por APDA20GD | May 18, 2012 | English
The Peruvian Association for Attention Deficit (APDA) is a nonprofit organization founded by mothers of ADHD kids; its main goal is to spread up-to-date information about this disorder. APDA started its activities on ADHD late in 2002 with a round table discussion, in...
por APDA20GD | May 18, 2012 | ARTICLES TRANSLATED FROM SPANISH
My first memories of a patient with what is known nowadays as AD/HD go back to my medical student’s days in Cayetano Heredia in the early sixties when I met a girl in the relation who was overly active and whose behavior was out of control. My advice was to have her...
por APDA20GD | May 18, 2012 | ARTICLES TRANSLATED FROM SPANISH
Review of CHADD’s 17th Annual International Conference on Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, October 27-29, 2005. Dallas, Texas, USA The title of this year’s conference shows an emphasis on finding out what makes the prognosis of this disorder good and...
por APDA20GD | May 18, 2012 | ARTICLES TRANSLATED FROM SPANISH
¿What proof exists that methylphenidate is a drug that can cause addiction or that it has a high abuse potential that justifies the present day control on its sale? None; many medical articles endorse this statement. The present day standpoint, widely accepted by...
por APDA20GD | May 18, 2012 | ARTICLES ORIGINALLY WRITTEN IN ENGLISH
I. Introduction. DSM-IV uses “phenomenological” rather than “etiological” subtypes of ADHD, but in DSM-V, an emphasis on etiology has been promised. Genetic and environmental etiologies have been proposed to account for the behavioral and neuropsychological...
