Attention Deficit Disorder (‘Minimal Brain Dysfunction’) in Adults: A Replication Study of Diagnosis and Drug Treatment

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1981, Pages 449-456

  Wender, Paul H ^a   Reimherr, Frederick W ^a   Wood, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEMOLINE;

ADULT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; MINIMAL BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; THERAPY;

ADULT; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL TRIALS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PEMOLINE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0019431551     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1981.01780290083009     Document Type: Article

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