Is ADHD Overdiagnosed in Scandinavia?: Editorial comment to Kjelsen BV, Jensen SOW, Munk-Jørgensen P "Increasing number of incident ADHD cases in psychiatric treatment" (this issue page 151-152)

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 85-86

  Biederman, Joseph ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT DISEASE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HUMAN; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NOTE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANDINAVIA;

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; HUMANS;

EID: 84863574887     PISSN: 0001690X     EISSN: 16000447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.2012.01878.x     Document Type: Note

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