Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in adults: Recognition and diagnosis of this often-overlooked condition

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 39-47

  Feifel, David ^a   MacDonald, Kai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; ATOMOXETINE; DEXAMPHETAMINE; DEXMETHYLPHENIDATE; LISDEXAMFETAMINE; METHYLPHENIDATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VYNANSCE;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ANXIETY DISORDER; APPETITE DISORDER; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CONFUSION; CONSTIPATION; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISTRACTIBILITY; DIZZINESS; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEADACHE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; INSOMNIA; IRRITABILITY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MANIA; MOOD DISORDER; NAUSEA; NERVOUSNESS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PSYCHOSIS; RATING SCALE; SEDATION; SELF CONCEPT; SIDE EFFECT; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TIC; URINE RETENTION; XEROSTOMIA; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AFFECT; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFFECT; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 56149105172     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: 19419260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.2008.09.1906     Document Type: Article

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