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Default Ped Med: Expanding the ADHD criteria

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Ped Med: Expanding the ADHD criteria
By LIDIA WASOWICZ
UPI Senior Science Writer

SAN FRANCISCO, March 1 (UPI) -- With each update of the official manual of
mental illnesses, the criteria for diagnosing
attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder have evolved, expanded and
enlarged.

By 1994 ADHD -- which made its debut in the handbook of psychiatry in
1980 -- had spread out into three subtypes: inattentive,
hyperactive/impulsive and a mix of the two. The last is now the most
commonly diagnosed.


 




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