A Naturalistic Assessment of the Motor Activity of Hyperactive Boys: I. Comparison with Normal Controls

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 1983, Pages 681-687

  Porrino, Linda J ^a   Rapoport, Judith L ^a   Behar, David ^a   Sceery, Walter ^a   Ismond, Deborah R ^a   Bunney, William E ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SCHOOL CHILD;

ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SLEEP; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0020584198     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1983.04390010091012     Document Type: Article

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