Does late-onset attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder exist?

Duration: 13 mins DOI: 10.13056/acamh.6840

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In this Video Abstract Professor Philip Asherson and Dr Jessica Agnew‐Blais discuss their paper 'JCPP Annual Research Review: Does late‐onset attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder exist?'. Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is conceptualized as an early onset childhood neurodevelopmental disorder. Prevalence in adults is around two-thirds that in childhood, yet longitudinal outcome studies of children with ADHD found a minority continue to meet full criteria in adulthood. This suggests that not all adult cases meet ADHD criteria as children, a conclusion supported by earlier studies relying on retrospective recall in adolescent and adult samples.

Learning Objectives

1. Looking at research to see if late‐onset attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder exists
2. Possible explanations for late-onset ADHD

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Dr. Jessica Agnew‐Blais

Research Fellow at the MRC Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre, King’s College London

Professor Philip Asherson

Professor of Molecular Psychiatry at the MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry centre at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, and consultant psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital. Philip’s research interests include genetics of ADHD and related neurodevelopmental disorders; clinical and genetic studies of ADHD in adults; mapping genes in common complex neuropsychiatric disorders; functional studies aimed at delinating the brain processes that mediate genetic risk on ADHD.

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