Symptom severity, comorbidity, parental mental health problems predict ADHD persistence into adulthood

Some children with attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) continue to have it as adults, and some don't. Factors that affect whether it persists or not were assessed by researchers using the Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with ADHD (MTA); they found that symptom severity as a child and parental mental health problems were linked to persistence of ADHD into adulthood.

Source: The Brown University Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology Update - November 24, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Tags: ADHD Source Type: research