ADHD: Primary Care Perspectives

Table of Contents

1. "My Child is Hyper": How Can My Pediatrician Help?
2. DIAGNOSIS
3. CO-MORBIDITIES
4. DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS
5. ANXIETY DISORDERS
6. OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT DISORDER
7. AUTISM
8. PHARMACOLOGIC TREATMENT: STIMULANT MEDICATIONS
9. PHARMACOLOGIC TREATMENT: OTHER MEDICATIONS
10. NON-PHARMACOLOGIC MANAGEMENT OF ADHD
11. POST-TEST
12. USEFUL RESOURCES
13. SELECTED REFERENCES
14. THE AUTHORS

SELECTED REFERENCES

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American Academy of Pediatrics. Clinical Practice Guideline: Treatment of the School-Aged Child With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Pediatrics 2001 108: 1033-1044. Full-text at UTMB

American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4^th ed.: Primary Care Version. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association, 1995.

Barkley RA. Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Handbook for Diagnosis and Treatment, 2^nd ed.. New York: Guilford Press, 1998.

Greenhill LL, Posner K, Vaughan BS, Dratochvil CJ. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Preschool Children. Child Adolesc Psychiatric Clin N Am 2008; 17: 17:347-366.

Joshi SV. ADHD, Growth Deficits, and Relationships to Psychostimulant Use. Pediatrics in Review 2002; 23:67-68.

MTA Cooperative Group. A 14-month randomized clinical trial of treatment strategies for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. The MTA Cooperative Group. Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with ADHD. Arch Gen Psychiatry 1999; 56:1073-86. Full-text at UTMB

Wolraich MA et al, eds. The Classification of Child and Adolescent Mental Diagnoses in Primary Care. Elk Grove Village, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics. 1996.

Zametkin AJ, et al. Cerebral glucose metabolism in adults with hyperactivity of childhood onset. New England Journal of Medicine 1990; 323:1361-1366.