Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and its comorbidities in women and girls: An evolving picture

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 419-423

  Quinn, Patricia O ^a  

^a National Center for Girls and Women with ADHD   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; DEXAMPHETAMINE; METHYLPHENIDATE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ANOREXIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BINGE EATING DISORDER; BULIMIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; CONDUCT DISORDER; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DYSTHYMIA; EATING DISORDER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR DEPRESSION; OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT DISORDER; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTENTION DEFICIT AND DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; BULIMIA NERVOSA; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58649086029     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-008-0067-5     Document Type: Review

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