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This psychiatric condition involves inappropriate levels of inattention, hyperactivity, or impulsivity.
What is ADHD?
Kids with ADHD are often mislabeled as these in school.
What are “troublemakers”?
ADHD is considered a dysfunction of this lobe of the brain.
What is the frontal lobe?
ADHD was first called this in the 1930s.
What is minimal brain dysfunction?
These are considered the mainstay medications for ADHD.
What are stimulants?
ADHD symptoms must appear before this age to meet DSM-5 criteria.
What is age 12?
The average age of ADHD diagnosis in children is typically around this age range.
What is 6–7 years old?
These receptors are decreased in the frontal lobes of ADHD patients.
What are dopaminergic receptors?
About this percentage of ADHD patients are inattentive subtype.
What is 18.3%?
Name one common stimulant category besides amphetamines.
What is methylphenidates?
DSM-5 recognizes these three ADHD subtypes.
What are inattentive, hyperactive/impulsive, and combined?
This behavioral therapy is considered first-line non-pharmacologic treatment in school-aged children with ADHD.
What is parent training in behavior management (PTBM)?
ADHD brains often have smaller anterior cingulate gyrus and this prefrontal cortex region.
What is the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC)?
The combined subtype represents about this much of ADHD prevalence.
What is 70%?
This non-stimulant, a selective norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor, is FDA-approved for ADHD.
What is atomoxetine?
These symptoms must last at least this long to be diagnosed as ADHD.
What is 6 months?
Adults with ADHD often show this behavior instead of hyperactivity.
What is procrastination (or mood instability/low self-esteem)?
Reduced activity in this brain circuit is seen on fMRI in ADHD patients.
What is the frontostriatal region?
ADHD is about this much more common in males than females.
What is 2:1?
This newly approved FDA device delivers electrical pulses to suppress hyperactivity.
What is trigeminal nerve stimulation (TNS)?
ADHD must be present in more than one of these to be diagnosed.
What are multiple settings (home, school, work, etc.)?
This standardized scale has both teacher and parent versions to help diagnose ADHD in children.
What is the Vanderbilt ADHD scale?
This other neurotransmitter system, besides dopamine, is also implicated in ADHD.
What is the noradrenergic system?
ADHD prevalence in adults is estimated between these percentages.
What is 3%–6%?
About this percentage of patients “grow out of” ADHD by adulthood.
: What is 50%?