A Controlled Trial of Methylphenidate in Black Adolescents: Attentional, Behavioral, and Physiological Effects

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1988, Pages 74-81

  Brown, Ronald T ^a   Sexson, Sandra B ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLPHENIDATE;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC OR RACIAL ASPECTS; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; IMPULSIVENESS; LEARNING DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; BLACKS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; HUMAN; HYPERKINESIS; MALE; METHYLPHENIDATE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0023898173     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: 19382707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000992288802700204     Document Type: Article

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