how parents of ADHD children and non-ADHD parents attribute undesirable and prosocial child behavior, and to determine if attributions about undesirable child behavior influence parents' perceived levels of parenting stress. Parent attributions from 69 …
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College students' perceptions of malingering attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
… of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) to help identify patterns of behavior in those who malinger ADHD in a college environment. Specifically, I sought to determine what behaviors college students attribute to ADHD and how those behaviors are demonstrated when malingering the …
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Environmental Toxins and Essential Trace Elements at Delivery and ADHD
… and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in childhood. The study base comprised children born in Malmö, Sweden, between 1978 and 2000 that were followed up until 2005. Children with ADHD (n=206) were identified at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Malmö. Controls …
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Tectonic shift: a scientific account of my young adulthood
… out to answer in the following pages—how have my ADHD diagnosis and my subsequent love affair with science helped to shape the young woman I have become?—is one that has framed much of my thinking in the years since I completed my undergraduate degree. Before my diagnosis, I did not consider my …
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Diagnostic Accuracy and Clinical Potential for the Strengths and Weaknesses of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Symptoms and Normal Behaviors Scale (SWAN)
… of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is normally distributed within the general population. Unlike many existing ADHD rating scales, the Strengths and Weaknesses of ADHD–Symptoms and Normal Behavior (SWAN) scale is theoretically designed to capture positive and negative …
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ACCURATELY DIAGNOSING AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER AMONG A COMORBID POPULATION
… attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD), are diagnosed in early childhood. The two disorders share similar impairments across domains, are highly comorbid, and have many overlapping symptoms. Studies have shown that among this comorbid population, …
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Joe's Horses
… with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The study centres around 269 children with an ADHD diagnosis in Aotearoa New Zealand, utilising an action research approach centred around a book designed specifically for this investigation, called ‘Joe's Horses’. The study focuses on the …
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Simple linear classifiers via discrete optimization : learning certifiably optimal scoring systems for decision-making and risk assessment
… screening, ICU seizure prediction, and adult ADHD diagnosis. Our results show that a discrete optimization approach can learn simple models that perform well in comparison to the state-of-the-art, but that are far easier to customize, understand, and validate.
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