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Paper of the Month: Will they grow out of it? The life course of ADHD
I’m doing the one-paper-per-day challenge. Some papers will be hot off the press, others will be classics. Some will be relevant to what I’m working on at the moment, others will be from other areas. Each month I discuss my favourite paper here.
Vos, M., Rommelse, N. N. J., Franke, B., Oosterlaan, J., Heslenfeld, D. J., Hoekstra, P. J., … Hartman, C. A. (2021). Characterizing the heterogeneous course of inattention and hyperactivity-impulsivity from childhood to young adulthood. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-021-01764-z
Background
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects around 5% of children. It is typically diagnosed in childhood and was considered to be a childhood only disorder until not too long ago. Consequently, relatively little is known about the life course of people with ADHD. Cross-sectional studies that compare children with ADHD to adults with a diagnosis do not provide an accurate picture. That’s because adults who were diagnosed later may have more severe symptoms that made them pursue a diagnosis. Knowing how children with ADHD will develop is a crucial question, especially for young people and their parents. In this groundbreaking study, the researchers…