Why fewer females than males are diagnosed with attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder: it might not be hormones

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 790-791

  Mahone, E Mark ^a,b  

^a KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL STIMULANT AGENT; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN; TESTOSTERONE; HORMONE;

ACADEMIC FAILURE; ADDICTION; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN MATURATION; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR; EATING DISORDER; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INDEX FINGER; NOTE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SECOND DIGIT FOURTH DIGIT RATIO; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; VALIDITY; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; FEMALE; FETUS; FINGER; MALE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; FEMALE; FETUS; FINGERS; HORMONES; HUMANS; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 77955756208     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2010.03709.x     Document Type: Note

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