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| name = | name = Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
| synonym = ''Formerly'': Attention deficit disorder (ADD), hyperkinetic disorder (HD)<ref name="auto">{{Cite journal |last1=Faraone |first1=Stephen V. |last2=Bellgrove |first2=Mark A. |last3=Brikell |first3=Isabell |last4=Cortese |first4=Samuele |last5=Hartman |first5=Catharina A. |last6=Hollis |first6=Chris |last7=Newcorn |first7=Jeffrey H. |last8=Philipsen |first8=Alexandra |last9=Polanczyk |first9=Guilherme V. |last10=Rubia |first10=Katya |last11=Sibley |first11=Margaret H. |last12=Buitelaar |first12=Jan K. |date=2024-02-22 |title=Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41572-024-00495-0 |journal=Nature Reviews Disease Primers |language=en |volume=10 |issue=1 |page=11 |doi=10.1038/s41572-024-00495-0 |pmid=38388701 |issn=2056-676X}}</ref>
| image = Primary Laos2.jpg
| image = ADHDNeuroanatomy.png
| caption = People with ADHD may struggle more than others to focus on tasks such as schoolwork, but can maintain an ] for tasks they find rewarding or interesting.
| image_upright = 1.2
| alt = An image of children
| caption = ADHD arises from maldevelopment in brain regions such as the ], ] and ], which regulate the executive functions necessary for human self-regulation.<!-- NOTE that some of these brain regions mentioned, like the basal ganglia, include the striatum mentioned in the image -->
| field = {{hlist | ] | ]}}
| alt = An image of the brain showcasing the underlying relationship between the neurology and neuropsychology of ADHD.
| symptoms = {{hlist | ] | ] | hyperactivity | ] | ]}}
| field = {{hlist | ] | ]}}
| symptoms = {{hlist | ] | ] | ] | ] | ] | ] | impaired ]}}
| complications = | complications =
| onset = | onset = Prior to age 12
| duration = | duration =
| causes = Both ] and ] factors | causes = ] (inherited, ]) and to a lesser extent, ] factors (exposure to biohazards during pregnancy, ])
| risks = | risks =
| diagnosis = Based on symptoms after other possible causes have been ruled out | diagnosis = Based on impairing symptoms after other possible causes have been ruled out
| differential = {{hlist | Normally active child | ] | ] | ] | ] | ] | ] | ] | ]<ref>https://www.heysigmund.com/anxiety-and-adhd/</ref> | ] | ]}} | differential = {{hlist | ] | ] | ] | ] | ] | ] | ] | ] | ]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.heysigmund.com/anxiety-and-adhd/ |title=Anxiety or ADHD? Why They Sometimes Look the Same and How to Tell the Difference | vauthors = Young K |website=Hey Sigmund |date=9 February 2017 |access-date=27 January 2023 |archive-date=26 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230126230720/https://www.heysigmund.com/anxiety-and-adhd/ |url-status=live }}</ref> | ] | ]}}
| prevention = | prevention =
| treatment = {{hlist | ] | lifestyle changes | medication}} | treatment = {{hlist | Medication | ]}}
| medication = {{hlist | ] (e.g., ], ]) | ] | ] | ]}} | medication = {{hlist | ] (], ]) | ] (], ]) | ] ] (] XR, ] XR)}}
| prognosis = | prognosis =
| frequency = 84.7 million (2019, using DSM-IV-TR and ICD-10)<ref name=GBD2019/> | frequency = 0.8–1.5% (2019, using DSM-IV-TR and ICD-10)<ref name=GBD2019/>
| deaths = | deaths =
}} }}
<!--Signs and symptoms --> <!--Signs and symptoms -->
'''Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder''' ('''ADHD''') is a ] characterised by excessive amounts of ], hyperactivity, and ] that are pervasive, impairing in multiple contexts, and otherwise ].<ref name=DSM5>{{cite book |title=Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders |publisher=American Psychiatric Publishing |url = https://archive.org/details/diagnosticstatis0005unse/page/58/mode/2up?q=attention+deficit |year=2013 |isbn=978-0-89042-555-8 |edition=5th |location=Arlington |pages=59–65}}</ref><ref name=DSM5TR>{{cite book |title=Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR) |title-link=DSM-5-TR |publisher=American Psychiatric Publishing |date=February 2022 |isbn=978-0-89042-575-6 |oclc=1288423302 |location=Washington, D.C. }}</ref><ref name="ICD-11" /><ref name="Foreman_2006" /><!-- quote=to a degree that is inconsistent with developmental level -->


'''Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder''' ('''ADHD''')<ref name="auto"/> is a ] characterized by ] occasioning symptoms of ], hyperactivity, ] and ] that are excessive and pervasive, impairing in multiple contexts, and ].{{refn|<ref name=DSM5>{{cite book |title=Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders |publisher=American Psychiatric Publishing |url = https://archive.org/details/diagnosticstatis0005unse/page/58/mode/2up?q=attention+deficit |year=2013 |isbn=978-0-89042-555-8 |edition=5th |location=Arlington |pages=59–65}}</ref><ref name=DSM5TR>{{cite book |title=Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders | edition = Fifth, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR) |title-link=DSM-5-TR |publisher=American Psychiatric Publishing |date=February 2022 |isbn=978-0-89042-575-6 |oclc=1288423302 |location=Washington, D.C. }}</ref><ref name="ICD-11" /><ref name="Foreman_2006" /><ref name="Faraone_2021">{{cite journal | vauthors = Faraone SV, Banaschewski T, Coghill D, Zheng Y, Biederman J, Bellgrove MA, Newcorn JH, Gignac M, Al Saud NM, Manor I, Rohde LA, Yang L, Cortese S, Almagor D, Stein MA, Albatti TH, Aljoudi HF, Alqahtani MM, Asherson P, Atwoli L, Bölte S, Buitelaar JK, Crunelle CL, Daley D, Dalsgaard S, Döpfner M, Espinet S, Fitzgerald M, Franke B, Gerlach M, Haavik J, Hartman CA, Hartung CM, Hinshaw SP, Hoekstra PJ, Hollis C, Kollins SH, Sandra Kooij JJ, Kuntsi J, Larsson H, Li T, Liu J, Merzon E, Mattingly G, Mattos P, McCarthy S, Mikami AY, Molina BS, Nigg JT, Purper-Ouakil D, Omigbodun OO, Polanczyk GV, Pollak Y, Poulton AS, Rajkumar RP, Reding A, Reif A, Rubia K, Rucklidge J, Romanos M, Ramos-Quiroga JA, Schellekens A, Scheres A, Schoeman R, Schweitzer JB, Shah H, Solanto MV, Sonuga-Barke E, Soutullo C, Steinhausen HC, Swanson JM, Thapar A, Tripp G, van de Glind G, van den Brink W, Van der Oord S, Venter A, Vitiello B, Walitza S, Wang Y | title = The World Federation of ADHD International Consensus Statement: 208 Evidence-based conclusions about the disorder | journal = Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews | volume = 128 | pages = 789–818 | date = September 2021 | pmid = 33549739 | pmc = 8328933 | doi = 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.01.022 | publisher = Elsevier BV | doi-access = free | issn=0149-7634}}</ref>}}<!-- quote=to a degree that is inconsistent with developmental level -->
ADHD symptoms arise from ],<ref name="Brown_2008" /><ref name="Malenka pathways" /><ref name="Executive functions" /> and ] is often considered a core symptom.<ref name="Retz_2012">{{cite journal | vauthors = Retz W, Stieglitz RD, Corbisiero S, Retz-Junginger P, Rösler M | title = Emotional dysregulation in adult ADHD: What is the empirical evidence? | journal = Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics | volume = 12 | issue = 10 | pages = 1241–1251 | date = October 2012 | pmid = 23082740 | doi = 10.1586/ern.12.109 | s2cid = 207221320 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Faraone SV, Rostain AL, Blader J, Busch B, Childress AC, Connor DF, Newcorn JH | title = Practitioner Review: Emotional dysregulation in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder - implications for clinical recognition and intervention | journal = Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Allied Disciplines | volume = 60 | issue = 2 | pages = 133–150 | date = February 2019 | pmid = 29624671 | doi = 10.1111/jcpp.12899 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Shaw P, Stringaris A, Nigg J, Leibenluft E | title = Emotion dysregulation in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder | journal = The American Journal of Psychiatry | volume = 171 | issue = 3 | pages = 276–293 | date = March 2014 | pmid = 24480998 | pmc = 4282137 | doi = 10.1176/appi.ajp.2013.13070966 }}</ref> In children, problems paying attention may result in poor ]. ADHD is associated with other neurodevelopmental and ]s as well as some non-psychiatric disorders, which can cause additional impairment, especially in modern society. Although people with ADHD struggle to focus on tasks they are not particularly interested in completing, they are often able to maintain an unusually prolonged and intense level of attention for tasks they do find interesting or rewarding; this is known as ].


ADHD symptoms arise from executive dysfunction,{{refn|<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Pievsky MA, McGrath RE | title = The Neurocognitive Profile of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Review of Meta-Analyses | journal = Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology | volume = 33 | issue = 2 | pages = 143–157 | date = March 2018 | pmid = 29106438 | doi = 10.1093/arclin/acx055 | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Schoechlin C, Engel RR | title = Neuropsychological performance in adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: meta-analysis of empirical data | journal = Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology | volume = 20 | issue = 6 | pages = 727–744 | date = August 2005 | pmid = 15953706 | doi = 10.1016/j.acn.2005.04.005 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Hart H, Radua J, Nakao T, Mataix-Cols D, Rubia K | title = Meta-analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging studies of inhibition and attention in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: exploring task-specific, stimulant medication, and age effects | journal = JAMA Psychiatry | volume = 70 | issue = 2 | pages = 185–198 | date = February 2013 | pmid = 23247506 | doi = 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2013.277 }}</ref><ref name="Joao P 2019">{{cite journal | vauthors = Hoogman M, Muetzel R, Guimaraes JP, Shumskaya E, Mennes M, Zwiers MP, Jahanshad N, Sudre G, Wolfers T, Earl EA, Soliva Vila JC, Vives-Gilabert Y, Khadka S, Novotny SE, Hartman CA, Heslenfeld DJ, Schweren LJ, Ambrosino S, Oranje B, de Zeeuw P, Chaim-Avancini TM, Rosa PG, Zanetti MV, Malpas CB, Kohls G, von Polier GG, Seitz J, Biederman J, Doyle AE, Dale AM, van Erp TG, Epstein JN, Jernigan TL, Baur-Streubel R, Ziegler GC, Zierhut KC, Schrantee A, Høvik MF, Lundervold AJ, Kelly C, McCarthy H, Skokauskas N, O'Gorman Tuura RL, Calvo A, Lera-Miguel S, Nicolau R, Chantiluke KC, Christakou A, Vance A, Cercignani M, Gabel MC, Asherson P, Baumeister S, Brandeis D, Hohmann S, Bramati IE, Tovar-Moll F, Fallgatter AJ, Kardatzki B, Schwarz L, Anikin A, Baranov A, Gogberashvili T, Kapilushniy D, Solovieva A, El Marroun H, White T, Karkashadze G, Namazova-Baranova L, Ethofer T, Mattos P, Banaschewski T, Coghill D, Plessen KJ, Kuntsi J, Mehta MA, Paloyelis Y, Harrison NA, Bellgrove MA, Silk TJ, Cubillo AI, Rubia K, Lazaro L, Brem S, Walitza S, Frodl T, Zentis M, Castellanos FX, Yoncheva YN, Haavik J, Reneman L, Conzelmann A, Lesch KP, Pauli P, Reif A, Tamm L, Konrad K, Oberwelland Weiss E, Busatto GF, Louza MR, Durston S, Hoekstra PJ, Oosterlaan J, Stevens MC, Ramos-Quiroga JA, Vilarroya O, Fair DA, Nigg JT, Thompson PM, Buitelaar JK, Faraone SV, Shaw P, Tiemeier H, Bralten J, Franke B | title = Brain Imaging of the Cortex in ADHD: A Coordinated Analysis of Large-Scale Clinical and Population-Based Samples | journal = The American Journal of Psychiatry | volume = 176 | issue = 7 | pages = 531–542 | date = July 2019 | pmid = 31014101 | pmc = 6879185 | doi = 10.1176/appi.ajp.2019.18091033 }}</ref><ref name="Brown_2008">{{cite journal | vauthors = Brown TE | title = ADD/ADHD and Impaired Executive Function in Clinical Practice | journal = Current Psychiatry Reports | volume = 10 | issue = 5 | pages = 407–411 | date = October 2008 | pmid = 18803914 | doi = 10.1007/s11920-008-0065-7 | s2cid = 146463279 }}</ref><ref name="Malenka pathways" /><ref name="Executive functions">{{cite journal | vauthors = Diamond A | title = Executive functions | journal = Annual Review of Psychology | volume = 64 | pages = 135–168 | year = 2013 | pmid = 23020641 | pmc = 4084861 | doi = 10.1146/annurev-psych-113011-143750 | quote = {{abbr|EFs|executive functions}} and prefrontal cortex are the first to suffer, and suffer disproportionately, if something is not right in your life. They suffer first, and most, if you are stressed (Arnsten 1998, Liston et al. 2009, Oaten & Cheng 2005), sad (Hirt et al. 2008, von Hecker & Meiser 2005), lonely (Baumeister et al. 2002, Cacioppo & Patrick 2008, Campbell et al. 2006, Tun et al. 2012), sleep deprived (Barnes et al. 2012, Huang et al. 2007), or not physically fit (Best 2010, Chaddock et al. 2011, Hillman et al. 2008). Any of these can cause you to appear to have a disorder of EFs, such as ADHD, when you do not. }}</ref><ref name="Antshel_2014">{{cite book | vauthors = Antshel KM, Hier BO, Barkley RA | chapter = Executive Functioning Theory and ADHD |date=2014 | title = Handbook of Executive Functioning |pages=107–120 | veditors = Goldstein S, Naglieri JA |place=New York, NY |publisher=Springer |doi=10.1007/978-1-4614-8106-5_7 |isbn=978-1-4614-8106-5 }}</ref>}} and emotional dysregulation is often considered a core symptom.{{refn|<ref name="Retz_2012">{{cite journal | vauthors = Retz W, Stieglitz RD, Corbisiero S, Retz-Junginger P, Rösler M | title = Emotional dysregulation in adult ADHD: What is the empirical evidence? | journal = Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics | volume = 12 | issue = 10 | pages = 1241–1251 | date = October 2012 | pmid = 23082740 | doi = 10.1586/ern.12.109 | s2cid = 207221320 }}</ref><ref name="Faraone_2019">{{cite journal | vauthors = Faraone SV, Rostain AL, Blader J, Busch B, Childress AC, Connor DF, Newcorn JH | title = Practitioner Review: Emotional dysregulation in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder - implications for clinical recognition and intervention | journal = Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Allied Disciplines | volume = 60 | issue = 2 | pages = 133–150 | date = February 2019 | pmid = 29624671 | doi = 10.1111/jcpp.12899 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Shaw P, Stringaris A, Nigg J, Leibenluft E | title = Emotion dysregulation in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder | journal = The American Journal of Psychiatry | volume = 171 | issue = 3 | pages = 276–293 | date = March 2014 | pmid = 24480998 | pmc = 4282137 | doi = 10.1176/appi.ajp.2013.13070966 }}</ref>}} Impairments resulting from deficits in self-regulation such as ], ], and sustained attention<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Barkley |first=Russell A. |date=December 2002 |title=International Consensus Statement on ADHD |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12447019/ |journal=Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry |volume=41 |issue=12 |pages=1389 |doi=10.1097/00004583-200212000-00001 |issn=0890-8567 |pmid=12447019}}</ref> can include poor professional performance, relationship difficulties, and numerous health risks,<ref>{{Cite journal | vauthors = Barkley RA, Murphy KR |date=2011-06-01 |title=The Nature of Executive Function (EF) Deficits in Daily Life Activities in Adults with ADHD and Their Relationship to Performance on EF Tests |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/s10862-011-9217-x |journal=Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment |language=en |volume=33 |issue=2 |pages=137–158 |doi=10.1007/s10862-011-9217-x |issn=1573-3505}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Fleming M, Fitton CA, Steiner MF, McLay JS, Clark D, King A, Mackay DF, Pell JP | title = Educational and Health Outcomes of Children Treated for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder | journal = JAMA Pediatrics | volume = 171 | issue = 7 | pages = e170691 | date = July 2017 | pmid = 28459927 | pmc = 6583483 | doi = 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2017.0691 }}</ref> collectively predisposing to a diminished quality of life<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Lee YC, Yang HJ, Chen VC, Lee WT, Teng MJ, Lin CH, Gossop M | title = Meta-analysis of quality of life in children and adolescents with ADHD: By both parent proxy-report and child self-report using PedsQL™ | journal = Research in Developmental Disabilities | volume = 51-52 | pages = 160–172 | date = 2016-04-01 | pmid = 26829402 | doi = 10.1016/j.ridd.2015.11.009 }}</ref> and a direct average reduction in life expectancy of 13 years.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Barkley RA, Fischer M | title = Hyperactive Child Syndrome and Estimated Life Expectancy at Young Adult Follow-Up: The Role of ADHD Persistence and Other Potential Predictors | journal = Journal of Attention Disorders | volume = 23 | issue = 9 | pages = 907–923 | date = July 2019 | pmid = 30526189 | doi = 10.1177/1087054718816164 | s2cid = 54472439 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Cattoi B, Alpern I, Katz JS, Keepnews D, Solanto MV | title = The Adverse Health Outcomes, Economic Burden, and Public Health Implications of Unmanaged Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): A Call to Action Resulting from CHADD Summit, Washington, DC, October 17, 2019 | journal = Journal of Attention Disorders | volume = 26 | issue = 6 | pages = 807–808 | date = April 2022 | pmid = 34585995 | doi = 10.1177/10870547211036754 | s2cid = 238218526 }}</ref> The disorder costs society hundreds of billions of US dollars each year, worldwide.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Faraone |first1=Stephen V. |last2=Banaschewski |first2=Tobias |last3=Coghill |first3=David |last4=Zheng |first4=Yi |last5=Biederman |first5=Joseph |last6=Bellgrove |first6=Mark A. |last7=Newcorn |first7=Jeffrey H. |last8=Gignac |first8=Martin |last9=Al Saud |first9=Nouf M. |last10=Manor |first10=Iris |last11=Rohde |first11=Luis Augusto |last12=Yang |first12=Li |last13=Cortese |first13=Samuele |last14=Almagor |first14=Doron |last15=Stein |first15=Mark A. |date=2021-09-01 |title=The World Federation of ADHD International Consensus Statement: 208 Evidence-based conclusions about the disorder |journal=Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews |volume=128 |pages=789–818 |doi=10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.01.022 |pmid=33549739 |pmc=8328933 |issn=0149-7634}}</ref><!-- For reference 6 before this comment, refrain from converting it into the other citation to the International Consensus Statement used in the article as this particular iteration has a "highlights" section which states "ADHD costs society hundreds of billions of dollars each year, worldwide". Both iterations indicate this with the research but the conclusion is more easily accessible in this one. --> It is associated with other neurodevelopmental and ]s as well as non-psychiatric disorders, which can cause additional impairment.<ref name="Faraone_2021" />
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The precise causes of ADHD are unknown in the majority of cases.<ref name=nimh/><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Franke B, Michelini G, Asherson P, Banaschewski T, Bilbow A, Buitelaar JK, Cormand B, Faraone SV, Ginsberg Y, Haavik J, Kuntsi J, Larsson H, Lesch KP, Ramos-Quiroga JA, Réthelyi JM, Ribases M, Reif A | display-authors = 6 | title = Live fast, die young? A review on the developmental trajectories of ADHD across the lifespan | journal = European Neuropsychopharmacology | volume = 28 | issue = 10 | pages = 1059–1088 | date = October 2018 | pmid = 30195575 | pmc = 6379245 | doi = 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2018.08.001 }}</ref> Genetic factors play an important role; ADHD tends to run in families and has a heritability rate of 74%.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Faraone SV, Larsson H | title = Genetics of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder | journal = Molecular Psychiatry | volume = 24 | issue = 4 | pages = 562–575 | date = April 2019 | pmid = 29892054 | pmc = 6477889 | doi = 10.1038/s41380-018-0070-0 | s2cid = 47016805 }}</ref> Toxins and infections during pregnancy and brain damage may be environmental risks.


While people with ADHD often struggle to initiate work and persist on tasks with delayed consequences, this may not be evident in contexts they find intrinsically interesting and immediately rewarding,<ref name = "Barkley_2011">{{Cite journal | vauthors = Barkley RA, Murphy KR |date=2011-06-01 |title=The Nature of Executive Function (EF) Deficits in Daily Life Activities in Adults with ADHD and Their Relationship to Performance on EF Tests |journal=Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment |volume=33 |issue=2 |pages=137–158 |doi=10.1007/s10862-011-9217-x |issn=1573-3505}}</ref><ref name="Antshel_2014" /> potentiating ] (a more colloquial term)<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Groen Y, Priegnitz U, Fuermaier AB, Tucha L, Tucha O, Aschenbrenner S, Weisbrod M, Garcia Pimenta M | title = Testing the relation between ADHD and hyperfocus experiences | journal = Research in Developmental Disabilities | volume = 107 | pages = 103789 | date = December 2020 | pmid = 33126147 | doi = 10.1016/j.ridd.2020.103789 }}</ref> or perseverative responding.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Ayers-Glassey S, MacIntyre PD | title = Investigating emotion dysregulation and the perseveration-and flow-like characteristics of ADHD hyperfocus in Canadian undergraduate students. | journal = Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice | date = September 2021 | volume = 11 | issue = 2 | pages = 234–251 | doi = 10.1037/cns0000299 }}</ref> This mental state is often hard to disengage from<ref name="Barkley_20112">{{Cite journal |vauthors=Barkley RA, Murphy KR |date=2011-06-01 |title=The Nature of Executive Function (EF) Deficits in Daily Life Activities in Adults with ADHD and Their Relationship to Performance on EF Tests |journal=Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment |volume=33 |issue=2 |pages=137–158 |doi=10.1007/s10862-011-9217-x |issn=1573-3505}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Ashinoff BK, Abu-Akel A |date=February 2021 |title=Hyperfocus: the forgotten frontier of attention |journal=Psychological Research |volume=85 |issue=1 |pages=1–19 |doi=10.1007/s00426-019-01245-8 |pmc=7851038 |pmid=31541305}}</ref> and is related to risks such as for ]<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Ishii S, Takagi S, Kobayashi N, Jitoku D, Sugihara G, Takahashi H | title = Hyperfocus symptom and internet addiction in individuals with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder trait | journal = Frontiers in Psychiatry | volume = 14 | pages = 1127777 | date = 2023-03-16 | pmid = 37009127 | pmc = 10061009 | doi = 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1127777 | doi-access = free }}</ref> and types of offending behaviour.<ref>{{Cite journal | vauthors = Worthington R, Wheeler S |date= January 2023 |title=Hyperfocus and offending behaviour: a systematic review |journal=The Journal of Forensic Practice |volume=25 |issue=3 |pages=185–200 |doi=10.1108/JFP-01-2022-0005 |issn=2050-8794 |s2cid=258330884|url= https://clok.uclan.ac.uk/46646/1/Manuscript%20with%20author%20details%2012.01.21.pdf }}</ref>
It affects about 5–7% of children when diagnosed via the ] criteria, and 1–2% when diagnosed via the ] criteria. Rates are similar between countries and differences in rates depend mostly on how it is diagnosed.<ref name="Jones_2011">{{cite book |veditors=Tsuang MT, Tohen M, Jones P |title=Textbook of Psychiatric Epidemiology |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=9780470977408 |chapter=Ch. 25: Epidemiology of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder |vauthors=Faraone SV |page=450 |edition=3rd |year=2011 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fOc4pdXe43EC&pg=PA450 |access-date=1 February 2016 |archive-date=22 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201222193454/https://books.google.com/books?id=fOc4pdXe43EC&pg=PA450 |url-status=live }}</ref> ADHD is diagnosed approximately twice as often in boys than in girls,<ref name=DSM5TR/> and 1.6 times more often in men than in women,<ref name=DSM5TR/> although the disorder is overlooked in girls or diagnosed in later life because their symptoms sometimes differ from diagnostic criteria.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Young S, Adamo N, Ásgeirsdóttir BB, Branney P, Beckett M, Colley W, Cubbin S, Deeley Q, Farrag E, Gudjonsson G, Hill P, Hollingdale J, Kilic O, Lloyd T, Mason P, Paliokosta E, Perecherla S, Sedgwick J, Skirrow C, Tierney K, van Rensburg K, Woodhouse E | display-authors = 6 | title = Females with ADHD: An expert consensus statement taking a lifespan approach providing guidance for the identification and treatment of attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder in girls and women | journal = BMC Psychiatry | volume = 20 | issue = 1 | pages = 404 | date = August 2020 | pmid = 32787804 | pmc = 7422602 | doi = 10.1186/s12888-020-02707-9 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Crawford N |date=February 2003 |title=ADHD: a women's issue |journal=Monitor on Psychology |volume=34 |issue=2 |page=28 |url=http://www.apa.org/monitor/feb03/adhd.aspx |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170409110923/http://www.apa.org/monitor/feb03/adhd.aspx |archive-date=9 April 2017 }}</ref><ref name="pmid19393378">{{cite journal | vauthors = Emond V, Joyal C, Poissant H | title = | language = FR | journal = L'Encephale | volume = 35 | issue = 2 | pages = 107–114 | date = April 2009 | pmid = 19393378 | doi = 10.1016/j.encep.2008.01.005 | trans-title = Structural and functional neuroanatomy of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) }}</ref><ref name="Singh_2008">{{cite journal | vauthors = Singh I | title = Beyond polemics: science and ethics of ADHD | journal = Nature Reviews. Neuroscience | volume = 9 | issue = 12 | pages = 957–964 | date = December 2008 | pmid = 19020513 | doi = 10.1038/nrn2514 | s2cid = 205504587 }}</ref> About 30–50% of people diagnosed in childhood continue to have ], with 2.58% of adults estimated to have ADHD which began in childhood.<ref name="Song_2021">{{cite journal | vauthors = Song P, Zha M, Yang Q, Zhang Y, Li X, Rudan I | title = The prevalence of adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: A global systematic review and meta-analysis | journal = Journal of Global Health | volume = 11 | pages = 04009 | date = February 2021 | pmid = 33692893 | pmc = 7916320 | doi = 10.7189/jogh.11.04009 | publisher = International Global Health Society | oclc = 751737736 | eissn = 2047-2986 }}</ref><ref name="Ginsberg_2014">{{cite journal | vauthors = Ginsberg Y, Quintero J, Anand E, Casillas M, Upadhyaya HP | title = Underdiagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in adult patients: a review of the literature | journal = The Primary Care Companion for CNS Disorders | volume = 16 | issue = 3 | year = 2014 | pmid = 25317367 | pmc = 4195639 | doi = 10.4088/PCC.13r01600 | quote = Reports indicate that ADHD affects 2.5%–5% of adults in the general population,<sup>5–8</sup> compared with 5%–7% of children.<sup>9,10</sup>&nbsp;... However, fewer than 20% of adults with ADHD are currently diagnosed and/or treated by psychiatrists.<sup>7,15,16</sup> }}</ref>{{Text-source inline|date=August 2022}} In adults, hyperactivity is usually replaced by inner ], and adults often develop ] skills to compensate for their impairments. The condition can be difficult to tell apart from other conditions, as well as from high levels of activity within the range of normal behavior. ADHD has a negative impact on patients' health related quality of life and that this may be further exacerbated by, or may increase the risk of, other psychiatric conditions such as anxiety and depression.<ref name="Coghill_2017">{{cite journal | vauthors = Coghill DR, Banaschewski T, Soutullo C, Cottingham MG, Zuddas A | title = Systematic review of quality of life and functional outcomes in randomized placebo-controlled studies of medications for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder | journal = European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | volume = 26 | issue = 11 | pages = 1283–1307 | date = November 2017 | pmid = 28429134 | pmc = 5656703 | doi = 10.1007/s00787-017-0986-y }} ] Text was copied from this source, which is available under a .</ref>


ADHD represents the extreme lower end of the continuous dimensional trait (bell curve) of executive functioning and self-regulation, which is supported by twin, brain imaging and molecular genetic studies.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Larsson H, Anckarsater H, Råstam M, Chang Z, Lichtenstein P | title = Childhood attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder as an extreme of a continuous trait: a quantitative genetic study of 8,500 twin pairs | journal = Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Allied Disciplines | volume = 53 | issue = 1 | pages = 73–80 | date = January 2012 | pmid = 21923806 | doi = 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2011.02467.x }}</ref><ref name="Joao P 2019" /><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Lee SH, Ripke S, Neale BM, Faraone SV, Purcell SM, Perlis RH, Mowry BJ, Thapar A, Goddard ME, Witte JS, Absher D, Agartz I, Akil H, Amin F, Andreassen OA, Anjorin A, Anney R, Anttila V, Arking DE, Asherson P, Azevedo MH, Backlund L, Badner JA, Bailey AJ, Banaschewski T, Barchas JD, 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genome-wide SNPs | journal = Nature Genetics | volume = 45 | issue = 9 | pages = 984–994 | date = September 2013 | pmid = 23933821 | pmc = 3800159 | doi = 10.1038/ng.2711 }}</ref><ref name="Antshel_2014" /><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Cecil CA, Nigg JT | title = Epigenetics and ADHD: Reflections on Current Knowledge, Research Priorities and Translational Potential | journal = Molecular Diagnosis & Therapy | volume = 26 | issue = 6 | pages = 581–606 | date = November 2022 | pmid = 35933504 | pmc = 7613776 | doi = 10.1007/s40291-022-00609-y }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Nigg JT, Sibley MH, Thapar A, Karalunas SL | title = Development of ADHD: Etiology, Heterogeneity, and Early Life Course | journal = Annual Review of Developmental Psychology | volume = 2 | issue = 1 | pages = 559–583 | date = December 2020 | pmid = 34368774 | pmc = 8336725 | doi = 10.1146/annurev-devpsych-060320-093413 }}</ref><ref name="Barkley_2011a">{{cite book | vauthors = Barkley RA | date = 2011 | chapter = Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, self-regulation, and executive functioning. | veditors = Vohs KD, Baumeister RF | title = Handbook of self-regulation: Research, theory, and applications | edition = 2nd | pages = 551–563 | publisher = The Guilford Press | chapter-url = https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2010-24692-030 }}</ref><ref name="Brown_2009">{{Cite journal | vauthors = Brown TE |date = March 2009 |title=ADD/ADHD and impaired executive function in clinical practice |journal=Current Attention Disorders Reports |language=en |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=37–41 |doi=10.1007/s12618-009-0006-3 |issn=1943-457X}}</ref><!-- These references need to be bundled together --><!-- For citation Nigg and Cecil (above for continuous dimensional trait), 2022 see Figure 1. --><!--Causes, diagnosis and epidemiology -->
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] recommendations vary and usually involve some combination of medications, ], and lifestyle changes.<ref name="NIH2016">{{cite web |title=Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder |date=March 2016 |url=http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder-adhd/index.shtml |website=National Institute of Mental Health |access-date=5 March 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160723192735/http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder-adhd/index.shtml |archive-date=23 July 2016}}</ref> The British guideline emphasises environmental modifications and education for individuals and carers about ADHD as the first response. If symptoms persist, parent-training, medication, or psychotherapy (especially ]) can be recommended based on age.<ref name="NICE_2019">{{Cite book |author=National Institute for Health and Care Excellence |url=https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng87/ |title=Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: diagnosis and management |publisher=National Guideline Centre (UK) |year=2019 |isbn=978-1-4731-2830-9 |series=NICE Guideline, No. 87 |location=London |pages= |oclc=1126668845 |access-date=9 January 2021 |archive-date=12 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210112035209/https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng87/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Canadian and American guidelines recommend medications and behavioral therapy together, except in preschool-aged children for whom the first-line treatment is behavioral therapy alone.<ref name="CADDRA">{{cite web |title=Canadian ADHD Practice Guidelines |work=Canadian ADHD Resource Alliance |url=http://www.caddra.ca/cms4/pdfs/caddraGuidelines2011Introduction.pdf |access-date=4 February 2011 |archive-date=21 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121222344/https://www.caddra.ca/cms4/pdfs/caddraGuidelines2011Introduction.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="CDC guideline">{{cite web |title=Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): Recommendations |url=https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/guidelines.html |publisher=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |access-date=13 July 2015 |date=24 June 2015 |url-status=live |archive-date=7 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150707181535/http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/guidelines.html}}</ref><ref name="APP2019">{{cite journal |vauthors=Wolraich ML, Hagan JF, Allan C, Chan E, Davison D, Earls M, Evans SW, Flinn SK, Froehlich T, Frost J, Holbrook JR, Lehmann CU, Lessin HR, Okechukwu K, Pierce KL, Winner JD, Zurhellen W |display-authors=6 |title=Clinical Practice Guideline for the Diagnosis, Evaluation, and Treatment of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Children and Adolescents |journal=Pediatrics |volume=144 |issue=4 |pages=e20192528 |date=October 2019 |pmid=31570648 |pmc=7067282 |doi=10.1542/peds.2019-2528 }}</ref> Stimulant medications are the most effective pharmaceutical treatment,<ref name="CNS09" /> although there may be side effects<ref name="CNS09">{{cite journal |vauthors=Wigal SB |title=Efficacy and safety limitations of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder pharmacotherapy in children and adults |journal=CNS Drugs |volume=23 |issue=Suppl 1 |pages=21–31 |year=2009 |pmid=19621975 |doi=10.2165/00023210-200923000-00004 |s2cid=11340058 }}</ref><ref name="NICE 2009">{{cite book |title=Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Diagnosis and Management of ADHD in Children, Young People and Adults |author=National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health |series=NICE Clinical Guidelines |volume=72 |publisher=British Psychological Society |location=Leicester |isbn=978-1-85433-471-8 |date=2009 |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK53652/ |via=NCBI Bookshelf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160113133612/http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK53652/ |archive-date=13 January 2016 }}</ref><ref name="Long-term 2015">{{cite journal |vauthors=Arnold LE, Hodgkins P, Caci H, Kahle J, Young S |title=Effect of treatment modality on long-term outcomes in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a systematic review |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=10 |issue=2 |pages=e0116407 |date=February 2015 |pmid=25714373 |pmc=4340791 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0116407 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2015PLoSO..1016407A }}</ref><ref name="Long-term 36">{{cite journal |vauthors=Parker J, Wales G, Chalhoub N, Harpin V |title=The long-term outcomes of interventions for the management of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in children and adolescents: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials |journal=Psychology Research and Behavior Management |volume=6 |pages=87–99 |date=September 2013 |pmid=24082796 |pmc=3785407 |doi=10.2147/PRBM.S49114 |quote=Results suggest there is moderate-to-high-level evidence that combined pharmacological and behavioral interventions, and pharmacological interventions alone can be effective in managing the core ADHD symptoms and academic performance at 14 months. However, the effect size may decrease beyond this period.&nbsp;... Only one paper examining outcomes beyond 36 months met the review criteria.&nbsp;... There is high level evidence suggesting that pharmacological treatment can have a major beneficial effect on the core symptoms of ADHD (hyperactivity, inattention, and impulsivity) in approximately 80% of cases compared with placebo controls, in the short term. }}</ref> and any improvements will be reverted if medication is ceased.<ref name="May_2008" />


The precise causes of ADHD are unknown in most individual cases.<ref name=nimh/><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Franke B, Michelini G, Asherson P, Banaschewski T, Bilbow A, Buitelaar JK, Cormand B, Faraone SV, Ginsberg Y, Haavik J, Kuntsi J, Larsson H, Lesch KP, Ramos-Quiroga JA, Réthelyi JM, Ribases M, Reif A | title = Live fast, die young? A review on the developmental trajectories of ADHD across the lifespan | journal = European Neuropsychopharmacology | volume = 28 | issue = 10 | pages = 1059–1088 | date = October 2018 | pmid = 30195575 | pmc = 6379245 | doi = 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2018.08.001 }}</ref> Meta-analyses have shown that the disorder is primarily genetic with a heritability rate of 70-80%,<ref name=":0" /> where risk factors are highly accumulative.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Faraone SV, Asherson P, Banaschewski T, Biederman J, Buitelaar JK, Ramos-Quiroga JA, Rohde LA, Sonuga-Barke EJ, Tannock R, Franke B | title = Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder | journal = Nature Reviews. Disease Primers | volume = 1 | pages = 15020 | date = August 2015 | pmid = 27189265 | doi = 10.1038/nrdp.2015.20 | s2cid = 7171541 | url = https://repository.ubn.ru.nl//bitstream/handle/2066/291735/291735.pdf }}</ref> The environmental risks are not related to social or familial factors;<ref>Meta-analysis: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2010-02209-001</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022 |title=Intergenerational transmission of ADHD behaviors: More evidence for heritability than life history theor |url=https://europepmc.org/article/ppr/ppr531866#impact |access-date=2024-10-01 |website=europepmc.org}}</ref><ref name=hl>{{Cite journal |last1=Larsson |first1=Henrik |last2=Chang |first2=Zheng |last3=D'Onofrio |first3=Brian M. |last4=Lichtenstein |first4=Paul |date=July 2014 |title=The heritability of clinically diagnosed Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder across the life span |journal=Psychological Medicine |volume=44 |issue=10 |pages=2223–2229 |doi=10.1017/S0033291713002493 |issn=0033-2917 |pmc=4071160 |pmid=24107258}}</ref> they exert their effects very early in life, in the prenatal or early postnatal period.<ref name="Faraone_2021" /> However, in rare cases, ADHD can be caused by a single event<!-- Keep 'event' as it clarifies the fact that the environmental causes are entirely due to unique (non-shared) events and not the rearing social environment, as established by e.g. meta-analyses of twin studies --> including ],<ref name=":0">https://pure.rug.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/1124067910/s41572-024-00495-0.pdf</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Sinopoli KJ, Schachar R, Dennis M | title = Traumatic brain injury and secondary attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children and adolescents: the effect of reward on inhibitory control | journal = Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology | volume = 33 | issue = 7 | pages = 805–819 | date = August 2011 | pmid = 21598155 | pmc = 3184364 | doi = 10.1080/13803395.2011.562864 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Eme R | title = ADHD: an integration with pediatric traumatic brain injury | journal = Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics | volume = 12 | issue = 4 | pages = 475–483 | date = April 2012 | pmid = 22449218 | doi = 10.1586/ern.12.15 | s2cid = 35718630 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | doi=10.1097/00004583-199806000-00015 | title=Premorbid Prevalence of ADHD and Development of Secondary ADHD After Closed Head Injury | date=1998 | journal=Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | volume=37 | issue=6 | pages=647–654 | vauthors = Gerring JP, Brady KD, Chen A, Vasa R, Grados M, Bandeen-Roche KJ, Bryan RN, Denckla MB | doi-access=free | pmid=9628085 }}</ref> exposure to biohazards during pregnancy,<ref name = "Faraone_2021" /> or a major genetic mutation.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Faraone SV, Larsson H | title = Genetics of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder | journal = Molecular Psychiatry | volume = 24 | issue = 4 | pages = 562–575 | date = April 2019 | pmid = 29892054 | pmc = 6477889 | doi = 10.1038/s41380-018-0070-0 }}</ref> There is no biologically distinct adult-onset ADHD except for when ADHD occurs after traumatic brain injury.<ref name="Faraone_2016">{{cite journal | vauthors = Faraone SV, Biederman J | title = Can Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Onset Occur in Adulthood? | journal = JAMA Psychiatry | volume = 73 | issue = 7 | pages = 655–656 | date = July 2016 | pmid = 27191055 | doi = 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2016.0400 }}</ref><ref name="Faraone_2021"/>
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ADHD, its diagnosis, and its treatment ] since the 1970s. These controversies have involved doctors, teachers, policymakers, parents, and the media. Topics have included causes of ADHD and the use of stimulant medications in its treatment. ADHD is now a well-validated clinical diagnosis in children and adults, and the debate in the scientific community mainly centers on how it is diagnosed and treated.<ref name="Silver_2004">{{cite book |vauthors=Silver LB |title=Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder |publisher=American Psychiatric Publishing |edition=3rd |year=2004 |isbn=978-1-58562-131-6 |pages=4–7 }}</ref><ref name="Schonwald_2006">{{cite journal |vauthors=Schonwald A, Lechner E |title=Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder: complexities and controversies |journal=Current Opinion in Pediatrics |volume=18 |issue=2 |pages=189–195 |date=April 2006 |pmid=16601502 |doi=10.1097/01.mop.0000193302.70882.70 |s2cid=27286123 }}</ref> ADHD was officially known as '''attention deficit disorder''' ('''ADD''') from 1980 to 1987; prior to the 1980s, it was known as '''hyperkinetic reaction of childhood'''. Symptoms similar to those of ADHD have been described in medical literature dating back to the 18th century.


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==Signs and symptoms== ==Signs and symptoms==


Inattention, hyperactivity (restlessness in adults), disruptive behavior, and impulsivity are common in ADHD.<ref name=ICSI2012>{{cite web |vauthors=Dobie C |title=Diagnosis and management of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in primary care for school-age children and adolescents |year=2012 |page=79 |url=http://guidelines.gov/content.aspx?f=rss&id=36812 |access-date=10 October 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130301124247/http://guidelines.gov/content.aspx?f=rss&id=36812 |archive-date=1 March 2013}}</ref><ref name=cdc2016facts/> Academic difficulties are frequent as are problems with relationships.<ref name=ICSI2012/> The symptoms can be difficult to define, as it is hard to draw a line at where normal levels of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity end and significant levels requiring interventions begin.<ref name ="Ramsay_2007">{{cite book |vauthors=Ramsay JR |title=Cognitive behavioral therapy for adult ADHD |publisher=Routledge |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-415-95501-0 |pages=4, 25–26}}</ref> Inattention, hyperactivity (restlessness in adults), disruptive behaviour, and impulsivity are common in ADHD.<ref name=cdc2016facts/><ref name="National Institute of Mental Health_2023">{{Cite web |title=Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder |url=https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder-adhd |access-date=2 January 2024 |website=National Institute of Mental Health |date=September 2023 }}</ref><ref name="National Institute of Mental Health">{{Cite web |title=Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Adults: What You Need to Know |url=https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/adhd-what-you-need-to-know |access-date=2 January 2024 |website=National Institute of Mental Health }}</ref> Academic difficulties are frequent, as are problems with relationships.<ref name="National Institute of Mental Health_2023" /><ref name="National Institute of Mental Health" /><ref name="ICSI2012">{{cite web |date=Mar 2012 |publisher=National Guideline Clearinghous |title=Diagnosis and management of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in primary care for school-age children and adolescents |url=http://guidelines.gov/content.aspx?f=rss&id=36812 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130301124247/http://guidelines.gov/content.aspx?f=rss&id=36812 |archive-date=1 March 2013 |access-date=10 October 2012 |page=79 |vauthors = Dobie C, Donald WB, Hanson M, Heim C, Huxsahl J, Karasov R, Kippes C, Neumann A, Spinner P, Staples T, Steiner L }}</ref> The signs and symptoms can be difficult to define, as it is hard to draw a line at where normal levels of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity end and significant levels requiring interventions begin.<ref name ="Ramsay_2007">{{cite book |vauthors=Ramsay JR |title=Cognitive behavioral therapy for adult ADHD |publisher=Routledge |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-415-95501-0 |pages=4, 25–26}}</ref>


According to the ] (DSM-5) and its text revision (]), symptoms must be present for six months or more to a degree that is much greater than others of the ].<ref name=DSM5/><ref name=DSM5TR/> This requires at least six symptoms of either inattention or hyperactivity/impulsivity for those under 17 and at least five symptoms for those 17 years or older.<ref name=DSM5/><ref name=DSM5TR/> The symptoms must be present in at least two settings (e.g., social, school, work, or home), and must directly interfere with or reduce quality of functioning.<ref name=DSM5/><ref name=DSM5TR/> Additionally, several symptoms must have been present before age twelve.<ref name=DSM5TR/> According to the ] (DSM-5) and its text revision (]), symptoms must be present for six months or more to a degree that is much greater than others of the ].<ref name=DSM5/><ref name=DSM5TR/> This requires at least six symptoms of either inattention or hyperactivity/impulsivity for those under 17 and at least five symptoms for those 17 years or older.<ref name=DSM5/><ref name=DSM5TR/> The symptoms must be present in at least two settings (e.g., social, school, work, or home), and must directly interfere with or reduce quality of functioning.<ref name=DSM5/> Additionally, several symptoms must have been present before age 12.<ref name=DSM5TR/> The DSM-5 's required age of onset of symptoms is 12 years.<ref name=DSM5/><ref name=DSM5TR/><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Epstein JN, Loren RE | title = Changes in the Definition of ADHD in DSM-5: Subtle but Important | journal = Neuropsychiatry | volume = 3 | issue = 5 | pages = 455–458 | date = October 2013 | pmid = 24644516 | pmc = 3955126 | doi = 10.2217/npy.13.59 }}</ref> However, research indicates the age of onset should not be interpreted as a prerequisite for diagnosis given contextual exceptions.<ref name="Faraone_2016" />


=== {{anchor|ADHD-PH}} Subtypes === === {{anchor|ADHD-PH}} Presentations ===
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ADHD is divided into three primary presentations:<ref name=DSM5TR/><ref name="Ramsay_2007" /> ADHD is divided into three primary presentations:<ref name=DSM5TR/><ref name="Ramsay_2007" />
* ] (ADHD-PI or ADHD-I) * ] (ADHD-PI or ADHD-I)
* predominantly hyperactive-impulsive (ADHD-PH or ADHD-HI) * predominantly hyperactive-impulsive (ADHD-PH or ADHD-HI)
* combined type (ADHD-C). * combined presentation (ADHD-C).


The table "Symptoms" lists the symptoms for ADHD-I and ADHD-HI from two major classification systems. Symptoms which can be better explained by another psychiatric or medical condition which an individual has are not considered to be a symptom of ADHD for that person. The table "Symptoms" lists the symptoms for ADHD-I and ADHD-HI from two major classification systems. Symptoms which can be better explained by another psychiatric or medical condition which an individual has are not considered to be a symptom of ADHD for that person. In DSM-5, subtypes were discarded and reclassified as presentations of the disorder that change over time.
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!Presentations !Presentations
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!width=45%|{{abbr|ICD-11|International Classification of Diseases 11th Revision}} symptoms<ref name="ICD-11" /> !width=45%|{{abbr|ICD-11|International Classification of Diseases | edition = 11th }} symptoms<ref name="ICD-11" />
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|Inattention |Inattention
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* Often forgets daily activities, or is forgetful while completing them. * Often forgets daily activities, or is forgetful while completing them.
|<!-- ICD-11 -->Multiple symptoms of inattention that directly negatively impact occupational, academic or social functioning. Symptoms may not be present when engaged in highly stimulating tasks with frequent rewards. Symptoms are generally from the following clusters: |<!-- ICD-11 -->Multiple symptoms of inattention that directly negatively impact occupational, academic or social functioning. Symptoms may not be present when engaged in highly stimulating tasks with frequent rewards. Symptoms are generally from the following clusters:
* Struggles to maintain focus on tasks that aren't highly stimulating/rewarding or that require continuous effort; details are often missed, and careless mistakes are frequent in school and work tasks; tasks are often abandoned before they are completed. * Struggles to maintain focus on tasks that are not highly stimulating/rewarding or that require continuous effort; details are often missed, and careless mistakes are frequent in school and work tasks; tasks are often abruptly abandoned in favour of another before they are completed.
* Easily distracted (including by own thoughts); may not listen when spoken to; frequently appears to be lost in thought * Easily distracted (including by own thoughts); may not listen when spoken to; frequently appears to be lost in thought
* Often loses things; is forgetful and disorganised in daily activities. * Often loses things; is forgetful and disorganised in daily activities.
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* Frequently runs around or climbs in inappropriate situations. In adults and teenagers, this may be present only as restlessness. * Frequently runs around or climbs in inappropriate situations. In adults and teenagers, this may be present only as restlessness.
* Often cannot quietly engage in leisure activities or play * Often cannot quietly engage in leisure activities or play
* Frequently seems to be "on the go" or appears uncomfortable when not in motion * Frequently seems to be "on the go" or appears uncomfortable when not in motion
* Often talks excessively * Often talks excessively
* Often answers a question before it is finished, or finishes people's sentences * Often answers a question before it is finished, or finishes people's sentences
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Girls and women with ADHD tend to display fewer hyperactivity and impulsivity symptoms but more symptoms of inattention and distractibility.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Gershon J |title=A meta-analytic review of gender differences in ADHD |journal=Journal of Attention Disorders |volume=5 |issue=3 |pages=143–154 |date=January 2002 |pmid=11911007 |doi=10.1177/108705470200500302 |s2cid=8076914 }}</ref> Girls and women with ADHD tend to display fewer hyperactivity and impulsivity symptoms but more symptoms of inattention and distractibility.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Gershon J | title = A meta-analytic review of gender differences in ADHD | journal = Journal of Attention Disorders | volume = 5 | issue = 3 | pages = 143–154 | date = January 2002 | pmid = 11911007 | doi = 10.1177/108705470200500302 | s2cid = 8076914 }}</ref>


Symptoms are expressed differently and more subtly as the individual ages.<ref name="Kooij_2010">{{cite journal |vauthors=Kooij SJ, Bejerot S, Blackwell A, Caci H, Casas-Brugué M, Carpentier PJ, Edvinsson D, Fayyad J, Foeken K, Fitzgerald M, Gaillac V, Ginsberg Y, Henry C, Krause J, Lensing MB, Manor I, Niederhofer H, Nunes-Filipe C, Ohlmeier MD, Oswald P, Pallanti S, Pehlivanidis A, Ramos-Quiroga JA, Rastam M, Ryffel-Rawak D, Stes S, Asherson P |display-authors=6 |title=European consensus statement on diagnosis and treatment of adult ADHD: The European Network Adult ADHD |journal=BMC Psychiatry |volume=10 |issue=67 |date=September 2010 |page=67 |pmid=20815868 |pmc=2942810 |doi=10.1186/1471-244X-10-67 }}</ref>{{rp|6|quote=Whereas the core symptoms of hyperactivity, impulsivity and inattention, are well characterised in children, these symptoms may have different and more subtle expressions in adult life.}} Hyperactivity tends to become less overt with age and turns into inner restlessness, difficulty relaxing or remaining still, talkativeness or constant mental activity in teens and adults with ADHD.<ref name="Kooij_2010"/>{{rp|pp=6–7 |quote=For instance, where children with ADHD may run and climb excessively, or have difficulty in playing or engaging quietly in leisure activities, adults with ADHD are more likely to experience inner restlessness, inability to relax, or over talkativeness. Hyperactivity may also be expressed as excessive fidgeting, the inability to sit still for long in situations when sitting is expected (at the table, in the movie, in church or at symposia), or being on the go all the time. ... For example, physical overactivity in children could be replaced in adulthood by constant mental activity, feelings of restlessness and difficulty engaging in sedentary activities.}} Impulsivity in adulthood may appear as thoughtless behaviour, impatience, irresponsible spending and sensation-seeking behaviours,<ref name="Kooij_2010"/>{{rp|6|quote=Impulsivity may be expressed as impatience, acting without thinking, spending impulsively, starting new jobs and relationships on impulse, and sensation seeking behaviours.}} while inattention may appear as becoming easily bored, difficulty with organization, remaining on task and making decisions, and sensitivity to stress.<ref name="Kooij_2010"/>{{rp|6|quote=Inattention often presents as distractibility, disorganization, being late, being bored, need for variation, difficulty making decisions, lack of overview, and sensitivity to stress.}} Symptoms are expressed differently and more subtly as the individual ages.<ref name="Kooij_2010">{{cite journal | vauthors = Kooij SJ, Bejerot S, Blackwell A, Caci H, Casas-Brugué M, Carpentier PJ, Edvinsson D, Fayyad J, Foeken K, Fitzgerald M, Gaillac V, Ginsberg Y, Henry C, Krause J, Lensing MB, Manor I, Niederhofer H, Nunes-Filipe C, Ohlmeier MD, Oswald P, Pallanti S, Pehlivanidis A, Ramos-Quiroga JA, Rastam M, Ryffel-Rawak D, Stes S, Asherson P | title = European consensus statement on diagnosis and treatment of adult ADHD: The European Network Adult ADHD | journal = BMC Psychiatry | volume = 10 | issue = 67 | pages = 67 | date = September 2010 | pmid = 20815868 | pmc = 2942810 | doi = 10.1186/1471-244X-10-67 | doi-access = free }}</ref>{{rp|6|quote=Whereas the core symptoms of hyperactivity, impulsivity and inattention, are well characterised in children, these symptoms may have different and more subtle expressions in adult life.}} Hyperactivity tends to become less overt with age and turns into inner restlessness, difficulty relaxing or remaining still, talkativeness or constant mental activity in teens and adults with ADHD.<ref name="Kooij_2010"/>{{rp|pp=6–7 |quote=For instance, where children with ADHD may run and climb excessively, or have difficulty in playing or engaging quietly in leisure activities, adults with ADHD are more likely to experience inner restlessness, inability to relax, or over talkativeness. Hyperactivity may also be expressed as excessive fidgeting, the inability to sit still for long in situations when sitting is expected (at the table, in the movie, in church or at symposia), or being on the go all the time. ... For example, physical overactivity in children could be replaced in adulthood by constant mental activity, feelings of restlessness and difficulty engaging in sedentary activities.}} Impulsivity in adulthood may appear as thoughtless behaviour, impatience, irresponsible spending and sensation-seeking behaviours,<ref name="Kooij_2010"/>{{rp|6|quote=Impulsivity may be expressed as impatience, acting without thinking, spending impulsively, starting new jobs and relationships on impulse, and sensation seeking behaviours.}} while inattention may appear as becoming easily bored, difficulty with organization, remaining on task and making decisions, and sensitivity to stress.<ref name="Kooij_2010"/>{{rp|6|quote=Inattention often presents as distractibility, disorganization, being late, being bored, need for variation, difficulty making decisions, lack of overview, and sensitivity to stress.}}


Although not listed as an official symptom for this condition, ] or ] is generally understood to be a common symptom of ADHD.<ref name="Retz_2012"/><ref name="Kooij_2010"/>{{rp|6|quote=In addition, many adults with ADHD experience lifetime mood lability with frequent highs and lows, and short-fuse temper outburst.}} People with ADHD of all ages are more likely to have problems with ], such as social interaction and forming and maintaining friendships. This is true for all presentations. About half of children and adolescents with ADHD experience social rejection by their peers compared to 10–15% of non-ADHD children and adolescents. People with attention deficits are prone to having difficulty processing verbal and nonverbal language which can negatively affect social interaction. They also may drift off during conversations, miss social cues, and have trouble learning social skills.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Coleman WL |title=Social competence and friendship formation in adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder |journal=Adolescent Medicine |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=278–99, x |date=August 2008 |pmid=18822833 }}</ref> Although not listed as an official symptom, ] or ] is generally understood to be a common symptom of ADHD.<ref name="Retz_2012"/><ref name="Kooij_2010"/>{{rp|6|quote=In addition, many adults with ADHD experience lifetime mood lability with frequent highs and lows, and short-fuse temper outburst.}} People with ADHD of all ages are more likely to have problems with ], such as social interaction and forming and maintaining friendships.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Carpenter Rich E, Loo SK, Yang M, Dang J, Smalley SL | title = Social functioning difficulties in ADHD: association with PDD risk | journal = Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry | volume = 14 | issue = 3 | pages = 329–344 | date = July 2009 | pmid = 19515751 | pmc = 2827258 | doi = 10.1177/1359104508100890 }}</ref> This is true for all presentations. About half of children and adolescents with ADHD experience ] by their peers compared to 10–15% of non-ADHD children and adolescents. People with attention deficits are prone to having difficulty processing verbal and nonverbal language which can negatively affect social interaction. They may also drift off during conversations, miss social cues, and have trouble learning social skills.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Coleman WL | title = Social competence and friendship formation in adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder | journal = Adolescent Medicine | volume = 19 | issue = 2 | pages = 278–99, x | date = August 2008 | pmid = 18822833 }}</ref>


Difficulties managing anger are more common in children with ADHD<ref>{{cite web |title=ADHD Anger Management Directory |publisher=Webmd.com |url=http://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/adhd-anger-management-directory |access-date=17 January 2014 |url-status=live |archive-date=5 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105032151/http://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/adhd-anger-management-directory}}</ref> as are delays in ] and motor development.<ref name="ICD10"/><ref name="pmid22201208">{{cite journal | vauthors = Bellani M, Moretti A, Perlini C, Brambilla P | title = Language disturbances in ADHD | journal = Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences | volume = 20 | issue = 4 | pages = 311–315 | date = December 2011 | pmid = 22201208 | doi = 10.1017/S2045796011000527 | doi-access = free }}</ref> Poorer ] is more common in children with ADHD.<ref name="Racine_2008">{{cite journal | vauthors = Racine MB, Majnemer A, Shevell M, Snider L | title = Handwriting performance in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) | journal = Journal of Child Neurology | volume = 23 | issue = 4 | pages = 399–406 | date = April 2008 | pmid = 18401033 | doi = 10.1177/0883073807309244 | s2cid = 206546871 }}</ref> Poor handwriting in many situations can be a side effect of ADHD in itself due to decreased attentiveness but when it's a constant problem it may also be in part due to both ]<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Peterson RL, Pennington BF | title = Developmental dyslexia | journal = Lancet | volume = 379 | issue = 9830 | pages = 1997–2007 | date = May 2012 | pmid = 22513218 | pmc = 3465717 | doi = 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60198-6 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Sexton CC, Gelhorn HL, Bell JA, Classi PM | title = The co-occurrence of reading disorder and ADHD: epidemiology, treatment, psychosocial impact, and economic burden | journal = Journal of Learning Disabilities | volume = 45 | issue = 6 | pages = 538–564 | date = November 2012 | pmid = 21757683 | doi = 10.1177/0022219411407772 | s2cid = 385238 }}</ref> and ] individuals having higher rates of ADHD than the general population,<ref name="Nicolson_2011">{{cite journal | vauthors = Nicolson RI, Fawcett AJ | title = Dyslexia, dysgraphia, procedural learning and the cerebellum | journal = Cortex; A Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System and Behavior | volume = 47 | issue = 1 | pages = 117–127 | date = January 2011 | pmid = 19818437 | doi = 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.08.016 | s2cid = 32228208 }}</ref> with 3 in 10 people who have dyslexia also having ADHD.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/adhd-dyslexia-tell-apart | title=Dyslexia and ADHD }}</ref> Although it causes significant difficulty, many children with ADHD have an attention span equal to or greater than that of other children for tasks and subjects they find interesting.<ref name="Walitza_2012">{{cite journal | vauthors = Walitza S, Drechsler R, Ball J | title = | language = de | journal = Therapeutische Umschau. Revue Therapeutique | volume = 69 | issue = 8 | pages = 467–473 | date = August 2012 | pmid = 22851461 | doi = 10.1024/0040-5930/a000316 | trans-title = The school child with ADHD }}</ref> Difficulties managing anger are more common in children with ADHD,<ref>{{cite web |title=ADHD Anger Management Directory |publisher=Webmd.com |url=http://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/adhd-anger-management-directory |access-date=17 January 2014 |url-status=live |archive-date=5 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105032151/http://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/adhd-anger-management-directory}}</ref> as are delays in ] and motor development.<ref name="ICD10"/><ref name="pmid22201208">{{cite journal | vauthors = Bellani M, Moretti A, Perlini C, Brambilla P | title = Language disturbances in ADHD | journal = Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences | volume = 20 | issue = 4 | pages = 311–315 | date = December 2011 | pmid = 22201208 | doi = 10.1017/S2045796011000527 | doi-access = free }}</ref> Poorer ] is more common in children with ADHD.<ref name="Racine_2008">{{cite journal | vauthors = Racine MB, Majnemer A, Shevell M, Snider L | title = Handwriting performance in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) | journal = Journal of Child Neurology | volume = 23 | issue = 4 | pages = 399–406 | date = April 2008 | pmid = 18401033 | doi = 10.1177/0883073807309244 | s2cid = 206546871 }}</ref> Poor handwriting can be a symptom of ADHD in itself due to decreased attentiveness. When this is a pervasive problem, it may also be attributable to ]<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Peterson RL, Pennington BF | title = Developmental dyslexia | journal = Lancet | volume = 379 | issue = 9830 | pages = 1997–2007 | date = May 2012 | pmid = 22513218 | pmc = 3465717 | doi = 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60198-6 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Sexton CC, Gelhorn HL, Bell JA, Classi PM | title = The co-occurrence of reading disorder and ADHD: epidemiology, treatment, psychosocial impact, and economic burden | journal = Journal of Learning Disabilities | volume = 45 | issue = 6 | pages = 538–564 | date = November 2012 | pmid = 21757683 | doi = 10.1177/0022219411407772 | s2cid = 385238 }}</ref> or ]. There is significant overlap in the symptomatologies of ADHD, dyslexia, and dysgraphia,<ref name="Nicolson_2011">{{cite journal | vauthors = Nicolson RI, Fawcett AJ | title = Dyslexia, dysgraphia, procedural learning and the cerebellum | journal = Cortex; A Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System and Behavior | volume = 47 | issue = 1 | pages = 117–127 | date = January 2011 | pmid = 19818437 | doi = 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.08.016 | s2cid = 32228208 }}</ref> and 3 in 10 people diagnosed with dyslexia experience co-occurring ADHD.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/adhd-dyslexia-tell-apart | title=Dyslexia and ADHD | access-date=19 May 2022 | archive-date=21 February 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221112159/https://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/adhd-dyslexia-tell-apart | url-status=live }}</ref> Although it causes significant difficulty, many children with ADHD have an attention span equal to or greater than that of other children for tasks and subjects they find interesting.<ref name="Walitza_2012">{{cite journal | vauthors = Walitza S, Drechsler R, Ball J | title = | language = de | journal = Therapeutische Umschau | volume = 69 | issue = 8 | pages = 467–473 | date = August 2012 | pmid = 22851461 | doi = 10.1024/0040-5930/a000316 | trans-title = The school child with ADHD }}</ref>


===Comorbidities=== ===IQ test performance===
Certain studies have found that people with ADHD tend to have lower scores on ] (IQ) tests.<ref name="Frazier_2004">{{cite journal | vauthors = Frazier TW, Demaree HA, Youngstrom EA | title = Meta-analysis of intellectual and neuropsychological test performance in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder | journal = Neuropsychology | volume = 18 | issue = 3 | pages = 543–555 | date = July 2004 | pmid = 15291732 | doi = 10.1037/0894-4105.18.3.543 | s2cid = 17628705 }}</ref> The significance of this is controversial due to the differences between people with ADHD and the difficulty determining the influence of symptoms, such as distractibility, on lower scores rather than intellectual capacity. In studies of ADHD, higher IQs may be over-represented because many studies exclude individuals who have lower IQs despite those with ADHD scoring on average nine points lower on standardised intelligence measures.<ref name="Mackenzie_2016">{{cite journal | vauthors = Mackenzie GB, Wonders E | title = Rethinking Intelligence Quotient Exclusion Criteria Practices in the Study of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder | journal = Frontiers in Psychology | volume = 7 | pages = 794 | date = 2016 | pmid = 27303350 | pmc = 4886698 | doi = 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00794 | doi-access = free }}</ref> However, other studies contradict this, saying that in individuals with high intelligence, there is an increased risk of a missed ADHD diagnosis, possibly because of compensatory strategies in said individuals.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Rommelse N, van der Kruijs M, Damhuis J, Hoek I, Smeets S, Antshel KM, Hoogeveen L, Faraone SV | title = An evidenced-based perspective on the validity of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in the context of high intelligence | journal = Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews | volume = 71 | pages = 21–47 | date = December 2016 | pmid = 27590827 | doi = 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.08.032 | hdl-access = free | s2cid = 6698847 | hdl = 2066/163023 }}</ref>
====Psychiatric====

Studies of adults suggest that negative differences in intelligence are not meaningful and may be explained by associated health problems.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Bridgett DJ, Walker ME | title = Intellectual functioning in adults with ADHD: a meta-analytic examination of full scale IQ differences between adults with and without ADHD | journal = Psychological Assessment | volume = 18 | issue = 1 | pages = 1–14 | date = March 2006 | pmid = 16594807 | doi = 10.1037/1040-3590.18.1.1 }}</ref>

==Comorbidities==

===Psychiatric comorbidities===
In children, ADHD occurs with other disorders about two-thirds of the time.<ref name="Walitza_2012" /> In children, ADHD occurs with other disorders about two-thirds of the time.<ref name="Walitza_2012" />


Other neurodevelopmental conditions are common comorbidities. ] (ASD), co-occurring at a rate of 21% in those with ADHD, affects social skills, ability to communicate, behaviour, and interests.<ref name="Young_2020">{{cite journal |vauthors=Young S, Hollingdale J, Absoud M, Bolton P, Branney P, Colley W, Craze E, Dave M, Deeley Q, Farrag E, Gudjonsson G, Hill P, Liang HL, Murphy C, Mackintosh P, Murin M, O'Regan F, Ougrin D, Rios P, Stover N, Taylor E, Woodhouse E |display-authors=6 |title=Guidance for identification and treatment of individuals with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder based upon expert consensus |journal=BMC Medicine |volume=18 |issue=1 |page=146 |date=May 2020 |pmid=32448170 |pmc=7247165 |doi=10.1186/s12916-020-01585-y |publisher=Springer Science and Business Media LLC }}</ref><ref name="NHS2018" /> Both ADHD and ASD can be diagnosed in the same person.<ref name=DSM5TR/> ] have been found to occur in about&nbsp;20–30% of children with ADHD. Learning disabilities can include developmental speech and language disorders, and academic skills disorders.<ref name="BaileyHC">{{cite web |vauthors=Bailey E |title=ADHD and Learning Disabilities: How can you help your child cope with ADHD and subsequent Learning Difficulties? There is a way. |url=http://www.healthcentral.com/adhd/education-159625-5.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203092339/http://www.healthcentral.com/adhd/education-159625-5.html |archive-date=3 December 2013 |url-status=live |access-date=15 November 2013 |publisher=Remedy Health Media, LLC. }}</ref> ADHD, however, is not considered a learning disability, but it very frequently causes academic difficulties.<ref name="BaileyHC" /> ]<ref name=DSM5TR/> and ]<ref name="NHS2018" /> are also common. Other neurodevelopmental conditions are common comorbidities. ] (ASD), co-occurring at a rate of 21% in those with ADHD, affects social skills, ability to communicate, behaviour, and interests.<ref name="Young_2020">{{cite journal | vauthors = Young S, Hollingdale J, Absoud M, Bolton P, Branney P, Colley W, Craze E, Dave M, Deeley Q, Farrag E, Gudjonsson G, Hill P, Liang HL, Murphy C, Mackintosh P, Murin M, O'Regan F, Ougrin D, Rios P, Stover N, Taylor E, Woodhouse E | title = Guidance for identification and treatment of individuals with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder based upon expert consensus | journal = BMC Medicine | volume = 18 | issue = 1 | pages = 146 | date = May 2020 | pmid = 32448170 | pmc = 7247165 | doi = 10.1186/s12916-020-01585-y | publisher = Springer Science and Business Media LLC | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref name="NHS2018" /> ] have been found to occur in about&nbsp;20–30% of children with ADHD. Learning disabilities can include developmental speech and language disorders, and academic skills disorders.<ref name="BaileyHC">{{cite web |vauthors=Bailey E |title=ADHD and Learning Disabilities: How can you help your child cope with ADHD and subsequent Learning Difficulties? There is a way. |date=5 September 2007 |url=http://www.healthcentral.com/adhd/education-159625-5.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203092339/http://www.healthcentral.com/adhd/education-159625-5.html |archive-date=3 December 2013 |url-status=live |access-date=15 November 2013 |publisher=Remedy Health Media, LLC. }}</ref> ADHD, however, is not considered a learning disability, but it very frequently causes academic difficulties.<ref name="BaileyHC" /> ]<ref name=DSM5TR/>{{Rp|page=75|quote=Individuals with ADHD and those with ASD}} and ]<ref name="NHS2018" /> are also common.


ADHD is often comorbid with disruptive, impulse control, and conduct disorders. ] (ODD) occurs in about 25% of children with an inattentive presentation and 50% of those with a combined presentation.<ref name=DSM5TR/> It is characterised by angry or irritable mood, argumentative or defiant behavior and vindictiveness which are age-inappropriate. ] (CD) occurs in about 25% of adolescents with ADHD.<ref name=DSM5TR/> It is characterised by aggression, destruction of property, deceitfulness, theft and violations of rules.<ref name="UTP2008">{{cite web |date=5 December 2007 |vauthors=Krull KR |title=Evaluation and diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children |url=https://www.uptodate.com/contents/attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder-in-children-and-adolescents-clinical-features-and-diagnosis|url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090605040744/http://www.uptodate.com/online/content/topic.do?topicKey=behavior%2F8293#5 |archive-date=5 June 2009 |access-date=12 September 2008 |url-status=live |work=Uptodate |publisher=Wolters Kluwer Health}}</ref> Adolescents with ADHD who also have CD are more likely to develop ] in adulthood.<ref name="pmid19428109">{{cite journal |vauthors=Hofvander B, Ossowski D, Lundström S, Anckarsäter H |title=Continuity of aggressive antisocial behavior from childhood to adulthood: The question of phenotype definition |journal=International Journal of Law and Psychiatry |volume=32 |issue=4 |pages=224–234 |year=2009 |pmid=19428109 |doi=10.1016/j.ijlp.2009.04.004 |url=https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/1412513 |access-date=22 November 2021 |archive-date=17 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220517212251/https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/publication/1412513 |url-status=live }}</ref> Brain imaging supports that CD and ADHD are separate conditions, wherein conduct disorder was shown to reduce the size of one's ] lobe and ], and increase the size of one's ], whereas ADHD was shown to reduce connections in the ] and ] more broadly. Conduct disorder involves more impairment in motivation control than ADHD.<ref name="pmid21094938">{{cite journal |vauthors=Rubia K |title="Cool" inferior frontostriatal dysfunction in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder versus "hot" ventromedial orbitofrontal-limbic dysfunction in conduct disorder: a review |journal=Biological Psychiatry |volume=69 |issue=12 |pages=e69–e87 |date=June 2011 |pmid=21094938 |doi=10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.09.023 |s2cid=14987165}}</ref> ] is characterised by sudden and disproportionate outbursts of anger and co-occurs in individuals with ADHD more frequently than in the general population.<ref name=DSM5TR/> ADHD is often comorbid with disruptive, impulse control, and conduct disorders. ] (ODD) occurs in about 25% of children with an inattentive presentation and 50% of those with a combined presentation.<ref name=DSM5TR/>{{Page needed|date=April 2023}} It is characterised by angry or irritable mood, argumentative or defiant behaviour and vindictiveness which are age-inappropriate. ] (CD) occurs in about 25% of adolescents with ADHD.<ref name=DSM5TR/>{{Page needed|date=April 2023}} It is characterised by aggression, destruction of property, deceitfulness, theft and violations of rules.<ref name="UTP2008">{{cite web |date=5 December 2007 |vauthors=Krull KR |title=Evaluation and diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children |url=https://www.uptodate.com/contents/attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder-in-children-and-adolescents-clinical-features-and-diagnosis |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090605040744/http://www.uptodate.com/online/content/topic.do?topicKey=behavior%2F8293#5 |archive-date=5 June 2009 |access-date=12 September 2008 |url-status=live |work=Uptodate |publisher=Wolters Kluwer Health}}</ref> Adolescents with ADHD who also have CD are more likely to develop ] in adulthood.<ref name="pmid19428109">{{cite journal | vauthors = Hofvander B, Ossowski D, Lundström S, Anckarsäter H | title = Continuity of aggressive antisocial behavior from childhood to adulthood: The question of phenotype definition | journal = International Journal of Law and Psychiatry | volume = 32 | issue = 4 | pages = 224–234 | year = 2009 | pmid = 19428109 | doi = 10.1016/j.ijlp.2009.04.004 | url = https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/1412513 | access-date = 22 November 2021 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220517212251/https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/publication/1412513 | archive-date = 17 May 2022 }}</ref> Brain imaging supports that CD and ADHD are separate conditions: conduct disorder was shown to reduce the size of one's ] lobe and ], and increase the size of one's ], whereas ADHD was shown to reduce connections in the ] and ] more broadly. Conduct disorder involves more impairment in motivation control than ADHD.<ref name="pmid21094938">{{cite journal | vauthors = Rubia K | title = "Cool" inferior frontostriatal dysfunction in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder versus "hot" ventromedial orbitofrontal-limbic dysfunction in conduct disorder: a review | journal = Biological Psychiatry | volume = 69 | issue = 12 | pages = e69–e87 | date = June 2011 | pmid = 21094938 | doi = 10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.09.023 | publisher = Elsevier BV/The Society of Biological Psychiatry | s2cid = 14987165 }}</ref> ] is characterised by sudden and disproportionate outbursts of anger and co-occurs in individuals with ADHD more frequently than in the general population.{{citation needed|date=July 2024}}


Anxiety and mood disorders are frequent comorbidities. ]s have been found to occur more commonly in the ADHD population,<ref name="Wilens_2010" /> as have ]s (especially ] and ]). Boys diagnosed with the combined ADHD subtype are more likely to have a mood disorder.<ref name="Wilens_2010">{{cite journal |vauthors=Wilens TE, Spencer TJ |title=Understanding attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder from childhood to adulthood |journal=Postgraduate Medicine |volume=122 |issue=5 |pages=97–109 |date=September 2010 |pmid=20861593 |pmc=3724232 |doi=10.3810/pgm.2010.09.2206 }}</ref> Adults and children with ADHD sometimes also have bipolar disorder, which requires careful assessment to accurately diagnose and treat both conditions.<ref name="pmid21717696">{{cite journal |vauthors=Baud P, Perroud N, Aubry JM |title= |language=fr |journal=Revue Médicale Suisse |volume=7 |issue=297 |pages=1219–1222 |date=June 2011 |pmid=21717696 }}</ref><ref name="Wilens_2011">{{cite journal |vauthors=Wilens TE, Morrison NR |title=The intersection of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and substance abuse |journal=Current Opinion in Psychiatry |volume=24 |issue=4 |pages=280–285 |date=July 2011 |pmid=21483267 |pmc=3435098 |doi=10.1097/YCO.0b013e328345c956 }}</ref> Anxiety and mood disorders are frequent comorbidities. ]s have been found to occur more commonly in the ADHD population, as have ]s (especially ] and ]). Boys diagnosed with the combined ADHD subtype are more likely to have a mood disorder.<ref name="Wilens_2010">{{cite journal | vauthors = Wilens TE, Spencer TJ | title = Understanding attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder from childhood to adulthood | journal = Postgraduate Medicine | volume = 122 | issue = 5 | pages = 97–109 | date = September 2010 | pmid = 20861593 | pmc = 3724232 | doi = 10.3810/pgm.2010.09.2206 }}</ref> Adults and children with ADHD sometimes also have bipolar disorder, which requires careful assessment to accurately diagnose and treat both conditions.<ref name="pmid21717696">{{cite journal | vauthors = Baud P, Perroud N, Aubry JM | title = | language = fr | journal = Revue Médicale Suisse | volume = 7 | issue = 297 | pages = 1219–1222 | date = June 2011 | doi = 10.53738/REVMED.2011.7.297.1219 | pmid = 21717696 }}</ref><ref name="Wilens_2011">{{cite journal | vauthors = Wilens TE, Morrison NR | title = The intersection of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and substance abuse | journal = Current Opinion in Psychiatry | volume = 24 | issue = 4 | pages = 280–285 | date = July 2011 | pmid = 21483267 | pmc = 3435098 | doi = 10.1097/YCO.0b013e328345c956 }}</ref>


] and ADHD commonly co-exist. They can also occur as a side effect of medications used to treat ADHD. In children with ADHD, ] is the most common sleep disorder with behavioral therapy being the preferred treatment.<ref name="pmid21600348">{{cite journal |vauthors=Corkum P, Davidson F, Macpherson M |title=A framework for the assessment and treatment of sleep problems in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder |journal=Pediatric Clinics of North America |volume=58 |issue=3 |pages=667–683 |date=June 2011 |pmid=21600348 |doi=10.1016/j.pcl.2011.03.004 }}</ref><ref name="pmid20451036">{{cite journal |vauthors=Tsai MH, Huang YS |title=Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and sleep disorders in children |journal=The Medical Clinics of North America |volume=94 |issue=3 |pages=615–632 |date=May 2010 |pmid=20451036 |doi=10.1016/j.mcna.2010.03.008 }}</ref> Problems with sleep initiation are common among individuals with ADHD but often they will be deep sleepers and have significant difficulty getting up in the morning.<ref name="Brown_2008" /> ] is sometimes used in children who have sleep onset insomnia.<ref name="pmid20028959">{{cite journal |vauthors=Bendz LM, Scates AC |title=Melatonin treatment for insomnia in pediatric patients with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder |journal=The Annals of Pharmacotherapy |volume=44 |issue=1 |pages=185–191 |date=January 2010 |pmid=20028959 |doi=10.1345/aph.1M365 |s2cid=207263711 }}</ref> Specifically, the sleep disorder ] has been found to be more common in those with ADHD and is often due to ].<ref name="pmid21365608">{{cite journal |vauthors=Merino-Andreu M |title= |language=es |journal=Revista de Neurología |volume=52 |issue=Suppl 1 |pages=S85–S95 |date=March 2011 |pmid=21365608 |trans-title=Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and restless legs syndrome in children |doi=10.33588/rn.52S01.2011037}}</ref><ref name="pmid20620105">{{cite journal |vauthors=Picchietti MA, Picchietti DL |title=Advances in pediatric restless legs syndrome: Iron, genetics, diagnosis and treatment |journal=Sleep Medicine |volume=11 |issue=7 |pages=643–651 |date=August 2010 |pmid=20620105 |doi=10.1016/j.sleep.2009.11.014 }}</ref> However, restless legs can simply be a part of ADHD and requires careful assessment to differentiate between the two disorders.<ref name="pmid18656214">{{cite journal |vauthors=Karroum E, Konofal E, Arnulf I |title= |language=fr |journal=Revue Neurologique |volume=164 |issue=8–9 |pages=701–721 |year=2008 |pmid=18656214 |doi=10.1016/j.neurol.2008.06.006 }}</ref> ] is also a common comorbidity of those with ADHD.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Wajszilber D, Santiseban JA, Gruber R |title=Sleep disorders in patients with ADHD: impact and management challenges |journal=Nature and Science of Sleep |volume=10 |pages=453–480 |date=December 2018 |pmid=30588139 |pmc=6299464 |doi=10.2147/NSS.S163074 }}</ref> ] and ADHD commonly co-exist. They can also occur as a side effect of medications used to treat ADHD. In children with ADHD, ] is the most common sleep disorder with behavioural therapy being the preferred treatment.<ref name="pmid21600348">{{cite journal | vauthors = Corkum P, Davidson F, Macpherson M | title = A framework for the assessment and treatment of sleep problems in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder | journal = Pediatric Clinics of North America | volume = 58 | issue = 3 | pages = 667–683 | date = June 2011 | pmid = 21600348 | doi = 10.1016/j.pcl.2011.03.004 }}</ref><ref name="pmid20451036">{{cite journal | vauthors = Tsai MH, Huang YS | title = Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and sleep disorders in children | journal = The Medical Clinics of North America | volume = 94 | issue = 3 | pages = 615–632 | date = May 2010 | pmid = 20451036 | doi = 10.1016/j.mcna.2010.03.008 }}</ref> Problems with sleep initiation are common among individuals with ADHD but often they will be deep sleepers and have significant difficulty getting up in the morning.<ref name="Brown_2008" /> ] is sometimes used in children who have sleep onset insomnia.<ref name="pmid20028959">{{cite journal | vauthors = Bendz LM, Scates AC | title = Melatonin treatment for insomnia in pediatric patients with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder | journal = The Annals of Pharmacotherapy | volume = 44 | issue = 1 | pages = 185–191 | date = January 2010 | pmid = 20028959 | doi = 10.1345/aph.1M365 | s2cid = 207263711 }}</ref> ] has been found to be more common in those with ADHD and is often due to ].<ref name="pmid21365608">{{cite journal | vauthors = Merino-Andreu M | title = | language = es | journal = Revista de Neurologia | volume = 52 | issue = Suppl 1 | pages = S85–S95 | date = March 2011 | pmid = 21365608 | doi = 10.33588/rn.52S01.2011037 | trans-title = Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and restless legs syndrome in children }}</ref><ref name="pmid20620105">{{cite journal | vauthors = Picchietti MA, Picchietti DL | title = Advances in pediatric restless legs syndrome: Iron, genetics, diagnosis and treatment | journal = Sleep Medicine | volume = 11 | issue = 7 | pages = 643–651 | date = August 2010 | pmid = 20620105 | doi = 10.1016/j.sleep.2009.11.014 }}</ref> However, restless legs can simply be a part of ADHD and requires careful assessment to differentiate between the two disorders.<ref name="pmid18656214">{{cite journal | vauthors = Karroum E, Konofal E, Arnulf I | title = | language = fr | journal = Revue Neurologique | volume = 164 | issue = 8–9 | pages = 701–721 | year = 2008 | pmid = 18656214 | doi = 10.1016/j.neurol.2008.06.006 }}</ref> ] is also a common comorbidity.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Wajszilber D, Santiseban JA, Gruber R | title = Sleep disorders in patients with ADHD: impact and management challenges | journal = Nature and Science of Sleep | volume = 10 | pages = 453–480 | date = December 2018 | pmid = 30588139 | pmc = 6299464 | doi = 10.2147/NSS.S163074 | doi-access = free }}</ref>


There are other psychiatric conditions which are often co-morbid with ADHD, such as ]s.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Long Y, Pan N, Ji S, Qin K, Chen Y, Zhang X, He M, Suo X, Yu Y, Wang S, Gong Q | display-authors = 6 | title = Distinct brain structural abnormalities in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and substance use disorders: A comparative meta-analysis | journal = Translational Psychiatry | volume = 12 | issue = 1 | pages = 368 | date = September 2022 | pmid = 36068207 | pmc = 9448791 | doi = 10.1038/s41398-022-02130-6 }}</ref> Individuals with ADHD are at increased risk of ].<ref name="Kooij_2010" />{{rp|9|quote=Comorbid substance use disorder (SUD) deserves special attention due to the high rates of ADHD within SUD populations. A bidirectional link between ADHD and SUD is reported with ADHD symptoms over represented in SUD populations and SUD in ADHD populations.}} This is most commonly seen with ] or ].<ref name="Kooij_2010" />{{rp|9|quote=Alcohol and cannabis are the most frequently abused substances in these populations followed by lower rates of cocaine and amphetamine abuse.}} The reason for this may be an altered reward pathway in the brains of ADHD individuals, self-treatment and increased psychosocial risk factors.<ref name="Kooij_2010" />{{rp|9|quote=The causes for such comorbidity are likely to be complex including altered reward processing in ADHD, increased exposure to psychosocial risk factors and self treatment. }} This makes the evaluation and treatment of ADHD more difficult, with serious substance misuse problems usually treated first due to their greater risks.<ref name="NICE2009-part2">{{cite book |author=National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health |title=Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Diagnosis and Management of ADHD in Children, Young People and Adults |date=2009 |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK53652/ |publisher=British Psychological Society |isbn=978-1-85433-471-8 |series=NICE Clinical Guidelines |volume=72 |location=Leicester |pages=, |chapter=Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder |chapter-url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK53663/ |url-status=live |archive-date=13 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160113133612/http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK53652/ |via=NCBI Bookshelf}}</ref> Other psychiatric conditions include ],<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Storebø OJ, Rasmussen PD, Simonsen E | title = Association Between Insecure Attachment and ADHD: Environmental Mediating Factors | journal = Journal of Attention Disorders | volume = 20 | issue = 2 | pages = 187–196 | date = February 2016 | pmid = 24062279 | doi = 10.1177/1087054713501079 | url = https://findresearcher.sdu.dk:8443/ws/files/134088245/Association_Between_Insecure_Attachment_and_ADHD.pdf | access-date = 22 November 2021 | url-status = live | s2cid = 23564305 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211209135025/https://findresearcher.sdu.dk:8443/ws/files/134088245/Association_Between_Insecure_Attachment_and_ADHD.pdf | archive-date = 9 December 2021 }}</ref> characterised by a severe inability to appropriately relate socially, and ], a cluster of symptoms that potentially comprises another attention disorder and may occur in 30–50% of ADHD cases, regardless of the subtype.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Barkley RA | title = Sluggish cognitive tempo (concentration deficit disorder?): current status, future directions, and a plea to change the name | journal = Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology | volume = 42 | issue = 1 | pages = 117–125 | date = January 2014 | pmid = 24234590 | doi = 10.1007/s10802-013-9824-y | url = https://psychology.uiowa.edu/sites/psychology.uiowa.edu/files/groups/nikolas/files/Barkley,%202014.pdf | url-status = live | s2cid = 8287560 | author-link = Russell Barkley | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170809102631/https://psychology.uiowa.edu/sites/psychology.uiowa.edu/files/groups/nikolas/files/Barkley,%202014.pdf | archive-date = 9 August 2017 }}</ref> Individuals with ADHD are 4x more likely to develop and be diagnosed with an eating disorder (Anorexia, Bulimia, Binge Eating, ]) compared to those without ADHD.<ref name="Nazar_2016">{{cite journal | vauthors = Nazar BP, Bernardes C, Peachey G, Sergeant J, Mattos P, Treasure J | title = The risk of eating disorders comorbid with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis | journal = The International Journal of Eating Disorders | volume = 49 | issue = 12 | pages = 1045–1057 | date = December 2016 | pmid = 27859581 | doi = 10.1002/eat.22643 | s2cid = 38002526 }}</ref><ref name="Chung_2019">{{cite journal | vauthors = Chung W, Jiang SF, Paksarian D, Nikolaidis A, Castellanos FX, Merikangas KR, Milham MP | title = Trends in the Prevalence and Incidence of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Among Adults and Children of Different Racial and Ethnic Groups | journal = JAMA Network Open | volume = 2 | issue = 11 | pages = e1914344 | date = November 2019 | pmid = 31675080 | pmc = 6826640 | doi = 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.14344 }}</ref> Individuals with diagnosed eating disorders are 2.6x more likely to have ADHD than those without eating disorders, though these numbers are likely much lower than actual rates, due to limitations with screening and diagnosis in marginalized populations.<ref name="Nazar_2016" /><ref name="Chung_2019" /><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Bartoli F, Callovini T, Cavaleri D, Cioni RM, Bachi B, Calabrese A, Moretti F, Canestro A, Morreale M, Nasti C, Palpella D, Piacenti S, Nacinovich R, Riboldi I, Crocamo C, Carrà G | display-authors = 6 | title = Clinical correlates of comorbid attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in adults suffering from bipolar disorder: A meta-analysis | journal = The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry | pages = 48674221106669 | date = July 2022 | pmid = 35786010 | doi = 10.1177/00048674221106669 | s2cid = 250253609 }}</ref> Individuals with ADHD are at increased risk of ]s.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Long Y, Pan N, Ji S, Qin K, Chen Y, Zhang X, He M, Suo X, Yu Y, Wang S, Gong Q | title = Distinct brain structural abnormalities in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and substance use disorders: A comparative meta-analysis | journal = Translational Psychiatry | volume = 12 | issue = 1 | pages = 368 | date = September 2022 | pmid = 36068207 | pmc = 9448791 | doi = 10.1038/s41398-022-02130-6 }}</ref>{{rp|9|quote=Comorbid substance use disorder (SUD) deserves special attention due to the high rates of ADHD within SUD populations. A bidirectional link between ADHD and SUD is reported with ADHD symptoms over represented in SUD populations and SUD in ADHD populations.}} This is most commonly seen with ] or ].<ref name="Kooij_2010" />{{rp|9|quote=Alcohol and cannabis are the most frequently abused substances in these populations followed by lower rates of cocaine and amphetamine abuse.}} The reason for this may be an altered reward pathway in the brains of ADHD individuals, self-treatment and increased psychosocial risk factors.{{rp|9|quote=The causes for such comorbidity are likely to be complex including altered reward processing in ADHD, increased exposure to psychosocial risk factors and self treatment. }} This makes the evaluation and treatment of ADHD more difficult, with serious substance misuse problems usually treated first due to their greater risks.<ref name="NICE2009-part2">{{cite book |author=National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health |title=Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Diagnosis and Management of ADHD in Children, Young People and Adults |date=2009 |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK53652/ |publisher=British Psychological Society |isbn=978-1-85433-471-8 |series=NICE Clinical Guidelines |volume=72 |location=Leicester |pages=, |chapter=Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder |chapter-url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK53663/ |url-status=live |archive-date=13 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160113133612/http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK53652/ |via=NCBI Bookshelf}}</ref> Other psychiatric conditions include ],<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Storebø OJ, Rasmussen PD, Simonsen E | title = Association Between Insecure Attachment and ADHD: Environmental Mediating Factors | journal = Journal of Attention Disorders | volume = 20 | issue = 2 | pages = 187–196 | date = February 2016 | pmid = 24062279 | doi = 10.1177/1087054713501079 | url = https://findresearcher.sdu.dk:8443/ws/files/134088245/Association_Between_Insecure_Attachment_and_ADHD.pdf | access-date = 22 November 2021 | url-status = live | s2cid = 23564305 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211209135025/https://findresearcher.sdu.dk:8443/ws/files/134088245/Association_Between_Insecure_Attachment_and_ADHD.pdf | archive-date = 9 December 2021 }}</ref> characterised by a severe inability to appropriately relate socially, and ], a distinct attention disorder occurring in 30–50% of ADHD cases as a comorbidity, regardless of the presentation; a subset of cases diagnosed with ADHD-PIP have been found to have CDS instead.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Becker SP, Willcutt EG, Leopold DR, Fredrick JW, Smith ZR, Jacobson LA, Burns GL, Mayes SD, Waschbusch DA, Froehlich TE, McBurnett K, Servera M, Barkley RA | title = Report of a Work Group on Sluggish Cognitive Tempo: Key Research Directions and a Consensus Change in Terminology to Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome | journal = Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | volume = 62 | issue = 6 | pages = 629–645 | date = June 2023 | pmid = 36007816 | pmc = 9943858 | doi = 10.1016/j.jaac.2022.07.821 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Barkley RA | title = Sluggish cognitive tempo (concentration deficit disorder?): current status, future directions, and a plea to change the name | journal = Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology | volume = 42 | issue = 1 | pages = 117–125 | date = January 2014 | pmid = 24234590 | doi = 10.1007/s10802-013-9824-y | url = https://psychology.uiowa.edu/sites/psychology.uiowa.edu/files/groups/nikolas/files/Barkley,%202014.pdf | url-status = live | s2cid = 8287560 | author-link = Russell Barkley | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170809102631/https://psychology.uiowa.edu/sites/psychology.uiowa.edu/files/groups/nikolas/files/Barkley,%202014.pdf | archive-date = 9 August 2017 }}</ref> Individuals with ADHD are three times more likely to be diagnosed with an ] compared to those without ADHD; conversely, individuals with eating disorders are two times more likely to have ADHD than those without eating disorders.<ref name="Nazar_2016">{{cite journal | vauthors = Nazar BP, Bernardes C, Peachey G, Sergeant J, Mattos P, Treasure J | title = The risk of eating disorders comorbid with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis | journal = The International Journal of Eating Disorders | volume = 49 | issue = 12 | pages = 1045–1057 | date = December 2016 | pmid = 27859581 | doi = 10.1002/eat.22643 | url = https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/the-risk-of-eating-disorders-comorbid-with-attentiondeficithyperactivity-disorder(9a8e868e-de6e-4e19-9561-f8a576836848).html | access-date = 26 October 2022 | url-status = live | s2cid = 38002526 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20221208035350/https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/the-risk-of-eating-disorders-comorbid-with-attentiondeficithyperactivity-disorder(9a8e868e-de6e-4e19-9561-f8a576836848).html | archive-date = 8 December 2022 }}</ref>


=====Trauma===== ===Trauma===
ADHD, ], and ] are also comorbid,<ref name="Ford_2009">{{Cite journal |vauthors=Ford JD, Connor DF |date=1 June 2009 |title=ADHD and post-traumatic stress disorder |journal=Current Attention Disorders Reports |language=en |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=60–66 |doi=10.1007/s12618-009-0009-0 |s2cid=145508751 |issn=1943-457X }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Schneider M, VanOrmer J, Zlomke K | title = Adverse Childhood Experiences and Family Resilience Among Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder | journal = Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics | volume = 40 | issue = 8 | pages = 573–580 | date = 2019 | pmid = 31335581 | doi = 10.1097/DBP.0000000000000703 | s2cid = 198193637 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Moon DS, Bong SJ, Kim BN, Kang NR | title = Association between Maternal Adverse Childhood Experiences and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in the Offspring: The Mediating Role of Antepartum Health Risks | journal = Soa--Ch'ongsonyon Chongsin Uihak = Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | volume = 32 | issue = 1 | pages = 28–34 | date = January 2021 | pmid = 33424239 | pmc = 7788667 | doi = 10.5765/jkacap.200041 }}</ref> which could in part be potentially explained by the similarity in presentation between different diagnoses. The symptoms of ADHD and ] can have significant behavioral overlap with ADHD—in particular, motor restlessness, difficulty concentrating, distractibility, irritability/anger, emotional constriction or dysregulation, poor impulse control, and forgetfulness are common in both.<ref name="Ford_2009"/><ref name="Szymanski_2011">{{Cite journal |vauthors= Szymanski K, Sapanski L, Conway F |date=1 January 2011 |title=Trauma and ADHD&nbsp;– Association or Diagnostic Confusion? A Clinical Perspective |journal=Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=51–59 |doi=10.1080/15289168.2011.575704 |s2cid=144348893 | location = Philadelphia PA | publisher = Taylor & Francis Group | eissn = 1940-9214 |issn=1528-9168}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Harrington KM, Miller MW, Wolf EJ, Reardon AF, Ryabchenko KA, Ofrat S | title = Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder comorbidity in a sample of veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder | journal = Comprehensive Psychiatry | volume = 53 | issue = 6 | pages = 679–690 | date = August 2012 | pmid = 22305866 | pmc = 6519447 | doi = 10.1016/j.comppsych.2011.12.001 }}</ref> This could result in trauma-related disorders or ADHD being mis-identified as the other.<ref name="Szymanski_2011"/> Additionally, traumatic events in childhood are a risk factor for ADHD<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Zhang N, Gao M, Yu J, Zhang Q, Wang W, Zhou C, Liu L, Sun T, Liao X, Wang J | display-authors = 6 | title = Understanding the association between adverse childhood experiences and subsequent attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies | journal = Brain and Behavior | volume = 12 | issue = 10 | pages = e32748 | date = October 2022 | pmid = 36068993 | pmc = 9575611 | doi = 10.1002/brb3.2748 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Nguyen MN, Watanabe-Galloway S, Hill JL, Siahpush M, Tibbits MK, Wichman C | title = Ecological model of school engagement and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in school-aged children | journal = European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | volume = 28 | issue = 6 | pages = 795–805 | date = June 2019 | pmid = 30390147 | doi = 10.1007/s00787-018-1248-3 | s2cid = 53263217 }}</ref> - it can lead to structural brain changes and the development of ADHD behaviors.<ref name="Szymanski_2011"/> Finally, the behavioral consequences of ADHD symptoms cause a higher chance of the individual experiencing trauma (and therefore ADHD leads to a concrete diagnosis of a trauma-related disorder).<ref>{{Cite journal | vauthors = Miodus S, Allwood MA, Amoh N |date=5 January 2021 |title=Childhood ADHD Symptoms in Relation to Trauma Exposure and PTSD Symptoms Among College Students: Attending to and Accommodating Trauma |journal=Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders |language=en |volume=29 |issue=3 |pages=187–196 |doi=10.1177/1063426620982624 |s2cid=234159064 |issn=1063-4266 |id=S2CID 234159064}}</ref> ADHD, ], and ] are also comorbid,<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Schneider M, VanOrmer J, Zlomke K | title = Adverse Childhood Experiences and Family Resilience Among Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder | journal = Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics | volume = 40 | issue = 8 | pages = 573–580 | date = 2019 | pmid = 31335581 | doi = 10.1097/DBP.0000000000000703 | s2cid = 198193637 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Moon DS, Bong SJ, Kim BN, Kang NR | title = Association between Maternal Adverse Childhood Experiences and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in the Offspring: The Mediating Role of Antepartum Health Risks | journal = Soa--Ch'ongsonyon Chongsin Uihak = Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | volume = 32 | issue = 1 | pages = 28–34 | date = January 2021 | pmid = 33424239 | pmc = 7788667 | doi = 10.5765/jkacap.200041 }}</ref> which could in part be potentially explained by the similarity in presentation between different diagnoses. The symptoms of ADHD and ] can have significant behavioural overlap—in particular, motor restlessness, difficulty concentrating, distractibility, irritability/anger, emotional constriction or dysregulation, poor impulse control, and forgetfulness are common in both.<ref name="Ford_2009">{{Cite journal |vauthors=Ford JD, Connor DF |date=1 June 2009 |title=ADHD and post-traumatic stress disorder |journal=Current Attention Disorders Reports |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=60–66 |doi=10.1007/s12618-009-0009-0 |issn=1943-457X |s2cid=145508751}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Harrington KM, Miller MW, Wolf EJ, Reardon AF, Ryabchenko KA, Ofrat S | title = Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder comorbidity in a sample of veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder | journal = Comprehensive Psychiatry | volume = 53 | issue = 6 | pages = 679–690 | date = August 2012 | pmid = 22305866 | pmc = 6519447 | doi = 10.1016/j.comppsych.2011.12.001 }}</ref> This could result in trauma-related disorders or ADHD being mis-identified as the other.<ref name="Szymanski_2011">{{Cite journal |vauthors=Szymanski K, Sapanski L, Conway F |date=1 January 2011 |title=Trauma and ADHD&nbsp;– Association or Diagnostic Confusion? A Clinical Perspective |journal=Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy |location=Philadelphia PA |publisher=Taylor & Francis Group |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=51–59 |doi=10.1080/15289168.2011.575704 |issn=1528-9168 |eissn=1940-9214 |s2cid=144348893}}</ref> Additionally, traumatic events in childhood are a risk factor for ADHD;<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Zhang N, Gao M, Yu J, Zhang Q, Wang W, Zhou C, Liu L, Sun T, Liao X, Wang J | title = Understanding the association between adverse childhood experiences and subsequent attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies | journal = Brain and Behavior | volume = 12 | issue = 10 | pages = e32748 | date = October 2022 | pmid = 36068993 | pmc = 9575611 | doi = 10.1002/brb3.2748 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Nguyen MN, Watanabe-Galloway S, Hill JL, Siahpush M, Tibbits MK, Wichman C | title = Ecological model of school engagement and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in school-aged children | journal = European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | volume = 28 | issue = 6 | pages = 795–805 | date = June 2019 | pmid = 30390147 | doi = 10.1007/s00787-018-1248-3 | s2cid = 53263217 }}</ref> they can lead to structural brain changes and the development of ADHD behaviours.<ref name="Szymanski_2011"/> Finally, the behavioural consequences of ADHD symptoms cause a higher chance of the individual experiencing trauma (and therefore ADHD leads to a concrete diagnosis of a trauma-related disorder).<ref>{{Cite journal | vauthors = Miodus S, Allwood MA, Amoh N |date=5 January 2021 |title=Childhood ADHD Symptoms in Relation to Trauma Exposure and PTSD Symptoms Among College Students: Attending to and Accommodating Trauma |journal=Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders |volume=29 |issue=3 |pages=187–196 |doi=10.1177/1063426620982624 |s2cid=234159064 |issn=1063-4266 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Is It ADHD or Trauma? |url=https://childmind.org/article/is-it-adhd-or-trauma/ |access-date=2024-04-18 |website=Child Mind Institute }}</ref>


====Non-psychiatric==== ===Non-psychiatric===
{{see also|Accident-proneness#Hypophobia}}
Some non-psychiatric conditions are also comorbidities of ADHD. This includes ],<ref name="NHS2018">{{cite web |title=ADHD Symptoms |url=https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder-adhd/symptoms/#related-conditions-in-children-and-teenagers |website=nhs.uk |access-date=15 May 2018 |date=20 October 2017 |archive-date=1 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210201015023/https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder-adhd/symptoms/#related-conditions-in-children-and-teenagers |url-status=live }}</ref> a neurological condition characterised by recurrent seizures.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Williams AE, Giust JM, Kronenberger WG, Dunn DW | title = Epilepsy and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: links, risks, and challenges | journal = Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment | volume = 12 | pages = 287–296 | date = 2016 | pmid = 26929624 | pmc = 4755462 | doi = 10.2147/NDT.S81549 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Silva RR, Munoz DM, Alpert M | title = Carbamazepine use in children and adolescents with features of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: a meta-analysis | journal = Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | volume = 35 | issue = 3 | pages = 352–358 | date = March 1996 | pmid = 8714324 | doi = 10.1097/00004583-199603000-00017 }}</ref> There are well established associations between ADHD and obesity,<ref name="pmid27664125">{{cite journal | vauthors = Instanes JT, Klungsøyr K, Halmøy A, Fasmer OB, Haavik J | title = Adult ADHD and Comorbid Somatic Disease: A Systematic Literature Review | journal = Journal of Attention Disorders | volume = 22 | issue = 3 | pages = 203–228 | date = February 2018 | pmid = 27664125 | pmc = 5987989 | doi = 10.1177/1087054716669589 | type = Systematic Review }}</ref> ]<ref name="pmid27664125"/> and sleep disorders,<ref name="pmid27664125"/> and an association with celiac disease.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Gaur S | title = The Association between ADHD and Celiac Disease in Children | journal = Children | volume = 9 | issue = 6 | page = 781 | date = May 2022 | pmid = 35740718 | pmc = 9221618 | doi = 10.3390/children9060781 | publisher = MDPI | doi-access = free }}</ref> Children with ADHD have a higher risk for ] headaches,<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Hsu TW, Chen MH, Chu CS, Tsai SJ, Bai YM, Su TP, Chen TJ, Liang CS | display-authors = 6 | title = Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and risk of migraine: A nationwide longitudinal study | journal = Headache | volume = 62 | issue = 5 | pages = 634–641 | date = May 2022 | pmid = 35524451 | doi = 10.1111/head.14306 | s2cid = 248553863 }}</ref> but have no increased risk of tension-type headaches.<ref name="Salem_2017">{{cite journal | vauthors = Salem H, Vivas D, Cao F, Kazimi IF, Teixeira AL, Zeni CP | title = ADHD is associated with migraine: a systematic review and meta-analysis | journal = European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | volume = 27 | issue = 3 | pages = 267–277 | date = March 2018 | pmid = 28905127 | doi = 10.1007/s00787-017-1045-4 | publisher = Springer Science and Business Media LLC | s2cid = 3949012 }}</ref><ref name="Pan_2021">{{cite journal | vauthors = Pan PY, Jonsson U, Şahpazoğlu Çakmak SS, Häge A, Hohmann S, Nobel Norrman H, Buitelaar JK, Banaschewski T, Cortese S, Coghill D, Bölte S | display-authors = 6 | title = Headache in ADHD as comorbidity and a side effect of medications: a systematic review and meta-analysis | journal = Psychological Medicine | volume = 52 | issue = 1 | pages = 14–25 | date = January 2022 | pmid = 34635194 | pmc = 8711104 | doi = 10.1017/s0033291721004141 | publisher = Cambridge University Press | doi-access = free }}</ref> In addition, children with ADHD may also experience headaches as a result of medication.<ref name="Salem_2017"/><ref name="Pan_2021"/>


Some non-psychiatric conditions are also comorbidities of ADHD. This includes ],<ref name="NHS2018">{{cite web |title=ADHD Symptoms |url=https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder-adhd/symptoms/#related-conditions-in-children-and-teenagers |website=nhs.uk |access-date=15 May 2018 |date=20 October 2017 |archive-date=1 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210201015023/https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder-adhd/symptoms/#related-conditions-in-children-and-teenagers |url-status=live }}</ref> a neurological condition characterised by recurrent seizures.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Williams AE, Giust JM, Kronenberger WG, Dunn DW | title = Epilepsy and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: links, risks, and challenges | journal = Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment | volume = 12 | pages = 287–296 | date = 2016 | pmid = 26929624 | pmc = 4755462 | doi = 10.2147/NDT.S81549 | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Silva RR, Munoz DM, Alpert M | title = Carbamazepine use in children and adolescents with features of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: a meta-analysis | journal = Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | volume = 35 | issue = 3 | pages = 352–358 | date = March 1996 | pmid = 8714324 | doi = 10.1097/00004583-199603000-00017 | doi-access = free }}</ref> There are well established associations between ADHD and obesity, ] and sleep disorders,<ref name="pmid27664125">{{cite journal | vauthors = Instanes JT, Klungsøyr K, Halmøy A, Fasmer OB, Haavik J | title = Adult ADHD and Comorbid Somatic Disease: A Systematic Literature Review | journal = Journal of Attention Disorders | volume = 22 | issue = 3 | pages = 203–228 | date = February 2018 | pmid = 27664125 | pmc = 5987989 | doi = 10.1177/1087054716669589 | type = Systematic Review }}</ref> and an association with celiac disease.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Gaur S | title = The Association between ADHD and Celiac Disease in Children | journal = Children | volume = 9 | issue = 6 | page = 781 | date = May 2022 | pmid = 35740718 | pmc = 9221618 | doi = 10.3390/children9060781 | publisher = MDPI | doi-access = free }}</ref> Children with ADHD have a higher risk for ] headaches,<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Hsu TW, Chen MH, Chu CS, Tsai SJ, Bai YM, Su TP, Chen TJ, Liang CS | title = Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and risk of migraine: A nationwide longitudinal study | journal = Headache | volume = 62 | issue = 5 | pages = 634–641 | date = May 2022 | pmid = 35524451 | doi = 10.1111/head.14306 | s2cid = 248553863 }}</ref> but have no increased risk of tension-type headaches. Children with ADHD may also experience headaches as a result of medication.<ref name="Salem_2017">{{cite journal | vauthors = Salem H, Vivas D, Cao F, Kazimi IF, Teixeira AL, Zeni CP | title = ADHD is associated with migraine: a systematic review and meta-analysis | journal = European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | volume = 27 | issue = 3 | pages = 267–277 | date = March 2018 | pmid = 28905127 | doi = 10.1007/s00787-017-1045-4 | publisher = Springer Science and Business Media LLC | s2cid = 3949012 }}</ref><ref name="Pan_2021">{{cite journal | vauthors = Pan PY, Jonsson U, Şahpazoğlu Çakmak SS, Häge A, Hohmann S, Nobel Norrman H, Buitelaar JK, Banaschewski T, Cortese S, Coghill D, Bölte S | title = Headache in ADHD as comorbidity and a side effect of medications: a systematic review and meta-analysis | journal = Psychological Medicine | volume = 52 | issue = 1 | pages = 14–25 | date = January 2022 | pmid = 34635194 | pmc = 8711104 | doi = 10.1017/s0033291721004141 | publisher = Cambridge University Press | doi-access = free }}</ref>
A 2021 review reported that several neurometabolic disorders caused by ] converge on common neurochemical mechanisms that interfere with biological mechanisms also considered central in ADHD pathophysiology and treatment. This highlights the importance of close collaboration between health services to avoid clinical overshadowing.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Cannon Homaei S, Barone H, Kleppe R, Betari N, Reif A, Haavik J |title=ADHD symptoms in neurometabolic diseases: Underlying mechanisms and clinical implications |journal=Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews |date=November 2021 |volume=132 |pages=838–856 |pmid=34774900 |doi=10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.11.012 |issn=0149-7634 |s2cid=243983688 }}</ref>


A 2021 review reported that several neurometabolic disorders caused by ] converge on common neurochemical mechanisms that interfere with biological mechanisms also considered central in ADHD pathophysiology and treatment. This highlights the importance of close collaboration between health services to avoid clinical overshadowing.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Cannon Homaei S, Barone H, Kleppe R, Betari N, Reif A, Haavik J | title = ADHD symptoms in neurometabolic diseases: Underlying mechanisms and clinical implications | journal = Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews | volume = 132 | pages = 838–856 | date = January 2022 | pmid = 34774900 | doi = 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.11.012 | s2cid = 243983688 | doi-access = free }}</ref>
===Suicide risk===
Systematic reviews conducted in 2017 and 2020 found strong evidence that ADHD is associated with increased ] risk across all age groups, as well as growing evidence that an ADHD diagnosis in childhood or adolescence represents a significant future suicidal risk factor.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Balazs J, Kereszteny A |title=Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and suicide: A systematic review |journal=World Journal of Psychiatry |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=44–59 |date=March 2017 |pmid=28401048 |pmc=5371172 |doi=10.5498/wjp.v7.i1.44 }}</ref><ref name="Garas_2020">{{cite journal |vauthors=Garas P, Balazs J |title=Long-Term Suicide Risk of Children and Adolescents With Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder-A Systematic Review |journal=Frontiers in Psychiatry |volume=11 |page=557909 |date=21 December 2020 |pmid=33408650 |pmc=7779592 |doi=10.3389/fpsyt.2020.557909 |doi-access=free |id=557909 }}</ref> Potential causes include ADHD's association with functional impairment, negative social, educational and occupational outcomes, and financial distress.<ref name="Septier_2019">{{cite journal |vauthors=Septier M, Stordeur C, Zhang J, Delorme R, Cortese S |title=Association between suicidal spectrum behaviors and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis |journal=Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews |volume=103 |pages=109–118 |date=August 2019 |pmid=31129238 |doi=10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.05.022 |s2cid=162184004 |url=https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/431399/1/Septier_et_al_ADHD_SUICIDE_R2_CLEANED.docx |access-date=7 December 2021 |archive-date=4 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211104140233/https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/431399/1/Septier_et_al_ADHD_SUICIDE_R2_CLEANED.docx |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Beauchaine TP, Ben-David I, Bos M |title=ADHD, financial distress, and suicide in adulthood: A population study |journal=Science Advances |volume=6 |issue=40 |pages=eaba1551 |date=September 2020 |pmid=32998893 |pmc=7527218 |doi=10.1126/sciadv.aba1551 |id=eaba1551 |bibcode=2020SciA....6.1551B }}</ref> A 2019 meta-analysis indicated a significant association between ADHD and suicidal spectrum behaviors (suicidal attempts, ideations, plans, and completed suicides); across the studies examined, the prevalence of suicide attempts in individuals with ADHD was 18.9%, compared to 9.3% in individuals without ADHD, and the findings were substantially replicated among studies which adjusted for other variables. However, the relationship between ADHD and suicidal spectrum behaviors remains unclear due to mixed findings across individual studies and the complicating impact of comorbid psychiatric disorders.<ref name="Septier_2019" /> There is no clear data on whether there is a direct relationship between ADHD and suicidality, or whether ADHD increases suicide risk through comorbidities.<ref name="Garas_2020" />


In June 2021, '']'' published a ] of 82 studies that all confirmed or implied elevated accident-proneness in ADHD patients and whose data suggested that the type of accidents or injuries and overall risk changes in ADHD patients over the lifespan.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Brunkhorst-Kanaan N, Libutzki B, Reif A, Larsson H, McNeill RV, Kittel-Schneider S | title = ADHD and accidents over the life span - A systematic review | journal = Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews | volume = 125 | pages = 582–591 | date = June 2021 | pmid = 33582234 | doi = 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.02.002 | publisher = Elsevier | s2cid = 231885131 | doi-access = free }}</ref> In January 2014, '']'' published a ] of 16 studies examining the relative risk of ]s for drivers with ADHD, finding an overall relative risk estimate of 1.36 without controlling for exposure, a relative risk estimate of 1.29 when controlling for ], a relative risk estimate of 1.23 when controlling for exposure, and a relative risk estimate of 1.86 for ADHD drivers with ] and/or ] ].<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Vaa T | title = ADHD and relative risk of accidents in road traffic: a meta-analysis | journal = Accident Analysis and Prevention | volume = 62 | pages = 415–425 | date = January 2014 | pmid = 24238842 | doi = 10.1016/j.aap.2013.10.003 | publisher = Elsevier | hdl-access = free | hdl = 11250/2603537 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-06-01 |title=Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) |url=https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder-adhd/ |access-date=2024-02-16 |website=nhs.uk }}</ref>
===IQ test performance===
Certain studies have found that people with ADHD tend to have lower scores on ] (IQ) tests.<ref name="Frazier_2004">{{cite journal |vauthors=Frazier TW, Demaree HA, Youngstrom EA |title=Meta-analysis of intellectual and neuropsychological test performance in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder |journal=Neuropsychology |volume=18 |issue=3 |pages=543–555 |date=July 2004 |pmid=15291732 |doi=10.1037/0894-4105.18.3.543 |s2cid=17628705 }}</ref> The significance of this is controversial due to the differences between people with ADHD and the difficulty determining the influence of symptoms, such as distractibility, on lower scores rather than intellectual capacity.<ref name="Frazier_2004" /> In studies of ADHD, higher IQs may be over-represented because many studies exclude individuals who have lower IQs despite those with ADHD scoring on average nine points lower on standardized intelligence measures.<ref name="Mackenzie_2016">{{cite journal |vauthors=Mackenzie GB, Wonders E |title=Rethinking Intelligence Quotient Exclusion Criteria Practices in the Study of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder |journal=Frontiers in Psychology |volume=7 |page=794 |date=2016 |pmid=27303350 |pmc=4886698 |doi=10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00794 |doi-access=free }}</ref> In individuals with high intelligence, there is increased risk of a missed ADHD diagnosis, possibly because of compensatory strategies in highly intelligent individuals.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Rommelse N, van der Kruijs M, Damhuis J, Hoek I, Smeets S, Antshel KM, Hoogeveen L, Faraone SV |display-authors=6 |title=An evidenced-based perspective on the validity of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in the context of high intelligence |journal=Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews |volume=71 |pages=21–47 |date=December 2016 |pmid=27590827 |doi=10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.08.032 |s2cid=6698847 }}</ref>


===Problematic digital media use===
Studies of adults suggest that negative differences in intelligence are not meaningful and may be explained by associated health problems.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Bridgett DJ, Walker ME |title=Intellectual functioning in adults with ADHD: a meta-analytic examination of full scale IQ differences between adults with and without ADHD |journal=Psychological Assessment |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=1–14 |date=March 2006 |pmid=16594807 |doi=10.1037/1040-3590.18.1.1 }}</ref>
{{See also|Screen time|Internet addiction disorder|Problematic smartphone use|Problematic social media use|Video game addiction}}
{{Excerpt|Digital media use and mental health|ADHD}}

===Suicide risk===
Systematic reviews in 2017 and 2020 found strong evidence that ADHD is associated with increased ] risk across all age groups, as well as growing evidence that an ADHD diagnosis in childhood or adolescence represents a significant future suicidal risk factor.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Balazs J, Kereszteny A | title = Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and suicide: A systematic review | journal = World Journal of Psychiatry | volume = 7 | issue = 1 | pages = 44–59 | date = March 2017 | pmid = 28401048 | pmc = 5371172 | doi = 10.5498/wjp.v7.i1.44 | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref name="Garas_2020">{{cite journal | vauthors = Garas P, Balazs J | title = Long-Term Suicide Risk of Children and Adolescents With Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder-A Systematic Review | journal = Frontiers in Psychiatry | volume = 11 | pages = 557909 | date = 21 December 2020 | pmid = 33408650 | pmc = 7779592 | doi = 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.557909 | id = 557909 | doi-access = free }}</ref> Potential causes include ADHD's association with functional impairment, negative social, educational and occupational outcomes, and financial distress.<ref name="Septier_2019">{{cite journal | vauthors = Septier M, Stordeur C, Zhang J, Delorme R, Cortese S | title = Association between suicidal spectrum behaviors and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis | journal = Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews | volume = 103 | pages = 109–118 | date = August 2019 | pmid = 31129238 | doi = 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.05.022 | url = https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/431399/1/Septier_et_al_ADHD_SUICIDE_R2_CLEANED.docx | access-date = 7 December 2021 | url-status = live | s2cid = 162184004 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211104140233/https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/431399/1/Septier_et_al_ADHD_SUICIDE_R2_CLEANED.docx | archive-date = 4 November 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Beauchaine TP, Ben-David I, Bos M | title = ADHD, financial distress, and suicide in adulthood: A population study | journal = Science Advances | volume = 6 | issue = 40 | pages = eaba1551 | date = September 2020 | pmid = 32998893 | pmc = 7527218 | doi = 10.1126/sciadv.aba1551 | id = eaba1551 | bibcode = 2020SciA....6.1551B }}</ref> A 2019 meta-analysis indicated a significant association between ADHD and suicidal spectrum behaviours (suicidal attempts, ideations, plans, and completed suicides); across the studies examined, the prevalence of suicide attempts in individuals with ADHD was 18.9%, compared to 9.3% in individuals without ADHD, and the findings were substantially replicated among studies which adjusted for other variables. However, the relationship between ADHD and suicidal spectrum behaviours remains unclear due to mixed findings across individual studies and the complicating impact of comorbid psychiatric disorders.<ref name="Septier_2019" /> There is no clear data on whether there is a direct relationship between ADHD and suicidality, or whether ADHD increases suicide risk through comorbidities.<ref name="Garas_2020" />


==Causes== ==Causes==
ADHD arises from brain maldevelopment especially in the prefrontal executive networks that can arise either from genetic factors (different gene variants and mutations for building and regulating such networks) or from acquired disruptions to the development of these networks and regions; involved in ] and self-regulation.<ref name="Faraone_2021"/><ref name="Antshel_2014" /> Their reduced size, functional connectivity, and activation contribute to the pathophysiology of ADHD, as well as imbalances in the noradrenergic and dopaminergic systems that mediate these brain regions.<ref name="Faraone_2021" /><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Biederman J | title = Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a selective overview | journal = Biological Psychiatry | volume = 57 | issue = 11 | pages = 1215–1220 | date = June 2005 | pmid = 15949990 | doi = 10.1016/j.biopsych.2004.10.020 | s2cid = 23671547 }}</ref>
ADHD is generally claimed to be the result of neurological dysfunction in processes associated with the production or use of ] and ] in various brain structures, but there are no confirmed causes.<ref name="Millichap_2010_chap2" /><ref name="pmid22963644" /> It may involve interactions between genetics and the environment.<ref name="Millichap_2010_chap2">{{cite book |vauthors=Millichap JG |title=Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Handbook: A Physician's Guide to ADHD |year=2010 |publisher=Springer Science |location=New York, NY |isbn=978-1-4419-1396-8 |doi=10.1007/978-1-4419-1397-5 |lccn=2009938108 |page=26 |chapter=Chapter 2: Causative Factors |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KAlq0CDcbaoC&pg=PA26 |edition=2nd |access-date=1 February 2016 |archive-date=22 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201222193800/https://books.google.com/books?id=KAlq0CDcbaoC&pg=PA26 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="pmid22963644">{{cite journal |vauthors=Thapar A, Cooper M, Eyre O, Langley K |title=What have we learnt about the causes of ADHD? |journal=Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Allied Disciplines |volume=54 |issue=1 |pages=3–16 |date=January 2013 |pmid=22963644 |pmc=3572580 |doi=10.1111/j.1469-7610.2012.02611.x }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Scerif G, Baker K |title=Annual research review: Rare genotypes and childhood psychopathology--uncovering diverse developmental mechanisms of ADHD risk |journal=Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Allied Disciplines |volume=56 |issue=3 |pages=251–273 |date=March 2015 |pmid=25494546 |doi=10.1111/jcpp.12374 }}</ref>

Genetic factors play an important role; ADHD has a heritability rate of 70-80%. The remaining 20-30% of variance is mediated by de-novo mutations and non-shared environmental factors that provide for or produce brain injuries; there is no significant contribution of the rearing family and social environment.{{refn|<ref name=hl/><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Faraone SV, Larsson H | title = Genetics of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder | journal = Molecular Psychiatry | volume = 24 | issue = 4 | pages = 562–575 | date = April 2019 | pmid = 29892054 | pmc = 6477889 | doi = 10.1038/s41380-018-0070-0 | s2cid = 47016805 }}</ref><ref name="pmid20141238">{{cite journal | vauthors = Nikolas MA, Burt SA | title = Genetic and environmental influences on ADHD symptom dimensions of inattention and hyperactivity: a meta-analysis | journal = Journal of Abnormal Psychology | volume = 119 | issue = 1 | pages = 1–17 | date = February 2010 | pmid = 20141238 | doi = 10.1037/a0018010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Demontis D, Walters RK, Martin J, Mattheisen M, Als TD, Agerbo E, Baldursson G, Belliveau R, Bybjerg-Grauholm J, Bækvad-Hansen M, Cerrato F, Chambert K, Churchhouse C, Dumont A, Eriksson N, Gandal M, Goldstein JI, Grasby KL, Grove J, Gudmundsson OO, Hansen CS, Hauberg ME, Hollegaard MV, Howrigan DP, Huang H, Maller JB, Martin AR, Martin NG, Moran J, Pallesen J, Palmer DS, Pedersen CB, Pedersen MG, Poterba T, Poulsen JB, Ripke S, Robinson EB, Satterstrom FK, Stefansson H, Stevens C, Turley P, Walters GB, Won H, Wright MJ, Andreassen OA, Asherson P, Burton CL, Boomsma DI, Cormand B, Dalsgaard S, Franke B, Gelernter J, Geschwind D, Hakonarson H, Haavik J, Kranzler HR, Kuntsi J, Langley K, Lesch KP, Middeldorp C, Reif A, Rohde LA, Roussos P, Schachar R, Sklar P, Sonuga-Barke EJ, Sullivan PF, Thapar A, Tung JY, Waldman ID, Medland SE, Stefansson K, Nordentoft M, Hougaard DM, Werge T, Mors O, Mortensen PB, Daly MJ, Faraone SV, Børglum AD, Neale BM | title = Discovery of the first genome-wide significant risk loci for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder | journal = Nature Genetics | volume = 51 | issue = 1 | pages = 63–75 | date = January 2019 | pmid = 30478444 | pmc = 6481311 | doi = 10.1038/s41588-018-0269-7 | hdl-access = free | hdl = 10023/20827 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022 |title=Intergenerational transmission of ADHD behaviors: More evidence for heritability than life history theory |url=https://europepmc.org/article/ppr/ppr531866#impact |access-date=2024-01-12 |website=europepmc.org}}</ref><ref name="Grimm_2020">{{cite journal | vauthors = Grimm O, Kranz TM, Reif A | title = Genetics of ADHD: What Should the Clinician Know? | journal = Current Psychiatry Reports | volume = 22 | issue = 4 | pages = 18 | date = February 2020 | pmid = 32108282 | pmc = 7046577 | doi = 10.1007/s11920-020-1141-x }}</ref>}} Very rarely, ADHD can also be the result of abnormalities in the chromosomes.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Cederlöf M, Ohlsson Gotby A, Larsson H, Serlachius E, Boman M, Långström N, Landén M, Lichtenstein P | title = Klinefelter syndrome and risk of psychosis, autism and ADHD | journal = Journal of Psychiatric Research | volume = 48 | issue = 1 | pages = 128–130 | date = January 2014 | pmid = 24139812 | doi = 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2013.10.001 }}</ref>


=== Genetics === === Genetics ===
{{See also|Missing heritability problem}}
ADHD has a high ] of 74%, meaning that 74% of the presence of ADHD in the population is due to genetic factors.<ref name="Faraone_2018">{{cite journal | vauthors = Faraone SV, Larsson H | title = Genetics of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder | journal = Molecular Psychiatry | volume = 24 | issue = 4 | pages = 562–575 | date = April 2019 | pmid = 29892054 | pmc = 6477889 | doi = 10.1038/s41380-018-0070-0 | publisher = Springer Science and Business Media LLC }}</ref> There are multiple gene variants which each slightly increase the likelihood of a person having ADHD; it is ] and arises through the combination of many gene variants which each have a small effect.<ref name="Faraone_2018"/><ref name="Faraone_2021">{{cite journal | vauthors = Faraone SV, Banaschewski T, Coghill D, Zheng Y, Biederman J, Bellgrove MA, Newcorn JH, Gignac M, Al Saud NM, Manor I, Rohde LA, Yang L, Cortese S, Almagor D, Stein MA, Albatti TH, Aljoudi HF, Alqahtani MM, Asherson P, Atwoli L, Bölte S, Buitelaar JK, Crunelle CL, Daley D, Dalsgaard S, Döpfner M, Espinet S, Fitzgerald M, Franke B, Gerlach M, Haavik J, Hartman CA, Hartung CM, Hinshaw SP, Hoekstra PJ, Hollis C, Kollins SH, Sandra Kooij JJ, Kuntsi J, Larsson H, Li T, Liu J, Merzon E, Mattingly G, Mattos P, McCarthy S, Mikami AY, Molina BS, Nigg JT, Purper-Ouakil D, Omigbodun OO, Polanczyk GV, Pollak Y, Poulton AS, Rajkumar RP, Reding A, Reif A, Rubia K, Rucklidge J, Romanos M, Ramos-Quiroga JA, Schellekens A, Scheres A, Schoeman R, Schweitzer JB, Shah H, Solanto MV, Sonuga-Barke E, Soutullo C, Steinhausen HC, Swanson JM, Thapar A, Tripp G, van de Glind G, van den Brink W, Van der Oord S, Venter A, Vitiello B, Walitza S, Wang Y | display-authors = 6 | title = The World Federation of ADHD International Consensus Statement: 208 Evidence-based conclusions about the disorder | journal = Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews | volume = 128 | pages = 789–818 | date = September 2021 | pmid = 33549739 | pmc = 8328933 | doi = 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.01.022 | publisher = Elsevier BV | doi-access = free }}</ref> The siblings of children with ADHD are three to four times more likely to develop the disorder than siblings of children without the disorder.<ref>{{cite book |vauthors=Nolen-Hoeksema S |title=Abnormal Psychology |year=2013 |isbn=978-0-07-803538-8 |page=267 |edition=Sixth}}</ref>


In November 1999, '']'' published a ] by psychiatrists ] and Thomas Spencer found the average ] estimate of ADHD from ] to be 0.8,<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Biederman J, Spencer T | title = Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as a noradrenergic disorder | journal = Biological Psychiatry | volume = 46 | issue = 9 | pages = 1234–1242 | date = November 1999 | pmid = 10560028 | doi = 10.1016/S0006-3223(99)00192-4 | publisher = ] | s2cid = 45497168 | author-link1 = Joseph Biederman }}</ref> while a subsequent ], twin, and ] literature review published in '']'' in April 2019 by psychologists ] and Henrik Larsson that found an average heritability estimate of 0.74.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Faraone SV, Larsson H | title = Genetics of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder | journal = Molecular Psychiatry | volume = 24 | issue = 4 | pages = 562–575 | date = April 2019 | pmid = 29892054 | pmc = 6477889 | doi = 10.1038/s41380-018-0070-0 | publisher = ] | author-link1 = Stephen Faraone }}</ref> Additionally, ] ] has argued that the 5:1 ] in the ] suggests that ADHD may be the ], citing clinical psychologist ]'s ] for the ] as an analogue.<ref name="Baron-Cohen 2002">{{cite journal | vauthors = Baron-Cohen S | title = The extreme male brain theory of autism | journal = Trends in Cognitive Sciences | volume = 6 | issue = 6 | pages = 248–254 | date = June 2002 | pmid = 12039606 | doi = 10.1016/S1364-6613(02)01904-6 | url = https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(02)01904-6 | access-date = 9 July 2020 | publisher = ] | url-status = live | s2cid = 8098723 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130703172532/http://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(02)01904-6 | archive-date = 3 July 2013 | author-link = Simon Baron-Cohen }}</ref><ref name="Nesse 2005 p. 918">{{cite book| vauthors = Nesse RM |author-link1=Randolph M. Nesse | veditors = Buss DM |editor-link=David Buss|title=The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology |chapter=32. Evolutionary Psychology and Mental Health |page=918 |year=2005 |edition=1st |place=] |publisher=] |isbn=978-0-471-26403-3}}</ref><ref name="Nesse 2016 p. 1019">{{cite book | vauthors = Nesse RM |author-link1=Randolph M. Nesse | veditors = Buss DM |editor-link1=David Buss |year=2016 |orig-date=2005 |title=The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, Volume 2: Integrations |edition=2nd |chapter=43. Evolutionary Psychology and Mental Health |page=1019 |place=] |publisher=] |isbn=978-1-118-75580-8}}</ref>
Arousal is related to ], and ADHD presents with low dopaminergic functioning.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Hinshaw SP |title=Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): Controversy, Developmental Mechanisms, and Multiple Levels of Analysis |journal=Annual Review of Clinical Psychology |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=291–316 |date=May 2018 |pmid=29220204 |doi=10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-050817-084917 }}</ref> Typically, a number of genes are involved, many of which directly affect dopamine neurotransmission.<ref name="Gizer_2009">{{cite journal |vauthors=Gizer IR, Ficks C, Waldman ID |title=Candidate gene studies of ADHD: a meta-analytic review |journal=Human Genetics |volume=126 |issue=1 |pages=51–90 |date=July 2009 |pmid=19506906 |doi=10.1007/s00439-009-0694-x |s2cid=166017 }}</ref><ref name="Kebir_2011">{{cite journal |vauthors=Kebir O, Joober R |title=Neuropsychological endophenotypes in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a review of genetic association studies |journal=European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience |volume=261 |issue=8 |pages=583–594 |date=December 2011 |pmid=21409419 |doi=10.1007/s00406-011-0207-5 |s2cid=21383749 }}</ref> Those involved with dopamine include ], ], ], ], ], ], and ]<ref name="Kebir_2011" /><ref name="Berry_2007"/><ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Sotnikova TD, Caron MG, Gainetdinov RR |title=Trace amine-associated receptors as emerging therapeutic targets |journal=Molecular Pharmacology |volume=76 |issue=2 |pages=229–235 |date=August 2009 |pmid=19389919 |pmc=2713119 |doi=10.1124/mol.109.055970 }}</ref> Other genes associated with ADHD include ], ], ], ], ], ], and ].<ref name="Gizer_2009" /><ref name="Kebir_2011" /> A common variant of a gene called ] is estimated to be responsible for about 9% of cases and when this variant is present, people are particularly responsive to stimulant medication.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Arcos-Burgos M, Muenke M |title=Toward a better understanding of ADHD: LPHN3 gene variants and the susceptibility to develop ADHD |journal=Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders |volume=2 |issue=3 |pages=139–147 |date=November 2010 |pmid=21432600 |pmc=3280610 |doi=10.1007/s12402-010-0030-2 }}</ref> The ] (DRD4–7R) causes increased inhibitory effects induced by ] and is associated with ADHD. The DRD4 receptor is a ] that inhibits ]. The DRD4–7R mutation results in a wide range of behavioral ]s, including ADHD symptoms reflecting split attention.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Nikolaidis A, Gray JR |title=ADHD and the DRD4 exon III 7-repeat polymorphism: an international meta-analysis |journal=Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience |volume=5 |issue=2–3 |pages=188–193 |date=June 2010 |pmid=20019071 |pmc=2894686 |doi=10.1093/scan/nsp049 }}</ref> The DRD4 gene is both linked to novelty seeking and ADHD. The genes ] and ] show strong genetic associations with ADHD. CHD13's association with ASD, ], bipolar disorder, and ] make it an interesting candidate causative gene.<ref name="Grimm_2020">{{cite journal |vauthors=Grimm O, Kranz TM, Reif A |title=Genetics of ADHD: What Should the Clinician Know? |journal=Current Psychiatry Reports |volume=22 |issue=4 |page=18 |date=February 2020 |pmid=32108282 |pmc=7046577 |doi=10.1007/s11920-020-1141-x }}</ref> Another candidate causative gene that has been identified is ]. In ], knockout of this gene causes a loss of dopaminergic function in the ventral ] and the fish display a hyperactive/impulsive ].<ref name="Grimm_2020" />


] has been acting against the genetic variants for ADHD over the course of at least 45,000 years, indicating that it was not an adaptive trait in ancient times.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Esteller-Cucala P, Maceda I, Børglum AD, Demontis D, Faraone SV, Cormand B, Lao O | title = Genomic analysis of the natural history of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder using Neanderthal and ancient Homo sapiens samples | journal = Scientific Reports | volume = 10 | issue = 1 | pages = 8622 | date = May 2020 | pmid = 32451437 | pmc = 7248073 | doi = 10.1038/s41598-020-65322-4 | bibcode = 2020NatSR..10.8622E }}</ref> The disorder may remain at a stable rate by the balance of genetic mutations and removal rate (natural selection) across generations; over thousands of years, these genetic variants become more stable, decreasing disorder prevalence.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Keller MC | title = The evolutionary persistence of genes that increase mental disorders risk. | journal = Current Directions in Psychological Science | date = December 2008 | volume = 17 | issue = 6 | pages = 395–399 | doi = 10.1111/j.1467-8721.2008.006 | doi-broken-date = 1 November 2024 }}</ref> Throughout human evolution, the EFs involved in ADHD likely provide the capacity to bind contingencies across time thereby directing behaviour toward future over immediate events so as to maximise future social consequences for humans.<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Barkley RA | date = 2004 | chapter = Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and self-regulation: Taking an evolutionary perspective on executive functioning. | veditors = Baumeister RF, Vohs KD | title = Handbook of self-regulation: Research, theory, and applications | pages = 301–323 | publisher = The Guilford Press |url=https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2004-00163-014 }}</ref>
For ] to be used as a tool for diagnosis, more validating studies need to be performed. However, smaller studies have shown that ]s in genes related to ] neurotransmission or the ] complex of the ] can reliably predict a person's response to ].<ref name="Grimm_2020" /> Rare genetic variants show more relevant clinical significance as their penetrance (the chance of developing the disorder) tends to be much higher.<ref name="Zayats_2020">{{cite journal |vauthors=Zayats T, Neale BM |title=Recent advances in understanding of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): how genetics are shaping our conceptualization of this disorder |journal=F1000Research |volume=8 |page=2060 |date=12 February 2020 |pmid=31824658 |pmc=6896240 |doi=10.12688/f1000research.18959.2 }}</ref> However their usefulness as tools for diagnosis is limited as no single gene predicts ADHD. ASD shows genetic overlap with ADHD at both common and rare levels of genetic variation.<ref name="Zayats_2020" />

ADHD has a high ] of 74%, meaning that 74% of the presence of ADHD in the population is due to genetic factors. There are multiple gene variants which each slightly increase the likelihood of a person having ADHD; it is ] and thus arises through the accumulation of many genetic risks each having a very small effect.<ref name="Faraone_2021" /><ref name="Faraone_2018">{{cite journal | vauthors = Faraone SV, Larsson H | title = Genetics of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder | journal = Molecular Psychiatry | volume = 24 | issue = 4 | pages = 562–575 | date = April 2019 | pmid = 29892054 | pmc = 6477889 | doi = 10.1038/s41380-018-0070-0 | publisher = Springer Science and Business Media LLC }}</ref> The siblings of children with ADHD are three to four times more likely to develop the disorder than siblings of children without the disorder.<ref>{{cite book |vauthors=Nolen-Hoeksema S |title=Abnormal Psychology |year=2013 |isbn=978-0-07-803538-8 |page=267 |publisher=McGraw-Hill Education |edition=6th}}</ref>

The association of maternal smoking observed in large population studies disappears after adjusting for family history of ADHD, which indicates that the association between maternal smoking during pregnancy and ADHD is due to familial or genetic factors that increase the risk for the confluence of smoking and ADHD.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Skoglund C, Chen Q, D'Onofrio BM, Lichtenstein P, Larsson H | title = Familial confounding of the association between maternal smoking during pregnancy and ADHD in offspring | journal = Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Allied Disciplines | volume = 55 | issue = 1 | pages = 61–68 | date = January 2014 | pmid = 25359172 | pmc = 4217138 | doi = 10.1111/jcpp.12124 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Obel C, Zhu JL, Olsen J, Breining S, Li J, Grønborg TK, Gissler M, Rutter M | title = The risk of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children exposed to maternal smoking during pregnancy - a re-examination using a sibling design | journal = Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Allied Disciplines | volume = 57 | issue = 4 | pages = 532–537 | date = April 2016 | pmid = 26511313 | doi = 10.1111/jcpp.12478 | url = https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/b67579b4-68c2-4010-86c4-0392822d2662 }}</ref>

ADHD presents with reduced size, functional connectivity and activation<ref name="Faraone_2021" /> as well as low noradrenergic and dopaminergic functioning<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Biederman J | title = Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a selective overview | journal = Biological Psychiatry | volume = 57 | issue = 11 | pages = 1215–1220 | date = June 2005 | pmid = 15949990 | doi = 10.1016/j.biopsych.2004.10.020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Hinshaw SP | title = Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): Controversy, Developmental Mechanisms, and Multiple Levels of Analysis | journal = Annual Review of Clinical Psychology | volume = 14 | issue = 1 | pages = 291–316 | date = May 2018 | pmid = 29220204 | doi = 10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-050817-084917 }}</ref> in brain regions and networks crucial for executive functioning and self-regulation.<ref name="Faraone_2021" /><ref name="Barkley_2011a"/><ref name="Antshel_2014" /> Typically, a number of genes are involved, many of which directly affect brain functioning and neurotransmission.<ref name="Faraone_2021" /> Those involved with dopamine include ], ], ], ], ], ], and ]<ref name="Kebir_2011">{{cite journal | vauthors = Kebir O, Joober R | title = Neuropsychological endophenotypes in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a review of genetic association studies | journal = European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience | volume = 261 | issue = 8 | pages = 583–594 | date = December 2011 | pmid = 21409419 | doi = 10.1007/s00406-011-0207-5 | s2cid = 21383749 }}</ref><ref name="Berry_2007"/><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Sotnikova TD, Caron MG, Gainetdinov RR | title = Trace amine-associated receptors as emerging therapeutic targets | journal = Molecular Pharmacology | volume = 76 | issue = 2 | pages = 229–235 | date = August 2009 | pmid = 19389919 | pmc = 2713119 | doi = 10.1124/mol.109.055970 }}</ref> Other genes associated with ADHD include ], ], ], ], ], ], and ].<ref name="Gizer_2009">{{cite journal | vauthors = Gizer IR, Ficks C, Waldman ID | title = Candidate gene studies of ADHD: a meta-analytic review | journal = Human Genetics | volume = 126 | issue = 1 | pages = 51–90 | date = July 2009 | pmid = 19506906 | doi = 10.1007/s00439-009-0694-x | s2cid = 166017 }}</ref> A common variant of a gene called ] is estimated to be responsible for about 9% of cases and when this variant is present, people are particularly responsive to stimulant medication.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Arcos-Burgos M, Muenke M | title = Toward a better understanding of ADHD: LPHN3 gene variants and the susceptibility to develop ADHD | journal = Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders | volume = 2 | issue = 3 | pages = 139–147 | date = November 2010 | pmid = 21432600 | pmc = 3280610 | doi = 10.1007/s12402-010-0030-2 }}</ref> The ] (DRD4–7R) causes increased inhibitory effects induced by ] and is associated with ADHD. The DRD4 receptor is a ] that inhibits ]. The DRD4–7R mutation results in a wide range of behavioural ]s, including ADHD symptoms reflecting split attention.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Nikolaidis A, Gray JR | title = ADHD and the DRD4 exon III 7-repeat polymorphism: an international meta-analysis | journal = Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience | volume = 5 | issue = 2–3 | pages = 188–193 | date = June 2010 | pmid = 20019071 | pmc = 2894686 | doi = 10.1093/scan/nsp049 }}</ref> The DRD4 gene is both linked to novelty seeking and ADHD. The genes ] and ] show strong genetic associations with ADHD. CDH13's association with ASD, ], bipolar disorder, and ] make it an interesting candidate causative gene.<ref name="Grimm_2020"/> Another candidate causative gene that has been identified is ]. In ], knockout of this gene causes a loss of dopaminergic function in the ventral ] and the fish display a hyperactive/impulsive ].<ref name="Grimm_2020" />

For ] to be used as a tool for diagnosis, more validating studies need to be performed. However, smaller studies have shown that ]s in genes related to ] neurotransmission or the ] complex of the ] can reliably predict a person's response to ].<ref name="Grimm_2020" /> Rare genetic variants show more relevant clinical significance as their penetrance (the chance of developing the disorder) tends to be much higher.<ref name="Zayats_2020">{{cite journal | vauthors = Zayats T, Neale BM | title = Recent advances in understanding of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): how genetics are shaping our conceptualization of this disorder | journal = F1000Research | volume = 8 | page = 2060 | date = 12 February 2020 | pmid = 31824658 | pmc = 6896240 | doi = 10.12688/f1000research.18959.2 | doi-access = free }}</ref> However their usefulness as tools for diagnosis is limited as no single gene predicts ADHD. ASD shows genetic overlap with ADHD at both common and rare levels of genetic variation.<ref name="Zayats_2020" />


=== Environment === === Environment ===

In addition to genetics, some environmental factors might play a role in causing ADHD.<ref name="Sonu_2013" /><ref name="cdc2016">{{cite web |author=CDC |title=Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) |publisher=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |url=https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/research.html |date=16 March 2016 |access-date=17 April 2016 |url-status=live |archive-date=14 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414160548/http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/research.html}}</ref> Alcohol intake during pregnancy can cause ]s which can include ADHD or symptoms like it.<ref name="Burger_2011">{{cite journal |vauthors=Burger PH, Goecke TW, Fasching PA, Moll G, Heinrich H, Beckmann MW, Kornhuber J |title=Einfluss des mütterlichen Alkoholkonsums während der Schwangerschaft auf die Entwicklung von ADHS beim Kind |trans-title=How does maternal alcohol consumption during pregnancy affect the development of attention deficit/hyperactivity syndrome in the child |language=de |journal=Fortschritte der Neurologie-Psychiatrie |volume=79 |issue=9 |pages=500–506 |date=September 2011 |pmid=21739408 |doi=10.1055/s-0031-1273360 |type=Review }}</ref> Children exposed to certain toxic substances, such as ] or ], may develop problems which resemble ADHD.<ref name="nimh" /><ref name="Eubig_2010">{{cite journal |vauthors=Eubig PA, Aguiar A, Schantz SL |title=Lead and PCBs as risk factors for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder |journal=Environmental Health Perspectives |volume=118 |issue=12 |pages=1654–1667 |date=December 2010 |pmid=20829149 |pmc=3002184 |doi=10.1289/ehp.0901852 |type=Review. Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural. Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. }}</ref> Exposure to the ] insecticides ] and ] is associated with an increased risk; however, the evidence is not conclusive.<ref name="de_Cock_2012">{{cite journal |vauthors=de Cock M, Maas YG, van de Bor M |title=Does perinatal exposure to endocrine disruptors induce autism spectrum and attention deficit hyperactivity disorders? Review |journal=Acta Paediatrica |volume=101 |issue=8 |pages=811–818 |date=August 2012 |pmid=22458970 |doi=10.1111/j.1651-2227.2012.02693.x |type=Review. Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |s2cid=41748237 }}</ref> Exposure to tobacco smoke during pregnancy can cause problems with central nervous system development and can increase the risk of ADHD.<ref name="nimh">{{cite web |title=Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (Easy-to-Read) |url=http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder-easy-to-read/index.shtml |publisher=National Institute of Mental Health |year=2013 |access-date=17 April 2016 |url-status=live |archive-date=14 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414031036/http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder-easy-to-read/index.shtml}}</ref><ref name="Abbott_2012">{{cite journal |vauthors=Abbott LC, Winzer-Serhan UH |title=Smoking during pregnancy: lessons learned from epidemiological studies and experimental studies using animal models |journal=Critical Reviews in Toxicology |volume=42 |issue=4 |pages=279–303 |date=April 2012 |pmid=22394313 |doi=10.3109/10408444.2012.658506 |type=Review |s2cid=38886526 }}</ref> ] exposure during pregnancy may be an environmental risk.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Tiesler CM, Heinrich J |title=Prenatal nicotine exposure and child behavioural problems |journal=European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry |volume=23 |issue=10 |pages=913–929 |date=October 2014 |pmid=25241028 |pmc=4186967 |doi=10.1007/s00787-014-0615-y }}</ref>
In addition to genetics, some environmental factors might play a role in causing ADHD.<ref name="Sonu_2013" /><ref name="cdc2016">{{cite web |author=CDC |title=Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) |publisher=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |url=https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/research.html |date=16 March 2016 |access-date=17 April 2016 |url-status=live |archive-date=14 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414160548/http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/research.html}}</ref> Alcohol intake during pregnancy can cause ]s which can include ADHD or symptoms like it.<ref name="Burger_2011">{{cite journal | vauthors = Burger PH, Goecke TW, Fasching PA, Moll G, Heinrich H, Beckmann MW, Kornhuber J | title = | language = de | journal = Fortschritte der Neurologie-Psychiatrie | volume = 79 | issue = 9 | pages = 500–506 | date = September 2011 | pmid = 21739408 | doi = 10.1055/s-0031-1273360 | trans-title = How does maternal alcohol consumption during pregnancy affect the development of attention deficit/hyperactivity syndrome in the child | type = Review | s2cid = 140766296 }}</ref> Children exposed to certain toxic substances, such as ] or ], may develop problems which resemble ADHD.<ref name="nimh" /><ref name="Eubig_2010">{{cite journal | vauthors = Eubig PA, Aguiar A, Schantz SL | title = Lead and PCBs as risk factors for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder | journal = Environmental Health Perspectives | volume = 118 | issue = 12 | pages = 1654–1667 | date = December 2010 | pmid = 20829149 | pmc = 3002184 | doi = 10.1289/ehp.0901852 | bibcode = 2010EnvHP.118.1654E | type = Review. Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural. Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. }}</ref> Exposure to the ] insecticides ] and ] is associated with an increased risk; however, the evidence is not conclusive.<ref name="de_Cock_2012">{{cite journal | vauthors = de Cock M, Maas YG, van de Bor M | title = Does perinatal exposure to endocrine disruptors induce autism spectrum and attention deficit hyperactivity disorders? Review | journal = Acta Paediatrica | volume = 101 | issue = 8 | pages = 811–818 | date = August 2012 | pmid = 22458970 | doi = 10.1111/j.1651-2227.2012.02693.x | type = Review. Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | s2cid = 41748237 }}</ref> Exposure to tobacco smoke during pregnancy can cause problems with central nervous system development and can increase the risk of ADHD.<ref name="nimh">{{cite web |title=Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (Easy-to-Read) |url=http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder-easy-to-read/index.shtml |publisher=National Institute of Mental Health |year=2013 |access-date=17 April 2016 |url-status=live |archive-date=14 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414031036/http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder-easy-to-read/index.shtml}}</ref><ref name="Abbott_2012">{{cite journal | vauthors = Abbott LC, Winzer-Serhan UH | title = Smoking during pregnancy: lessons learned from epidemiological studies and experimental studies using animal models | journal = Critical Reviews in Toxicology | volume = 42 | issue = 4 | pages = 279–303 | date = April 2012 | pmid = 22394313 | doi = 10.3109/10408444.2012.658506 | type = Review | s2cid = 38886526 }}</ref> ] exposure during pregnancy may be an environmental risk.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Tiesler CM, Heinrich J | title = Prenatal nicotine exposure and child behavioural problems | journal = European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | volume = 23 | issue = 10 | pages = 913–929 | date = October 2014 | pmid = 25241028 | pmc = 4186967 | doi = 10.1007/s00787-014-0615-y }}</ref>


Extreme ], very ], and extreme neglect, abuse, or social deprivation also increase the risk<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Botting N, Powls A, Cooke RW, Marlow N | title = Attention deficit hyperactivity disorders and other psychiatric outcomes in very low birthweight children at 12 years | journal = Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Allied Disciplines | volume = 38 | issue = 8 | pages = 931–941 | date = November 1997 | pmid = 9413793 | doi = 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1997.tb01612.x | url = https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7610.1997.tb01612.x | access-date = 22 March 2022 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220517212252/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7610.1997.tb01612.x | archive-date = 17 May 2022 }}</ref><ref name="nimh" /><ref name="Thapar-2012">{{cite journal | vauthors = Thapar A, Cooper M, Jefferies R, Stergiakouli E | title = What causes attention deficit hyperactivity disorder? | journal = Archives of Disease in Childhood | volume = 97 | issue = 3 | pages = 260–265 | date = March 2012 | pmid = 21903599 | pmc = 3927422 | doi = 10.1136/archdischild-2011-300482 | type = Review. Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't }}</ref> as do certain infections during pregnancy, at birth, and in early childhood. These infections include, among others, various viruses (], ] ], ], ]).<ref name="Millichap_2008">{{cite journal | vauthors = Millichap JG | title = Etiologic classification of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder | journal = Pediatrics | volume = 121 | issue = 2 | pages = e358–e365 | date = February 2008 | pmid = 18245408 | doi = 10.1542/peds.2007-1332 | type = Review | s2cid = 24339363 }}</ref> At least 30% of children with a ] later develop ADHD<ref name="Eme-2012">{{cite journal | vauthors = Eme R | title = ADHD: an integration with pediatric traumatic brain injury | journal = Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics | volume = 12 | issue = 4 | pages = 475–483 | date = April 2012 | pmid = 22449218 | doi = 10.1586/ern.12.15 | type = Review | s2cid = 35718630 }}</ref> and about 5% of cases are due to brain damage.<ref name="Erk_2009" /> Extreme ], very ], and extreme neglect, abuse, or social deprivation also increase the risk<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Botting N, Powls A, Cooke RW, Marlow N | title = Attention deficit hyperactivity disorders and other psychiatric outcomes in very low birthweight children at 12 years | journal = Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Allied Disciplines | volume = 38 | issue = 8 | pages = 931–941 | date = November 1997 | pmid = 9413793 | doi = 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1997.tb01612.x | url = https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7610.1997.tb01612.x | access-date = 22 March 2022 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220517212252/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7610.1997.tb01612.x | archive-date = 17 May 2022 }}</ref><ref name="nimh" /><ref name="Thapar-2012">{{cite journal | vauthors = Thapar A, Cooper M, Jefferies R, Stergiakouli E | title = What causes attention deficit hyperactivity disorder? | journal = Archives of Disease in Childhood | volume = 97 | issue = 3 | pages = 260–265 | date = March 2012 | pmid = 21903599 | pmc = 3927422 | doi = 10.1136/archdischild-2011-300482 | type = Review. Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't }}</ref> as do certain infections during pregnancy, at birth, and in early childhood. These infections include, among others, various viruses (], ] ], ], ]).<ref name="Millichap_2008">{{cite journal | vauthors = Millichap JG | title = Etiologic classification of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder | journal = Pediatrics | volume = 121 | issue = 2 | pages = e358–e365 | date = February 2008 | pmid = 18245408 | doi = 10.1542/peds.2007-1332 | type = Review | s2cid = 24339363 }}</ref> At least 30% of children with a ] later develop ADHD<ref name="Eme-2012">{{cite journal | vauthors = Eme R | title = ADHD: an integration with pediatric traumatic brain injury | journal = Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics | volume = 12 | issue = 4 | pages = 475–483 | date = April 2012 | pmid = 22449218 | doi = 10.1586/ern.12.15 | type = Review | s2cid = 35718630 }}</ref> and about 5% of cases are due to brain damage.<ref name="Erk_2009" />


Some studies suggest that in a small number of children, artificial ]s or ] may be associated with an increased prevalence of ADHD or ADHD-like symptoms,<ref name="nimh" /><ref name="pmid22232312">{{cite journal |vauthors=Millichap JG, Yee MM |title=The diet factor in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder |journal=Pediatrics |volume=129 |issue=2 |pages=330–337 |date=February 2012 |pmid=22232312 |doi=10.1542/peds.2011-2199 |s2cid=14925322 |url=http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/129/2/330.long |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150911071727/http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/129/2/330.long |archive-date=11 September 2015}}</ref> but the evidence is weak and may only apply to children with ].<ref name="Sonu_2013" /><ref name="pmid22232312" /><ref name="EncycFoodSafety">{{cite encyclopedia |vauthors=Tomaska LD, Brooke-Taylor S |title=Food Additives&nbsp;– General |pages=–54 |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Food Safety |volume=3 |veditors=Motarjemi Y, Moy GG, Todd EC |publisher=Elsevier/Academic Press |location=Amsterdam |edition=1st |date=2014 |isbn=978-0-12-378613-5 |oclc=865335120}}</ref> The ] has put in place regulatory measures based on these concerns.<ref name="FDAdyecomm">{{cite web |date=March 2011 |url=https://www.fda.gov/downloads/AdvisoryCommittees/CommitteesMeetingMaterials/FoodAdvisoryCommittee/UCM248549.pdf |title=Background Document for the Food Advisory Committee: Certified Color Additives in Food and Possible Association with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Children |publisher=U.S. Food and Drug Administration |url-status=live |archive-date=6 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151106080629/https://www.fda.gov/downloads/AdvisoryCommittees/CommitteesMeetingMaterials/FoodAdvisoryCommittee/UCM248549.pdf}}</ref> In a minority of children, ] or ] to certain foods may worsen ADHD symptoms.<ref name="Nigg_2014" /> Some studies suggest that in a small number of children, artificial ]s or ] may be associated with an increased prevalence of ADHD or ADHD-like symptoms,<ref name="nimh" /><ref name="pmid22232312">{{cite journal | vauthors = Millichap JG, Yee MM | title = The diet factor in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder | journal = Pediatrics | volume = 129 | issue = 2 | pages = 330–337 | date = February 2012 | pmid = 22232312 | doi = 10.1542/peds.2011-2199 | url = http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/129/2/330.long | url-status = live | s2cid = 14925322 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150911071727/http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/129/2/330.long | archive-date = 11 September 2015 }}</ref> but the evidence is weak and may apply to only children with ].<ref name="Sonu_2013" /><ref name="pmid22232312" /><ref name="EncycFoodSafety">{{cite encyclopedia |vauthors=Tomaska LD, Brooke-Taylor S |title=Food Additives&nbsp;– General |pages=–54 |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Food Safety |volume=3 |veditors=Motarjemi Y, Moy GG, Todd EC |publisher=Elsevier/Academic Press |location=Amsterdam |edition=1st |date=2014 |isbn=978-0-12-378613-5 |oclc=865335120}}</ref> The ] has put in place regulatory measures based on these concerns.<ref name="FDAdyecomm">{{cite web |date=March 2011 |url=https://www.fda.gov/downloads/AdvisoryCommittees/CommitteesMeetingMaterials/FoodAdvisoryCommittee/UCM248549.pdf |title=Background Document for the Food Advisory Committee: Certified Color Additives in Food and Possible Association with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Children |publisher=U.S. Food and Drug Administration |url-status=live |archive-date=6 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151106080629/https://www.fda.gov/downloads/AdvisoryCommittees/CommitteesMeetingMaterials/FoodAdvisoryCommittee/UCM248549.pdf}}</ref> In a minority of children, ] or ] to certain foods may worsen ADHD symptoms.<ref name="Nigg_2014" />


Individuals with ] are sometimes diagnosed as having attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), raising the possibility that a subtype of ADHD has a cause that can be understood mechanistically and treated in a novel way. The sensory overload is treatable with oral ]. Individuals with ] are sometimes diagnosed as having ADHD, raising the possibility that a subtype of ADHD has a cause that can be understood mechanistically and treated in a novel way. The sensory overload is treatable with oral ].{{citation needed|date=July 2024}}


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Research does not support popular beliefs that ADHD is caused by eating too much refined sugar, watching too much television, parenting, poverty or family chaos; however, they might worsen ADHD symptoms in certain people.<ref name="cdc2016facts">{{cite web |author=CDC |title=Facts About ADHD |publisher=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |url=https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/facts.html |date=6 January 2016 |access-date=20 March 2016 |url-status=live |archive-date=22 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322103310/http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/facts.html}}</ref> Research does not support popular beliefs that ADHD is caused by eating too much refined sugar, watching too much television, bad parenting, poverty or family chaos; however, they might worsen ADHD symptoms in certain people.<ref name="cdc2016facts">{{cite web |title=Facts About ADHD |publisher=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |url=https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/facts.html |date=6 January 2016 |access-date=20 March 2016 |url-status=live |archive-date=22 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322103310/http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/facts.html}}</ref>


In some cases, an inappropriate diagnosis of ADHD may reflect a ] or a poor ], rather than any true presence of ADHD in the individual.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.euro.who.int/document/MNH/ebrief14.pdf |title=Mental health of children and adolescents |date=15 January 2005 |access-date=13 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091024102724/http://www.euro.who.int/document/MNH/ebrief14.pdf |archive-date=24 October 2009 |website=WHO Europe}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=May 2022|reason=The current source is a briefing for a conference, with unclear provenance.}} In other cases, it may be explained by increasing academic expectations, with a diagnosis being a method for parents in some countries to obtain extra financial and educational support for their child.<ref name="Erk_2009" /> Behaviours typical of ADHD occur more commonly in children who have experienced violence and emotional abuse.<ref name="NICE 2009">{{cite book |title=Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Diagnosis and Management of ADHD in Children, Young People and Adults |author=National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health |series=NICE Clinical Guidelines |volume=72 |publisher=British Psychological Society |location=Leicester |isbn=978-1-85433-471-8 |date=2009 |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK53652/ |via=NCBI Bookshelf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160113133612/http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK53652/ |archive-date=13 January 2016 }}</ref>
=== Society ===
The youngest children in a class have been found to be more likely to be diagnosed as having ADHD, possibly due to them being developmentally behind their older classmates.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Holland J, Sayal K |title=Relative age and ADHD symptoms, diagnosis and medication: a systematic review |journal=European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry |volume=28 |issue=11 |pages=1417–1429 |date=November 2019 |pmid=30293121 |pmc=6800871 |doi=10.1007/s00787-018-1229-6 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Disorders of Childhood: Development and Psychopathology |vauthors=Parritz R |publisher=Cengage Learning |year=2013 |isbn=978-1-285-09606-3 |pages=}}<!-- |access-date=17 January 2014--></ref> They also appear to use ADHD medications at nearly twice the rate of their peers.<ref>{{cite book |vauthors=Stockman JA |title=Year Book of Pediatrics 2014 E-Book |date=2016 |publisher=Elsevier Health Sciences |isbn=9780323265270 |page=163 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5b65DAAAQBAJ&pg=PT163 |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=26 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726123927/https://books.google.com/books?id=5b65DAAAQBAJ&pg=PT163 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In some cases, an inappropriate diagnosis of ADHD may reflect a ] or a poor ], rather than any true presence of ADHD in the individual.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.euro.who.int/document/MNH/ebrief14.pdf |title=Mental health of children and adolescents |date=15 January 2005 |access-date=13 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091024102724/http://www.euro.who.int/document/MNH/ebrief14.pdf |archive-date=24 October 2009 |website=WHO Europe}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=May 2022|reason=The current source is a briefing for a conference, with unclear provenance.}} In other cases, it may be explained by increasing academic expectations, with a diagnosis being a method for parents in some countries to get extra financial and educational support for their child.<ref name="Erk_2009" /> Behaviors typical of ADHD occur more commonly in children who have experienced violence and emotional abuse.<ref name="NICE 2009" />


== Pathophysiology == == Pathophysiology ==
Current models of ADHD suggest that it is associated with functional impairments in some of the brain's ], particularly those involving ] and ].<ref name="VTA+LC projection systems">{{cite journal |vauthors=Chandler DJ, Waterhouse BD, Gao WJ |title=New perspectives on catecholaminergic regulation of executive circuits: evidence for independent modulation of prefrontal functions by midbrain dopaminergic and noradrenergic neurons |journal=Frontiers in Neural Circuits |volume=8 |page=53 |date=May 2014 |pmid=24904299 |pmc=4033238 |doi=10.3389/fncir.2014.00053 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="Malenka ADHD neurosci" /> The dopamine and norepinephrine pathways that originate in the ] and ] project to diverse regions of the brain and govern a variety of cognitive processes.<ref name="VTA+LC projection systems" /><ref name="Malenka pathways" /> The ]s and ]s which project to the ] and ] are directly responsible for modulating ] (cognitive control of behavior), motivation, reward perception, and motor function;<ref name="VTA+LC projection systems" /><ref name="Malenka ADHD neurosci" /><ref name="Malenka pathways" /> these pathways are known to play a central role in the ] of ADHD.<ref name="VTA+LC projection systems" /><ref name="Malenka pathways" /><ref name="pmid22169776" /><ref name="pmid22983386" /> Larger models of ADHD with additional pathways have been proposed.<ref name="Malenka ADHD neurosci" /><ref name="pmid22169776">{{cite journal |vauthors=Castellanos FX, Proal E |title=Large-scale brain systems in ADHD: beyond the prefrontal-striatal model |journal=Trends in Cognitive Sciences |volume=16 |issue=1 |pages=17–26 |date=January 2012 |pmid=22169776 |pmc=3272832 |doi=10.1016/j.tics.2011.11.007 |quote=Recent conceptualizations of ADHD have taken seriously the distributed nature of neuronal processing. Most of the candidate networks have focused on prefrontal-striatal-cerebellar circuits, although other posterior regions are also being proposed. }}</ref><ref name="pmid22983386">{{cite journal |vauthors=Cortese S, Kelly C, Chabernaud C, Proal E, Di Martino A, Milham MP, Castellanos FX |title=Toward systems neuroscience of ADHD: a meta-analysis of 55 fMRI studies |journal=The American Journal of Psychiatry |volume=169 |issue=10 |issn=0002-953X | eissn=1535-7228| lccn=22024537 Current models of ADHD suggest that it is associated with functional impairments in some of the brain's ], particularly those involving ] and ].<ref name="Malenka ADHD neurosci">{{cite book |title=Molecular Neuropharmacology: A Foundation for Clinical Neuroscience |vauthors=Malenka RC, Nestler EJ, Hyman SE |publisher=McGraw-Hill Medical |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-07-148127-4 |veditors=Sydor A, Brown RY |edition=2nd |location=New York |pages=266, 315, 318–323 |chapter=Chapters 10 and 13 |quote=Early results with structural MRI show thinning of the cerebral cortex in ADHD subjects compared with age-matched controls in prefrontal cortex and posterior parietal cortex, areas involved in working memory and attention.}}</ref> The dopamine and norepinephrine pathways that originate in the ] and ] project to diverse regions of the brain and govern a variety of cognitive processes.<ref name="VTA+LC projection systems">{{cite journal | vauthors = Chandler DJ, Waterhouse BD, Gao WJ | title = New perspectives on catecholaminergic regulation of executive circuits: evidence for independent modulation of prefrontal functions by midbrain dopaminergic and noradrenergic neurons | journal = Frontiers in Neural Circuits | volume = 8 | pages = 53 | date = May 2014 | pmid = 24904299 | pmc = 4033238 | doi = 10.3389/fncir.2014.00053 | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref name="Malenka pathways" /> The ]s and ]s which project to the ] and ] are directly responsible for modulating ] (cognitive control of behaviour), motivation, reward perception, and motor function;<ref name="Malenka ADHD neurosci" /><ref name="Malenka pathways" /> these pathways are known to play a central role in the ] of ADHD.<ref name="VTA+LC projection systems" /><ref name="Malenka pathways" /><ref name="pmid22169776" /><ref name="pmid22983386" /> Larger models of ADHD with additional pathways have been proposed.<ref name="pmid22169776">{{cite journal | vauthors = Castellanos FX, Proal E | title = Large-scale brain systems in ADHD: beyond the prefrontal-striatal model | journal = Trends in Cognitive Sciences | volume = 16 | issue = 1 | pages = 17–26 | date = January 2012 | pmid = 22169776 | pmc = 3272832 | doi = 10.1016/j.tics.2011.11.007 | quote = Recent conceptualizations of ADHD have taken seriously the distributed nature of neuronal processing. Most of the candidate networks have focused on prefrontal-striatal-cerebellar circuits, although other posterior regions are also being proposed. }}</ref><ref name="pmid22983386">{{cite journal | vauthors = Cortese S, Kelly C, Chabernaud C, Proal E, Di Martino A, Milham MP, Castellanos FX | title = Toward systems neuroscience of ADHD: a meta-analysis of 55 fMRI studies | journal = The American Journal of Psychiatry | volume = 169 | issue = 10 | pages = 1038–1055 | date = October 2012 | pmid = 22983386 | pmc = 3879048 | doi = 10.1176/appi.ajp.2012.11101521 | lccn = 22024537 | oclc = 1480183 | eissn = 1535-7228 }}</ref>
|oclc=1480183|pages=1038–1055 |date=October 2012 |pmid=22983386 |pmc=3879048 |doi=10.1176/appi.ajp.2012.11101521 }}</ref>


=== Brain structure === === Brain structure ===
] ]
In children with ADHD, there is a general reduction of volume in certain brain structures, with a proportionally greater decrease in the volume in the left-sided ].<ref name="Malenka ADHD neurosci" /><ref name="Krain2006">{{cite journal |vauthors=Krain AL, Castellanos FX |title=Brain development and ADHD |journal=Clinical Psychology Review |volume=26 |issue=4 |pages=433–444 |date=August 2006 |pmid=16480802 |doi=10.1016/j.cpr.2006.01.005 }}</ref> The ] also shows thinning in individuals with ADHD compared to controls.<ref name="Malenka ADHD neurosci">{{cite book |vauthors=Malenka RC, Nestler EJ, Hyman SE |veditors=Sydor A, Brown RY |title=Molecular Neuropharmacology: A Foundation for Clinical Neuroscience |year=2009 |publisher=McGraw-Hill Medical |location=New York |isbn=978-0-07-148127-4 |pages=266, 315, 318–323 |edition=2nd |chapter=Chapters 10 and 13 |quote=Early results with structural MRI show thinning of the cerebral cortex in ADHD subjects compared with age-matched controls in prefrontal cortex and posterior parietal cortex, areas involved in working memory and attention.}}</ref> Other brain structures in the prefrontal-striatal-cerebellar and prefrontal-striatal-thalamic circuits have also been found to differ between people with and without ADHD.<ref name="Malenka ADHD neurosci" /><ref name="pmid22169776" /><ref name="pmid22983386" /> In children with ADHD, there is a general reduction of volume in certain brain structures, with a proportionally greater decrease in the volume in the left-sided prefrontal cortex.<ref name="Malenka ADHD neurosci" /><ref name="Krain2006">{{cite journal | vauthors = Krain AL, Castellanos FX | title = Brain development and ADHD | journal = Clinical Psychology Review | volume = 26 | issue = 4 | pages = 433–444 | date = August 2006 | pmid = 16480802 | doi = 10.1016/j.cpr.2006.01.005 }}</ref> The ] also shows thinning in individuals with ADHD compared to controls. Other brain structures in the prefrontal-striatal-cerebellar and prefrontal-striatal-thalamic circuits have also been found to differ between people with and without ADHD.<ref name="Malenka ADHD neurosci" /><ref name="pmid22169776" /><ref name="pmid22983386" />


The subcortical volumes of the ], ], ], ], and ] appears smaller in individuals with ADHD compared with controls.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Hoogman M, Bralten J, Hibar DP, Mennes M, Zwiers MP, Schweren LS, van Hulzen KJ, Medland SE, Shumskaya E, Jahanshad N, Zeeuw P, Szekely E, Sudre G, Wolfers T, Onnink AM, Dammers JT, Mostert JC, Vives-Gilabert Y, Kohls G, Oberwelland E, Seitz J, Schulte-Rüther M, Ambrosino S, Doyle AE, Høvik MF, Dramsdahl M, Tamm L, van Erp TG, Dale A, Schork A, Conzelmann A, Zierhut K, Baur R, McCarthy H, Yoncheva YN, Cubillo A, Chantiluke K, Mehta MA, Paloyelis Y, Hohmann S, Baumeister S, Bramati I, Mattos P, Tovar-Moll F, Douglas P, Banaschewski T, Brandeis D, Kuntsi J, Asherson P, Rubia K, Kelly C, Martino AD, Milham MP, Castellanos FX, Frodl T, Zentis M, Lesch KP, Reif A, Pauli P, Jernigan TL, Haavik J, Plessen KJ, Lundervold AJ, Hugdahl K, Seidman LJ, Biederman J, Rommelse N, Heslenfeld DJ, Hartman CA, Hoekstra PJ, Oosterlaan J, Polier GV, Konrad K, Vilarroya O, Ramos-Quiroga JA, Soliva JC, Durston S, Buitelaar JK, Faraone SV, Shaw P, Thompson PM, Franke B |display-authors=6 |title=Subcortical brain volume differences in participants with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children and adults: a cross-sectional mega-analysis |journal=The Lancet. Psychiatry |volume=4 |issue=4 |pages=310–319 |date=April 2017 |pmid=28219628 |pmc=5933934 |doi=10.1016/S2215-0366(17)30049-4 }}</ref> Structural MRI studies have also revealed differences in white matter, with marked differences in inter-hemispheric asymmetry between ADHD and typically developing youths.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Douglas PK, Gutman B, Anderson A, Larios C, Lawrence KE, Narr K, Sengupta B, Coorray G, Douglas DB, Thompson PM, McGough JJ, Bookheimer SY |journal=NeuroImage: Clinical |title=Hemispheric brain asymmetry differences in youths with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder |volume=18 |pages=744–752 |date=February 2018 |pmid=29876263 |pmc=5988460 |doi=10.1016/j.nicl.2018.02.020 }}</ref> The subcortical volumes of the ], ], ], ], and ] appears smaller in individuals with ADHD compared with controls.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Hoogman M, Bralten J, Hibar DP, Mennes M, Zwiers MP, Schweren LS, van Hulzen KJ, Medland SE, Shumskaya E, Jahanshad N, Zeeuw P, Szekely E, Sudre G, Wolfers T, Onnink AM, Dammers JT, Mostert JC, Vives-Gilabert Y, Kohls G, Oberwelland E, Seitz J, Schulte-Rüther M, Ambrosino S, Doyle AE, Høvik MF, Dramsdahl M, Tamm L, van Erp TG, Dale A, Schork A, Conzelmann A, Zierhut K, Baur R, McCarthy H, Yoncheva YN, Cubillo A, Chantiluke K, Mehta MA, Paloyelis Y, Hohmann S, Baumeister S, Bramati I, Mattos P, Tovar-Moll F, Douglas P, Banaschewski T, Brandeis D, Kuntsi J, Asherson P, Rubia K, Kelly C, Martino AD, Milham MP, Castellanos FX, Frodl T, Zentis M, Lesch KP, Reif A, Pauli P, Jernigan TL, Haavik J, Plessen KJ, Lundervold AJ, Hugdahl K, Seidman LJ, Biederman J, Rommelse N, Heslenfeld DJ, Hartman CA, Hoekstra PJ, Oosterlaan J, Polier GV, Konrad K, Vilarroya O, Ramos-Quiroga JA, Soliva JC, Durston S, Buitelaar JK, Faraone SV, Shaw P, Thompson PM, Franke B | title = Subcortical brain volume differences in participants with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children and adults: a cross-sectional mega-analysis | journal = The Lancet. Psychiatry | volume = 4 | issue = 4 | pages = 310–319 | date = April 2017 | pmid = 28219628 | pmc = 5933934 | doi = 10.1016/S2215-0366(17)30049-4 }}</ref> Structural MRI studies have also revealed differences in white matter, with marked differences in inter-hemispheric asymmetry between ADHD and typically developing youths.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Douglas PK, Gutman B, Anderson A, Larios C, Lawrence KE, Narr K, Sengupta B, Cooray G, Douglas DB, Thompson PM, McGough JJ, Bookheimer SY | title = Hemispheric brain asymmetry differences in youths with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder | journal = NeuroImage. Clinical | volume = 18 | pages = 744–752 | date = February 2018 | pmid = 29876263 | pmc = 5988460 | doi = 10.1016/j.nicl.2018.02.020 }}</ref>


] (fMRI) studies have revealed a number of differences between ADHD and control brains. Mirroring what is known from structural findings, fMRI studies have showed evidence for a higher connectivity between subcortical and cortical regions, such as between the caudate and prefrontal cortex. The degree of hyperconnectivity between these regions correlated with the severity of inattention or hyperactivity <ref name="Damiani_2021">{{cite journal | vauthors = Damiani S, Tarchi L, Scalabrini A, Marini S, Provenzani U, Rocchetti M, Oliva F, Politi P | title = Beneath the surface: hyper-connectivity between caudate and salience regions in ADHD fMRI at rest | journal = European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | volume = 30 | issue = 4 | pages = 619–631 | date = April 2021 | pmid = 32385695 | doi = 10.1007/s00787-020-01545-0 | hdl-access = free | s2cid = 218540328 | hdl = 2318/1755224 }}</ref> Hemispheric lateralization processes have also been postulated as being implicated in ADHD, but empiric results showed contrasting evidence on the topic.<ref name="Tarchi_2022">{{cite journal | vauthors = Tarchi L, Damiani S, Fantoni T, Pisano T, Castellini G, Politi P, Ricca V | title = Centrality and interhemispheric coordination are related to different clinical/behavioral factors in attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a resting-state fMRI study | journal = Brain Imaging and Behavior | volume = 16 | issue = 6 | pages = 2526–2542 | date = December 2022 | pmid = 35859076 | pmc = 9712307 | doi = 10.1007/s11682-022-00708-8 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Mohamed SM, Börger NA, Geuze RH, van der Meere JJ | title = Brain lateralization and self-reported symptoms of ADHD in a population sample of adults: a dimensional approach | journal = Frontiers in Psychology | volume = 6 | pages = 1418 | date = 2015 | pmid = 26441789 | pmc = 4585266 | doi = 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01418 | doi-access = free }}</ref>
Functional MRI ] studies have revealed a number of differences between ADHD and control brains. ] performed on resting-state fMRI data have revealed that individuals with the inattentive type of ] have significantly more independent components are required to describe the variance of this data.<ref>{{ cite journal |vauthors=Colby JB , Rudie JD, Brown JA, Douglas PK, Cohen MS, Shehzad Z | title=Insights into multimodal imaging classification of ADHD |journal=Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience |volume=6 |page=59 |date=August 2012 |doi=10.3389/fnsys.2012.00059| pmid=22912605 | pmc=3419970 | doi-access=free }}</ref>


=== Neurotransmitter pathways === === Neurotransmitter pathways ===
Previously, it had been suggested that the elevated number of ] in people with ADHD was part of the pathophysiology, but it appears the elevated numbers may be due to adaptation following exposure to stimulant medication.<ref name="pmid22294258">{{cite journal |vauthors=Fusar-Poli P, Rubia K, Rossi G, Sartori G, Balottin U |title=Striatal dopamine transporter alterations in ADHD: pathophysiology or adaptation to psychostimulants? A meta-analysis |journal=The American Journal of Psychiatry |volume=169 |issue=3 |pages=264–272 |date=March 2012 |pmid=22294258 |doi=10.1176/appi.ajp.2011.11060940 |issn=0002-953X | eissn=1535-7228| lccn=22024537 |oclc=1480183|hdl=11577/2482784 |doi-access=free }}</ref> Current models involve the ] and the ].<ref name="VTA+LC projection systems" /><ref name="Malenka ADHD neurosci" /><ref name="Malenka pathways" /> ADHD psychostimulants possess treatment efficacy because they increase neurotransmitter activity in these systems.<ref name="Malenka ADHD neurosci" /><ref name="Malenka pathways">{{cite book |vauthors=Malenka RC, Nestler EJ, Hyman SE |veditors=Sydor A, Brown RY |title=Molecular Neuropharmacology: A Foundation for Clinical Neuroscience |year=2009 |publisher=McGraw-Hill Medical |location=New York |isbn=978-0-07-148127-4 |pages=148, 154–157 |edition=2nd |chapter=Chapter 6: Widely Projecting Systems: Monoamines, Acetylcholine, and Orexin | quote={{abbr|DA|dopamine}} has multiple actions in the prefrontal cortex. It promotes the 'cognitive control' of behavior: the selection and successful monitoring of behavior to facilitate attainment of chosen goals. Aspects of cognitive control in which DA plays a role include working memory, the ability to hold information 'on line' in order to guide actions, suppression of prepotent behaviors that compete with goal-directed actions, and control of attention and thus the ability to overcome distractions. Cognitive control is impaired in several disorders, including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.&nbsp;... Noradrenergic projections from the {{abbr|LC|locus coeruleus}} thus interact with dopaminergic projections from the {{abbr|VTA|ventral tegmental area}} to regulate cognitive control.&nbsp;... it has not been shown that {{abbr|5HT|serotonin}} makes a therapeutic contribution to treatment of ADHD.}}</ref><ref name="cognition enhancers" /> There may additionally be abnormalities in ], ], or ] pathways.<ref name="cognition enhancers" /><ref name="Cortese-2012">{{cite journal |vauthors=Cortese S |title=The neurobiology and genetics of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): what every clinician should know |journal=European Journal of Paediatric Neurology |volume=16 |issue=5 |pages=422–433 |date=September 2012 |pmid=22306277 |doi=10.1016/j.ejpn.2012.01.009 }}</ref><ref name="pmid22939004">{{cite journal |vauthors=Lesch KP, Merker S, Reif A, Novak M |title=Dances with black widow spiders: dysregulation of glutamate signalling enters centre stage in ADHD |journal=European Neuropsychopharmacology |volume=23 |issue=6 |pages=479–491 |date=June 2013 |pmid=22939004 |doi=10.1016/j.euroneuro.2012.07.013 |s2cid=14701654 }}</ref> Previously, it had been suggested that the elevated number of ] in people with ADHD was part of the pathophysiology, but it appears the elevated numbers may be due to adaptation following exposure to stimulant medication.<ref name="pmid22294258">{{cite journal | vauthors = Fusar-Poli P, Rubia K, Rossi G, Sartori G, Balottin U | title = Striatal dopamine transporter alterations in ADHD: pathophysiology or adaptation to psychostimulants? A meta-analysis | journal = The American Journal of Psychiatry | volume = 169 | issue = 3 | pages = 264–272 | date = March 2012 | pmid = 22294258 | doi = 10.1176/appi.ajp.2011.11060940 | lccn = 22024537 | hdl = 11577/2482784 | doi-access = free | oclc = 1480183 | eissn = 1535-7228 }}</ref> Current models involve the ] and the ].<ref name="VTA+LC projection systems" /><ref name="Malenka ADHD neurosci" /><ref name="Malenka pathways" /> ADHD psychostimulants possess treatment efficacy because they increase neurotransmitter activity in these systems.<ref name="Malenka ADHD neurosci" /><ref name="Malenka pathways">{{cite book |vauthors=Malenka RC, Nestler EJ, Hyman SE |veditors=Sydor A, Brown RY |title=Molecular Neuropharmacology: A Foundation for Clinical Neuroscience |year=2009 |publisher=McGraw-Hill Medical |location=New York |isbn=978-0-07-148127-4 |pages=148, 154–157 |edition=2nd |chapter=Chapter 6: Widely Projecting Systems: Monoamines, Acetylcholine, and Orexin | quote={{abbr|DA|dopamine}} has multiple actions in the prefrontal cortex. It promotes the 'cognitive control' of behavior: the selection and successful monitoring of behavior to facilitate attainment of chosen goals. Aspects of cognitive control in which DA plays a role include working memory, the ability to hold information 'on line' in order to guide actions, suppression of prepotent behaviors that compete with goal-directed actions, and control of attention and thus the ability to overcome distractions. Cognitive control is impaired in several disorders, including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.&nbsp;... Noradrenergic projections from the {{abbr|LC|locus coeruleus}} thus interact with dopaminergic projections from the {{abbr|VTA|ventral tegmental area}} to regulate cognitive control.&nbsp;... it has not been shown that {{abbr|5HT|serotonin}} makes a therapeutic contribution to treatment of ADHD.}}</ref><ref name="cognition enhancers" /> There may additionally be abnormalities in ], ], or ] pathways.<ref name="cognition enhancers" /><ref name="Cortese-2012">{{cite journal | vauthors = Cortese S | title = The neurobiology and genetics of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): what every clinician should know | journal = European Journal of Paediatric Neurology | volume = 16 | issue = 5 | pages = 422–433 | date = September 2012 | pmid = 22306277 | doi = 10.1016/j.ejpn.2012.01.009 }}</ref><ref name="pmid22939004">{{cite journal | vauthors = Lesch KP, Merker S, Reif A, Novak M | title = Dances with black widow spiders: dysregulation of glutamate signalling enters centre stage in ADHD | journal = European Neuropsychopharmacology | volume = 23 | issue = 6 | pages = 479–491 | date = June 2013 | pmid = 22939004 | doi = 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2012.07.013 | s2cid = 14701654 }}</ref>


=== Executive function and motivation === === Executive function and motivation ===
The symptoms of ADHD arise from a deficiency in certain ]s (e.g., ], ], and ]).<ref name="Brown_2008">{{cite journal |vauthors=Brown TE |title=ADD/ADHD and Impaired Executive Function in Clinical Practice |journal=Current Psychiatry Reports |volume=10 |issue=5 |pages=407–411 |date=October 2008 |pmid=18803914 |doi=10.1007/s11920-008-0065-7 |s2cid=146463279 }}</ref><ref name="Malenka ADHD neurosci" /><ref name="Malenka pathways" /><ref name="Executive functions">{{cite journal |vauthors=Diamond A |title=Executive functions |journal=Annual Review of Psychology |volume=64 |pages=135–168 |year=2013 |pmid=23020641 |pmc=4084861 |doi=10.1146/annurev-psych-113011-143750 |quote={{abbr|EFs|executive functions}} and prefrontal cortex are the first to suffer, and suffer disproportionately, if something is not right in your life. They suffer first, and most, if you are stressed (Arnsten 1998, Liston et al. 2009, Oaten & Cheng 2005), sad (Hirt et al. 2008, von Hecker & Meiser 2005), lonely (Baumeister et al. 2002, Cacioppo & Patrick 2008, Campbell et al. 2006, Tun et al. 2012), sleep deprived (Barnes et al. 2012, Huang et al. 2007), or not physically fit (Best 2010, Chaddock et al. 2011, Hillman et al. 2008). Any of these can cause you to appear to have a disorder of EFs, such as ADHD, when you do not. }}</ref> Executive functions are a set of ] that are required to successfully select and monitor behaviors that facilitate the attainment of one's chosen goals.<ref name="Brown_2008" /><ref name="Malenka pathways" /><ref name="Executive functions" /> The executive function impairments that occur in ADHD individuals result in problems with staying organised, time keeping, excessive ], maintaining concentration, paying attention, ignoring distractions, regulating emotions, and remembering details.<ref name="Brown_2008" /><ref name="Malenka ADHD neurosci" /><ref name="Malenka pathways" /> People with ADHD appear to have unimpaired long-term memory, and deficits in long-term recall appear to be attributed to impairments in working memory.<ref name="Brown_2008" /><ref name="pmid24232170">{{cite journal |vauthors=Skodzik T, Holling H, Pedersen A |title=Long-Term Memory Performance in Adult ADHD |journal=Journal of Attention Disorders |volume=21 |issue=4 |pages=267–283 |date=February 2017 |pmid=24232170 |doi=10.1177/1087054713510561 |s2cid=27070077 }}</ref> Due to the rates of brain maturation and the increasing demands for executive control as a person gets older, ADHD impairments may not fully manifest themselves until adolescence or even early adulthood.<ref name="Brown_2008" /> ADHD arises from a core deficit in executive functions (e.g., ], ], and ]), which are a set of ] that are required to successfully select and monitor behaviours that facilitate the attainment of one's chosen goals.<ref name="Malenka pathways" /><ref name="Executive functions" /> The executive function impairments that occur in ADHD individuals result in problems with staying organised, time keeping, ] control, maintaining concentration, paying attention, ignoring distractions, regulating emotions, and remembering details.<ref name="Brown_2008" /><ref name="Malenka ADHD neurosci" /><ref name="Malenka pathways" /> People with ADHD appear to have unimpaired long-term memory, and deficits in long-term recall appear to be attributed to impairments in working memory.<ref name="pmid24232170">{{cite journal | vauthors = Skodzik T, Holling H, Pedersen A | title = Long-Term Memory Performance in Adult ADHD | journal = Journal of Attention Disorders | volume = 21 | issue = 4 | pages = 267–283 | date = February 2017 | pmid = 24232170 | doi = 10.1177/1087054713510561 | s2cid = 27070077 }}</ref> Due to the rates of brain maturation and the increasing demands for executive control as a person gets older, ADHD impairments may not fully manifest themselves until adolescence or even early adulthood.<ref name="Brown_2008" /> Conversely, brain maturation trajectories, potentially exhibiting diverging longitudinal trends in ADHD, may support a later improvement in executive functions after reaching adulthood.<ref name="Tarchi_2022" />


ADHD has also been associated with motivational deficits in children.<ref name="Motivation">{{cite journal |vauthors=Modesto-Lowe V, Chaplin M, Soovajian V, Meyer A |title=Are motivation deficits underestimated in patients with ADHD? A review of the literature |journal=Postgraduate Medicine |volume=125 |issue=4 |pages=47–52 |date=July 2013 |pmid=23933893 |doi=10.3810/pgm.2013.07.2677 |quote=Behavioral studies show altered processing of reinforcement and incentives in children with ADHD. These children respond more impulsively to rewards and choose small, immediate rewards over larger, delayed incentives. Interestingly, a high intensity of reinforcement is effective in improving task performance in children with ADHD. Pharmacotherapy may also improve task persistence in these children.&nbsp;... Previous studies suggest that a clinical approach using interventions to improve motivational processes in patients with ADHD may improve outcomes as children with ADHD transition into adolescence and adulthood. |s2cid=24817804 }}</ref> Children with ADHD often find it difficult to focus on long-term over short-term rewards, and exhibit impulsive behavior for short-term rewards.<ref name="Motivation" /> ADHD has also been associated with motivational deficits in children. Children with ADHD often find it difficult to focus on long-term over short-term rewards, and exhibit impulsive behaviour for short-term rewards.<ref name="Motivation">{{cite journal | vauthors = Modesto-Lowe V, Chaplin M, Soovajian V, Meyer A | title = Are motivation deficits underestimated in patients with ADHD? A review of the literature | journal = Postgraduate Medicine | volume = 125 | issue = 4 | pages = 47–52 | date = July 2013 | pmid = 23933893 | doi = 10.3810/pgm.2013.07.2677 | quote = Behavioral studies show altered processing of reinforcement and incentives in children with ADHD. These children respond more impulsively to rewards and choose small, immediate rewards over larger, delayed incentives. Interestingly, a high intensity of reinforcement is effective in improving task performance in children with ADHD. Pharmacotherapy may also improve task persistence in these children.&nbsp;... Previous studies suggest that a clinical approach using interventions to improve motivational processes in patients with ADHD may improve outcomes as children with ADHD transition into adolescence and adulthood. | s2cid = 24817804 }}</ref>


=== Paradoxical reaction to neuroactive substances === === Paradoxical reaction to neuroactive substances ===
Another sign of the structurally altered signal processing in the central nervous system in this group of people is the conspicuously common ] ({{circa|10–20%}} of patients). These are unexpected reactions in the opposite direction as with a normal effect, or otherwise significant different reactions. These are reactions to neuroactive substances such as ] at the dentist, ], ], ], weak ] and central and peripheral ]. Since the causes of ''paradoxical reactions'' are at least partly genetic, it may be useful in critical situations, for example before operations, to ask whether such abnormalities may also exist in family members.<ref name="PMID21886668">B. Langguth, R. Bär, N. Wodarz, M. Wittmann, R. Laufkötter: ''Paradoxical reaction in ADHD.'' In: ''Deutsches Ärzteblatt international.'' Band 108, Nummer 31–32, August 2011, S.&nbsp;541; author reply 541–541; author reply 542, (in German).], PMID 21886668, {{PMC|3163785}}.</ref><ref>Rainer Laufkötter, Berthold Langguth, Monika Johann, Peter Eichhammer, Göran Hajak: ''ADHS des Erwachsenenalters und Komorbiditäten.'' In: ''psychoneuro.'' 31, 2005, S.&nbsp;563, (in German).].</ref> Another sign of the structurally altered signal processing in the central nervous system in this group of people is the conspicuously common ] ({{circa|10–20%}} of patients). These are unexpected reactions in the opposite direction as with a normal effect, or otherwise significant different reactions. These are reactions to neuroactive substances such as ] at the dentist, ], ], ], weak ] and central and peripheral ]. Since the causes of ''paradoxical reactions'' are at least partly genetic, it may be useful in critical situations, for example before operations, to ask whether such abnormalities may also exist in family members.<ref name="PMID21886668">B. Langguth, R. Bär, N. Wodarz, M. Wittmann, R. Laufkötter: ''Paradoxical reaction in ADHD.'' In: ''Deutsches Ärzteblatt international.'' Band 108, Nummer 31–32, August 2011, S.&nbsp;541; author reply 541–541; author reply 542, (in German).], PMID 21886668, {{PMC|3163785}}.</ref><ref>Rainer Laufkötter, Berthold Langguth, Monika Johann, Peter Eichhammer, Göran Hajak: ''ADHS des Erwachsenenalters und Komorbiditäten.'' In: ''psychoneuro.'' 31, 2005, S.&nbsp;563, (in German).].</ref>


==Diagnosis== ==Diagnosis==
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ADHD is diagnosed by an assessment of a person's behavioral and mental development, including ruling out the effects of drugs, medications, and other medical or psychiatric problems as explanations for the symptoms.<ref name="NICE2009-part2" /> ADHD diagnosis often takes into account feedback from parents and teachers<ref name="Lake2011">{{cite book |vauthors=Dulcan MK, Lake MB |url={{google books|HvTa2nArhOsC|plainurl=yes}} |title=Concise Guide to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry |date=2011 |publisher=American Psychiatric Publishing |isbn=978-1-58562-416-4 |edition=4th illustrated |pages= |chapter=Axis I Disorders Usually First Diagnosed in Infancy, Childhood or Adolescence: Attention-Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders |chapter-url={{google books|HvTa2nArhOsC |pages=23|plainurl=yes}} |via=Google Books}}</ref> with most diagnoses begun after a teacher raises concerns.<ref name="Erk_2009">{{cite book |vauthors=Mayes R, Bagwell C, Erkulwater JL |title=Medicating Children: ADHD and Pediatric Mental Health |publisher=Harvard University Press |date=2009 |pages=4–24 |isbn=978-0-674-03163-0 |edition=illustrated }}</ref> It may be viewed as the extreme end of one or more continuous ]s found in all people.<ref name="NICE2009-Diagnosis" /> Imaging studies of the brain do not give consistent results between individuals; thus, they are only used for research purposes and not a diagnosis.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.merckmedicus.com/pp/us/hcp/diseasemodules/adhd/pathophysiology.jsp |title=MerckMedicus Modules: ADHD&nbsp;–Pathophysiology |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100501074844/http://www.merckmedicus.com/pp/us/hcp/diseasemodules/adhd/pathophysiology.jsp |archive-date=1 May 2010 |date=August 2002 }}</ref>

ADHD is diagnosed by an assessment of a person's behavioural and mental development, including ruling out the effects of drugs, medications, and other medical or psychiatric problems as explanations for the symptoms.<ref name="NICE2009-part2" /> ADHD diagnosis often takes into account feedback from parents and teachers<ref name="Lake2011">{{cite book |vauthors=Dulcan MK, Lake MB |url={{google books|HvTa2nArhOsC|plainurl=yes}} |title=Concise Guide to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry |date=2011 |publisher=American Psychiatric Publishing |isbn=978-1-58562-416-4 |edition=4th illustrated |pages= |chapter=Axis I Disorders Usually First Diagnosed in Infancy, Childhood or Adolescence: Attention-Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders |chapter-url={{google books|HvTa2nArhOsC |page=23|plainurl=yes}} |via=Google Books}}</ref> with most diagnoses begun after a teacher raises concerns.<ref name="Erk_2009">{{cite book |vauthors=Mayes R, Bagwell C, Erkulwater JL |title=Medicating Children: ADHD and Pediatric Mental Health |publisher=Harvard University Press |date=2009 |pages=4–24 |isbn=978-0-674-03163-0 |edition=illustrated }}</ref> While many tools exist to aid in the diagnosis of ADHD, their validity varies in different populations, and a reliable and valid diagnosis requires confirmation by a clinician while supplemented by standardized rating scales and input from multiple informants across various settings.<ref name = "Peterson_2024">{{cite journal | vauthors = Peterson BS, Trampush J, Brown M, Maglione M, Bolshakova M, Rozelle M, Miles J, Pakdaman S, Yagyu S, Motala A, Hempel S | title = Tools for the Diagnosis of ADHD in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review | journal = Pediatrics | volume = 153 | issue = 4 | date = April 2024 | pmid = 38523599 | doi = 10.1542/peds.2024-065854 }}</ref>
The diagnosis of ADHD has been criticised as being subjective because it is not based on a biological test. The International Consensus Statement on ADHD concluded that this criticism is unfounded, on the basis that ADHD meets standard criteria for validity of a mental disorder established by Robins and Guze. They attest that the disorder is considered valid because: 1) well-trained professionals in a variety of settings and cultures agree on its presence or absence using well-defined criteria and 2) the diagnosis is useful for predicting a) additional problems the patient may have (e.g., difficulties learning in school); b) future patient outcomes (e.g., risk for future drug abuse); c) response to treatment (e.g., medications and psychological treatments); and d) features that indicate a consistent set of causes for the disorder (e.g., findings from genetics or brain imaging), and that professional associations have endorsed and published guidelines for diagnosing ADHD.<ref name="Faraone_2021" />

The most commonly used rating scales for diagnosing ADHD are the ] and include the ] used for parents to rate their child's behaviour, the Youth Self Report Form (YSR) used for children to rate their own behaviour, and the Teacher Report Form (TRF) used for teachers to rate their pupil's behaviour. Additional rating scales that have been used alone or in combination with other measures to diagnose ADHD include the Behavior Assessment System for Children (BASC), Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function - Second Edition (BRIEF2), ], Conduct-Hyperactive-Attention Problem-Oppositional Symptom scale (CHAOS), Developmental Behavior Checklist Hyperactivity Index (DBC-HI), ], Diagnostic Infant and Preschool Assessment (DIPA-L), Pediatric Symptom Checklist (PSC), Social Communication Questionnaire (SCQ), Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS), Strengths and Weaknesses of ADHD Symptoms and Normal Behavior Rating Scale (SWAN). and the ].<ref name="Peterson_2024a">{{Cite journal |title=ADHD Diagnosis and Treatment in Children and Adolescents |url=https://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder/research |access-date=2024-06-22 |website=effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov |date=2024 |language=en |doi=10.23970/ahrqepccer267 |pmid=38657097 | vauthors = Peterson BS, Trampush J, Maglione M, Bolshakova M, Brown M, Rozelle M, Motala A, Yagyu S, Miles J, Pakdaman S, Gastelum M, Nguyen BT, Tokutomi E, Lee E, Belay JZ, Schaefer C, Coughlin B, Celosse K, Molakalapalli S, Shaw B, Sazmin T, Onyekwuluje AN, Tolentino D, Hempel S }}</ref>

The ASEBA, BASC, CHAOS, CRS, and Vanderbilt diagnostic rating scales allow for both parents and teachers as raters in the diagnosis of childhood and adolescent ADHD. Adolescents may also self report their symptoms using self report scales from the ASEBA, SWAN, and the Dominic Interactive for Adolescents-Revised (DIA-R).<ref name="Peterson_2024a" /> Self-rating scales, such as the ] and the ], are used in the screening and evaluation of ADHD.<ref name="Smith(2007) in Mash & Barkley EBA">{{Cite book |title=Assessment of Childhood Disorders |vauthors=Smith BJ, Barkley RA, Shapiro CJ |publisher=Guilford Press |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-59385-493-5 |veditors=Mash EJ, Barkley RA |edition=4th |location=New York, NY |pages=53–131 |chapter=Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder }}</ref>

Based on a 2024 systematic literature review and meta analysis commissioned by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), rating scales based on parent report, teacher report, or self-assessment from the adolescent have high internal consistency as a diagnostic tool meaning that the items within the scale are highly interrelated. The reliability of the scales between raters (i.e. their degree of agreement) however is poor to moderate making it important to include information from multiple raters to best inform a diagnosis.<ref name="Peterson_2024a" />


Imaging studies of the brain do not give consistent results between individuals; thus, they are only used for research purposes and not a diagnosis.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.merckmedicus.com/pp/us/hcp/diseasemodules/adhd/pathophysiology.jsp |work = MerckMedicus Modules | publisher = Merck & Co., Inc. | location = Whitehouse Station, NJ, USA | title = ADHD&nbsp;–Pathophysiology |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100501074844/http://www.merckmedicus.com/pp/us/hcp/diseasemodules/adhd/pathophysiology.jsp |archive-date=1 May 2010 |date=August 2002 }}</ref> Electroencephalography is not accurate enough to make an ADHD diagnosis.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Al Rahbi HA, Al-Sabri RM, Chitme HR | title = Interventions by pharmacists in out-patient pharmaceutical care | journal = Saudi Pharmaceutical Journal | volume = 22 | issue = 2 | pages = 101–106 | date = April 2014 | pmid = 24648820 | pmc = 3950532 | doi = 10.1016/j.jsps.2013.04.001 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Adamou M, Fullen T, Jones SL | title = EEG for Diagnosis of Adult ADHD: A Systematic Review With Narrative Analysis | journal = Frontiers in Psychiatry | volume = 11 | pages = 871 | date = 25 August 2020 | pmid = 33192633 | pmc = 7477352 | doi = 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00871 | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Lenartowicz A, Loo SK | title = Use of EEG to diagnose ADHD | journal = Current Psychiatry Reports | volume = 16 | issue = 11 | pages = 498 | date = November 2014 | pmid = 25234074 | pmc = 4633088 | doi = 10.1007/s11920-014-0498-0 }}</ref> A 2024 systematic review concluded that the use of ]s such as blood or urine samples, ] (EEG) markers, and ] such as ], in diagnosis for ADHD remains unclear; studies showed great variability, did not assess test-retest reliability, and were not independently replicable.<ref name = "Peterson_2024" />
In North America and Australia, DSM-5 criteria are used for diagnosis, while European countries usually use the ICD-10. The DSM-IV criteria for diagnosis of ADHD is {{nowrap|3–4 times}} more likely to diagnose ADHD than is the ICD-10 criteria.<ref name="Singh_2008" /> ADHD is alternately classified as ]<ref name="Caroline2010">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PaO3jsaGkeYC&pg=PA133 |title=Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural School Psychology |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |year=2010 |isbn=9780387717982 |veditors=Caroline SC |page=133 |access-date=1 February 2016 |archive-date=22 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201222193428/https://books.google.com/books?id=PaO3jsaGkeYC&pg=PA133 |url-status=live }}</ref> or a ] along with ], ], and ].<ref name="google-book-ref">{{Cite book |vauthors=Wiener JM, Dulcan MK |title=Textbook Of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry |publisher=American Psychiatric Publishing |edition=illustrated |year=2004 |isbn=978-1-58562-057-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EIgGKcp0SpkC |access-date=2 November 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160506182138/https://books.google.com/books?id=EIgGKcp0SpkC |archive-date=6 May 2016}}</ref> A diagnosis does not imply a ].<ref name="NICE 2009" />


In North America and Australia, DSM-5 criteria are used for diagnosis, while European countries usually use the ICD-10. The DSM-IV criteria for diagnosis of ADHD is {{nowrap|3–4 times}} more likely to diagnose ADHD than is the ICD-10 criteria.<ref name="Singh_2008" /> ADHD is alternately classified as ]<ref name="Caroline2010">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PaO3jsaGkeYC&pg=PA133 |title=Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural School Psychology |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-387-71798-2 |veditors=Caroline SC |page=133 |access-date=1 February 2016 |archive-date=22 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201222193428/https://books.google.com/books?id=PaO3jsaGkeYC&pg=PA133 |url-status=live }}</ref> or a ] along with ], ], and ].<ref name="google-book-ref">{{Cite book |vauthors=Wiener JM, Dulcan MK |title=Textbook Of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry |publisher=American Psychiatric Publishing |edition=illustrated |year=2004 |isbn=978-1-58562-057-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EIgGKcp0SpkC |access-date=2 November 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160506182138/https://books.google.com/books?id=EIgGKcp0SpkC |archive-date=6 May 2016}}</ref> A diagnosis does not imply a ].<ref name="NICE 2009" />
Associated conditions that should be screened for include anxiety, depression, ODD, CD, and learning and language disorders. Other conditions that should be considered are other neurodevelopmental disorders, ]s, and ].<ref name="Wolraich-2011">{{cite journal |vauthors=Wolraich M, Brown L, Brown RT, DuPaul G, Earls M, Feldman HM, Ganiats TG, Kaplanek B, Meyer B, Perrin J, Pierce K, Reiff M, Stein MT, Visser S |display-authors=6 |title=ADHD: clinical practice guideline for the diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children and adolescents |journal=Pediatrics |volume=128 |issue=5 |pages=1007–1022 |date=November 2011 |pmid=22003063 |pmc=4500647 |doi=10.1542/peds.2011-2654 }}</ref>


Very few studies have been conducted on diagnosis of ADHD on children younger than 7 years of age, and those that have were found in a 2024 systematic review to be of low or insufficient strength of evidence.<ref name="Peterson_2024a" />
Self-rating scales, such as the ] and the ], are used in the screening and evaluation of ADHD.<ref name="Smith(2007) in Mash & Barkley EBA">{{Cite book |title=Assessment of Childhood Disorders |vauthors=Smith BJ, Barkley RA, Shapiro CJ |publisher=Guilford Press |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-59385-493-5 |veditors=Mash EJ, Barkley RA |edition=4th |location=New York, NY |pages=53–131 |chapter=Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder }}</ref> ] is not accurate enough to make an ADHD diagnosis.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Al Rahbi HA, Al-Sabri RM, Chitme HR |title=Interventions by pharmacists in out-patient pharmaceutical care |journal=Saudi Pharmaceutical Journal |volume=22 |issue=2 |pages=101–106 |date=April 2014 |pmid=24648820 |pmc=3950532 |doi=10.1016/j.jsps.2013.04.001}}</ref>


===Classification=== ===Classification===
====Diagnostic and Statistical Manual==== ====Diagnostic and Statistical Manual====
As with many other psychiatric disorders, a formal diagnosis should be made by a qualified professional based on a set number of criteria. In the United States, these criteria are defined by the ] in the ]. Based on the DSM-5 criteria published in 2013 and the DSM-5-TR criteria published in 2022, there are three presentations of ADHD:<ref name=DSM5/><ref name=DSM5TR/> As with many other psychiatric disorders, a formal diagnosis should be made by a qualified professional based on a set number of criteria. In the United States, these criteria are defined by the ] in the ]. Based on the DSM-5 criteria published in 2013 and the DSM-5-TR criteria published in 2022, there are three presentations of ADHD:


# ADHD, predominantly inattentive type, presents with symptoms including being easily distracted, forgetful, daydreaming, disorganization, poor concentration, and difficulty completing tasks.<ref name=DSM5/><ref name=DSM5TR/> # ADHD, predominantly inattentive presentation, presents with symptoms including being easily distracted, forgetful, daydreaming, disorganization, poor sustained attention, and difficulty completing tasks.
# ADHD, predominantly hyperactive-impulsive type, presents with excessive fidgeting and restlessness, hyperactivity, and difficulty waiting and remaining seated.<ref name=DSM5/><ref name=DSM5TR/> # ADHD, predominantly hyperactive-impulsive presentation, presents with excessive fidgeting and restlessness, hyperactivity, and difficulty waiting and remaining seated.
# ADHD, combined type, is a combination of the first two presentations.<ref name=DSM5/><ref name=DSM5TR/> # ADHD, combined presentation, is a combination of the first two presentations.


This subdivision is based on presence of at least six (in children) or five (in older teenagers and adults)<ref>{{cite web |title=Adult ADHD: Diagnosis |url=https://www.camh.ca/en/professionals/treating-conditions-and-disorders/adult-adhd/adult-adhd---diagnosis |access-date=2022-04-17 |website=CAMH |language=en-CA |archive-date=21 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210621130901/https://www.camh.ca/en/professionals/treating-conditions-and-disorders/adult-adhd/adult-adhd---diagnosis |url-status=live }}</ref> out of nine long-term (lasting at least six months) symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity–impulsivity, or both.<ref name=DSM5/><ref name=DSM5TR/> To be considered, several symptoms must have appeared by the age of six to twelve and occur in more than one environment (e.g. at home and at school or work).<ref name=DSM5/><ref name=DSM5TR/> The symptoms must be inappropriate for a child of that age<ref name=DSM5/><ref name="pmid21991721">{{cite journal |vauthors=Berger I |title=Diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: much ado about something |journal=The Israel Medical Association Journal |volume=13 |issue=9 |pages=571–574 |date=September 2011 |pmid=21991721 |url=http://www.ima.org.il/FilesUpload/IMAJ/0/40/20032.pdf |access-date=23 May 2013 |archive-date=28 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200728130553/https://www.ima.org.il/filesupload/imaj/0/40/20032.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=DSM5TR/> and there must be clear evidence that they are causing social, school or work related problems.<ref name="pmid23755024">{{cite journal |vauthors=Steinau S |title=Diagnostic Criteria in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - Changes in DSM 5 |journal=Frontiers in Psychiatry |volume=4 |page=49 |year=2013 |pmid=23755024 |pmc=3667245 |doi=10.3389/fpsyt.2013.00049 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name=DSM5TR/> This subdivision is based on presence of at least six (in children) or five (in older teenagers and adults)<ref>{{cite web |title=Adult ADHD: Diagnosis |url=https://www.camh.ca/en/professionals/treating-conditions-and-disorders/adult-adhd/adult-adhd---diagnosis |access-date=17 April 2022 |website=CAMH |archive-date=21 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210621130901/https://www.camh.ca/en/professionals/treating-conditions-and-disorders/adult-adhd/adult-adhd---diagnosis |url-status=live }}</ref> out of nine long-term (lasting at least six months) symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity–impulsivity, or both.<ref name=DSM5/><ref name=DSM5TR/> To be considered, several symptoms must have appeared by the age of six to twelve and occur in more than one environment (e.g. at home and at school or work). The symptoms must be inappropriate for a child of that age<ref name="pmid21991721">{{cite journal | vauthors = Berger I | title = Diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: much ado about something | journal = The Israel Medical Association Journal | volume = 13 | issue = 9 | pages = 571–574 | date = September 2011 | pmid = 21991721 | url = http://www.ima.org.il/FilesUpload/IMAJ/0/40/20032.pdf | access-date = 23 May 2013 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200728130553/https://www.ima.org.il/filesupload/imaj/0/40/20032.pdf | archive-date = 28 July 2020 }}</ref> and there must be clear evidence that they are causing impairment in multiple domains of life.<ref name="pmid23755024">{{cite journal | vauthors = Steinau S | title = Diagnostic Criteria in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - Changes in DSM 5 | journal = Frontiers in Psychiatry | volume = 4 | pages = 49 | year = 2013 | pmid = 23755024 | pmc = 3667245 | doi = 10.3389/fpsyt.2013.00049 | doi-access = free }}</ref>


The DSM-5 and the DSM-5-TR also provide two diagnoses for individuals who have symptoms of ADHD but do not entirely meet the requirements. ''Other Specified ADHD'' allows the clinician to describe why the individual does not meet the criteria, whereas ''Unspecified ADHD'' is used where the clinician chooses not to describe the reason.<ref name=DSM5/><ref name=DSM5TR/> The DSM-5 and the DSM-5-TR also provide two diagnoses for individuals who have symptoms of ADHD but do not entirely meet the requirements. ''Other Specified ADHD'' allows the clinician to describe why the individual does not meet the criteria, whereas ''Unspecified ADHD'' is used where the clinician chooses not to describe the reason.<ref name=DSM5/><ref name=DSM5TR/>


====International Classification of Diseases==== ====International Classification of Diseases====
In the eleventh revision of the ] (]) by the ], the disorder is classified as Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (with the code 6A05). The defined subtypes are similar to those of the DSM-5: ''predominantly inattentive presentation'' (6A05.0); ''predominantly hyperactive-impulsive presentation''(6A05.1); ''combined presentation'' (6A05.2). However, the ICD-11 includes two residual categories for individuals who do not entirely match any of the defined subtypes: ''other specified presentation'' (6A05.Y) where the clinician includes detail on the individual's presentation; and ''presentation unspecified'' (6A05.Z) where the clinician does not provide detail.<ref name="ICD-11">{{cite encyclopedia |title=6A05 Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder |date=February 2022<!-- The most recent update as of the access date --> |orig-date=2019<!-- This is when it was adopted by the World Health Assembly --> |url=https://icd.who.int/browse11/l-m/en#/http://id.who.int/icd/entity/821852937 |encyclopedia=International Classification of Diseases 11th Revision |access-date=8 May 2022 |archive-date=1 August 2018 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20180801205234/https://icd.who.int/browse11/l-m/en%23/http://id.who.int/icd/entity/294762853#/http://id.who.int/icd/entity/821852937 |url-status=live }}</ref> In the eleventh revision of the ] (]) by the ], the disorder is classified as Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (code 6A05). The defined subtypes are ''predominantly inattentive presentation'' (6A05.0); ''predominantly hyperactive-impulsive presentation''(6A05.1); and ''combined presentation'' (6A05.2). However, the ICD-11 includes two residual categories for individuals who do not entirely match any of the defined subtypes: ''other specified presentation'' (6A05.Y) where the clinician includes detail on the individual's presentation; and ''presentation unspecified'' (6A05.Z) where the clinician does not provide detail.<ref name="ICD-11">{{cite encyclopedia |title=6A05 Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder |date=February 2022<!-- The most recent update as of the access date --> |orig-date=2019<!-- This is when it was adopted by the World Health Assembly --> |url=https://icd.who.int/browse11/l-m/en#/http://id.who.int/icd/entity/821852937 |encyclopedia=International Classification of Diseases | edition = 11th |access-date=8 May 2022 |archive-date=1 August 2018 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20180801205234/https://icd.who.int/browse11/l-m/en%23/http://id.who.int/icd/entity/294762853#/http://id.who.int/icd/entity/821852937 |url-status=live }}</ref>


In the tenth revision (]), the symptoms of ''hyperkinetic disorder'' were analogous to ADHD in the ICD-11. When a ] <!-- a type of disorder, its not CD --> (as defined by ICD-10)<ref name="ICD10">{{cite book |title=International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 10th Revision |year=2010 |publisher=World Health Organisation |chapter=F90 Hyperkinetic disorders |chapter-url=http://apps.who.int/classifications/icd10/browse/2010/en#/F90 |access-date=2 November 2014 |url-status=live |archive-date=2 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141102133725/http://apps.who.int/classifications/icd10/browse/2010/en#/F90}}</ref> is present, the condition was referred to as ''hyperkinetic conduct disorder''. Otherwise, the disorder was classified as ''disturbance of activity and attention'', ''other hyperkinetic disorders'' or ''hyperkinetic disorders, unspecified''. The latter was sometimes referred to as ''hyperkinetic syndrome''.<ref name="ICD10" /> In the tenth revision (]), the symptoms of ''hyperkinetic disorder'' were analogous to ADHD in the ICD-11. When a ] <!-- a type of disorder, its not CD --> (as defined by ICD-10)<ref name="ICD10">{{cite book |title=International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 10th Revision |year=2010 |publisher=World Health Organisation |chapter=F90 Hyperkinetic disorders |chapter-url=http://apps.who.int/classifications/icd10/browse/2010/en#/F90 |access-date=2 November 2014 |url-status=live |archive-date=2 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141102133725/http://apps.who.int/classifications/icd10/browse/2010/en#/F90}}</ref> is present, the condition was referred to as ''hyperkinetic conduct disorder''. Otherwise, the disorder was classified as ''disturbance of activity and attention'', ''other hyperkinetic disorders'' or ''hyperkinetic disorders, unspecified''. The latter was sometimes referred to as ''hyperkinetic syndrome''.<ref name="ICD10" />


====Social construct theory==== ====Social construct theory====
The ] suggests that, because the boundaries between normal and abnormal behavior are socially constructed (i.e. jointly created and validated by all members of society, and in particular by ]s, parents, teachers, and others), it then follows that subjective valuations and judgements determine which diagnostic criteria are used and thus, the number of people affected.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Parens E, Johnston J |title=Facts, values, and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): an update on the controversies |journal=Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health |volume=3 |issue=1 |page=1 |date=January 2009 |pmid=19152690 |pmc=2637252 |doi=10.1186/1753-2000-3-1 }}</ref> This difference means using DSM-IV criteria could diagnose ADHD at rates three to four times higher than ICD-10 criteria.<ref name="Singh_2008" /> ], a supporter of this theory, has argued that ADHD was "invented and then given a name".<ref>{{Cite book |vauthors=Szasz T |chapter=Psychiatric Medicine: Disorder |chapter-url={{google books|29HP1q6JrgYC |pages=77|plainurl=yes}} |title=Pharmacracy: medicine and politics in America |url={{google books|29HP1q6JrgYC|plainurl=yes}} |via=Google Books |publisher=Praeger |location=Westport, CT |year=2001 |pages= |isbn=978-0-275-97196-0 |quote=Mental diseases are ''invented'' and then given a name, for example attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).}}</ref> The ] suggests that, because the boundaries between normal and abnormal behaviour are socially constructed (i.e. jointly created and validated by all members of society, and in particular by ]s, parents, teachers, and others), it then follows that subjective valuations and judgements determine which diagnostic criteria are used and thus, the number of people affected.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Parens E, Johnston J | title = Facts, values, and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): an update on the controversies | journal = Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health | volume = 3 | issue = 1 | pages = 1 | date = January 2009 | pmid = 19152690 | pmc = 2637252 | doi = 10.1186/1753-2000-3-1 | doi-access = free }}</ref> ], a supporter of this theory, has argued that ADHD was "invented and then given a name".<ref>{{Cite book |vauthors=Szasz T |chapter=Psychiatric Medicine: Disorder |chapter-url={{google books|29HP1q6JrgYC |page=77|plainurl=yes}} |title=Pharmacracy: medicine and politics in America |url={{google books|29HP1q6JrgYC|plainurl=yes}} |via=Google Books |publisher=Praeger |location=Westport, CT |year=2001 |pages= |isbn=978-0-275-97196-0 |quote=Mental diseases are ''invented'' and then given a name, for example attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).}}</ref>


===Adults=== ===Adults===
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Adults with ADHD are diagnosed under the same criteria, including that their signs must have been present by the age of six to twelve. The individual is the best source for information in diagnosis, however others may provide useful information about the individual's symptoms currently and in childhood; a family history of ADHD also adds weight to a diagnosis.<ref name="Kooij_2010" />{{rp|7,9}} While the core symptoms of ADHD are similar in children and adults, they often present differently in adults than in children: for example, excessive physical activity seen in children may present as feelings of restlessness and constant mental activity in adults.<ref name="Kooij_2010" />{{rp|6}} Adults with ADHD are diagnosed under the same criteria, including that their signs must have been present by the age of six to twelve. The individual is the best source for information in diagnosis, however others may provide useful information about the individual's symptoms currently and in childhood; a family history of ADHD also adds weight to a diagnosis.<ref name="Kooij_2010" />{{rp|7,9}} While the core symptoms of ADHD are similar in children and adults, they often present differently in adults than in children: for example, excessive physical activity seen in children may present as feelings of restlessness and constant mental activity in adults.<ref name="Kooij_2010" />{{rp|6}}


Worldwide, it is estimated that 2.58% of adults have persistent ADHD (where the individual currently meets the criteria and there is evidence of childhood onset), and 6.76% of adults have symptomatic ADHD (meaning that they currently meet the criteria for ADHD, regardless of childhood onset).<ref name="Song_2021"/> In 2020, this was 139.84 million and 366.33 million affected adults respectively.<ref name="Song_2021"/> Around 15% of children with ADHD continue to meet full DSM-IV-TR criteria at 25 years of age, and 50% still experience some symptoms.<ref name="Kooij_2010" />{{rp|2|quote=In the meta-analysis of these data from Faraone and colleagues it was concluded that about 15% retain the full diagnosis by age 25 years, with a further 50% in partial remission, indicating that around two-thirds of children with ADHD continue to have impairing levels of ADHD symptoms as adults.}} {{As of|2010}}, most adults remain untreated.<ref name="pmid21494335">{{cite journal | vauthors = Culpepper L, Mattingly G | title = Challenges in identifying and managing attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in adults in the primary care setting: a review of the literature | journal = Primary Care Companion to the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry | volume = 12 | issue = 6 | pages = PCC.10r00951 | year = 2010 | pmid = 21494335 | pmc = 3067998 | doi = 10.4088/PCC.10r00951pur }}</ref> Many adults with ADHD without diagnosis and treatment have a disorganised life, and some use ] or ] as a coping mechanism.<ref name="Art.218">{{cite journal | vauthors = Gentile JP, Atiq R, Gillig PM | title = Adult ADHD: Diagnosis, Differential Diagnosis, and Medication Management | journal = Psychiatry | volume = 3 | issue = 8 | pages = 25–30 | date = August 2006 | pmid = 20963192 | pmc = 2957278 | quote = likelihood that the adult with ADHD has developed coping mechanisms to compensate for his or her impairment }}</ref> Other problems may include relationship and job difficulties, and an increased risk of criminal activities.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Mohr-Jensen C, Steinhausen HC | title = A meta-analysis and systematic review of the risks associated with childhood attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder on long-term outcome of arrests, convictions, and incarcerations | journal = Clinical Psychology Review | volume = 48 | pages = 32–42 | date = August 2016 | pmid = 27390061 | doi = 10.1016/j.cpr.2016.05.002 }}</ref><ref name="Kooij_2010" />{{rp|6|quote=Typically, adults with ADHD will not settle after the age of 30 but continue to change and/or lose jobs and relationships, either through boredom or being fired. They are usually underachievers with an estimated annual twenty two days of excess lost role performance. As a consequence relationships and jobs are often short lived. Relationships that last are often impaired due to the inability to listen with concentration to the spouse, not finishing or procrastinating tasks, often being on a 'short fuse' and interrupting conversations. ... Criminality in adulthood is predicted by ADHD and comorbid conduct disorder in childhood, especially with substance abuse and anti-social personality disorder in adulthood. ... ADHD patients are significantly more arrested, convicted, and incarcerated compared to normal controls, and ADHD is increasingly diagnosed in adults in forensic psychiatry.}} Associated mental health problems include depression, anxiety disorders, and learning disabilities.<ref name="Art.218" /> Worldwide, it is estimated that 2.58% of adults have persistent ADHD (where the individual currently meets the criteria and there is evidence of childhood onset), and 6.76% of adults have symptomatic ADHD (meaning that they currently meet the criteria for ADHD, regardless of childhood onset).<ref name="Song_2021">{{cite journal | vauthors = Song P, Zha M, Yang Q, Zhang Y, Li X, Rudan I | title = The prevalence of adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: A global systematic review and meta-analysis | journal = Journal of Global Health | volume = 11 | pages = 04009 | date = February 2021 | pmid = 33692893 | pmc = 7916320 | doi = 10.7189/jogh.11.04009 | publisher = International Global Health Society | oclc = 751737736 | eissn = 2047-2986 }}</ref> In 2020, this was 139.84 million and 366.33 million affected adults respectively.<ref name="Song_2021"/> Around 15% of children with ADHD continue to meet full DSM-IV-TR criteria at 25 years of age, and 50% still experience some symptoms.<ref name="Kooij_2010" />{{rp|2|quote=In the meta-analysis of these data from Faraone and colleagues it was concluded that about 15% retain the full diagnosis by age 25 years, with a further 50% in partial remission, indicating that around two-thirds of children with ADHD continue to have impairing levels of ADHD symptoms as adults.}} {{As of|2010}}, most adults remain untreated.<ref name="pmid21494335">{{cite journal | vauthors = Culpepper L, Mattingly G | title = Challenges in identifying and managing attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in adults in the primary care setting: a review of the literature | journal = Primary Care Companion to the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry | volume = 12 | issue = 6 | pages = PCC.10r00951 | year = 2010 | pmid = 21494335 | pmc = 3067998 | doi = 10.4088/PCC.10r00951pur }}</ref> Many adults with ADHD without diagnosis and treatment have a disorganised life, and some use ] or ] as a coping mechanism.<ref name="Art.218">{{cite journal | vauthors = Gentile JP, Atiq R, Gillig PM | title = Adult ADHD: Diagnosis, Differential Diagnosis, and Medication Management | journal = Psychiatry | volume = 3 | issue = 8 | pages = 25–30 | date = August 2006 | pmid = 20963192 | pmc = 2957278 | quote = likelihood that the adult with ADHD has developed coping mechanisms to compensate for his or her impairment }}</ref> Other problems may include relationship and job difficulties, and an increased risk of criminal activities.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Mohr-Jensen C, Steinhausen HC | title = A meta-analysis and systematic review of the risks associated with childhood attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder on long-term outcome of arrests, convictions, and incarcerations | journal = Clinical Psychology Review | volume = 48 | pages = 32–42 | date = August 2016 | pmid = 27390061 | doi = 10.1016/j.cpr.2016.05.002 }}</ref><ref name="Kooij_2010" />{{rp|6|quote=Typically, adults with ADHD will not settle after the age of 30 but continue to change and/or lose jobs and relationships, either through boredom or being fired. They are usually underachievers with an estimated annual twenty two days of excess lost role performance. As a consequence relationships and jobs are often short lived. Relationships that last are often impaired due to the inability to listen with concentration to the spouse, not finishing or procrastinating tasks, often being on a 'short fuse' and interrupting conversations. ... Criminality in adulthood is predicted by ADHD and comorbid conduct disorder in childhood, especially with substance abuse and anti-social personality disorder in adulthood. ... ADHD patients are significantly more arrested, convicted, and incarcerated compared to normal controls, and ADHD is increasingly diagnosed in adults in forensic psychiatry.}} Associated mental health problems include depression, anxiety disorders, and learning disabilities.<ref name="Art.218" />


Some ADHD symptoms in adults differ from those seen in children. While children with ADHD may climb and run about excessively, adults may experience an inability to relax, or may talk excessively in social situations.<ref name="Kooij_2010" />{{rp|6}} Adults with ADHD may start relationships impulsively, display sensation-seeking behavior, and be short-tempered.<ref name="Kooij_2010" />{{rp|6}} Addictive behavior such as substance abuse and ] are common.<ref name="Kooij_2010" />{{rp|6}} This led to those who presented differently as they aged having outgrown the DSM-IV criteria.<ref name="Kooij_2010" />{{rp|5–6}} The DSM-5 criteria does specifically deal with adults unlike that of DSM-IV, which does not fully take into account the differences in impairments seen in adulthood compared to childhood.<ref name="Kooij_2010" />{{rp|5}} Some ADHD symptoms in adults differ from those seen in children. While children with ADHD may climb and run about excessively, adults may experience an inability to relax, or may talk excessively in social situations.<ref name="Kooij_2010" />{{rp|6}} Adults with ADHD may start relationships impulsively, display sensation-seeking behaviour, and be short-tempered.<ref name="Kooij_2010" />{{rp|6}} Addictive behaviour such as substance abuse and ] are common.<ref name="Kooij_2010" />{{rp|6}} This led to those who presented differently as they aged having outgrown the DSM-IV criteria.<ref name="Kooij_2010" />{{rp|5–6}} The DSM-5 criteria does specifically deal with adults unlike that of DSM-IV, which does not fully take into account the differences in impairments seen in adulthood compared to childhood.<ref name="Kooij_2010" />{{rp|5}}


For diagnosis in an adult, having symptoms since childhood is required. Nevertheless, a proportion of adults who meet the criteria for ADHD in adulthood would not have been diagnosed with ADHD as children. Most cases of late-onset ADHD develop the disorder between the ages of 12-16 and may therefore be considered early adult or adolescent-onset ADHD.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Asherson P, Agnew-Blais J |title=Annual Research Review: Does late-onset attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder exist? |journal=Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Allied Disciplines |volume=60 |issue=4 |pages=333–352 |date=April 2019 |pmid=30843223 |doi=10.1111/jcpp.13020 |doi-access=free }}</ref> For diagnosis in an adult, having symptoms since childhood is required. Nevertheless, a proportion of adults who meet the criteria for ADHD in adulthood would not have been diagnosed with ADHD as children. Most cases of late-onset ADHD develop the disorder between the ages of 12–16 and may therefore be considered early adult or adolescent-onset ADHD.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Asherson P, Agnew-Blais J | title = Annual Research Review: Does late-onset attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder exist? | journal = Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Allied Disciplines | volume = 60 | issue = 4 | pages = 333–352 | date = April 2019 | pmid = 30843223 | doi = 10.1111/jcpp.13020 | doi-access = free }}</ref>


===Differential diagnosis=== ===Differential diagnosis===
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|+ Symptoms related to other disorders<ref name="BBDADHD">{{Cite journal |author1=Consumer Reports |author1-link=Consumer Reports |author2=Drug Effectiveness Review Project |author2-link=Drug Effectiveness Review Project |date=March 2012 |title=Evaluating Prescription Drugs Used to Treat: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Comparing Effectiveness, Safety, and Price |journal=Best Buy Drugs |page=2 |url=http://www.consumerreports.org/health/resources/pdf/best-buy-drugs/ADHDFinal.pdf |access-date=12 April 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121115014628/http://www.consumerreports.org/health/resources/pdf/best-buy-drugs/ADHDFinal.pdf |archive-date=15 November 2012}}</ref> |+ Symptoms related to other disorders<ref name="BBDADHD">{{Cite journal |author1=Consumer Reports |author1-link=Consumer Reports |author2=Drug Effectiveness Review Project |author2-link=Drug Effectiveness Review Project |date=March 2012 |title=Evaluating Prescription Drugs Used to Treat: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Comparing Effectiveness, Safety, and Price |journal=Best Buy Drugs |page=2 |url=http://www.consumerreports.org/health/resources/pdf/best-buy-drugs/ADHDFinal.pdf |access-date=12 April 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121115014628/http://www.consumerreports.org/health/resources/pdf/best-buy-drugs/ADHDFinal.pdf |archive-date=15 November 2012}}</ref>
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The DSM provides potential ] - potential alternate explanations for specific symptoms. Assessment and investigation of clinical history determines which is the most appropriate diagnosis. The DSM-5 suggests ODD, intermittent explosive disorder, and other neurodevelopmental disorders (such as stereotypic movement disorder and Tourette's disorder), in addition to specific learning disorder, intellectual developmental disorder, ASD, reactive attachment disorder, anxiety disorders, depressive disorders, bipolar disorder, disruptive mood dysregulation disorder, substance use disorder, personality disorders, psychotic disorders, medication-induced symptoms, and neurocognitive disorders.<ref name=DSM5 /> Many but not all of these are also common comorbidities of ADHD.<ref name=DSM5 /> The DSM-5-TR also suggests post-traumatic stress disorder.<ref name=DSM5TR/> The DSM provides ] potential alternate explanations for specific symptoms. Assessment and investigation of clinical history determines which is the most appropriate diagnosis. The DSM-5 suggests ], ], and other disorders such as ] and ], in addition to specific learning disorder, ], ], ], ]s, depressive disorders, ], ], ], ]s, ], medication-induced symptoms, and ]. Many but not all of these are also common comorbidities of ADHD.<ref name=DSM5 /> The DSM-5-TR also suggests ].<ref name=DSM5TR/>


Symptoms of ADHD, such as low mood and poor self-image, mood swings, and irritability, can be confused with ], ] or ] as well as with ].<ref name="Kooij_2010" />{{rp|10|Because adults with ADHD often exhibit low self-esteem, low mood, affective lability and irritability, these symptoms may sometimes be confused with dysthymia, cyclothymia or bipolar disorder and with borderline personality disorder.}} Some symptoms that are due to anxiety disorders, personality disorder, developmental disabilities or intellectual disability or the effects of substance abuse such as intoxication and withdrawal can overlap with ADHD. These disorders can also sometimes occur along with ADHD. Medical conditions which can cause ADHD-type symptoms include: ], ], ], ], ], ], ]s, untreated ], and ].<ref name="pmid26825336">{{cite journal |vauthors=Ertürk E, Wouters S, Imeraj L, Lampo A |title=Association of ADHD and Celiac Disease: What Is the Evidence? A Systematic Review of the Literature |journal=Journal of Attention Disorders |volume=24 |issue=10 |pages=1371–1376 |date=August 2020 |pmid=26825336 |doi=10.1177/1087054715611493 |quote=Up till now, there is no conclusive evidence for a relationship between ADHD and {{abbr|CD|celiac disease}}. Therefore, it is not advised to perform routine screening of CD when assessing ADHD (and vice versa) or to implement {{abbr|GFD|gluten-free diet}} as a standard treatment in ADHD. Nevertheless, the possibility of untreated CD predisposing to ADHD-like behavior should be kept in mind.&nbsp;... It is possible that in untreated patients with CD, neurologic symptoms such as chronic fatigue, inattention, pain, and headache could predispose patients to ADHD-like behavior (mainly symptoms of inattentive type), which may be alleviated after GFD treatment. |s2cid=33989148 |type=Review }}</ref><ref name="Art.218" />{{better source needed|date=June 2022}} Symptoms of ADHD that particularly relate to disinhibition and ] in addition to low-mood and self-esteem as a result of symptom expression might be confusable with ] and ] as well as with ], however they are comorbid at a significantly increased rate relative to the general population.<ref name="Kooij_2010" />{{rp|10|Because adults with ADHD often exhibit low self-esteem, low mood, affective lability and irritability, these symptoms may sometimes be confused with dysthymia, cyclothymia or bipolar disorder and with borderline personality disorder.}} Some symptoms that are viewed superficially due to anxiety disorders, intellectual disability or the effects of substance abuse such as intoxication and ] can overlap to some extent with ADHD. These disorders can also sometimes occur along with ADHD.


Primary sleep disorders may affect attention and behavior and the symptoms of ADHD may affect sleep.<ref name="Owens2008">{{cite journal |vauthors=Owens JA |title=Sleep disorders and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder |journal=Current Psychiatry Reports |volume=10 |issue=5 |pages=439–444 |date=October 2008 |pmid=18803919 |doi=10.1007/s11920-008-0070-x |s2cid=23624443 }}</ref> It is thus recommended that children with ADHD be regularly assessed for sleep problems.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Walters AS, Silvestri R, Zucconi M, Chandrashekariah R, Konofal E |title=Review of the possible relationship and hypothetical links between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and the simple sleep related movement disorders, parasomnias, hypersomnias, and circadian rhythm disorders |journal=Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine |volume=4 |issue=6 |pages=591–600 |date=December 2008 |pmid=19110891 |pmc=2603539 |doi=10.5664/jcsm.27356 }}</ref> Sleepiness in children may result in symptoms ranging from the classic ones of yawning and rubbing the eyes, to hyperactivity and inattentiveness.<ref name="pmid22670023" /> ] can also cause ADHD-type symptoms.<ref name="pmid22670023">{{cite journal |vauthors=Lal C, Strange C, Bachman D |title=Neurocognitive impairment in obstructive sleep apnea |journal=Chest |volume=141 |issue=6 |pages=1601–1610 |date=June 2012 |pmid=22670023 |doi=10.1378/chest.11-2214 }}</ref> Primary sleep disorders may affect attention and behaviour and the symptoms of ADHD may affect sleep.<ref name="Owens2008">{{cite journal | vauthors = Owens JA | title = Sleep disorders and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder | journal = Current Psychiatry Reports | volume = 10 | issue = 5 | pages = 439–444 | date = October 2008 | pmid = 18803919 | doi = 10.1007/s11920-008-0070-x | s2cid = 23624443 }}</ref> It is thus recommended that children with ADHD be regularly assessed for sleep problems.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Walters AS, Silvestri R, Zucconi M, Chandrashekariah R, Konofal E | title = Review of the possible relationship and hypothetical links between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and the simple sleep related movement disorders, parasomnias, hypersomnias, and circadian rhythm disorders | journal = Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine | volume = 4 | issue = 6 | pages = 591–600 | date = December 2008 | pmid = 19110891 | pmc = 2603539 | doi = 10.5664/jcsm.27356 }}</ref> Sleepiness in children may result in symptoms ranging from the classic ones of yawning and rubbing the eyes, to disinhibition and inattention. ] can also cause ADHD-like symptoms.<ref name="pmid22670023">{{cite journal | vauthors = Lal C, Strange C, Bachman D | title = Neurocognitive impairment in obstructive sleep apnea | journal = Chest | volume = 141 | issue = 6 | pages = 1601–1610 | date = June 2012 | pmid = 22670023 | doi = 10.1378/chest.11-2214 }}</ref>

In general, the DSM-5-TR can help distinguish between many conditions associated with ADHD-like symptoms by the context in which the symptoms arise.<ref name="DSM5TR" /> For example, children with ] may feel distractable and agitated when asked to engage in tasks that require the impaired skill (e.g., reading, math), but not in other situations. A person with an ] may develop symptoms that overlap with ADHD when placed in a school environment that is inappropriate for their needs. The type of inattention implicated in ADHD, of poor persistence and sustained attention, differs substantially from selective or oriented inattention seen in ] (CDS), as well as from rumination, reexperiencing or mind blanking seen in anxiety disorders or PTSD.

In mood disorders, ADHD-like symptoms may be limited to ] or depressive states of an episodic nature. Symptoms overlapping with ADHD in ] may be limited to psychotic states. ], some medications, and certain medical conditions may cause symptoms to appear later in life, while ADHD, as a ], requires for them to have been present since childhood.

Furthermore, a careful understanding of the nature of the symptoms may help establish the difference between ADHD and other disorders.<ref name="DSM5TR" /> For example, the forgetfulness and impulsivity typical of ADHD (e.g., in completing school assignments or following directions) may be distinguished from ] when there is no hostility or defiance, although ADHD and ODD are highly comorbid. Tantrums may differ from the outbursts in ] if there is no aggression involved. The fidgetiness observed in ADHD may be differentiated from ] or ] common in ] or ].

Also, the social difficulties often experienced by individuals with ADHD due to inattention (e.g., being unfocused during the interaction and therefore missing cues or being unaware of one's behavior)<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Barkley |first1=Russell A. |title=Taking charge of adult ADHD: proven strategies to succeed at work, at home, and in relationships |last2=Benton |first2=Christine M. |date=2022 |publisher=The Guilford Press |isbn=978-1-4625-4685-5 |edition=2nd |location=New York London |pages=74–76}}</ref> or impulsivity (blurting things out, asking intrusive questions, interrupting) may be contrasted with the social detachment and deficits in understanding social cues associated with autism. Individuals with ADHD may also present signs of the social impairment or emotional and cognitive dysregulation seen in ], but not necessarily such features as ], ], ], or other personality features.<ref name="DSM5TR" />

While it is possible and common for many of these different conditions to be comorbid with ADHD, the symptoms must not be better explained by them, as per diagnostic criterion E in the DSM-5.<ref name="DSM5" /><ref name="DSM5TR" /> The symptoms must arise early in life, appear across multiple environments, and cause significant impairment. Moreover, when some of these conditions are in fact comorbid with ADHD, it is still important to distinguish them, as each may need to be treated separately.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Barkley |first1=Russell A. |title=Taking charge of adult ADHD: proven strategies to succeed at work, at home, and in relationships |last2=Benton |first2=Christine M. |date=2022 |publisher=The Guilford Press |isbn=978-1-4625-4685-5 |edition=2nd |location=New York London |chapter=Other Mental and Emotional Problems}}</ref>


==Management== ==Management==
{{Main|Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder management}} {{Main|Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder management}}


The management of ADHD typically involves ] or medications, either alone or in combination. While treatment may improve long-term outcomes, it does not get rid of negative outcomes entirely.<ref name="pmid22947230">{{cite journal |vauthors=Shaw M, Hodgkins P, Caci H, Young S, Kahle J, Woods AG, Arnold LE |title=A systematic review and analysis of long-term outcomes in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: effects of treatment and non-treatment |journal=BMC Medicine |volume=10 |page=99 |date=September 2012 |pmid=22947230 |pmc=3520745 |doi=10.1186/1741-7015-10-99 }}</ref> Medications used include stimulants, atomoxetine, ] agonists, and sometimes antidepressants.<ref name="Wilens_2010" /><ref name="cognition enhancers">{{cite journal |vauthors=Bidwell LC, McClernon FJ, Kollins SH |title=Cognitive enhancers for the treatment of ADHD |journal=Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior |volume=99 |issue=2 |pages=262–274 |date=August 2011 |pmid=21596055 |pmc=3353150 |doi=10.1016/j.pbb.2011.05.002 }}</ref> In those who have trouble focusing on long-term rewards, a large amount of ] improves task performance.<ref name="Motivation" /> ADHD stimulants also improve persistence and task performance in children with ADHD.<ref name="Malenka ADHD neurosci" /><ref name="Motivation" /> "Recent evidence from observational and registry studies indicates that pharmacological treatment of ADHD is associated with increased achievement and decreased absenteeism at school, a reduced risk of trauma-related emergency hospital visits, reduced risks of suicide and attempted suicide, and decreased rates of substance abuse and criminality".<ref name="Coghill_2017"/> The management of ADHD typically involves ] or medications, either alone or in combination. While there are various options of treatment to improve ADHD symptoms, medication therapies substantially improve long-term outcomes, and while eliminating some elevated risks such as obesity,<ref name="Faraone_2021" /> they do come with some risks of adverse events.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Peterson BS, Trampush J, Maglione M, Bolshakova M, Rozelle M, Miles J, Pakdaman S, Brown M, Yagyu S, Motala A, Hempel S | title = Treatments for ADHD in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review | journal = Pediatrics | volume = 153 | issue = 4 | date = April 2024 | pmid = 38523592 | doi = 10.1542/peds.2024-065787 }}</ref> Medications used include stimulants, atomoxetine, ] agonists, and sometimes antidepressants.<ref name="Wilens_2010" /><ref name="cognition enhancers">{{cite journal | vauthors = Bidwell LC, McClernon FJ, Kollins SH | title = Cognitive enhancers for the treatment of ADHD | journal = Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior | volume = 99 | issue = 2 | pages = 262–274 | date = August 2011 | pmid = 21596055 | pmc = 3353150 | doi = 10.1016/j.pbb.2011.05.002 }}</ref> In those who have trouble focusing on long-term rewards, a large amount of ] improves task performance.<ref name="Motivation" /> Medications are the most effective treatment,<ref name="Faraone_2021" /><ref name="CNS09">{{cite journal | vauthors = Wigal SB | title = Efficacy and safety limitations of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder pharmacotherapy in children and adults | journal = CNS Drugs | volume = 23 | issue = Suppl 1 | pages = 21–31 | year = 2009 | pmid = 19621975 | doi = 10.2165/00023210-200923000-00004 | s2cid = 11340058 }}</ref> and any side effects are typically mild and easy to resolve<ref name="Faraone_2021" /> although any improvements will be reverted if medication is ceased.<ref name="May_2008">{{cite journal | vauthors = Mayes R, Bagwell C, Erkulwater J | title = ADHD and the rise in stimulant use among children | journal = Harvard Review of Psychiatry | volume = 16 | issue = 3 | pages = 151–166 | date = 2008 | pmid = 18569037 | doi = 10.1080/10673220802167782 | s2cid = 18481191 }}</ref> ADHD stimulants also improve persistence and task performance in children with ADHD.<ref name="Malenka ADHD neurosci" /><ref name="Motivation" /> To quote one systematic review, "recent evidence from observational and registry studies indicates that pharmacological treatment of ADHD is associated with increased achievement and decreased absenteeism at school, a reduced risk of trauma-related emergency hospital visits, reduced risks of suicide and attempted suicide, and decreased rates of substance abuse and criminality".<ref name="Coghill_2017">{{cite journal | vauthors = Coghill DR, Banaschewski T, Soutullo C, Cottingham MG, Zuddas A | title = Systematic review of quality of life and functional outcomes in randomized placebo-controlled studies of medications for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder | journal = European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | volume = 26 | issue = 11 | pages = 1283–1307 | date = November 2017 | pmid = 28429134 | pmc = 5656703 | doi = 10.1007/s00787-017-0986-y }} ] Text was copied from this source, which is available under a ] {{Cite web |url=https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |title=CC BY 4.0 Deed &#124; Attribution 4.0 International &#124; Creative Commons |access-date=22 October 2022 |archive-date=16 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171016050101/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |url-status=bot: unknown }}.</ref> Data also suggest that combining medication with ] (CBT) can have positive effects: although CBT is substantially less effective, it can help address problems that reside after medication has been optimised.<ref name="Faraone_2021" />
The nature and range of desirable endpoints of ADHD treatment vary among diagnostic standards for ADHD.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Jummani RR, Hirsch E, Hirsch GS | title = Are We Overdiagnosing and Overtreating ADHD? | journal = Psychiatric Times | volume = 34 | issue = 5 | date = 31 May 2019 | url = https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/are-we-overdiagnosing-and-overtreating-adhd }}</ref> In most studies, the efficacy of treatment is determined by reductions in symptoms.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Luan R, Mu Z, Yue F, He S | title = Efficacy and Tolerability of Different Interventions in Children and Adolescents with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder | journal = Frontiers in Psychiatry | volume = 8 | pages = 229 | date = 2017 | pmid = 29180967 | pmc = 5694170 | doi = 10.3389/fpsyt.2017.00229 | doi-access = free }}</ref> However, some studies have included subjective ratings from teachers and parents as part of their assessment of treatment efficacies.<ref name="Comparative efficacy and tolerabili"/>


===Behavioral therapies=== ===Behavioural therapies===
There is good evidence for the use of ] in ADHD. They are the recommended first-line treatment in those who have mild symptoms or who are preschool-aged.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Fabiano GA, Pelham WE, Coles EK, Gnagy EM, Chronis-Tuscano A, O'Connor BC | title = A meta-analysis of behavioral treatments for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder | journal = Clinical Psychology Review | volume = 29 | issue = 2 | pages = 129–140 | date = March 2009 | pmid = 19131150 | doi = 10.1016/j.cpr.2008.11.001 | quote = there is strong and consistent evidence that behavioral treatments are effective for treating ADHD. }}</ref><ref name="Clinics09">{{cite journal | vauthors = Kratochvil CJ, Vaughan BS, Barker A, Corr L, Wheeler A, Madaan V | title = Review of pediatric attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder for the general psychiatrist | journal = The Psychiatric Clinics of North America | volume = 32 | issue = 1 | pages = 39–56 | date = March 2009 | pmid = 19248915 | doi = 10.1016/j.psc.2008.10.001 }}</ref> Psychological therapies used include: ]al input, behavior therapy, ],<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Lopez PL, Torrente FM, Ciapponi A, Lischinsky AG, Cetkovich-Bakmas M, Rojas JI, Romano M, Manes FF | display-authors = 6 | title = Cognitive-behavioural interventions for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adults | journal = The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews | volume = 2018 | issue = 3 | pages = CD010840 | date = March 2018 | pmid = 29566425 | pmc = 6494390 | doi = 10.1002/14651858.CD010840.pub2 }}</ref> ], ], school-based interventions, social skills training, behavioral peer intervention, organization training,<ref name="Evans2014">{{cite journal | vauthors = Evans SW, Owens JS, Bunford N | title = Evidence-based psychosocial treatments for children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder | journal = Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology | volume = 43 | issue = 4 | pages = 527–551 | date = 2014 | pmid = 24245813 | pmc = 4025987 | doi = 10.1080/15374416.2013.850700 }}</ref> and ].<ref name="NICE 2009" /> ] has greater treatment effects than non-active controls for up to 6 months and possibly a year following treatment, and may have treatment effects comparable to active controls (controls proven to have a clinical effect) over that time period.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Van Doren J, Arns M, Heinrich H, Vollebregt MA, Strehl U, K Loo S | title = Sustained effects of neurofeedback in ADHD: a systematic review and meta-analysis | journal = European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | volume = 28 | issue = 3 | pages = 293–305 | date = March 2019 | pmid = 29445867 | pmc = 6404655 | doi = 10.1007/s00787-018-1121-4 | publisher = Springer Science and Business Media LLC }}</ref> Despite efficacy in research, there is insufficient regulation of neurofeedback practice, leading to ineffective applications and false claims regarding innovations.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Enriquez-Geppert S, Smit D, Pimenta MG, Arns M | title = Neurofeedback as a Treatment Intervention in ADHD: Current Evidence and Practice | journal = Current Psychiatry Reports | volume = 21 | issue = 6 | pages = 46 | date = May 2019 | pmid = 31139966 | pmc = 6538574 | doi = 10.1007/s11920-019-1021-4 | publisher = Springer Science and Business Media LLC }}</ref> Parent training may improve a number of behavioral problems including oppositional and non-compliant behaviors.<ref name="Dal2017">{{cite journal | vauthors = Daley D, Van Der Oord S, Ferrin M, Cortese S, Danckaerts M, Doepfner M, Van den Hoofdakker BJ, Coghill D, Thompson M, Asherson P, Banaschewski T, Brandeis D, Buitelaar J, Dittmann RW, Hollis C, Holtmann M, Konofal E, Lecendreux M, Rothenberger A, Santosh P, Simonoff E, Soutullo C, Steinhausen HC, Stringaris A, Taylor E, Wong IC, Zuddas A, Sonuga-Barke EJ | display-authors = 6 | title = Practitioner Review: Current best practice in the use of parent training and other behavioural interventions in the treatment of children and adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder | journal = Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Allied Disciplines | volume = 59 | issue = 9 | pages = 932–947 | date = September 2018 | pmid = 29083042 | doi = 10.1111/jcpp.12825 | url = http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/45391/ | access-date = 21 November 2018 | publisher = Wiley | url-status = live | s2cid = 31044370 | archive-date = 25 September 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170925140540/http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/45391/ | hdl = 11343/293788 }}</ref>


There is good evidence for the use of ] in ADHD. They are the recommended first-line treatment in those who have mild symptoms or who are preschool-aged.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Fabiano GA, Pelham WE, Coles EK, Gnagy EM, Chronis-Tuscano A, O'Connor BC | title = A meta-analysis of behavioral treatments for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder | journal = Clinical Psychology Review | volume = 29 | issue = 2 | pages = 129–140 | date = March 2009 | pmid = 19131150 | doi = 10.1016/j.cpr.2008.11.001 | quote = there is strong and consistent evidence that behavioral treatments are effective for treating ADHD. | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref name="Clinics09">{{cite journal | vauthors = Kratochvil CJ, Vaughan BS, Barker A, Corr L, Wheeler A, Madaan V | title = Review of pediatric attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder for the general psychiatrist | journal = The Psychiatric Clinics of North America | volume = 32 | issue = 1 | pages = 39–56 | date = March 2009 | pmid = 19248915 | doi = 10.1016/j.psc.2008.10.001 }}</ref> Psychological therapies used include: ]al input, behavior therapy, ],<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Lopez PL, Torrente FM, Ciapponi A, Lischinsky AG, Cetkovich-Bakmas M, Rojas JI, Romano M, Manes FF | title = Cognitive-behavioural interventions for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adults | journal = The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews | volume = 2018 | issue = 3 | pages = CD010840 | date = March 2018 | pmid = 29566425 | pmc = 6494390 | doi = 10.1002/14651858.CD010840.pub2 }}</ref> ], ], school-based interventions, social skills training, behavioural peer intervention, organization training,<ref name="Evans2014">{{cite journal | vauthors = Evans SW, Owens JS, Bunford N | title = Evidence-based psychosocial treatments for children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder | journal = Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology | volume = 43 | issue = 4 | pages = 527–551 | date = 2014 | pmid = 24245813 | pmc = 4025987 | doi = 10.1080/15374416.2013.850700 }}</ref> and ].<ref name="NICE 2009" /> ] has greater treatment effects than non-active controls for up to 6 months and possibly a year following treatment, and may have treatment effects comparable to active controls (controls proven to have a clinical effect) over that time period.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Van Doren J, Arns M, Heinrich H, Vollebregt MA, Strehl U, K Loo S | title = Sustained effects of neurofeedback in ADHD: a systematic review and meta-analysis | journal = European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | volume = 28 | issue = 3 | pages = 293–305 | date = March 2019 | pmid = 29445867 | pmc = 6404655 | doi = 10.1007/s00787-018-1121-4 | publisher = Springer Science and Business Media LLC }}</ref> Despite efficacy in research, there is insufficient regulation of neurofeedback practice, leading to ineffective applications and false claims regarding innovations.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Enriquez-Geppert S, Smit D, Pimenta MG, Arns M | title = Neurofeedback as a Treatment Intervention in ADHD: Current Evidence and Practice | journal = Current Psychiatry Reports | volume = 21 | issue = 6 | pages = 46 | date = May 2019 | pmid = 31139966 | pmc = 6538574 | doi = 10.1007/s11920-019-1021-4 | publisher = Springer Science and Business Media LLC }}</ref> Parent training may improve a number of behavioural problems including oppositional and non-compliant behaviours.<ref name="Dal2017">{{cite journal | vauthors = Daley D, Van Der Oord S, Ferrin M, Cortese S, Danckaerts M, Doepfner M, Van den Hoofdakker BJ, Coghill D, Thompson M, Asherson P, Banaschewski T, Brandeis D, Buitelaar J, Dittmann RW, Hollis C, Holtmann M, Konofal E, Lecendreux M, Rothenberger A, Santosh P, Simonoff E, Soutullo C, Steinhausen HC, Stringaris A, Taylor E, Wong IC, Zuddas A, Sonuga-Barke EJ | title = Practitioner Review: Current best practice in the use of parent training and other behavioural interventions in the treatment of children and adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder | journal = Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Allied Disciplines | volume = 59 | issue = 9 | pages = 932–947 | date = September 2018 | pmid = 29083042 | doi = 10.1111/jcpp.12825 | url = http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/45391/ | access-date = 21 November 2018 | publisher = Wiley | url-status = live | hdl = 11343/293788 | s2cid = 31044370 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170925140540/http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/45391/ | archive-date = 25 September 2017 | hdl-access = free }}</ref>
There is little high-quality research on the effectiveness of family therapy for ADHD—but the existing evidence shows that it is similar to community care, and better than placebo.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Bjornstad G, Montgomery P |title=Family therapy for attention-deficit disorder or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children and adolescents |journal=The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews |issue=2 |pages=CD005042 |date=April 2005 |pmid=15846741 |doi=10.1002/14651858.CD005042.pub2 |s2cid=27339381 |veditors=Bjornstad GJ }}</ref> ADHD-specific support groups can provide information and may help families cope with ADHD.<ref name="Brain encyclopedia">{{cite encyclopedia |vauthors=Turkington C, Harris J |title=Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) |url={{google books|6hbKkynRxPYC |pages=42|plainurl=yes}} |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of the Brain and Brain Disorders |year=2009 |publisher=Infobase Publishing |isbn=978-1-4381-2703-3 |pages= |via=Google Books }}</ref>


There is little high-quality research on the effectiveness of family therapy for ADHD—but the existing evidence shows that it is similar to community care, and better than placebo.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Bjornstad G, Montgomery P | title = Family therapy for attention-deficit disorder or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children and adolescents | journal = The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews | issue = 2 | pages = CD005042 | date = April 2005 | pmid = 15846741 | doi = 10.1002/14651858.CD005042.pub2 | veditors = Bjornstad GJ | s2cid = 27339381 }}</ref> ADHD-specific support groups can provide information and may help families cope with ADHD.<ref name="Brain encyclopedia">{{cite encyclopedia |vauthors=Turkington C, Harris J |title=Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) |url={{google books|6hbKkynRxPYC |page=42|plainurl=yes}} |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of the Brain and Brain Disorders |year=2009 |publisher=Infobase Publishing |isbn=978-1-4381-2703-3 |pages= |via=Google Books }}</ref>
Social skills training, behavioral modification, and medication may have some limited beneficial effects in peer relationships. Stable, high-quality friendships with ] peers protect against later psychological problems.<ref name="pmid20490677">{{cite journal |vauthors=Mikami AY |title=The importance of friendship for youth with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder |journal=Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review |volume=13 |issue=2 |pages=181–198 |date=June 2010 |pmid=20490677 |pmc=2921569 |doi=10.1007/s10567-010-0067-y }}</ref>

Social skills training, behavioural modification, and medication may have some limited beneficial effects in peer relationships. Stable, high-quality friendships with ] peers protect against later psychological problems.<ref name="pmid20490677">{{cite journal | vauthors = Mikami AY | title = The importance of friendship for youth with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder | journal = Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review | volume = 13 | issue = 2 | pages = 181–198 | date = June 2010 | pmid = 20490677 | pmc = 2921569 | doi = 10.1007/s10567-010-0067-y }}</ref>

===Digital interventions===

Several clinical trials have investigated the efficacy of digital therapeutics, particularly ]'s video game-based digital therapeutic AKL-T01, marketed as ]. The pediatric STARS-ADHD randomized, double-blind, parallel-group, controlled trial demonstrated that AKL-T01 significantly improved performance on the ], an objective measure of attention and inhibitory control, compared to a control group after four weeks of at-home use.<ref name="STARS-ADHD">{{cite journal | vauthors = Kollins SH, DeLoss DJ, Cañadas E, Lutz J, Findling RL, Keefe RS, Epstein JN, Cutler AJ, Faraone SV | title = A novel digital intervention for actively reducing severity of paediatric ADHD (STARS-ADHD): a randomised controlled trial | journal = The Lancet. Digital Health | volume = 2 | issue = 4 | pages = e168–e178 | date = April 2020 | pmid = 33334505 | doi = 10.1016/S2589-7500(20)30017-0 | doi-access = free }}</ref> A subsequent pediatric open-label study, STARS-Adjunct, published in ]'s ] evaluated AKL-T01 as an adjunctive treatment for children with ADHD who were either on stimulant medication or not on stimulant pharmacotherapy. Results showed improvements in ADHD-related impairment (measured by the Impairment Rating Scale) and ADHD symptoms after 4 weeks of treatment, with effects persisting during a 4-week pause and further improving with an additional treatment period.<ref name="STARS-ADHD-Adjunct">{{cite journal | vauthors = Kollins SH, Childress A, Heusser AC, Lutz J | title = Effectiveness of a digital therapeutic as adjunct to treatment with medication in pediatric ADHD | journal = npj Digital Medicine | volume = 4 | issue = 1 | pages = 58 | date = March 2021 | pmid = 33772095 | pmc = 7997870 | doi = 10.1038/s41746-021-00429-0 | ref = STARS-Adjunct }}</ref> Notably, the magnitude of the measured improvement was similar for children both on and off stimulants.<ref name="STARS-ADHD-Adjunct" /> In 2020, AKL-T01 received marketing authorization for pediatric ADHD from the ], becoming "the first game-based therapeutic granted marketing authorization by the FDA for any type of condition."<ref name="FDA AKL-T01">{{cite web |title=FDA Permits Marketing of First Game-Based Digital Therapeutic to Improve Attention Function in Children with ADHD |url=https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-permits-marketing-first-game-based-digital-therapeutic-improve-attention-function-children-adhd |website=Food and Drug Administration |date=17 June 2020 |publisher=United States Food and Drug Administration |access-date=19 April 2024 |ref=FDA}}</ref>

In addition to pediatric populations, a 2023 study in the '']'' investigated the efficacy and safety of AKL-T01 in adults with ADHD. After six weeks of at-home treatment with AKL-T01, participants showed significant improvements in objective measures of attention (]), reported ADHD symptoms (ADHD-RS-IV inattention subscale and total score), and reported quality of life (AAQoL).<ref name="STARS-ADHD-Adults">{{cite journal | vauthors = Stamatis CA, Mercaldi C, Kollins SH |title=A Single-Arm Pivotal Trial to Assess the Efficacy of Akl-T01, a Novel Digital Intervention for Attention, in Adults Diagnosed With ADHD |journal=Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry |date=October 2023 |volume=62 |issue=10 |pages=S318 |doi=10.1016/j.jaac.2023.09.510 |url=https://www.jaacap.org/article/S0890-8567(23)01994-9/fulltext#%20 |access-date=22 April 2024}}</ref> The magnitude of improvement in attention was nearly seven times greater than that reported in pediatric trials.<ref name="STARS-ADHD-Adults" /> The treatment was well-tolerated, with high compliance and no serious adverse events.<ref name="STARS-ADHD-Adults" />


===Medication=== ===Medication===
The medications for ADHD appear to alleviate symptoms via their effects on the pre-frontal executive, striatal and related regions and networks in the brain; usually by increasing neurotransmission of ] and ].<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Devilbiss DM, Berridge CW | title = Cognition-enhancing doses of methylphenidate preferentially increase prefrontal cortex neuronal responsiveness | journal = Biological Psychiatry | volume = 64 | issue = 7 | pages = 626–635 | date = October 2008 | pmid = 18585681 | pmc = 2603602 | doi = 10.1016/j.biopsych.2008.04.037 }}</ref><ref name="Schulz_2012">{{cite journal | vauthors = Schulz KP, Fan J, Bédard AC, Clerkin SM, Ivanov I, Tang CY, Halperin JM, Newcorn JH | title = Common and unique therapeutic mechanisms of stimulant and nonstimulant treatments for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder | journal = Archives of General Psychiatry | volume = 69 | issue = 9 | pages = 952–961 | date = September 2012 | pmid = 22945622 | doi = 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2011.2053 }}</ref><ref name="Koda_2010">{{cite journal | vauthors = Koda K, Ago Y, Cong Y, Kita Y, Takuma K, Matsuda T | title = Effects of acute and chronic administration of atomoxetine and methylphenidate on extracellular levels of noradrenaline, dopamine and serotonin in the prefrontal cortex and striatum of mice | journal = Journal of Neurochemistry | volume = 114 | issue = 1 | pages = 259–270 | date = July 2010 | pmid = 20403082 | doi = 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2010.06750.x }}</ref>


====Stimulants==== ====Stimulants====
] and ] or its derivatives are first-line treatments for ADHD<ref name="CNS09" /><ref name="Dodson_2005"/> as they are considered the most effective pharmaceutical treatments.<ref name="CNS09" /> About 70 percent respond to the first stimulant tried and as few as 10 percent respond to neither amphetamines nor methylphenidate.<ref name="CNS09" /> Stimulants may also reduce the risk of unintentional injuries in children with ADHD.<ref name="Ruiz-Goikoetxea_2017">{{cite journal |vauthors=Ruiz-Goikoetxea M, Cortese S, Aznarez-Sanado M, Magallón S, Alvarez Zallo N, Luis EO, de Castro-Manglano P, Soutullo C, Arrondo G |display-authors=6 |title=Risk of unintentional injuries in children and adolescents with ADHD and the impact of ADHD medications: A systematic review and meta-analysis |journal=Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews |volume=84 |pages=63–71 |date=January 2018 |pmid=29162520 |doi=10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.11.007 |doi-access=free }}</ref> ] studies suggest that long-term treatment with amphetamine or methylphenidate decreases abnormalities in brain structure and function found in subjects with ADHD.<ref name="Neuroplasticity 1">{{cite journal |vauthors=Hart H, Radua J, Nakao T, Mataix-Cols D, Rubia K |title=Meta-analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging studies of inhibition and attention in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: exploring task-specific, stimulant medication, and age effects |journal=JAMA Psychiatry |volume=70 |issue=2 |pages=185–198 |date=February 2013 |pmid=23247506 |doi=10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2013.277 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="Neuroplasticity 2">{{cite journal |vauthors=Spencer TJ, Brown A, Seidman LJ, Valera EM, Makris N, Lomedico A, Faraone SV, Biederman J |display-authors=6 |title=Effect of psychostimulants on brain structure and function in ADHD: a qualitative literature review of magnetic resonance imaging-based neuroimaging studies |journal=The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry |volume=74 |issue=9 |pages=902–917 |date=September 2013 |pmid=24107764 |pmc=3801446 |doi=10.4088/JCP.12r08287 }}</ref><ref name="Neuroplasticity 3">{{cite journal |vauthors=Frodl T, Skokauskas N |title=Meta-analysis of structural MRI studies in children and adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder indicates treatment effects |journal=Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica |volume=125 |issue=2 |pages=114–126 |date=February 2012 |pmid=22118249 |doi=10.1111/j.1600-0447.2011.01786.x |quote=Basal ganglia regions like the right globus pallidus, the right putamen, and the nucleus caudatus are structurally affected in children with ADHD. These changes and alterations in limbic regions like {{abbr|ACC|anterior cingulate cortex}} and amygdala are more pronounced in non-treated populations and seem to diminish over time from child to adulthood. Treatment seems to have positive effects on brain structure. |s2cid=25954331 |doi-access=free }}</ref> A 2018 review found the greatest short-term benefit with methylphenidate in children, and amphetamines in adults.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Cortese S, Adamo N, Del Giovane C, Mohr-Jensen C, Hayes AJ, Carucci S, Atkinson LZ, Tessari L, Banaschewski T, Coghill D, Hollis C, Simonoff E, Zuddas A, Barbui C, Purgato M, Steinhausen HC, Shokraneh F, Xia J, Cipriani A |display-authors=6 |title=Comparative efficacy and tolerability of medications for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in children, adolescents, and adults: a systematic review and network meta-analysis |journal=The Lancet. Psychiatry |volume=5 |issue=9 |pages=727–738 |date=September 2018 |pmid=30097390 |pmc=6109107 |doi=10.1016/S2215-0366(18)30269-4 }}</ref> ] and ] or its derivatives are often first-line treatments for ADHD.<ref name="Dodson_2005" /><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Storebø OJ, Storm MR, Pereira Ribeiro J, Skoog M, Groth C, Callesen HE, Schaug JP, Darling Rasmussen P, Huus CL, Zwi M, Kirubakaran R, Simonsen E, Gluud C | title = Methylphenidate for children and adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) | journal = The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews | volume = 2023 | issue = 3 | pages = CD009885 | date = March 2023 | pmid = 36971690 | pmc = 10042435 | doi = 10.1002/14651858.CD009885.pub3 }}</ref> About 70 per cent respond to the first stimulant tried and as few as 10 per cent respond to neither amphetamines nor methylphenidate.<ref name="CNS09" /> Stimulants may also reduce the risk of unintentional injuries in children with ADHD.<ref name="Ruiz-Goikoetxea_2017">{{cite journal | vauthors = Ruiz-Goikoetxea M, Cortese S, Aznarez-Sanado M, Magallón S, Alvarez Zallo N, Luis EO, de Castro-Manglano P, Soutullo C, Arrondo G | title = Risk of unintentional injuries in children and adolescents with ADHD and the impact of ADHD medications: A systematic review and meta-analysis | journal = Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews | volume = 84 | pages = 63–71 | date = January 2018 | pmid = 29162520 | doi = 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.11.007 | hdl-access = free | doi-access = free | hdl = 10171/45012 }}</ref> ] studies suggest that long-term treatment with amphetamine or methylphenidate decreases abnormalities in brain structure and function found in subjects with ADHD.<ref name="Neuroplasticity 1">{{cite journal | vauthors = Hart H, Radua J, Nakao T, Mataix-Cols D, Rubia K | title = Meta-analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging studies of inhibition and attention in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: exploring task-specific, stimulant medication, and age effects | journal = JAMA Psychiatry | volume = 70 | issue = 2 | pages = 185–198 | date = February 2013 | pmid = 23247506 | doi = 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2013.277 | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref name="Neuroplasticity 2">{{cite journal | vauthors = Spencer TJ, Brown A, Seidman LJ, Valera EM, Makris N, Lomedico A, Faraone SV, Biederman J | title = Effect of psychostimulants on brain structure and function in ADHD: a qualitative literature review of magnetic resonance imaging-based neuroimaging studies | journal = The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry | volume = 74 | issue = 9 | pages = 902–917 | date = September 2013 | pmid = 24107764 | pmc = 3801446 | doi = 10.4088/JCP.12r08287 }}</ref><ref name="Neuroplasticity 3">{{cite journal | vauthors = Frodl T, Skokauskas N | title = Meta-analysis of structural MRI studies in children and adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder indicates treatment effects | journal = Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica | volume = 125 | issue = 2 | pages = 114–126 | date = February 2012 | pmid = 22118249 | doi = 10.1111/j.1600-0447.2011.01786.x | quote = Basal ganglia regions like the right globus pallidus, the right putamen, and the nucleus caudatus are structurally affected in children with ADHD. These changes and alterations in limbic regions like {{abbr|ACC|anterior cingulate cortex}} and amygdala are more pronounced in non-treated populations and seem to diminish over time from child to adulthood. Treatment seems to have positive effects on brain structure. | s2cid = 25954331 | doi-access = free }}</ref> A 2018 review found the greatest short-term benefit with methylphenidate in children, and amphetamines in adults.<ref name="Comparative efficacy and tolerabili">{{cite journal | vauthors = Cortese S, Adamo N, Del Giovane C, Mohr-Jensen C, Hayes AJ, Carucci S, Atkinson LZ, Tessari L, Banaschewski T, Coghill D, Hollis C, Simonoff E, Zuddas A, Barbui C, Purgato M, Steinhausen HC, Shokraneh F, Xia J, Cipriani A | title = Comparative efficacy and tolerability of medications for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in children, adolescents, and adults: a systematic review and network meta-analysis | journal = The Lancet. Psychiatry | volume = 5 | issue = 9 | pages = 727–738 | date = September 2018 | pmid = 30097390 | pmc = 6109107 | doi = 10.1016/S2215-0366(18)30269-4 }}</ref> Studies and meta-analyses show that amphetamine is slightly-to-modestly more effective than methylphenidate at reducing symptoms,<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Stuhec M, Lukić P, Locatelli I | title = Efficacy, Acceptability, and Tolerability of Lisdexamfetamine, Mixed Amphetamine Salts, Methylphenidate, and Modafinil in the Treatment of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis | journal = The Annals of Pharmacotherapy | volume = 53 | issue = 2 | pages = 121–133 | date = February 2019 | pmid = 30117329 | doi = 10.1177/1060028018795703 | s2cid = 52019992 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Faraone SV, Biederman J, Roe C | title = Comparative efficacy of Adderall and methylphenidate in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a meta-analysis | journal = Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology | volume = 22 | issue = 5 | pages = 468–473 | date = October 2002 | pmid = 12352269 | doi = 10.1097/00004714-200210000-00005 | s2cid = 19726926 }}</ref> and they are more effective pharmacotherapy for ADHD than ]<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Nam SH, Lim MH, Park TW | title = Stimulant Induced Movement Disorders in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder | journal = Soa--Ch'ongsonyon Chongsin Uihak = Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | volume = 33 | issue = 2 | pages = 27–34 | date = April 2022 | pmid = 35418800 | pmc = 8984208 | doi = 10.5765/jkacap.210034 }}</ref> but methylphenidate has comparable efficacy to non-stimulants such as atomoxetine.
In a ] clinical synopsis, Dr Storebø and colleagues summarised their meta-review<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Storebø OJ, Krogh HB, Ramstad E, Moreira-Maia CR, Holmskov M, Skoog M, Nilausen TD, Magnusson FL, Zwi M, Gillies D, Rosendal S, Groth C, Rasmussen KB, Gauci D, Kirubakaran R, Forsbøl B, Simonsen E, Gluud C | title = Methylphenidate for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children and adolescents: Cochrane systematic review with meta-analyses and trial sequential analyses of randomised clinical trials | journal = BMJ | volume = 351 | pages = h5203 | date = November 2015 | pmid = 26608309 | pmc = 4659414 | doi = 10.1136/bmj.h5203 }}</ref> on methylphenidate for ADHD in children and adolescents. The meta-analysis raised substantial doubts about the drug's efficacy relative to a placebo. This led to a strong critical reaction from the European ADHD Guidelines Group and individuals in the scientific community, who identified a number of flaws in the review.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Banaschewski T, Buitelaar J, Chui CS, Coghill D, Cortese S, Simonoff E, Wong IC | title = Methylphenidate for ADHD in children and adolescents: throwing the baby out with the bathwater | journal = Evidence-Based Mental Health | volume = 19 | issue = 4 | pages = 97–99 | date = November 2016 | pmid = 27935807 | pmc = 10699535 | doi = 10.1136/eb-2016-102461 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Hoekstra PJ, Buitelaar JK | title = Is the evidence base of methylphenidate for children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder flawed? | journal = European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | volume = 25 | issue = 4 | pages = 339–340 | date = April 2016 | pmid = 27021055 | doi = 10.1007/s00787-016-0845-2 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Banaschewski T, Gerlach M, Becker K, Holtmann M, Döpfner M, Romanos M | title = Trust, but verify. The errors and misinterpretations in the Cochrane analysis by O. J. Storebo and colleagues on the efficacy and safety of methylphenidate for the treatment of children and adolescents with ADHD | journal = Zeitschrift für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie | volume = 44 | issue = 4 | pages = 307–314 | date = July 2016 | pmid = 27270192 | doi = 10.1024/1422-4917/a000433 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Romanos M, Reif A, Banaschewski T | title = Methylphenidate for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder | journal = JAMA | volume = 316 | issue = 9 | pages = 994–995 | date = September 2016 | pmid = 27599342 | doi = 10.1001/jama.2016.10279 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Shaw P | title = Quantifying the Benefits and Risks of Methylphenidate as Treatment for Childhood Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder | journal = JAMA | volume = 315 | issue = 18 | pages = 1953–1955 | date = May 2016 | pmid = 27163984 | doi = 10.1001/jama.2016.3427 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Gerlach M, Banaschewski T, Coghill D, Rohde LA, Romanos M | title = What are the benefits of methylphenidate as a treatment for children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder? | journal = Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders | volume = 9 | issue = 1 | pages = 1–3 | date = March 2017 | pmid = 28168407 | doi = 10.1007/s12402-017-0220-2 }}</ref> Since at least September 2021, there is a unanimous and global ] that methylphenidate is safe and highly effective for treating ADHD.<ref name="Faraone_2021" /><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Kooij JJ, Bijlenga D, Salerno L, Jaeschke R, Bitter I, Balázs J, Thome J, Dom G, Kasper S, Nunes Filipe C, Stes S, Mohr P, Leppämäki S, Casas M, Bobes J, Mccarthy JM, Richarte V, Kjems Philipsen A, Pehlivanidis A, Niemela A, Styr B, Semerci B, Bolea-Alamanac B, Edvinsson D, Baeyens D, Wynchank D, Sobanski E, Philipsen A, McNicholas F, Caci H, Mihailescu I, Manor I, Dobrescu I, Saito T, Krause J, Fayyad J, Ramos-Quiroga JA, Foeken K, Rad F, Adamou M, Ohlmeier M, Fitzgerald M, Gill M, Lensing M, Motavalli Mukaddes N, Brudkiewicz P, Gustafsson P, Tani P, Oswald P, Carpentier PJ, De Rossi P, Delorme R, Markovska Simoska S, Pallanti S, Young S, Bejerot S, Lehtonen T, Kustow J, Müller-Sedgwick U, Hirvikoski T, Pironti V, Ginsberg Y, Félegyházy Z, Garcia-Portilla MP, Asherson P | title = Updated European Consensus Statement on diagnosis and treatment of adult ADHD | journal = European Psychiatry | volume = 56 | issue = 1 | pages = 14–34 | date = February 2019 | pmid = 30453134 | doi = 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2018.11.001 | hdl-access = free | hdl = 10651/51910 }}</ref> The same journal released a subsequent systematic review (2022) of extended-release methylphenidate for adults, concluding similar doubts about the certainty of evidence.<ref name="y943">{{cite journal | vauthors = Boesen K, Paludan-Müller AS, Gøtzsche PC, Jørgensen KJ | title = Extended-release methylphenidate for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adults | journal = The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews | volume = 2022 | issue = 2 | pages = CD012857 | date = February 2022 | pmid = 35201607 | pmc = 8869321 | doi = 10.1002/14651858.CD012857.pub2 }}</ref> Other recent systematic reviews and meta-analyses, however, find certainty in the safety and high efficacy of methylphenidate for reducing ADHD symptoms,<ref name="Comparative efficacy and tolerabili"/><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Jaeschke RR, Sujkowska E, Sowa-Kućma M | title = Methylphenidate for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in adults: a narrative review | journal = Psychopharmacology | volume = 238 | issue = 10 | pages = 2667–2691 | date = October 2021 | pmid = 34436651 | pmc = 8455398 | doi = 10.1007/s00213-021-05946-0 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Carucci S, Balia C, Gagliano A, Lampis A, Buitelaar JK, Danckaerts M, Dittmann RW, Garas P, Hollis C, Inglis S, Konrad K, Kovshoff H, Liddle EB, McCarthy S, Nagy P, Panei P, Romaniello R, Usala T, Wong IC, Banaschewski T, Sonuga-Barke E, Coghill D, Zuddas A | title = Long term methylphenidate exposure and growth in children and adolescents with ADHD. A systematic review and meta-analysis | journal = Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews | volume = 120 | pages = 509–525 | date = January 2021 | pmid = 33080250 | doi = 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.09.031 | url = https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/publications/fe01a9b8-95ee-46bf-bd2c-e88a9d6ead38 | hdl = 11584/301387 | hdl-access = free }}</ref> for alleviating the underlying executive functioning deficits,<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Isfandnia F, El Masri S, Radua J, Rubia K | title = The effects of chronic administration of stimulant and non-stimulant medications on executive functions in ADHD: A systematic review and meta-analysis | journal = Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews | volume = 162 | issue = 105703 | pages = 105703 | date = July 2024 | pmid = 38718988 | doi = 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105703 | url = https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/69dc26fe-1517-438e-9cd7-6788fc396dc9 }}</ref> and for substantially reducing the adverse consequences of untreated ADHD with continuous treatment.<ref name="Faraone_2021" /> Clinical guidelines internationally are also consistent in approving the safety and efficacy of methylphenidate and recommending it as a first-line treatment for the disorder.<ref name="Faraone_2021" />


Safety and efficacy data have been reviewed extensively by medical regulators (e.g., the US Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency), the developers of evidence-based international guidelines (e.g., the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and the American Academy of Pediatrics), and government agencies who have endorsed these guidelines (e.g., the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council). These professional groups unanimously conclude, based on the scientific evidence, that methylphenidate is safe and effective and should be considered as a first-line treatment for ADHD.<ref name="Faraone_2021" />
The likelihood of developing ] for ADHD patients taking stimulants has been measured at between 11 and 45 percent for different medications,<ref name="Wynchank_2017">{{cite journal | vauthors = Wynchank D, Bijlenga D, Beekman AT, Kooij JJ, Penninx BW | title = Adult Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Insomnia: an Update of the Literature | journal = Current Psychiatry Reports | volume = 19 | issue = 12 | pages = 98 | date = October 2017 | pmid = 29086065 | doi = 10.1007/s11920-017-0860-0 | publisher = Springer Science and Business Media LLC | quote = In varying percentages of trial participants, insomnia is a treatment-emergent adverse effect in triple-bead mixed amphetamine salts (40–45%), dasotraline (35–45%), lisdexamfetamine (10–19%), and extended-release methylphenidate (11%). | s2cid = 38064951 }}</ref> and may be a main reason for discontinuation. Other side effects, such as ]s, decreased appetite and weight loss, or ], may also lead to discontinuation.<ref name="CNS09" /> ] and ] are rare at therapeutic doses, appearing to occur in approximately 0.1% of individuals, within the first several weeks after starting amphetamine therapy.<ref name="Cochrane recreational amph psychosis">{{cite journal | vauthors = Shoptaw SJ, Kao U, Ling W | title = Treatment for amphetamine psychosis | journal = The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews | issue = 1 | pages = CD003026 | date = January 2009 | volume = 2009 | pmid = 19160215 | pmc = 7004251 | doi = 10.1002/14651858.CD003026.pub3 | veditors = Shoptaw SJ, Ali R | quote = A minority of individuals who use amphetamines develop full-blown psychosis requiring care at emergency departments or psychiatric hospitals. In such cases, symptoms of amphetamine psychosis commonly include paranoid and persecutory delusions as well as auditory and visual hallucinations in the presence of extreme agitation. More common (about 18%) is for frequent amphetamine users to report psychotic symptoms that are sub-clinical and that do not require high-intensity intervention&nbsp;...<br />About 5–15% of the users who develop an amphetamine psychosis fail to recover completely (Hofmann 1983)&nbsp;...<br />Findings from one trial indicate use of antipsychotic medications effectively resolves symptoms of acute amphetamine psychosis. }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=December 2013 |title=Adderall XR Prescribing Information |work=United States Food and Drug Administration |url=http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2013/021303s026lbl.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131230233702/http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2013/021303s026lbl.pdf |archive-date=30 December 2013 |access-date=30 December 2013 |publisher=Shire US Inc |quote=Treatment-emergent psychotic or manic symptoms, e.g., hallucinations, delusional thinking, or mania in children and adolescents without prior history of psychotic illness or mania can be caused by stimulants at usual doses.&nbsp;... In a pooled analysis of multiple short-term, placebo controlled studies, such symptoms occurred in about 0.1% (4 patients with events out of 3482 exposed to methylphenidate or amphetamine for several weeks at usual doses) of stimulant-treated patients compared to 0 in placebo-treated patients.}}</ref><ref name="pmid19171629">{{cite journal | vauthors = Mosholder AD, Gelperin K, Hammad TA, Phelan K, Johann-Liang R | title = Hallucinations and other psychotic symptoms associated with the use of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder drugs in children | journal = Pediatrics | volume = 123 | issue = 2 | pages = 611–616 | date = February 2009 | pmid = 19171629 | doi = 10.1542/peds.2008-0185 | s2cid = 22391693 }}</ref> The safety of these medications in pregnancy is unclear.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Ashton H, Gallagher P, Moore B | title = The adult psychiatrist's dilemma: psychostimulant use in attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder | journal = Journal of Psychopharmacology | volume = 20 | issue = 5 | pages = 602–610 | date = September 2006 | pmid = 16478756 | doi = 10.1177/0269881106061710 | s2cid = 32073083 }}</ref> Symptom improvement is not sustained if medication is ceased.<ref name="May_2008">{{cite journal | vauthors = Mayes R, Bagwell C, Erkulwater J | title = ADHD and the rise in stimulant use among children | journal = Harvard Review of Psychiatry | volume = 16 | issue = 3 | pages = 151–166 | date = 2008 | pmid = 18569037 | doi = 10.1080/10673220802167782 | s2cid = 18481191 }}</ref><ref name="Long-term 36" /><ref name="Castells_2018">{{cite journal | vauthors = Castells X, Blanco-Silvente L, Cunill R | title = Amphetamines for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adults | journal = The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews | volume = 2018 | issue = 8 | pages = CD007813 | date = August 2018 | pmid = 30091808 | pmc = 6513464 | doi = 10.1002/14651858.CD007813.pub3 | collaboration = Cochrane Developmental, Psychosocial and Learning Problems Group }}</ref>
The likelihood of developing ] for ADHD patients taking stimulants has been measured at between 11 and 45 per cent for different medications,<ref name="Wynchank_2017">{{cite journal | vauthors = Wynchank D, Bijlenga D, Beekman AT, Kooij JJ, Penninx BW | title = Adult Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Insomnia: an Update of the Literature | journal = Current Psychiatry Reports | volume = 19 | issue = 12 | pages = 98 | date = October 2017 | pmid = 29086065 | doi = 10.1007/s11920-017-0860-0 | publisher = Springer Science and Business Media LLC | quote = In varying percentages of trial participants, insomnia is a treatment-emergent adverse effect in triple-bead mixed amphetamine salts (40–45%), dasotraline (35–45%), lisdexamfetamine (10–19%), and extended-release methylphenidate (11%). | s2cid = 38064951 }}</ref> and may be a main reason for discontinuation. Other side effects, such as ]s, decreased appetite and weight loss, or ], may also lead to discontinuation.<ref name="CNS09" /> ] and ] are rare at therapeutic doses, appearing to occur in approximately 0.1% of individuals, within the first several weeks after starting amphetamine therapy.<ref name="Cochrane recreational amph psychosis">{{cite journal | vauthors = Shoptaw SJ, Kao U, Ling W | title = Treatment for amphetamine psychosis | journal = The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews | volume = 2009 | issue = 1 | pages = CD003026 | date = January 2009 | pmid = 19160215 | pmc = 7004251 | doi = 10.1002/14651858.CD003026.pub3 | veditors = Shoptaw SJ, Ali R | quote = A minority of individuals who use amphetamines develop full-blown psychosis requiring care at emergency departments or psychiatric hospitals. In such cases, symptoms of amphetamine psychosis commonly include paranoid and persecutory delusions as well as auditory and visual hallucinations in the presence of extreme agitation. More common (about 18%) is for frequent amphetamine users to report psychotic symptoms that are sub-clinical and that do not require high-intensity intervention&nbsp;...<br />About 5–15% of the users who develop an amphetamine psychosis fail to recover completely (Hofmann 1983)&nbsp;...<br />Findings from one trial indicate use of antipsychotic medications effectively resolves symptoms of acute amphetamine psychosis. }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=December 2013 |title=Adderall XR Prescribing Information |work=United States Food and Drug Administration |url=http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2013/021303s026lbl.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131230233702/http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2013/021303s026lbl.pdf |archive-date=30 December 2013 |access-date=30 December 2013 |publisher=Shire US Inc |quote=Treatment-emergent psychotic or manic symptoms, e.g., hallucinations, delusional thinking, or mania in children and adolescents without prior history of psychotic illness or mania can be caused by stimulants at usual doses.&nbsp;... In a pooled analysis of multiple short-term, placebo controlled studies, such symptoms occurred in about 0.1% (4 patients with events out of 3482 exposed to methylphenidate or amphetamine for several weeks at usual doses) of stimulant-treated patients compared to 0 in placebo-treated patients.}}</ref><ref name="pmid19171629">{{cite journal | vauthors = Mosholder AD, Gelperin K, Hammad TA, Phelan K, Johann-Liang R | title = Hallucinations and other psychotic symptoms associated with the use of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder drugs in children | journal = Pediatrics | volume = 123 | issue = 2 | pages = 611–616 | date = February 2009 | pmid = 19171629 | doi = 10.1542/peds.2008-0185 | s2cid = 22391693 }}</ref> The safety of these medications in pregnancy is unclear.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Ashton H, Gallagher P, Moore B | title = The adult psychiatrist's dilemma: psychostimulant use in attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder | journal = Journal of Psychopharmacology | volume = 20 | issue = 5 | pages = 602–610 | date = September 2006 | pmid = 16478756 | doi = 10.1177/0269881106061710 | s2cid = 32073083 }}</ref> Symptom improvement is not sustained if medication is ceased.<ref name="PRBM.S49114">{{cite journal | vauthors = Parker J, Wales G, Chalhoub N, Harpin V | title = The long-term outcomes of interventions for the management of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in children and adolescents: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials | journal = Psychology Research and Behavior Management | volume = 6 | pages = 87–99 | date = September 2013 | pmid = 24082796 | pmc = 3785407 | doi = 10.2147/PRBM.S49114 | quote = Results suggest there is moderate-to-high-level evidence that combined pharmacological and behavioral interventions, and pharmacological interventions alone can be effective in managing the core ADHD symptoms and academic performance at 14 months. However, the effect size may decrease beyond this period.&nbsp;... Only one paper examining outcomes beyond 36 months met the review criteria.&nbsp;... There is high level evidence suggesting that pharmacological treatment can have a major beneficial effect on the core symptoms of ADHD (hyperactivity, inattention, and impulsivity) in approximately 80% of cases compared with placebo controls, in the short term. | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref name="May_2008"/><ref name="Castells_2018">{{cite journal | vauthors = Castells X, Blanco-Silvente L, Cunill R | title = Amphetamines for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adults | journal = The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews | volume = 2018 | issue = 8 | pages = CD007813 | date = August 2018 | pmid = 30091808 | pmc = 6513464 | doi = 10.1002/14651858.CD007813.pub3 | collaboration = Cochrane Developmental, Psychosocial and Learning Problems Group }}</ref>


The long-term effects of ADHD medication have yet to be fully determined,<ref name="ADHD 2015 review">{{cite journal |vauthors=Kiely B, Adesman A |title=What we do not know about ADHD... yet |journal=Current Opinion in Pediatrics |volume=27 |issue=3 |pages=395–404 |date=June 2015 |pmid=25888152 |doi=10.1097/MOP.0000000000000229 |quote=In addition, a consensus has not been reached on the optimal diagnostic criteria for ADHD. Moreover, the benefits and long-term effects of medical and complementary therapies for this disorder continue to be debated. These gaps in knowledge hinder the ability of clinicians to effectively recognise and treat ADHD. |s2cid=39004402 }}</ref><ref name="pmid21519262">{{cite journal |vauthors=Hazell P |title=The challenges to demonstrating long-term effects of psychostimulant treatment for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder |journal=Current Opinion in Psychiatry |volume=24 |issue=4 |pages=286–290 |date=July 2011 |pmid=21519262 |doi=10.1097/YCO.0b013e32834742db |s2cid=21998152 |url=https://zenodo.org/record/1230054 |access-date=19 July 2019 |archive-date=26 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726114012/https://zenodo.org/record/1230054 |url-status=live }}</ref> although stimulants are generally beneficial and safe for up to two years for children and adolescents.<ref name="Kemper Maslow Hill Namdari 2018 p.">{{cite journal |vauthors=Kemper AR, Maslow GR, Hill S, Namdari B, Allen LaPointe NM, Goode AP, Coeytaux RR, Befus D, Kosinski AS, Bowen SE, McBroom AJ, Lallinger KR, Sanders GD |display-authors=6 |title=Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Diagnosis and Treatment in Children and Adolescents |journal=Comparative Effectiveness Reviews |issue=203 |publisher=Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US) |publication-place=Rockville (MD) |year=2018 |pmid=29558081 |url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK487761/ |access-date=7 November 2021 |page= |archive-date=17 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220517212254/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK487761/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The long-term effects of ADHD medication have yet to be fully determined,<ref name="ADHD 2015 review">{{cite journal | vauthors = Kiely B, Adesman A | title = What we do not know about ADHD… yet | journal = Current Opinion in Pediatrics | volume = 27 | issue = 3 | pages = 395–404 | date = June 2015 | pmid = 25888152 | doi = 10.1097/MOP.0000000000000229 | quote = In addition, a consensus has not been reached on the optimal diagnostic criteria for ADHD. Moreover, the benefits and long-term effects of medical and complementary therapies for this disorder continue to be debated. These gaps in knowledge hinder the ability of clinicians to effectively recognise and treat ADHD. | s2cid = 39004402 }}</ref><ref name="pmid21519262">{{cite journal | vauthors = Hazell P | title = The challenges to demonstrating long-term effects of psychostimulant treatment for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder | journal = Current Opinion in Psychiatry | volume = 24 | issue = 4 | pages = 286–290 | date = July 2011 | pmid = 21519262 | doi = 10.1097/YCO.0b013e32834742db | url = https://zenodo.org/record/1230054 | access-date = 19 July 2019 | url-status = live | s2cid = 21998152 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200726114012/https://zenodo.org/record/1230054 | archive-date = 26 July 2020 }}</ref> although stimulants are generally beneficial and safe for up to two years for children and adolescents.<ref>{{cite journal | title = Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Diagnosis and Treatment in Children and Adolescents | journal = Comparative Effectiveness Reviews | issue = 203 | date = January 2018 | pmid = 29558081 | url = http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK487761/ | access-date = 7 November 2021 | publisher = Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US) | url-status = live | place = Rockville (MD) | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220517212254/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK487761/ | archive-date = 17 May 2022 | vauthors = Kemper AR, Maslow GR, Hill S, Namdari B, Allen Lapointe NM, Goode AP, Coeytaux RR, Befus D, Kosinski AS, Bowen SE, McBroom AJ, Lallinger KR, Sanders GD }}</ref> A 2022 meta-analysis found no statistically significant association between ADHD medications and the risk of ] (CVD) across age groups, although the study suggests further investigation is warranted for patients with preexisting CVD as well as long-term medication use.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Zhang L, Yao H, Li L, Du Rietz E, Andell P, Garcia-Argibay M, D'Onofrio BM, Cortese S, Larsson H, Chang Z | title = Risk of Cardiovascular Diseases Associated With Medications Used in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis | journal = JAMA Network Open | volume = 5 | issue = 11 | pages = e2243597 | date = November 2022 | pmid = 36416824 | pmc = 9685490 | doi = 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.43597 | doi-access = free }}</ref> Regular monitoring has been recommended in those on long-term treatment.<ref name="pmid20571380">{{cite journal | vauthors = Kraemer M, Uekermann J, Wiltfang J, Kis B | title = Methylphenidate-induced psychosis in adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: report of 3 new cases and review of the literature | journal = Clinical Neuropharmacology | volume = 33 | issue = 4 | pages = 204–206 | date = July 2010 | pmid = 20571380 | doi = 10.1097/WNF.0b013e3181e29174 | s2cid = 34956456 }}</ref> There are indications suggesting that stimulant therapy for children and adolescents should be stopped periodically to assess continuing need for medication, decrease possible growth delay, and reduce tolerance.<ref name="pmid21530185">{{cite journal | vauthors = van de Loo-Neus GH, Rommelse N, Buitelaar JK | title = To stop or not to stop? How long should medication treatment of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder be extended? | journal = European Neuropsychopharmacology | volume = 21 | issue = 8 | pages = 584–599 | date = August 2011 | pmid = 21530185 | doi = 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2011.03.008 | s2cid = 30068561 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Ibrahim K, Donyai P | title = Drug Holidays From ADHD Medication: International Experience Over the Past Four Decades | journal = Journal of Attention Disorders | volume = 19 | issue = 7 | pages = 551–568 | date = July 2015 | pmid = 25253684 | doi = 10.1177/1087054714548035 | url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266151922 | url-status = live | s2cid = 19949563 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160630122316/https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kinda_Ibrahim2/publication/266151922_Drug_Holidays_From_ADHD_Medication_International_Experience_Over_the_Past_Four_Decades/links/56a5ec7408ae1b651134629a.pdf | archive-date = 30 June 2016 }}</ref> Although potentially addictive at high doses,<ref name="NHM therapeutic stim addiction liability">{{cite book |title=Molecular Neuropharmacology: A Foundation for Clinical Neuroscience |vauthors=Malenka RC, Nestler EJ, Hyman SE |publisher=McGraw-Hill Medical |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-07-148127-4 |veditors=Sydor A, Brown RY |edition=2nd |location=New York |pages=323, 368|quote=supervised use of stimulants at therapeutic doses may decrease risk of experimentation with drugs to self-medicate symptoms. Second, untreated ADHD may lead to school failure, peer rejection, and subsequent association with deviant peer groups that encourage drug misuse.&nbsp;... amphetamines and methylphenidate are used in low doses to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and in higher doses to treat narcolepsy (Chapter 12). Despite their clinical uses, these drugs are strongly reinforcing, and their long-term use at high doses is linked with potential addiction}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |vauthors=McDonagh MS, Christensen V, Peterson K, Thakurta S |publisher=Oregon Health & Science University |title=Drug Class Review: Pharmacologic Treatments for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Final Report Update 3 |chapter=Black box warnings of ADHD drugs approved by the US Food and Drug Administration |at=Appendix G: Black box warnings of ADHD drugs approved by the US Food and Drug Administration |via=United States National Library of Medicine |date=Oct 2009 |location=Portland, Oregon |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK47127/ |access-date=17 January 2014 |archive-date=8 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170908135126/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK47127/ |url-status=live}}</ref> stimulants used to treat ADHD have low potential for abuse.<ref name="Dodson_2005"/> Treatment with stimulants is either protective against substance abuse or has no effect.<ref name="Kooij_2010" />{{rp|12|quote=... the literature supports the view that stimulant treatment for ADHD either has no impact in risk for substance abuse, or may even lower the risk of substance abuse by reducing the early onset of substance abuse in adolescents.}}<ref name="ADHD 2015 review" /><ref name="NHM therapeutic stim addiction liability" />
Regular monitoring has been recommended in those on long-term treatment.<ref name="pmid20571380">{{cite journal |vauthors=Kraemer M, Uekermann J, Wiltfang J, Kis B |title=Methylphenidate-induced psychosis in adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: report of 3 new cases and review of the literature |journal=Clinical Neuropharmacology |volume=33 |issue=4 |pages=204–206 |date=July 2010 |pmid=20571380 |doi=10.1097/WNF.0b013e3181e29174 |s2cid=34956456 }}</ref> There are indications suggesting that stimulant therapy for children and adolescents should be stopped periodically to assess continuing need for medication, decrease possible growth delay, and reduce tolerance.<ref name="pmid21530185">{{cite journal |vauthors=van de Loo-Neus GH, Rommelse N, Buitelaar JK |title=To stop or not to stop? How long should medication treatment of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder be extended? |journal=European Neuropsychopharmacology |volume=21 |issue=8 |pages=584–599 |date=August 2011 |pmid=21530185 |s2cid=30068561 |doi=10.1016/j.euroneuro.2011.03.008}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Ibrahim K, Donyai P |title=Drug Holidays From ADHD Medication: International Experience Over the Past Four Decades |journal=Journal of Attention Disorders |volume=19 |issue=7 |pages=551–568 |date=July 2015 |pmid=25253684 |s2cid=19949563 |doi=10.1177/1087054714548035 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266151922 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160630122316/https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kinda_Ibrahim2/publication/266151922_Drug_Holidays_From_ADHD_Medication_International_Experience_Over_the_Past_Four_Decades/links/56a5ec7408ae1b651134629a.pdf |archive-date=30 June 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> Although potentially addictive at high doses,<ref name="NHM therapeutic stim addiction liability">{{cite book |title=Molecular Neuropharmacology: A Foundation for Clinical Neuroscience |vauthors=Malenka RC, Nestler EJ, Hyman SE |publisher=McGraw-Hill Medical |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-07-148127-4 |veditors=Sydor A, Brown RY |edition=2nd |location=New York |pages=323, 368|quote=supervised use of stimulants at therapeutic doses may decrease risk of experimentation with drugs to self-medicate symptoms. Second, untreated ADHD may lead to school failure, peer rejection, and subsequent association with deviant peer groups that encourage drug misuse.&nbsp;... amphetamines and methylphenidate are used in low doses to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and in higher doses to treat narcolepsy (Chapter 12). Despite their clinical uses, these drugs are strongly reinforcing, and their long-term use at high doses is linked with potential addiction}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |author=Oregon Health & Science University |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK47127/ |title=Black box warnings of ADHD drugs approved by the US Food and Drug Administration |publisher=United States National Library of Medicine |year=2009 |location=Portland, Oregon |access-date=17 January 2014 |archive-date=8 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170908135126/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK47127/ |url-status=live}}</ref> stimulants used to treat ADHD have low potential for abuse.<ref name="Dodson_2005"/> Treatment with stimulants is either protective against substance abuse or has no effect.<ref name="Kooij_2010" />{{rp|12|quote=... the literature supports the view that stimulant treatment for ADHD either has no impact in risk for substance abuse, or may even lower the risk of substance abuse by reducing the early onset of substance abuse in adolescents.}}<ref name="ADHD 2015 review" /><ref name="NHM therapeutic stim addiction liability" />


The majority of studies on ] and other ]s as treatments for ADHD have shown favorable results; however, no nicotinic drug has been approved for ADHD treatment.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Potter AS, Schaubhut G, Shipman M | title = Targeting the nicotinic cholinergic system to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: rationale and progress to date | journal = CNS Drugs | volume = 28 | issue = 12 | pages = 1103–1113 | date = December 2014 | pmid = 25349138 | pmc = 4487649 | doi = 10.1007/s40263-014-0208-9 }}</ref> ] was formerly used as a second-line treatment for ADHD. It is considered less effective than methylphenidate or amphetamine but more so than placebo for children with ADHD.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Ioannidis K, Chamberlain SR, Müller U | title = Ostracising caffeine from the pharmacological arsenal for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder--was this a correct decision? A literature review | journal = Journal of Psychopharmacology | volume = 28 | issue = 9 | pages = 830–836 | date = September 2014 | pmid = 24989644 | doi = 10.1177/0269881114541014 | s2cid = 13465319 }}</ref> ] and ] do not affect ADHD symptoms.<ref name="Dodson_2005">{{cite journal | vauthors = Dodson WW | title = Pharmacotherapy of adult ADHD | journal = Journal of Clinical Psychology | volume = 61 | issue = 5 | pages = 589–606 | date = May 2005 | pmid = 15723384 | doi = 10.1002/jclp.20122 | quote = For example, pseudoephedrine and ephedrine ... have no detectable effects on the symptoms of ADHD. }}</ref> The majority of studies on ] and other ]s as treatments for ADHD have shown favorable results; however, no nicotinic drug has been approved for ADHD treatment.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Potter AS, Schaubhut G, Shipman M | title = Targeting the nicotinic cholinergic system to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: rationale and progress to date | journal = CNS Drugs | volume = 28 | issue = 12 | pages = 1103–1113 | date = December 2014 | pmid = 25349138 | pmc = 4487649 | doi = 10.1007/s40263-014-0208-9 }}</ref> ] was formerly used as a second-line treatment for ADHD but research indicates it has no significant effects in reducing ADHD symptoms. Caffeine appears to help with alertness, arousal and reaction time but not the type of inattention implicated in ADHD (sustained attention/persistence).<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Perrotte G, Moreira MM, de Vargas Junior A, Teixeira Filho A, Castaldelli-Maia JM | title = Effects of Caffeine on Main Symptoms in Children with ADHD: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Trials | journal = Brain Sciences | volume = 13 | issue = 9 | page = 1304 | date = September 2023 | pmid = 37759905 | pmc = 10526204 | doi = 10.3390/brainsci13091304 | doi-access = free }}</ref> ] and ] do not affect ADHD symptoms.<ref name="Dodson_2005">{{cite journal | vauthors = Dodson WW | title = Pharmacotherapy of adult ADHD | journal = Journal of Clinical Psychology | volume = 61 | issue = 5 | pages = 589–606 | date = May 2005 | pmid = 15723384 | doi = 10.1002/jclp.20122 | quote = For example, pseudoephedrine and ephedrine ... have no detectable effects on the symptoms of ADHD. }}</ref>


] has shown some efficacy in reducing the severity of ADHD in children and adolescents.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Turner D | title = A review of the use of modafinil for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder | journal = Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics | volume = 6 | issue = 4 | pages = 455–468 | date = April 2006 | pmid = 16623645 | doi = 10.1586/14737175.6.4.455 | s2cid = 24293088 }}</ref> It may be prescribed off-label to treat ADHD. ] has shown some efficacy in reducing the severity of ADHD in children and adolescents.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Turner D | title = A review of the use of modafinil for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder | journal = Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics | volume = 6 | issue = 4 | pages = 455–468 | date = April 2006 | pmid = 16623645 | doi = 10.1586/14737175.6.4.455 | s2cid = 24293088 }}</ref> It may be prescribed off-label to treat ADHD.


====Non-stimulants==== ====Non-stimulants====
Two non-stimulant medications, ] and ], are approved by the FDA and in other countries for the treatment of ADHD.
There are a number of non-stimulant medications, such as ], ], ], ], ] (effective in children and adolescents but still not been seen for adults),<ref name="Huss Chen Ludolph 2016 pp. 1–25">{{cite journal | vauthors = Huss M, Chen W, Ludolph AG | title = Guanfacine Extended Release: A New Pharmacological Treatment Option in Europe | journal = Clinical Drug Investigation | volume = 36 | issue = 1 | pages = 1–25 | date = January 2016 | pmid = 26585576 | pmc = 4706844 | doi = 10.1007/s40261-015-0336-0 | publisher = Springer Science and Business Media LLC }}</ref> and ],<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Childress AC, Sallee FR | title = Revisiting clonidine: an innovative add-on option for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder | journal = Drugs of Today | volume = 48 | issue = 3 | pages = 207–217 | date = March 2012 | pmid = 22462040 | doi = 10.1358/dot.2012.48.3.1750904 }}</ref> that may be used as alternatives, or added to stimulant therapy.<ref name="CNS09" /> There are no good studies comparing the various medications; however, they appear more or less equal with respect to side effects.<ref name="McDonagh_2011">{{cite report |vauthors=McDonagh MS, Peterson K, Thakurta S, Low A |date=December 2011 |title=Drug Class Review: Pharmacologic Treatments for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK84419 |series=Drug Class Reviews |publisher=United States Library of Medicine |pmid=22420008 |url-status=live |archive-date=31 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160831152630/http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK84419/}}</ref> For children, stimulants appear to improve academic performance while atomoxetine does not.<ref name="pmid23179416">{{cite journal | vauthors = Prasad V, Brogan E, Mulvaney C, Grainge M, Stanton W, Sayal K | title = How effective are drug treatments for children with ADHD at improving on-task behaviour and academic achievement in the school classroom? A systematic review and meta-analysis | journal = European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | volume = 22 | issue = 4 | pages = 203–216 | date = April 2013 | pmid = 23179416 | doi = 10.1007/s00787-012-0346-x | s2cid = 7147886 }}</ref>

], due to its lack of addiction liability, may be preferred in those who are at risk of recreational or compulsive stimulant use, although evidence is lacking to support its use over stimulants for this reason.<ref name="Kooij_2010"/>{{rp|13|The non stimulant atomoxetine may be an alternative to treatment with stimulants in substance abuse patients with ADHD, although studies showing superiority over stimulants in this difficult patient population are still lacking.}} Atomoxetine alleviates ADHD symptoms through norepinephrine reuptake and by indirectly increasing dopamine in the pre-frontal cortex,<ref name="Koda_2010"/> sharing 70-80% of the brain regions with stimulants in their produced effects.<ref name="Schulz_2012"/> Atomoxetine has been shown to significantly improve academic performance.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Weiss M, Tannock R, Kratochvil C, Dunn D, Velez-Borras J, Thomason C, Tamura R, Kelsey D, Stevens L, Allen AJ | title = A randomized, placebo-controlled study of once-daily atomoxetine in the school setting in children with ADHD | journal = Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | volume = 44 | issue = 7 | pages = 647–655 | date = July 2005 | pmid = 15968233 | doi = 10.1097/01.chi.0000163280.47221.c9 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Biederman J, Wigal SB, Spencer TJ, McGough JJ, Mays DA | title = A post hoc subgroup analysis of an 18-day randomized controlled trial comparing the tolerability and efficacy of mixed amphetamine salts extended release and atomoxetine in school-age girls with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder | journal = Clinical Therapeutics | volume = 28 | issue = 2 | pages = 280–293 | date = February 2006 | pmid = 16678649 | doi = 10.1016/j.clinthera.2006.02.008 }}</ref> ] and ]s have found that atomoxetine has comparable efficacy, equal tolerability and response rate (75%) to ] in children and adolescents. In adults, efficacy and discontinuation rates are equivalent.<ref name="Bushe_2016">{{cite journal | vauthors = Bushe C, Day K, Reed V, Karlsdotter K, Berggren L, Pitcher A, Televantou F, Haynes V | title = A network meta-analysis of atomoxetine and osmotic release oral system methylphenidate in the treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in adult patients | journal = Journal of Psychopharmacology | volume = 30 | issue = 5 | pages = 444–458 | date = May 2016 | pmid = 27005307 | doi = 10.1177/0269881116636105 | s2cid = 104938 }}</ref><ref name="Hazell_2011">{{cite journal | vauthors = Hazell PL, Kohn MR, Dickson R, Walton RJ, Granger RE, Wyk GW | title = Core ADHD symptom improvement with atomoxetine versus methylphenidate: a direct comparison meta-analysis | journal = Journal of Attention Disorders | volume = 15 | issue = 8 | pages = 674–683 | date = November 2011 | pmid = 20837981 | doi = 10.1177/1087054710379737 | s2cid = 43503227 }}</ref><ref name="Hanwella_2011">{{cite journal | vauthors = Hanwella R, Senanayake M, de Silva V | title = Comparative efficacy and acceptability of methylphenidate and atomoxetine in treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children and adolescents: a meta-analysis | journal = BMC Psychiatry | volume = 11 | issue = 1 | pages = 176 | date = November 2011 | pmid = 22074258 | pmc = 3229459 | doi = 10.1186/1471-244X-11-176 | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref name="Rezaei_2016">{{cite journal | vauthors = Rezaei G, Hosseini SA, Akbari Sari A, Olyaeemanesh A, Lotfi MH, Yassini M, Bidaki R, Nouri B | title = Comparative efficacy of methylphenidate and atomoxetine in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis | journal = Medical Journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran | volume = 30 | pages = 325 | date = 10 February 2016 | pmid = 27390695 | pmc = 4898838 }}</ref>

Analyses of clinical trial data suggests that ] is about as effective as atomoxetine and methylphenidate but with fewer side effects.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Faraone SV, Gomeni R, Hull JT, Busse GD, Melyan Z, O'Neal W, Rubin J, Nasser A | title = Early response to SPN-812 (viloxazine extended-release) can predict efficacy outcome in pediatric subjects with ADHD: a machine learning post-hoc analysis of four randomized clinical trials | journal = Psychiatry Research | volume = 296 | pages = 113664 | date = February 2021 | pmid = 33418457 | doi = 10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113664 | s2cid = 230716405 | doi-access = free }}</ref>

] was shown to induce similar improvements in children treated with ], with less frequent side effects.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Mohammadi MR, Kazemi MR, Zia E, Rezazadeh SA, Tabrizi M, Akhondzadeh S |date=November 2010 |title=Amantadine versus methylphenidate in children and adolescents with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a randomized, double-blind trial |journal=Human Psychopharmacology |volume=25 |issue=7–8 |pages=560–565 |doi=10.1002/hup.1154 |pmid=21312290 |s2cid=30677758}}</ref> A 2021 retrospective study showed that amantadine may serve as an effective adjunct to stimulants for ADHD–related symptoms and appears to be a safer alternative to second- or third-generation antipsychotics.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Morrow K, Choi S, Young K, Haidar M, Boduch C, Bourgeois JA |date=September 2021 |title=Amantadine for the treatment of childhood and adolescent psychiatric symptoms |journal=Proceedings |volume=34 |issue=5 |pages=566–570 |doi=10.1080/08998280.2021.1925827 |pmc=8366930 |pmid=34456474}}</ref>

] is also used off-label by some clinicians due to research findings. It is effective, but modestly less than atomoxetine and methylphenidate.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Stuhec M, Munda B, Svab V, Locatelli I | title = Comparative efficacy and acceptability of atomoxetine, lisdexamfetamine, bupropion and methylphenidate in treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children and adolescents: a meta-analysis with focus on bupropion | journal = Journal of Affective Disorders | volume = 178 | pages = 149–159 | date = June 2015 | pmid = 25813457 | doi = 10.1016/j.jad.2015.03.006 }}</ref>


There is little evidence on the effects of medication on social behaviours.<ref name="McDonagh_20112">{{cite report |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK84419 |title=Drug Class Review: Pharmacologic Treatments for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder |date=December 2011 |publisher=United States Library of Medicine |pmid=22420008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160831152630/http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK84419/ |archive-date=31 August 2016 |url-status=live |vauthors=McDonagh MS, Peterson K, Thakurta S, Low A |series=Drug Class Reviews}}</ref> Antipsychotics may also be used to treat aggression in ADHD.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Gurnani T, Ivanov I, Newcorn JH |date=February 2016 |title=Pharmacotherapy of Aggression in Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Disorders |journal=Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology |volume=26 |issue=1 |pages=65–73 |doi=10.1089/cap.2015.0167 |pmid=26881859 |quote=Several studies (e.g., Findling et al. 2000; Armenteros et al. 2007) have shown that antipsychotics, especially second generation agents, can be effective when used together with stimulants for aggression in ADHD}}</ref>
], due to its lack of addiction liability, may be preferred in those who are at risk of recreational or compulsive stimulant use, although evidence is lacking to support its use over stimulants for this reason.<ref name="Kooij_2010" />{{rp|13|The non stimulant atomoxetine may be an alternative to treatment with stimulants in substance abuse patients with ADHD, although studies showing superiority over stimulants in this difficult patient population are still lacking.}} Evidence supports its ability to improve symptoms when compared to placebo.<ref name="Elliott_2020">{{cite journal |vauthors=Elliott J, Johnston A, Husereau D, Kelly SE, Eagles C, Charach A, Hsieh SC, Bai Z, Hossain A, Skidmore B, Tsakonas E, Chojecki D, Mamdani M, Wells GA |display-authors=6 |title=Pharmacologic treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in adults: A systematic review and network meta-analysis |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=15 |issue=10 |pages=e0240584 |date=21 October 2020 |pmid=33085721 |pmc=7577505 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0240584 |publisher=Public Library of Science (PLoS) |doi-access=free |bibcode=2020PLoSO..1540584E |veditors=Gluud C }}</ref>


'''Alpha-2a agonists'''
] was shown to induce similar improvements in children treated ], with less frequent side effects.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Mohammadi MR, Kazemi MR, Zia E, Rezazadeh SA, Tabrizi M, Akhondzadeh S | title = Amantadine versus methylphenidate in children and adolescents with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a randomized, double-blind trial | journal = Human Psychopharmacology | volume = 25 | issue = 7–8 | pages = 560–565 | date = November 2010 | pmid = 21312290 | doi = 10.1002/hup.1154 | s2cid = 30677758 }}</ref> A 2021 retrospective study showed showed that amantadine may serve as an effective adjunct to stimulants for ADHD–related symptoms and appears to be a safer alternative to second- or third-generation antipsychotics.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Morrow K, Choi S, Young K, Haidar M, Boduch C, Bourgeois JA | title = Amantadine for the treatment of childhood and adolescent psychiatric symptoms | journal = Proceedings | volume = 34 | issue = 5 | pages = 566–570 | date = September 2021 | pmid = 34456474 | pmc = 8366930 | doi = 10.1080/08998280.2021.1925827 }}</ref>


Two ], extended-release formulations of ] and ], are approved by the FDA and in other countries for the treatment of ADHD (effective in children and adolescents but effectiveness has still not been shown for adults).<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Childress AC, Sallee FR | title = Revisiting clonidine: an innovative add-on option for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder | journal = Drugs of Today | volume = 48 | issue = 3 | pages = 207–217 | date = March 2012 | pmid = 22462040 | doi = 10.1358/dot.2012.48.3.1750904 }}</ref><ref name="Huss Chen Ludolph 2016 pp. 1–252">{{cite journal | vauthors = Huss M, Chen W, Ludolph AG | title = Guanfacine Extended Release: A New Pharmacological Treatment Option in Europe | journal = Clinical Drug Investigation | volume = 36 | issue = 1 | pages = 1–25 | date = January 2016 | pmid = 26585576 | pmc = 4706844 | doi = 10.1007/s40261-015-0336-0 | publisher = Springer Science and Business Media LLC }}</ref> They appear to be modestly less effective than the stimulants (amphetamine and methylphenidate) and non-stimulants (atomoxetine and viloxazine) at reducing symptoms,<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Biederman J, Melmed RD, Patel A, McBurnett K, Konow J, Lyne A, Scherer N | title = A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of guanfacine extended release in children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder | journal = Pediatrics | volume = 121 | issue = 1 | pages = e73–e84 | date = January 2008 | pmid = 18166547 | doi = 10.1542/peds.2006-3695 | s2cid = 25551406 | collaboration = SPD503 Study Group }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Palumbo DR, Sallee FR, Pelham WE, Bukstein OG, Daviss WB, McDERMOTT MP | title = Clonidine for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: I. Efficacy and tolerability outcomes | journal = Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | volume = 47 | issue = 2 | pages = 180–188 | date = February 2008 | pmid = 18182963 | doi = 10.1097/chi.0b013e31815d9af7 }}</ref> but can be useful alternatives or used in conjunction with a stimulant. These medications act by adjusting the alpha-2a ports on the outside of noradrenergic nerve cells in the pre-frontal executive networks, so the information (electrical signal) is less confounded by noise.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Focus: Translational Medicine: Guanfacine for the Treatment of Cognitive Disorders: A Century of Discoveries at Yale|date=2012 |pmc=3313539 |journal=The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine |volume=85 |issue=1 |pages=45–58 |pmid=22461743 | vauthors = Arnsten AF, Jin LE }}</ref>
There is little evidence on the effects of medication on social behaviors.<ref name="McDonagh_2011" /> Antipsychotics may also be used to treat aggression in ADHD.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Gurnani T, Ivanov I, Newcorn JH |title=Pharmacotherapy of Aggression in Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Disorders |journal=Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology |volume=26 |issue=1 |pages=65–73 |date=February 2016 |pmid=26881859 |doi=10.1089/cap.2015.0167 |quote=Several studies (e.g., Findling et al. 2000; Armenteros et al. 2007) have shown that antipsychotics, especially second generation agents, can be effective when used together with stimulants for aggression in ADHD }}</ref>


====Guidelines==== ====Guidelines====
] on when to use medications vary by country. The United Kingdom's ] recommends use for children only in severe cases, though for adults medication is a first-line treatment.<ref name="NICE_2019" /> Conversely, most United States guidelines recommend medications in most age groups.<ref name="CADDRA" /> Medications are especially not recommended for preschool children.<ref name="NICE_2019" /><ref name="NICE 2009" /> Underdosing of stimulants can occur, and can result in a lack of response or later loss of effectiveness.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Stevens JR, Wilens TE, Stern TA |title=Using stimulants for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: clinical approaches and challenges |journal=The Primary Care Companion for CNS Disorders |volume=15 |issue=2 |date=2013 |pmid=23930227 |pmc=3733520 |doi=10.4088/PCC.12f01472 }}</ref> This is particularly common in adolescents and adults as approved dosing is based on school-aged children, causing some practitioners to use weight-based or benefit-based off-label dosing instead.<ref>{{cite web |vauthors=Young JL |url=http://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/734449_print |title=Individualizing Treatment for Adult ADHD: An Evidence-Based Guideline |date=2010-12-20 |website=Medscape |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220508225446/https://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/734449_print |archive-date=2022-05-08 |url-status=live |access-date=2022-05-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |vauthors=Biederman J |url=http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/464377_print |title=New-Generation Long-Acting Stimulants for the Treatment of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder |date=2003-11-21 |website=Medscape |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220508225829/https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/464377_print |archive-date=2022-05-08 |url-status=live |access-date=2022-05-08 |quote=As most treatment guidelines and prescribing information for stimulant medications relate to experience in school-aged children, prescribed doses for older patients are lacking. Emerging evidence for both methylphenidate and Adderall indicate that when weight-corrected daily doses, equipotent with those used in the treatment of younger patients, are used to treat adults with ADHD, these patients show a very robust clinical response consistent with that observed in pediatric studies. These data suggest that older patients may require a more aggressive approach in terms of dosing, based on the same target dosage ranges that have already been established&nbsp;– for methylphenidate, 1–1.5–2 mg/kg/day, and for D,L-amphetamine, 0.5–0.75–1 mg/kg/day.... <br />In particular, adolescents and adults are vulnerable to underdosing, and are thus at potential risk of failing to receive adequate dosage levels. As with all therapeutic agents, the efficacy and safety of stimulant medications should always guide prescribing behavior: careful dosage titration of the selected stimulant product should help to ensure that each patient with ADHD receives an adequate dose, so that the clinical benefits of therapy can be fully attained. |name-list-style=vanc}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Kessler S |title=Drug therapy in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder |journal=Southern Medical Journal |volume=89 |issue=1 |pages=33–38 |date=January 1996 |pmid=8545689 |doi=10.1097/00007611-199601000-00005 |s2cid=12798818 }}</ref> ] on when to use medications vary by country. The United Kingdom's ] recommends use for children only in severe cases, though for adults medication is a first-line treatment.<ref name="NICE_2019">{{Cite book |author=National Institute for Health and Care Excellence |url=https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng87/ |title=Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: diagnosis and management |publisher=National Guideline Centre (UK) |year=2019 |isbn=978-1-4731-2830-9 |series=NICE Guideline, No. 87 |location=London |pages= |oclc=1126668845 |access-date=9 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210112035209/https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng87/ |archive-date=12 January 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref> Conversely, most United States guidelines recommend medications in most age groups.<ref name="CADDRA">{{cite web |title=Canadian ADHD Practice Guidelines |url=http://www.caddra.ca/cms4/pdfs/caddraGuidelines2011Introduction.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121222344/https://www.caddra.ca/cms4/pdfs/caddraGuidelines2011Introduction.pdf |archive-date=21 January 2021 |access-date=4 February 2011 |work=Canadian ADHD Resource Alliance}}</ref> Medications are especially not recommended for preschool children.<ref name="NICE_2019" /><ref name="NICE 2009" /> Underdosing of stimulants can occur, and can result in a lack of response or later loss of effectiveness.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Stevens JR, Wilens TE, Stern TA | title = Using stimulants for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: clinical approaches and challenges | journal = The Primary Care Companion for CNS Disorders | volume = 15 | issue = 2 | date = 2013 | pmid = 23930227 | pmc = 3733520 | doi = 10.4088/PCC.12f01472 }}</ref> This is particularly common in adolescents and adults as approved dosing is based on school-aged children, causing some practitioners to use weight-based or benefit-based off-label dosing instead.<ref>{{cite web |vauthors=Young JL |url=http://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/734449_print |title=Individualizing Treatment for Adult ADHD: An Evidence-Based Guideline |date=20 December 2010 |website=Medscape |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220508225446/https://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/734449_print |archive-date=8 May 2022 |url-status=live |access-date=8 May 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |vauthors=Biederman J |url=http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/464377_print |title=New-Generation Long-Acting Stimulants for the Treatment of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder |date=21 November 2003 |website=Medscape |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220508225829/https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/464377_print |archive-date=8 May 2022 |url-status=live |access-date=8 May 2022 |quote=As most treatment guidelines and prescribing information for stimulant medications relate to experience in school-aged children, prescribed doses for older patients are lacking. Emerging evidence for both methylphenidate and Adderall indicate that when weight-corrected daily doses, equipotent with those used in the treatment of younger patients, are used to treat adults with ADHD, these patients show a very robust clinical response consistent with that observed in pediatric studies. These data suggest that older patients may require a more aggressive approach in terms of dosing, based on the same target dosage ranges that have already been established&nbsp;– for methylphenidate, 1–1.5–2 mg/kg/day, and for D,L-amphetamine, 0.5–0.75–1 mg/kg/day.... <br />In particular, adolescents and adults are vulnerable to underdosing, and are thus at potential risk of failing to receive adequate dosage levels. As with all therapeutic agents, the efficacy and safety of stimulant medications should always guide prescribing behavior: careful dosage titration of the selected stimulant product should help to ensure that each patient with ADHD receives an adequate dose, so that the clinical benefits of therapy can be fully attained.}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Kessler S | title = Drug therapy in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder | journal = Southern Medical Journal | volume = 89 | issue = 1 | pages = 33–38 | date = January 1996 | pmid = 8545689 | doi = 10.1097/00007611-199601000-00005 | s2cid = 12798818 }}</ref>


=== Exercise === === Exercise ===
Exercise does not reduce the symptoms of ADHD.<ref name="Faraone_2021" /> The conclusion by the International Consensus Statement is based on two meta-analyses: one of 10 studies with 300 children and the other of 15 studies and 668 participants, which showed that exercise yields no statistically significant reductions on ADHD symptoms. A 2024 systematic review and meta analysis commissioned by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) identified seven studies on the effectiveness of physical exercise for treating ADHD symptoms.<ref name="Peterson_2024a" /> The type and amount of exercise varied widely across studies from martial arts interventions to treadmill training, to table tennis or aerobic exercise. Effects reported were not replicated, causing the authors to conclude that there is insufficient evidence that exercise intervention is an effective form of treatment for ADHD symptoms.<ref name="Peterson_2024a" />
Regular ], particularly ], is an effective ] for ADHD in children and adults, particularly when combined with stimulant medication (although the best intensity and type of aerobic exercise for improving symptoms are not currently known).<ref name="Den_Heijer_2016">{{cite journal |vauthors=Den Heijer AE, Groen Y, Tucha L, Fuermaier AB, Koerts J, Lange KW, Thome J, Tucha O |display-authors=6 |title=Sweat it out? The effects of physical exercise on cognition and behavior in children and adults with ADHD: a systematic literature review |journal=Journal of Neural Transmission |volume=124 |issue=Suppl 1 |pages=3–26 |date=February 2017 |pmid=27400928 |pmc=5281644 |doi=10.1007/s00702-016-1593-7 |quote=Beneficial chronic effects of cardio exercise were found on various functions as well, including executive functions, attention and behavior. }}</ref><ref name="Kamp_2014">{{cite journal |vauthors=Kamp CF, Sperlich B, Holmberg HC |title=Exercise reduces the symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and improves social behaviour, motor skills, strength and neuropsychological parameters |journal=Acta Paediatrica |volume=103 |issue=7 |pages=709–714 |date=July 2014 |pmid=24612421 |doi=10.1111/apa.12628 |quote=We may conclude that all different types of exercise&nbsp;... attenuate the characteristic symptoms of ADHD and improve social behaviour, motor skills, strength and neuropsychological parameters without any undesirable side effects. Available reports do not reveal which type, intensity, duration and frequency of exercise is most effective |s2cid=45881887 |url=http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-22594}}</ref><ref name="Rommel_2013">{{cite journal |vauthors=Rommel AS, Halperin JM, Mill J, Asherson P, Kuntsi J |title=Protection from genetic diathesis in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: possible complementary roles of exercise |journal=Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry |volume=52 |issue=9 |pages=900–910 |date=September 2013 |pmid=23972692 |pmc=4257065 |doi=10.1016/j.jaac.2013.05.018 |quote=The findings from these studies provide some support for the notion that exercise has the potential to act as a protective factor for ADHD. }}</ref> The long-term effects of regular aerobic exercise in ADHD individuals include better behavior and motor abilities, improved ] (including attention, inhibitory control, and ], among other cognitive domains), faster ], and better memory.<ref name="Den_Heijer_2016" /><ref name="Kamp_2014"/><ref name="Rommel_2013" /> Parent-teacher ratings of behavioral and socio-emotional outcomes in response to regular aerobic exercise include: better overall function, reduced ADHD symptoms, better self-esteem, reduced levels of anxiety and depression, fewer somatic complaints, better academic and classroom behavior, and improved social behavior.<ref name="Den_Heijer_2016" /> Exercising while on stimulant medication augments the effect of stimulant medication on executive function.<ref name="Den_Heijer_2016" /> It is believed that these short-term effects of exercise are mediated by an increased abundance of synaptic dopamine and norepinephrine in the brain.<ref name="Den_Heijer_2016" />


=== Diet === === Diet ===
Dietary modifications are not recommended {{as of|2019|lc=y}} by the ], the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, or the ] due to insufficient evidence.<ref name="APP2019" /><ref name="NICE_2019" /> Dietary modifications are not recommended {{as of|2019|lc=y}} by the ], the ], or the ] due to insufficient evidence.<ref name="APP2019">{{cite journal | vauthors = Wolraich ML, Hagan JF, Allan C, Chan E, Davison D, Earls M, Evans SW, Flinn SK, Froehlich T, Frost J, Holbrook JR, Lehmann CU, Lessin HR, Okechukwu K, Pierce KL, Winner JD, Zurhellen W | title = Clinical Practice Guideline for the Diagnosis, Evaluation, and Treatment of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Children and Adolescents | journal = Pediatrics | volume = 144 | issue = 4 | pages = e20192528 | date = October 2019 | pmid = 31570648 | pmc = 7067282 | doi = 10.1542/peds.2019-2528 }}</ref><ref name="NICE_2019" />
A 2013 meta-analysis found less than a third of children with ADHD see some improvement in symptoms with ] supplementation or decreased consumption of artificial food colouring.<ref name="Sonu_2013">{{cite journal | vauthors = Sonuga-Barke EJ, Brandeis D, Cortese S, Daley D, Ferrin M, Holtmann M, Stevenson J, Danckaerts M, van der Oord S, Döpfner M, Dittmann RW, Simonoff E, Zuddas A, Banaschewski T, Buitelaar J, Coghill D, Hollis C, Konofal E, Lecendreux M, Wong IC, Sergeant J | title = Nonpharmacological interventions for ADHD: systematic review and meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials of dietary and psychological treatments | journal = The American Journal of Psychiatry | volume = 170 | issue = 3 | pages = 275–289 | date = March 2013 | pmid = 23360949 | doi = 10.1176/appi.ajp.2012.12070991 | lccn = 22024537 | quote = Free fatty acid supplementation and artificial food color exclusions appear to have beneficial effects on ADHD symptoms, although the effect of the former are small and those of the latter may be limited to ADHD patients with food sensitivities... | s2cid = 434310 | oclc = 1480183 | eissn = 1535-7228 }}</ref> These benefits may be limited to children with food sensitivities or those who are simultaneously being treated with ADHD medications.<ref name="Sonu_2013" /> This review also found that evidence does not support removing other foods from the diet to treat ADHD.<ref name="Sonu_2013" /> A 2014 review found that an ] results in a small overall benefit in a minority of children, such as those with allergies.<ref name="Nigg_2014">{{cite journal | vauthors = Nigg JT, Holton K | title = Restriction and elimination diets in ADHD treatment | journal = Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America | volume = 23 | issue = 4 | pages = 937–953 | date = October 2014 | pmid = 25220094 | pmc = 4322780 | doi = 10.1016/j.chc.2014.05.010 | type = Review | quote = an elimination diet produces a small aggregate effect but may have greater benefit among some children. Very few studies enable proper evaluation of the likelihood of response in children with ADHD who are not already preselected based on prior diet response. }}</ref> A 2016 review stated that the use of a ] as standard ADHD treatment is not advised.<ref name="pmid26825336">{{cite journal |vauthors=Ertürk E, Wouters S, Imeraj L, Lampo A |date=August 2020 |title=Association of ADHD and Celiac Disease: What Is the Evidence? A Systematic Review of the Literature |journal=Journal of Attention Disorders |type=Review |volume=24 |issue=10 |pages=1371–1376 |doi=10.1177/1087054715611493 |pmid=26825336 |s2cid=33989148 |quote=Up till now, there is no conclusive evidence for a relationship between ADHD and {{abbr|CD|celiac disease}}. Therefore, it is not advised to perform routine screening of CD when assessing ADHD (and vice versa) or to implement {{abbr|GFD|gluten-free diet}} as a standard treatment in ADHD. Nevertheless, the possibility of untreated CD predisposing to ADHD-like behavior should be kept in mind.&nbsp;... It is possible that in untreated patients with CD, neurologic symptoms such as chronic fatigue, inattention, pain, and headache could predispose patients to ADHD-like behavior (mainly symptoms of inattentive type), which may be alleviated after GFD treatment.}}</ref> A 2017 review showed that a few-foods elimination diet may help children too young to be medicated or not responding to medication, while free fatty acid supplementation or decreased eating of artificial food colouring as standard ADHD treatment is not advised.<ref name="Pelsser_2017">{{cite journal | vauthors = Pelsser LM, Frankena K, Toorman J, Rodrigues Pereira R | title = Diet and ADHD, Reviewing the Evidence: A Systematic Review of Meta-Analyses of Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Trials Evaluating the Efficacy of Diet Interventions on the Behavior of Children with ADHD | journal = PLOS ONE | volume = 12 | issue = 1 | pages = e0169277 | date = January 2017 | pmid = 28121994 | pmc = 5266211 | doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0169277 | type = Systematic Review | doi-access = free | bibcode = 2017PLoSO..1269277P }}</ref> Chronic deficiencies of iron, magnesium and iodine may have a negative impact on ADHD symptoms.<ref name="pmid22928358">{{cite journal | vauthors = Konikowska K, Regulska-Ilow B, Rózańska D | title = The influence of components of diet on the symptoms of ADHD in children | journal = Roczniki Panstwowego Zakladu Higieny | volume = 63 | issue = 2 | pages = 127–134 | year = 2012 | pmid = 22928358 }}</ref> There is a small amount of evidence that lower tissue zinc levels may be associated with ADHD.<ref name="pmid16190793">{{cite journal | vauthors = Arnold LE, DiSilvestro RA | title = Zinc in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder | journal = Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology | volume = 15 | issue = 4 | pages = 619–627 | date = August 2005 | pmid = 16190793 | doi = 10.1089/cap.2005.15.619 | hdl-access = free | hdl = 1811/51593 }}</ref> In the absence of a demonstrated ] (which is rare outside of developing countries), zinc supplementation is not recommended as treatment for ADHD.<ref name="pmid25220092">{{cite journal | vauthors = Bloch MH, Mulqueen J | title = Nutritional supplements for the treatment of ADHD | journal = Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America | volume = 23 | issue = 4 | pages = 883–897 | date = October 2014 | pmid = 25220092 | pmc = 4170184 | doi = 10.1016/j.chc.2014.05.002 }}</ref> However, zinc supplementation may reduce the minimum ] of amphetamine when it is used with amphetamine for the treatment of ADHD.<ref name="Kraus_2008">{{cite journal | vauthors = Krause J | title = SPECT and PET of the dopamine transporter in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder | journal = Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics | volume = 8 | issue = 4 | pages = 611–625 | date = April 2008 | pmid = 18416663 | doi = 10.1586/14737175.8.4.611 | quote = Zinc binds at&nbsp;... extracellular sites of the DAT, serving as a DAT inhibitor. In this context, controlled double-blind studies in children are of interest, which showed positive effects of zinc on symptoms of ADHD. It should be stated that at this time with zinc is not integrated in any ADHD treatment algorithm. | s2cid = 24589993 }}</ref>
A 2013 meta-analysis found less than a third of children with ADHD see some improvement in symptoms with ] supplementation or decreased eating of artificial food coloring.<ref name="Sonu_2013">{{cite journal |vauthors=Sonuga-Barke EJ, Brandeis D, Cortese S, Daley D, Ferrin M, Holtmann M, Stevenson J, Danckaerts M, van der Oord S, Döpfner M, Dittmann RW, Simonoff E, Zuddas A, Banaschewski T, Buitelaar J, Coghill D, Hollis C, Konofal E, Lecendreux M, Wong IC, Sergeant J |display-authors=6 |title=Nonpharmacological interventions for ADHD: systematic review and meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials of dietary and psychological treatments |journal=The American Journal of Psychiatry |volume=170 |issue=3 |pages=275–289 |date=March 2013 |pmid=23360949 |doi=10.1176/appi.ajp.2012.12070991 |issn=0002-953X | eissn=1535-7228| lccn=22024537
|oclc=1480183 |quote=Free fatty acid supplementation and artificial food color exclusions appear to have beneficial effects on ADHD symptoms, although the effect of the former are small and those of the latter may be limited to ADHD patients with food sensitivities... |s2cid=434310 }}</ref> These benefits may be limited to children with food sensitivities or those who are simultaneously being treated with ADHD medications.<ref name="Sonu_2013" /> This review also found that evidence does not support removing other foods from the diet to treat ADHD.<ref name="Sonu_2013" /> A 2014 review found that an ] results in a small overall benefit in a minority of children, such as those with allergies.<ref name="Nigg_2014">{{cite journal |vauthors=Nigg JT, Holton K |title=Restriction and elimination diets in ADHD treatment |journal=Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America |volume=23 |issue=4 |pages=937–953 |date=October 2014 |pmid=25220094 |pmc=4322780 |type=Review |doi=10.1016/j.chc.2014.05.010 |quote=an elimination diet produces a small aggregate effect but may have greater benefit among some children. Very few studies enable proper evaluation of the likelihood of response in children with ADHD who are not already preselected based on prior diet response. }}</ref> A 2016 review stated that the use of a ] as standard ADHD treatment is not advised.<ref name="pmid26825336" /> A 2017 review showed that a few-foods elimination diet may help children too young to be medicated or not responding to medication, while free fatty acid supplementation or decreased eating of artificial food coloring as standard ADHD treatment is not advised.<ref name="Pelsser_2017">{{cite journal |vauthors=Pelsser LM, Frankena K, Toorman J, Rodrigues Pereira R |title=Diet and ADHD, Reviewing the Evidence: A Systematic Review of Meta-Analyses of Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Trials Evaluating the Efficacy of Diet Interventions on the Behavior of Children with ADHD |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=e0169277 |date=January 2017 |pmid=28121994 |pmc=5266211 |type=Systematic Review |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0169277 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2017PLoSO..1269277P }}</ref> Chronic deficiencies of iron, magnesium and iodine may have a negative impact on ADHD symptoms.<ref name="pmid22928358">{{cite journal |vauthors=Konikowska K, Regulska-Ilow B, Rózańska D |title=The influence of components of diet on the symptoms of ADHD in children |journal=Roczniki Panstwowego Zakladu Higieny |volume=63 |issue=2 |pages=127–134 |year=2012 |pmid=22928358 }}</ref> There is a small amount of evidence that lower tissue zinc levels may be associated with ADHD.<ref name="pmid16190793">{{cite journal |vauthors=Arnold LE, DiSilvestro RA |title=Zinc in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder |journal=Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology |volume=15 |issue=4 |pages=619–627 |date=August 2005 |pmid=16190793 |doi=10.1089/cap.2005.15.619 |hdl-access=free |hdl=1811/51593 }}</ref> In the absence of a demonstrated ] (which is rare outside of developing countries), zinc supplementation is not recommended as treatment for ADHD.<ref name="pmid25220092">{{cite journal |vauthors=Bloch MH, Mulqueen J |title=Nutritional supplements for the treatment of ADHD |journal=Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America |volume=23 |issue=4 |pages=883–897 |date=October 2014 |pmid=25220092 |pmc=4170184 |doi=10.1016/j.chc.2014.05.002 }}</ref> However, zinc supplementation may reduce the minimum ] of amphetamine when it is used with amphetamine for the treatment of ADHD.<ref name="Kraus_2008">{{cite journal |vauthors=Krause J |title=SPECT and PET of the dopamine transporter in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder |journal=Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics |volume=8 |issue=4 |pages=611–625 |date=April 2008 |pmid=18416663 |doi=10.1586/14737175.8.4.611 |quote=Zinc binds at&nbsp;... extracellular sites of the DAT, serving as a DAT inhibitor. In this context, controlled double-blind studies in children are of interest, which showed positive effects of zinc on symptoms of ADHD. It should be stated that at this time with zinc is not integrated in any ADHD treatment algorithm. |s2cid=24589993 }}</ref>


==Prognosis== ==Prognosis==
ADHD persists into adulthood in about&nbsp;30–50% of cases.<ref name="Balint_2008">{{cite journal |vauthors=Bálint S, Czobor P, Mészáros A, Simon V, Bitter I |title=A felnottkori figyelemhiányos/hiperaktivitás-zavarban tapasztalható neuropszichológiai deficit: irodalmi áttekintés |language=hu |journal=Psychiatria Hungarica |volume=23 |issue=5 |pages=324–335 |year=2008 |pmid=19129549 |trans-title=Neuropsychological impairments in adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: A literature review |id=] |issn=0237-7896 |publisher=Magyar Pszichiátriai Társaság }}</ref> Those affected are likely to develop coping mechanisms as they mature, thus compensating to some extent for their previous symptoms.<ref name="Art.218" /> Children with ADHD have a higher risk of unintentional injuries.<ref name="Ruiz-Goikoetxea_2017" /> Effects of medication on functional impairment and ] (e.g. reduced risk of accidents) have been found across multiple domains.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Faraone SV, Asherson P, Banaschewski T, Biederman J, Buitelaar JK, Ramos-Quiroga JA, Rohde LA, Sonuga-Barke EJ, Tannock R, Franke B |display-authors=6 |title=Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder |journal=Nature Reviews. Disease Primers |volume=1 |page=15020 |date=August 2015 |pmid=27189265 |doi=10.1038/nrdp.2015.20 |s2cid=7171541 |citeseerx=10.1.1.497.1346 |type=Review }}</ref> Rates of smoking among those with ADHD are higher than in the general population at about 40%.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=McClernon FJ, Kollins SH |title=ADHD and smoking: from genes to brain to behavior |journal=Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences |volume=1141 |pages=131–147 |date=October 2008 |issue=1 |pmid=18991955 |pmc=2758663 |doi=10.1196/annals.1441.016 |bibcode=2008NYASA1141..131M }}</ref> ADHD persists into adulthood in about&nbsp;30–50% of cases.<ref name="Balint_2008">{{cite journal | vauthors = Bálint S, Czobor P, Mészáros A, Simon V, Bitter I | title = | language = hu | journal = Psychiatria Hungarica | volume = 23 | issue = 5 | pages = 324–335 | year = 2008 | pmid = 19129549 | publisher = Magyar Pszichiátriai Társaság | trans-title = Neuropsychological impairments in adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: A literature review | id = ] }}</ref> Those affected are likely to develop coping mechanisms as they mature, thus compensating to some extent for their previous symptoms.<ref name="Art.218" /> Children with ADHD have a higher risk of unintentional injuries.<ref name="Ruiz-Goikoetxea_2017" /> Effects of medication on functional impairment and ] (e.g. reduced risk of accidents) have been found across multiple domains.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Faraone SV, Asherson P, Banaschewski T, Biederman J, Buitelaar JK, Ramos-Quiroga JA, Rohde LA, Sonuga-Barke EJ, Tannock R, Franke B | title = Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder | journal = Nature Reviews. Disease Primers | volume = 1 | pages = 15020 | date = August 2015 | pmid = 27189265 | doi = 10.1038/nrdp.2015.20 | s2cid = 7171541 | citeseerx = 10.1.1.497.1346 | type = Review }}</ref> Rates of smoking among those with ADHD are higher than in the general population at about 40%.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = McClernon FJ, Kollins SH | title = ADHD and smoking: from genes to brain to behavior | journal = Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | volume = 1141 | issue = 1 | pages = 131–147 | date = October 2008 | pmid = 18991955 | pmc = 2758663 | doi = 10.1196/annals.1441.016 | bibcode = 2008NYASA1141..131M }}</ref>
About 30–50% of people diagnosed in childhood continue to have ], with 2.58% of adults estimated to have ADHD which began in childhood.<ref name="Song_2021" /><ref name="Ginsberg_2014">{{cite journal | vauthors = Ginsberg Y, Quintero J, Anand E, Casillas M, Upadhyaya HP | title = Underdiagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in adult patients: a review of the literature | journal = The Primary Care Companion for CNS Disorders | volume = 16 | issue = 3 | year = 2014 | pmid = 25317367 | pmc = 4195639 | doi = 10.4088/PCC.13r01600 | quote = Reports indicate that ADHD affects 2.5%–5% of adults in the general population,<sup>5–8</sup> compared with 5%–7% of children.<sup>9,10</sup>&nbsp;... However, fewer than 20% of adults with ADHD are currently diagnosed and/or treated by psychiatrists.<sup>7,15,16</sup> }}</ref>{{Text-source inline|date=August 2022}} In adults, hyperactivity is usually replaced by inner ], and adults often develop ] skills to compensate for their impairments. The condition can be difficult to tell apart from other conditions, as well as from high levels of activity within the range of normal behaviour. ADHD has a negative impact on patient health-related quality of life that may be further exacerbated by, or may increase the risk of, other psychiatric conditions such as anxiety and depression.<ref name="Coghill_2017" /> Individuals with ADHD may also face misconceptions and stigma.<ref name="Faraone_2021" />


Individuals with ADHD are significantly overrepresented in prison populations. Although there is no generally accepted estimate of ADHD prevalence among inmates, a 2015 meta-analysis estimated a prevalence of 25.5%,<ref name="Ginsberg_2010">{{cite journal | vauthors = Ginsberg Y, Hirvikoski T, Lindefors N | title = Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) among longer-term prison inmates is a prevalent, persistent and disabling disorder | journal = BMC Psychiatry | volume = 10 | issue = 1 | pages = 112 | date = December 2010 | pmid = 21176203 | pmc = 3016316 | doi = 10.1186/1471-244X-10-112 }}</ref> and a larger 2018 meta-analysis estimated the frequency to be 26.2%.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Baggio S, Fructuoso A, Guimaraes M, Fois E, Golay D, Heller P, Perroud N, Aubry C, Young S, Delessert D, Gétaz L, Tran NT, Wolff H | display-authors = 6 | title = Prevalence of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Detention Settings: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis | journal = Frontiers in Psychiatry | volume = 9 | pages = 331 | date = 2 August 2018 | pmid = 30116206 | pmc = 6084240 | doi = 10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00331 | doi-access = free }}</ref> ADHD is more common among longer-term inmates; a 2010 study at Norrtälje Prison, a high-security prison in Sweden, found an estimated ADHD prevalence of 40%.<ref name="Ginsberg_2010"/> Individuals with ADHD are significantly overrepresented in prison populations. Although there is no generally accepted estimate of ADHD prevalence among inmates, a 2015 meta-analysis estimated a prevalence of 25.5%, and a larger 2018 meta-analysis estimated the frequency to be 26.2%.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Baggio S, Fructuoso A, Guimaraes M, Fois E, Golay D, Heller P, Perroud N, Aubry C, Young S, Delessert D, Gétaz L, Tran NT, Wolff H | title = Prevalence of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Detention Settings: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis | journal = Frontiers in Psychiatry | volume = 9 | pages = 331 | date = 2 August 2018 | pmid = 30116206 | pmc = 6084240 | doi = 10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00331 | doi-access = free }}</ref>


==Epidemiology== ==Epidemiology==
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ADHD is estimated to affect about&nbsp;6–7% of people aged 18 and under when diagnosed via the DSM-IV criteria.<ref name="pmid22976615">{{cite journal |vauthors=Willcutt EG |title=The prevalence of DSM-IV attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a meta-analytic review |journal=Neurotherapeutics |volume=9 |issue=3 |pages=490–499 |date=July 2012 |pmid=22976615 |pmc=3441936 |doi=10.1007/s13311-012-0135-8 }}</ref> When diagnosed via the ICD-10 criteria, rates in this age group are estimated around&nbsp;1–2%.<ref name="Cowen_2012">{{cite book |vauthors=Cowen P, Harrison P, Burns T |url={{google books|O3sSd-OAdP0C|plainurl=yes}} |title=Shorter Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry |publisher=] |year=2012 |isbn=978-0-19-960561-3 |edition=6th |pages= |chapter=Drugs and other physical treatments |chapter-url={{google books|O3sSd-OAdP0C |pages=507|plainurl=yes}} |via=Google Books}}</ref> Children in North America appear to have a higher rate of ADHD than children in Africa and the Middle East; this is believed to be due to differing methods of diagnosis rather than a difference in underlying frequency.<ref name="Polanczyk_2007">{{cite journal |vauthors=Polanczyk G, de Lima MS, Horta BL, Biederman J, Rohde LA |title=The worldwide prevalence of ADHD: a systematic review and metaregression analysis |journal=The American Journal of Psychiatry |volume=164 |issue=6 |pages=942–948 |date=June 2007 |pmid=17541055 |doi=10.1176/appi.ajp.164.6.942 |issn=0002-953X | eissn=1535-7228| lccn=22024537 ADHD is estimated to affect about&nbsp;6–7% of people aged 18 and under when diagnosed via the DSM-IV criteria.<ref name="pmid22976615"/> When diagnosed via the ICD-10 criteria, rates in this age group are estimated around&nbsp;1–2%.<ref name="Cowen_2012">{{cite book |vauthors=Cowen P, Harrison P, Burns T |url={{google books|O3sSd-OAdP0C|plainurl=yes}} |title=Shorter Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry |publisher=] |year=2012 |isbn=978-0-19-960561-3 |edition=6th |pages= |chapter=Drugs and other physical treatments |chapter-url={{google books|O3sSd-OAdP0C |page=507|plainurl=yes}} |via=Google Books}}</ref> Rates are similar between countries and differences in rates depend mostly on how it is diagnosed.<ref name="Jones_2011">{{cite book |title=Textbook of Psychiatric Epidemiology |vauthors=Faraone SV |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-470-97740-8 |veditors=Tsuang MT, Tohen M, Jones P |edition=3rd |page=450 |chapter=Ch. 25: Epidemiology of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder |access-date=1 February 2016 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fOc4pdXe43EC&pg=PA450 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201222193454/https://books.google.com/books?id=fOc4pdXe43EC&pg=PA450 |archive-date=22 December 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref> Children in North America appear to have a higher rate of ADHD than children in Africa and the Middle East; this is believed to be due to differing methods of diagnosis rather than a difference in underlying frequency. (The same publication which describes this difference also notes that the difference may be rooted in the available studies from these respective regions, as far more studies were from North America than from Africa and the Middle East.)<ref name="Polanczyk_2007">{{cite journal | vauthors = Polanczyk G, de Lima MS, Horta BL, Biederman J, Rohde LA | title = The worldwide prevalence of ADHD: a systematic review and metaregression analysis | journal = The American Journal of Psychiatry | volume = 164 | issue = 6 | pages = 942–948 | date = June 2007 | pmid = 17541055 | doi = 10.1176/appi.ajp.164.6.942 | lccn = 22024537 | doi-access = free | oclc = 1480183 | eissn = 1535-7228 }}</ref><!--From recollection, this article may be better summarised as "kids in NA have a higher rate of DIAGNOSIS". It may be a subtle difference but it's very important.--> {{As of|2019|post=,}} it was estimated to affect 84.7 million people globally.<ref name=GBD2019>{{Cite journal |author=] |date=17 October 2020 |title=Global Burden of Disease Study 2019: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder—Level 3 cause |url=https://www.thelancet.com/pb-assets/Lancet/gbd/summaries/diseases/adhd.pdf |journal=] |volume=396 |issue=10258 |via= |access-date=7 January 2021 |archive-date=7 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210107135215/https://www.thelancet.com/pb-assets/Lancet/gbd/summaries/diseases/adhd.pdf |url-status=live |at=Table 1}}. Both DSM-IV-TR and ICD-10 criteria were used.</ref>
|oclc=1480183|doi-access=free }}</ref>{{Verify source |date=August 2021}} <!--From recollection, this article may be better summarised as "kids in NA have a higher rate of DIAGNOSIS". It may be a subtle difference but it's very important.--> {{As of|2019|post=,}} it was estimated to affect 84.7 million people globally.<ref name=GBD2019>{{Cite journal |author=] |date=17 October 2020 |title=Global Burden of Disease Study 2019: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder—Level 3 cause |url=https://www.thelancet.com/pb-assets/Lancet/gbd/summaries/diseases/adhd.pdf |journal=] |volume=396 |issue=10258 |via= |access-date=7 January 2021 |archive-date=7 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210107135215/https://www.thelancet.com/pb-assets/Lancet/gbd/summaries/diseases/adhd.pdf |url-status=live |at=Table 1}}. Both DSM-IV-TR and ICD-10 criteria were used.</ref> If the same diagnostic methods are used, the rates are similar between countries.<ref name="Jones_2011" /> ADHD is diagnosed approximately three times more often in boys than in girls.<ref name="pmid19393378" /><ref name="Singh_2008" /> This may reflect either a true difference in underlying rate, or that women and girls with ADHD are less likely to be diagnosed.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Staller J, Faraone SV |title=Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in girls: epidemiology and management |journal=CNS Drugs |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=107–123 |year=2006 |pmid=16478287 |doi=10.2165/00023210-200620020-00003 |s2cid=25835322 }}</ref>


ADHD is diagnosed approximately twice as often in boys as in girls,<ref name="DSM5TR" /><ref name="pmid22976615">{{cite journal | vauthors = Willcutt EG | title = The prevalence of DSM-IV attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a meta-analytic review | journal = Neurotherapeutics | volume = 9 | issue = 3 | pages = 490–499 | date = July 2012 | pmid = 22976615 | pmc = 3441936 | doi = 10.1007/s13311-012-0135-8 }}</ref> and 1.6 times more often in men than in women,<ref name="DSM5TR" /> although the disorder is overlooked in girls or diagnosed in later life because their symptoms sometimes differ from diagnostic criteria.{{refn|<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Young S, Adamo N, Ásgeirsdóttir BB, Branney P, Beckett M, Colley W, Cubbin S, Deeley Q, Farrag E, Gudjonsson G, Hill P, Hollingdale J, Kilic O, Lloyd T, Mason P, Paliokosta E, Perecherla S, Sedgwick J, Skirrow C, Tierney K, van Rensburg K, Woodhouse E | title = Females with ADHD: An expert consensus statement taking a lifespan approach providing guidance for the identification and treatment of attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder in girls and women | journal = BMC Psychiatry | volume = 20 | issue = 1 | pages = 404 | date = August 2020 | pmid = 32787804 | pmc = 7422602 | doi = 10.1186/s12888-020-02707-9 | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Crawford N |date=February 2003 |title=ADHD: a women's issue |journal=Monitor on Psychology |volume=34 |issue=2 |page=28 |url=http://www.apa.org/monitor/feb03/adhd.aspx |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170409110923/http://www.apa.org/monitor/feb03/adhd.aspx |archive-date=9 April 2017 }}</ref><ref name="pmid19393378">{{cite journal | vauthors = Emond V, Joyal C, Poissant H | title = | language = FR | journal = L'Encephale | volume = 35 | issue = 2 | pages = 107–114 | date = April 2009 | pmid = 19393378 | doi = 10.1016/j.encep.2008.01.005 | trans-title = Structural and functional neuroanatomy of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) }}</ref><ref name="Singh_2008">{{cite journal | vauthors = Singh I | title = Beyond polemics: science and ethics of ADHD | journal = Nature Reviews. Neuroscience | volume = 9 | issue = 12 | pages = 957–964 | date = December 2008 | pmid = 19020513 | doi = 10.1038/nrn2514 | s2cid = 205504587 }}</ref>}}<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Staller J, Faraone SV | title = Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in girls: epidemiology and management | journal = CNS Drugs | volume = 20 | issue = 2 | pages = 107–123 | year = 2006 | pmid = 16478287 | doi = 10.2165/00023210-200620020-00003 | s2cid = 25835322 }}</ref> In 2014, ], one of the early advocates for recognition of the disorder, spoke out against overdiagnosis in a '']'' article.<ref name="NYT2013">{{cite news |vauthors=Schwarz A |title=The Selling of Attention Deficit Disorder |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/health/the-selling-of-attention-deficit-disorder.html |access-date=26 February 2015 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=14 December 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150301054334/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/health/the-selling-of-attention-deficit-disorder.html |archive-date=1 March 2015}}</ref> In contrast, a 2014 peer-reviewed medical literature review indicated that ADHD is underdiagnosed in adults.<ref name="Ginsberg_2014" />
Rates of diagnosis and treatment have increased in both the United Kingdom and the United States since the 1970s.<ref name="CDCTime2013" /> Prior to 1970, it was rare for children to be diagnosed with ADHD, while in the 1970s rates were about 1%.<ref>{{cite periodical |vauthors=Connor DF |date=2011 |title=Problems of overdiagnosis and overprescribing in ADHD: are they legitimate? |url=https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/problems-overdiagnosis-and-overprescribing-adhd |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210812122049/https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/problems-overdiagnosis-and-overprescribing-adhd |archive-date=2021-08-12 | magazine=Psychiatric Times |volume=28 |issue=8 |page=14 }}</ref> This is believed to be primarily due to changes in how the condition is diagnosed<ref name="CDCTime2013" /> and how readily people are willing to treat it with medications rather than a true change in how common the condition is.<ref name="Cowen_2012" /> It was believed changes to the diagnostic criteria in 2013 with the release of the DSM-5 would increase the percentage of people diagnosed with ADHD, especially among adults.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Dalsgaard S |title=Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) |journal=European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry |volume=22 |issue=Suppl 1 |pages=S43–S48 |date=February 2013 |pmid=23202886 |doi=10.1007/s00787-012-0360-z |s2cid=23349807 }}</ref>


Studies from multiple countries have reported that children born closer to the start of the school year are more frequently diagnosed with and medicated for ADHD than their older classmates.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Whitely M, Raven M, Timimi S, Jureidini J, Phillimore J, Leo J, Moncrieff J, Landman P | title = Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder late birthdate effect common in both high and low prescribing international jurisdictions: a systematic review | journal = Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Allied Disciplines | volume = 60 | issue = 4 | pages = 380–391 | date = April 2019 | pmid = 30317644 | pmc = 7379308 | doi = 10.1111/jcpp.12991 }}</ref> Boys who were born in December where the school age cut-off was 31 December were shown to be 30% more likely to be diagnosed and 41% more likely to be treated than those born in January. Girls born in December had a diagnosis and treatment percentage increase of 70% and 77% respectively compared to those born in January. Children who were born at the last three days of a calendar year were reported to have significantly higher levels of diagnosis and treatment for ADHD than children born at the first three days of a calendar year. The studies suggest that ADHD diagnosis is prone to subjective analysis.<ref name="Ford-Jones_2015" />
Due to disparities in the treatment and understanding of ADHD between caucasian and non-caucasian populations, many non-caucasian children go undiagnosed and unmedicated.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Coker TR, Elliott MN, Toomey SL, Schwebel DC, Cuccaro P, Tortolero Emery S, Davies SL, Visser SN, Schuster MA |display-authors=6 |title=Racial and Ethnic Disparities in ADHD Diagnosis and Treatment |journal=Pediatrics |volume=138 |issue=3 |pages=e20160407 |date=September 2016 |pmid=27553219 |pmc=5684883 |doi=10.1542/peds.2016-0407 }}</ref> It was found that within the US that there was often a disparity between caucasian and non-caucasian understandings of ADHD.<ref name="Slobodin_2020">{{cite journal |vauthors=Slobodin O, Masalha R |title=Challenges in ADHD care for ethnic minority children: A review of the current literature |journal=Transcultural Psychiatry |volume=57 |issue=3 |pages=468–483 |date=June 2020 |pmid=32233772 |doi=10.1177/1363461520902885 |s2cid=214768588 }}</ref> This led to a difference in the classification of the symptoms of ADHD, and therefore, its misdiagnosis.<ref name="Slobodin_2020" /> It was also found that it was common in non-caucasian families and teachers to understand the symptoms of ADHD as behavioral issues, rather than mental illness.<ref name="Slobodin_2020" />


Rates of diagnosis and treatment have increased in both the United Kingdom and the United States since the 1970s. Prior to 1970, it was rare for children to be diagnosed with ADHD, while in the 1970s rates were about 1%.<ref>{{cite periodical |vauthors=Connor DF |date=2011 |title=Problems of overdiagnosis and overprescribing in ADHD: are they legitimate? |url=https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/problems-overdiagnosis-and-overprescribing-adhd |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210812122049/https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/problems-overdiagnosis-and-overprescribing-adhd |archive-date=12 August 2021 | magazine=Psychiatric Times |volume=28 |issue=8 |page=14 }}</ref> This is believed to be primarily due to changes in how the condition is diagnosed<ref name="CDCTime2013" /> and how readily people are willing to treat it with medications rather than a true change in incidence.<ref name="Cowen_2012" /> With widely differing rates of diagnosis across countries, states within countries, races, and ethnicities, some suspect factors other than symptoms of ADHD are playing a role in diagnosis, such as cultural norms.<ref name="Elder-2010">{{cite journal | vauthors = Elder TE | title = The importance of relative standards in ADHD diagnoses: evidence based on exact birth dates | journal = Journal of Health Economics | volume = 29 | issue = 5 | pages = 641–656 | date = September 2010 | pmid = 20638739 | pmc = 2933294 | doi = 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2010.06.003 }}</ref><ref name="Ford-Jones_2015">{{cite journal | vauthors = Ford-Jones PC | title = Misdiagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: 'Normal behaviour' and relative maturity | journal = Paediatrics & Child Health | volume = 20 | issue = 4 | pages = 200–202 | date = May 2015 | pmid = 26038639 | pmc = 4443828 | doi = 10.1093/pch/20.4.200 }}</ref>
Crosscultural differences in diagnosis of ADHD can also be attributed to the long-lasting effects of harmful, racially targeted medical practices. Medical pseudosciences, particularly those that targeted African American populations during the period of slavery in the US, lead to a distrust of medical practices within certain communities.<ref name="Slobodin_2020" /> The combination of ADHD symptoms often being regarded as misbehavior rather than as a psychiatric condition, and the use of drugs to regulate ADHD, result in a hesitancy to trust a diagnosis of ADHD. Cases of misdiagnosis in ADHD can also occur due to stereotyping of non-caucasian individuals.<ref name="Slobodin_2020" /> Due to ADHD's subjectively determined symptoms, medical professionals may diagnose individuals based on stereotyped behavior or misdiagnose due to differences in symptom presentation between Caucasian and non-Caucasian individuals.<ref name="Slobodin_2020" />

Despite showing a higher frequency of symptoms associated with ADHD, ] children in the US are less likely than ] children to be diagnosed or treated for ADHD, a finding that is often explained by bias among health professionals, as well as parents who may be reluctant to acknowledge that their child has ADHD.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Coker TR, Elliott MN, Toomey SL, Schwebel DC, Cuccaro P, Tortolero Emery S, Davies SL, Visser SN, Schuster MA | title = Racial and Ethnic Disparities in ADHD Diagnosis and Treatment | journal = Pediatrics | volume = 138 | issue = 3 | pages = e20160407 | date = September 2016 | pmid = 27553219 | pmc = 5684883 | doi = 10.1542/peds.2016-0407 |quote=There are various improvements in care that may help in closing this gap in diagnosis and treatment. These include actively and universally eliciting parental concerns about child behavior and academic performance (at home and school) at well-visits,32,33 providing care that is culturally relevant in families’ preferred languages,34 and linking with community resources to provide mental health education, guidance, and services to families (eg, parent training courses for parents of children with ADHD).35–39 Pediatric clinicians also may need to consider universal behavioral health screening tools for children to improve diagnostic capabilities and recognize when a child has ADHD symptoms, even if the problem is not recognized by the parent. Because the rates of diagnosis and treatment are rising in the general population of US children, a significant need remains to identify and treat African-American and Latino children who have ADHD and avoid a widening of these disparities. }}</ref> Crosscultural differences in diagnosis of ADHD can also be attributed to the long-lasting effects of harmful, racially targeted medical practices. Medical pseudosciences, particularly those that targeted Black populations during the period of slavery in the US, lead to a distrust of medical practices within certain communities. The combination of ADHD symptoms often being regarded as misbehaviour rather than as a psychiatric condition, and the use of drugs to regulate ADHD, result in a hesitancy to trust a diagnosis of ADHD. Cases of misdiagnosis in ADHD can also occur due to stereotyping of people of color. Due to ADHD's subjectively determined symptoms, medical professionals may diagnose individuals based on stereotyped behaviour or misdiagnose due to cultural differences in symptom presentation.<ref name="Slobodin_2020">{{cite journal | vauthors = Slobodin O, Masalha R | title = Challenges in ADHD care for ethnic minority children: A review of the current literature | journal = Transcultural Psychiatry | volume = 57 | issue = 3 | pages = 468–483 | date = June 2020 | pmid = 32233772 | doi = 10.1177/1363461520902885 | s2cid = 214768588 }}</ref>

A 2024 study in ]’s ] reports around 15.5 million U.S. adults have attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, with many facing challenges in accessing treatment.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Staley |first=Brooke S. |date=2024 |title=Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Diagnosis, Treatment, and Telehealth Use in Adults — National Center for Health Statistics Rapid Surveys System, United States, October–November 2023 |url=https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/wr/mm7340a1.htm?s_cid=mm7340a1_w |journal=MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report |language=en-us |volume=73 |issue=40 |pages=890–895 |doi=10.15585/mmwr.mm7340a1 |pmid=39388378 |pmc=11466376 |issn=0149-2195}}</ref> One-third of diagnosed individuals had received a prescription for a stimulant drug in the past year but nearly three-quarters of them reported difficulties filling the prescription due to medication shortages.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Singh |first=Puyaan |date=10 October 2024 |title=More than 15 million US adults have ADHD, new study estimates |url=https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/more-than-15-million-us-adults-have-adhd-new-study-estimates-2024-10-10/ |work=Reuters}}</ref>


==History== ==History==
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Hyperactivity has long been part of the human condition. Sir ] describes "mental restlessness" in his book ''An inquiry into the nature and origin of mental derangement'' written in 1798.<ref>{{cite journal |date=May 2001 |title=An early description of ADHD (inattentive subtype): Dr Alexander Crichton and 'Mental restlessness' (1798) |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages=66–73 |journal=] |doi=10.1111/1475-3588.00324 |vauthors=Palmer ED, Finger S }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |vauthors=Crichton A |title=An inquiry into the nature and origin of mental derangement: comprehending a concise system of the physiology and pathology of the human mind and a history of the passions and their effects |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OMAtAAAAYAAJ |via=Google Books |orig-year=1798 |date=1976 |publisher=AMS Press |location=United Kingdom |isbn=978-0-404-08212-3 |page=271 |access-date=17 January 2014 |archive-date=3 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403124410/https://books.google.com/books?id=OMATAAAAYAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> He made observations about children showing signs of being inattentive and having the "fidgets". The first clear description of ADHD is credited to ] in 1902 during a series of lectures he gave to the Royal College of Physicians of London.<ref>{{Cite journal |vauthors=Still G |date=1902 |title=Some Abnormal Psychical Conditions in Children: The Goulstonian Lectures |volume=159 |doi=10.1016/s0140-6736(01)74984-7 |journal=Lancet |pages=1008–1012}}</ref><ref name="CDCTime2013">{{cite web |title=ADHD Throughout the Years |url=https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/documents/timeline.pdf |publisher=Center For Disease Control and Prevention |access-date=2 August 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130807202545/http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/documents/timeline.pdf |archive-date=7 August 2013}}</ref> He noted both nature and nurture could be influencing this disorder.<ref name="Rafalovich_2001">{{Cite journal |vauthors=Rafalovich A |date=2001 |title=The Conceptual History of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Idiocy, Imbecility, Encephalitis and the Child Deviant |journal=Deviant Behavior |volume=22 |pages=93–115 |doi=10.1080/016396201750065009 |s2cid=43445475 }}</ref> ADHD was officially known as '''attention deficit disorder''' ('''ADD''') from 1980 to 1987; prior to the 1980s, it was known as '''hyperkinetic reaction of childhood'''. Symptoms similar to those of ADHD have been described in medical literature dating back to the 18th century. Sir ] describes "mental restlessness" in his book ''An inquiry into the nature and origin of mental derangement'' written in 1798.<ref>{{cite journal |date=May 2001 |title=An early description of ADHD (inattentive subtype): Dr Alexander Crichton and 'Mental restlessness' (1798) |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages=66–73 |journal=] |doi=10.1111/1475-3588.00324 |vauthors=Palmer ED, Finger S }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |vauthors=Crichton A |title=An inquiry into the nature and origin of mental derangement: comprehending a concise system of the physiology and pathology of the human mind and a history of the passions and their effects |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OMAtAAAAYAAJ |via=Google Books |orig-date=1798 |date=1976 |publisher=AMS Press |location=United Kingdom |isbn=978-0-404-08212-3 |page=271 |access-date=17 January 2014 |archive-date=3 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403124410/https://books.google.com/books?id=OMATAAAAYAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> He made observations about children showing signs of being inattentive and having the "fidgets". The first clear description of ADHD is credited to ] in 1902 during a series of lectures he gave to the Royal College of Physicians of London.<ref>{{Cite journal |vauthors=Still G |date=1902 |title=Some Abnormal Psychical Conditions in Children: The Goulstonian Lectures |volume=159 |doi=10.1016/s0140-6736(01)74984-7 |journal=Lancet |pages=1008–1012}}</ref><ref name="CDCTime2013">{{cite web |title=ADHD Throughout the Years |url=https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/documents/timeline.pdf |publisher=Center For Disease Control and Prevention |access-date=2 August 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130807202545/http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/documents/timeline.pdf |archive-date=7 August 2013}}</ref>

] proposed an association between brain damage and behavioral or learning problems which was able to be validated by the encephalitis lethargica epidemic from 1917 through 1928.<ref name="Rafalovich_2001" /><ref>{{Cite book |title=Mental Deficiency: Amentia |vauthors=Tredgold C |publisher=William Wood & Company |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2pJvab8RC6UC |year=1908 |edition=1 |location=New York |oclc=990133 |id=] |access-date=17 May 2022 |archive-date=17 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220517212250/https://books.google.com/books?id=2pJvab8RC6UC |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |vauthors=Connors C |date=2000 |title=Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Historical Development and Overview |journal=Journal of Attention Disorders |pages=173–191}}</ref>

The terminology used to describe the condition has changed over time and has included: ''minimal brain dysfunction'' in the DSM-I (1952), ''hyperkinetic reaction of childhood'' in the DSM-II (1968), and ''attention-deficit disorder with or without hyperactivity'' in the DSM-III (1980).<ref name="CDCTime2013" /> In 1987, this was changed to ADHD in the DSM-III-R, and in 1994 the DSM-IV in split the diagnosis into three subtypes: ADHD inattentive type, ADHD hyperactive-impulsive type, and ADHD combined type.<ref name="Millichap_2010_chap1">{{cite book |vauthors=Millichap JG |title=Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Handbook: A Physician's Guide to ADHD |chapter-url={{google books|KAlq0CDcbaoC |pages=1|plainurl=yes}} |via=Google Books |edition=2nd |date=2010 |publisher=Springer Science |isbn=978-1-4419-1396-8 |doi=10.1007/978-1-4419-1397-5_1 |lccn=2009938108 |pages=– |chapter=Definition and History of ADHD }}</ref> These terms were kept in the DSM-5 in 2013 and in the DSM-5-TR in 2022.<ref name=DSM5/><ref name=DSM5TR/> Prior to the DSM, terms included ''minimal brain damage'' in the 1930s.<ref>{{cite book |vauthors=Weiss M, Hechtman LT, Weiss G |title=ADHD in Adulthood: A Guide to Current Theory, Diagnosis, and Treatment |year=2001 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-0-8018-6822-1 |url={{google books|KuYvJBoB6vQC|plainurl=yes}} |chapter=ADHD in Adulthood: An Introduction |chapter-url={{google books|KuYvJBoB6vQC |pages=1|plainurl=yes}} |pages= |via=Google Books }}</ref>

In 1934, Benzedrine became the first amphetamine medication approved for use in the United States.<ref name="Rasmussen_2006">{{cite journal |vauthors=Rasmussen N |title=Making the first anti-depressant: amphetamine in American medicine, 1929-1950 |journal=Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences |volume=61 |issue=3 |pages=288–323 |date=July 2006 |pmid=16492800 |doi=10.1093/jhmas/jrj039 |s2cid=24974454 }}</ref> Methylphenidate was introduced in the 1950s, and ] dextroamphetamine in the 1970s.<ref name="CDCTime2013" /> The use of stimulants to treat ADHD was first described in 1937.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Patrick KS, Straughn AB, Perkins JS, González MA |title=Evolution of stimulants to treat ADHD: transdermal methylphenidate |journal=Human Psychopharmacology |volume=24 |issue=1 |pages=1–17 |date=January 2009 |pmid=19051222 |pmc=2629554 |doi=10.1002/hup.992 }}</ref> Charles Bradley gave the children with behavioral disorders Benzedrine and found it improved academic performance and behavior.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Gross MD |title=Origin of stimulant use for treatment of attention deficit disorder |journal=The American Journal of Psychiatry |volume=152 |issue=2 |pages=298–299 |date=February 1995 |pmid=7840374|issn=0002-953X | eissn=1535-7228| lccn=22024537
|oclc=1480183 |doi=10.1176/ajp.152.2.298b }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |vauthors=Brown W |date=1998 |title=Charles Bradley, M.D. |journal=American Journal of Psychiatry |issn=0002-953X | eissn=1535-7228| lccn=22024537 | volume= 155 | issue=7
|oclc=1480183 |page=968 |doi=10.1176/ajp.155.7.968 }}</ref>

Once neuroimaging studies were possible, studies conducted in the 1990s provided support for the pre-existing theory that neurological differences - particularly in the ]s - were involved in ADHD.<ref name="Barkley_2006">{{Cite book |vauthors=Barkley R |title=Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Handbook for Diagnosis and Treatment |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4Fvt6X3Xd-UC&pg=PT51 |publisher=Guilford |year=2006 |location=New York |isbn=978-1-60623-750-2 |pages=42–5 }}</ref> During this same period, a genetic component was identified and ADHD was acknowledged to be a persistent, long-term disorder which lasted from childhood into adulthood.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Biederman J, Faraone SV, Keenan K, Knee D, Tsuang MT |title=Family-genetic and psychosocial risk factors in DSM-III attention deficit disorder |journal=Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry |volume=29 |issue=4 |pages=526–533 |date=July 1990 |pmid=2387786 |doi=10.1097/00004583-199007000-00004 }}</ref><ref name="Barkley_2006"/>

ADHD was split into the current three sub-types because of a field trial completed by Lahey and colleagues.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Lahey BB, Applegate B, McBurnett K, Biederman J, Greenhill L, Hynd GW, Barkley RA, Newcorn J, Jensen P, Richters J |display-authors=6 |title=DSM-IV field trials for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children and adolescents |journal=The American Journal of Psychiatry |volume=151 |issue=11 |pages=1673–1685 |date=November 1994 |issn=0002-953X | eissn=1535-7228| lccn=22024537
|oclc=1480183|pmid=7943460 |doi=10.1176/ajp.151.11.1673 }}</ref>


The terminology used to describe the condition has changed over time and has included: ''minimal brain dysfunction'' in the DSM-I (1952), ''hyperkinetic reaction of childhood'' in the DSM-II (1968), and ''attention-deficit disorder with or without hyperactivity'' in the DSM-III (1980).<ref name="CDCTime2013" /> In 1987, this was changed to ADHD in the DSM-III-R, and in 1994 the DSM-IV in split the diagnosis into three subtypes: ADHD inattentive type, ADHD hyperactive-impulsive type, and ADHD combined type.<ref name="Millichap_2010_chap1">{{cite book |vauthors=Millichap JG |title=Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Handbook |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KAlq0CDcbaoC |via=Google Books |edition=2nd |date=2010 |publisher=Springer Science |isbn=978-1-4419-1396-8 |doi=10.1007/978-1-4419-1397-5_1 |lccn=2009938108 |pages=– |chapter=Definition and History of ADHD |access-date=8 May 2022 |archive-date=14 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230114133123/https://books.google.com/books?id=KAlq0CDcbaoC |url-status=live }}</ref> These terms were kept in the DSM-5 in 2013 and in the DSM-5-TR in 2022.<ref name=DSM5/><ref name=DSM5TR/> Prior to the DSM, terms included ''minimal brain damage'' in the 1930s.<ref>{{cite book |vauthors=Weiss M, Hechtman LT, Weiss G |title=ADHD in Adulthood: A Guide to Current Theory, Diagnosis, and Treatment |year=2001 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-0-8018-6822-1 |url={{google books|KuYvJBoB6vQC|plainurl=yes}} |chapter=ADHD in Adulthood: An Introduction |chapter-url={{google books|KuYvJBoB6vQC |page=1|plainurl=yes}} |pages= |via=Google Books }}</ref>
==Controversy==
{{Main|Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder controversies}}


ADHD, its diagnosis, and its treatment have been controversial since the 1970s.<ref name="Parrillo_2008">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mRGr_B4Y1CEC |title=Encyclopedia of Social Problems |vauthors=Parrillo VN |publisher=SAGE |year=2008 |isbn=9781412941655 |page=63 |access-date=2 May 2009 |archive-date=4 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200104002705/https://books.google.com/books?id=mRGr_B4Y1CEC |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="May_2008" /><ref name="Foreman_2006">{{cite journal |vauthors=Foreman DM |title=Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: legal and ethical aspects |journal=Archives of Disease in Childhood |volume=91 |issue=2 |pages=192–194 |date=February 2006 |pmid=16428370 |pmc=2082674 |doi=10.1136/adc.2004.064576 }}</ref> The controversies involve clinicians, teachers, policymakers, parents, and the media. Positions range from the view that ADHD is within the normal range of behavior<ref name="NICE2009-part2" /><ref name="Faraone_2005">{{cite journal |vauthors=Faraone SV |title=The scientific foundation for understanding attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder as a valid psychiatric disorder |journal=European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=1–10 |date=February 2005 |pmid=15756510 |s2cid=143646869 |doi=10.1007/s00787-005-0429-z}}</ref> to the hypothesis that ADHD is a genetic condition.<ref>{{cite news |vauthors=Boseley S |date=30 September 2010 |title=Hyperactive children may have genetic disorder, says study |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/sep/30/hyperactive-children-genetic-disorder-study |url-status=live |archive-date=8 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170708164457/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/sep/30/hyperactive-children-genetic-disorder-study}}</ref> Other areas of controversy include the use of stimulant medications in children,<ref name="May_2008" /><ref name="Cormier_2008" /> the method of diagnosis, and the possibility of overdiagnosis.<ref name="Cormier_2008">{{cite journal |vauthors=Cormier E |title=Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a review and update |journal=Journal of Pediatric Nursing |volume=23 |issue=5 |pages=345–357 |date=October 2008 |pmid=18804015 |doi=10.1016/j.pedn.2008.01.003 }}</ref> In 2009, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, while acknowledging the controversy, states that the current treatments and methods of diagnosis are based on the dominant view of the academic literature.<ref name="NICE2009-Diagnosis">{{cite book |title=Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Diagnosis and Management of ADHD in Children, Young People and Adults |author=National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health |series=NICE Clinical Guidelines |volume=72 |publisher=British Psychological Society |location=Leicester |isbn=978-1-85433-471-8 |date=2009 |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK53652/ |chapter=Diagnosis |pages=, |chapter-url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK53659/ |via=NCBI Bookshelf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160113133612/http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK53652/ |archive-date=13 January 2016 }}</ref> In 2014, ], one of the early advocates for recognition of the disorder, spoke out against overdiagnosis in a '']'' article.<ref name="NYT2013">{{cite news |vauthors=Schwarz A |title=The Selling of Attention Deficit Disorder |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/health/the-selling-of-attention-deficit-disorder.html |access-date=26 February 2015 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=14 December 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150301054334/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/health/the-selling-of-attention-deficit-disorder.html |archive-date=1 March 2015}}</ref> In contrast, a 2014 peer-reviewed medical literature review indicated that ADHD is underdiagnosed in adults.<ref name="Ginsberg_2014" /> ADHD, its diagnosis, and its treatment have been controversial since the 1970s.<ref name="May_2008" /><ref name="Foreman_2006">{{cite journal | vauthors = Foreman DM | title = Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: legal and ethical aspects | journal = Archives of Disease in Childhood | volume = 91 | issue = 2 | pages = 192–194 | date = February 2006 | pmid = 16428370 | pmc = 2082674 | doi = 10.1136/adc.2004.064576 }}</ref> For example, positions differ on whether ADHD is within the normal range of behaviour,<ref name="NICE2009-part2" /><ref name="Faraone_2005">{{cite journal | vauthors = Faraone SV | title = The scientific foundation for understanding attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder as a valid psychiatric disorder | journal = European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | volume = 14 | issue = 1 | pages = 1–10 | date = February 2005 | pmid = 15756510 | doi = 10.1007/s00787-005-0429-z | s2cid = 143646869 }}</ref> and to degree to which ADHD is a genetic condition.<ref>{{cite news |vauthors=Boseley S |date=30 September 2010 |title=Hyperactive children may have genetic disorder, says study |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/sep/30/hyperactive-children-genetic-disorder-study |url-status=live |archive-date=8 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170708164457/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/sep/30/hyperactive-children-genetic-disorder-study}}</ref> Other areas of controversy include the use of stimulant medications in children,<ref name="May_2008" /> the method of diagnosis, and the possibility of overdiagnosis.<ref name="Cormier_2008">{{cite journal | vauthors = Cormier E | title = Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a review and update | journal = Journal of Pediatric Nursing | volume = 23 | issue = 5 | pages = 345–357 | date = October 2008 | pmid = 18804015 | doi = 10.1016/j.pedn.2008.01.003 }}</ref> In 2009, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence states that the current treatments and methods of diagnosis are based on the dominant view of the academic literature.<ref name="NICE2009-Diagnosis">{{cite book |title=Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Diagnosis and Management of ADHD in Children, Young People and Adults |author=National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health |series=NICE Clinical Guidelines |volume=72 |publisher=British Psychological Society |location=Leicester |isbn=978-1-85433-471-8 |date=2009 |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK53652/ |chapter=Diagnosis |pages=, |chapter-url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK53659/ |via=NCBI Bookshelf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160113133612/http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK53652/ |archive-date=13 January 2016 }}</ref>


Once neuroimaging studies were possible, studies in the 1990s provided support for the pre-existing theory that neurological differences (particularly in the ]s) were involved in ADHD. A genetic component was identified and ADHD was acknowledged to be a persistent, long-term disorder which lasted from childhood into adulthood.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Biederman J, Faraone SV, Keenan K, Knee D, Tsuang MT | title = Family-genetic and psychosocial risk factors in DSM-III attention deficit disorder | journal = Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | volume = 29 | issue = 4 | pages = 526–533 | date = July 1990 | pmid = 2387786 | doi = 10.1097/00004583-199007000-00004 }}</ref><ref name="Barkley_2006">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4Fvt6X3Xd-UC&pg=PT51 |title=Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Handbook for Diagnosis and Treatment |vauthors=Barkley R |publisher=Guilford |year=2006 |isbn=978-1-60623-750-2 |location=New York |pages=42–5 |access-date=19 July 2022 |archive-date=2 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231002044633/https://books.google.com/books?id=4Fvt6X3Xd-UC&pg=PT51#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> ADHD was split into the current three sub-types because of a field trial completed by Lahey and colleagues and published in 1994.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Lahey BB, Applegate B, McBurnett K, Biederman J, Greenhill L, Hynd GW, Barkley RA, Newcorn J, Jensen P, Richters J | title = DSM-IV field trials for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children and adolescents | journal = The American Journal of Psychiatry | volume = 151 | issue = 11 | pages = 1673–1685 | date = November 1994 | pmid = 7943460 | doi = 10.1176/ajp.151.11.1673 | lccn = 22024537 | oclc = 1480183 | eissn = 1535-7228 }}</ref> In 2021, global teams of scientists curated the International Consensus Statement compiling evidence-based findings about the disorder.<ref name="Faraone_2021" />
With widely differing rates of diagnosis across countries, states within countries, races, and ethnicities, some suspect factors other than the presence of the symptoms of ADHD are playing a role in diagnosis, such as cultural norms.<ref name="Elder-2010">{{cite journal | vauthors = Elder TE | title = The importance of relative standards in ADHD diagnoses: evidence based on exact birth dates | journal = Journal of Health Economics | volume = 29 | issue = 5 | pages = 641–656 | date = September 2010 | pmid = 20638739 | pmc = 2933294 | doi = 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2010.06.003 }}</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite journal | vauthors = Ford-Jones PC | title = Misdiagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: 'Normal behaviour' and relative maturity | journal = Paediatrics & Child Health | volume = 20 | issue = 4 | pages = 200–202 | date = May 2015 | pmid = 26038639 | pmc = 4443828 | doi = 10.1093/pch/20.4.200 }}</ref> Some sociologists consider ADHD to be an example of the ] of deviant behavior, that is, the turning of the previously {{nowrap|non-medical}} issue of school performance into a medical one.<ref name="Parrillo_2008" /><ref name="Erk_2009" /> Most healthcare providers accept ADHD as a genuine disorder, at least in the small number of people with severe symptoms.<ref name="Erk_2009" /> Among healthcare providers the debate mainly centers on diagnosis and treatment in the much greater number of people with mild symptoms.<ref name="Erk_2009" /><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Merten EC, Cwik JC, Margraf J, Schneider S | title = Overdiagnosis of mental disorders in children and adolescents (in developed countries) | journal = Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health | volume = 11 | pages = 5 | date = 2017 | pmid = 28105068 | pmc = 5240230 | doi = 10.1186/s13034-016-0140-5 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Taylor E | title = Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: overdiagnosed or diagnoses missed? | journal = Archives of Disease in Childhood | volume = 102 | issue = 4 | pages = 376–379 | date = April 2017 | pmid = 27821518 | doi = 10.1136/archdischild-2016-310487 | s2cid = 19878394 }}</ref>


In 1934, Benzedrine became the first amphetamine medication approved for use in the United States.<ref name="Rasmussen_2006">{{cite journal | vauthors = Rasmussen N | title = Making the first anti-depressant: amphetamine in American medicine, 1929-1950 | journal = Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences | volume = 61 | issue = 3 | pages = 288–323 | date = July 2006 | pmid = 16492800 | doi = 10.1093/jhmas/jrj039 | s2cid = 24974454 }}</ref> Methylphenidate was introduced in the 1950s, and ] dextroamphetamine in the 1970s.<ref name="CDCTime2013" /> The use of stimulants to treat ADHD was first described in 1937.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Patrick KS, Straughn AB, Perkins JS, González MA | title = Evolution of stimulants to treat ADHD: transdermal methylphenidate | journal = Human Psychopharmacology | volume = 24 | issue = 1 | pages = 1–17 | date = January 2009 | pmid = 19051222 | pmc = 2629554 | doi = 10.1002/hup.992 }}</ref> Charles Bradley gave the children with behavioural disorders Benzedrine and found it improved academic performance and behaviour.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Gross MD | title = Origin of stimulant use for treatment of attention deficit disorder | journal = The American Journal of Psychiatry | volume = 152 | issue = 2 | pages = 298–299 | date = February 1995 | pmid = 7840374 | doi = 10.1176/ajp.152.2.298b | lccn = 22024537 | oclc = 1480183 | eissn = 1535-7228 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |vauthors=Brown W |date=1998 |title=Charles Bradley, M.D. |journal=American Journal of Psychiatry |issn=0002-953X |eissn=1535-7228| lccn=22024537 |volume=155 |issue=7 |oclc=1480183 |page=968 |doi=10.1176/ajp.155.7.968 }}</ref>
The nature and range of desirable endpoints of ADHD treatment vary among diagnostic standards for ADHD.<ref>"Are We Overdiagnosing and Overtreating ADHD?" Psychiatric Times, May 31, 2019. Rahil R. Jummani, MD. , Emily Hirsch, Glenn S. Hirsch, MD.</ref> In most studies, the efficacy of treatment is determined by reductions in ADHD symptoms.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Luan R, Mu Z, Yue F, He S | title = Efficacy and Tolerability of Different Interventions in Children and Adolescents with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder | journal = Frontiers in Psychiatry | volume = 8 | pages = 229 | date = 2017 | pmid = 29180967 | pmc = 5694170 | doi = 10.3389/fpsyt.2017.00229 | doi-access = free }}</ref> However, some studies have included subjective ratings from teachers and parents as part of their assessment of ADHD treatment efficacies.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Cortese S, Adamo N, Del Giovane C, Mohr-Jensen C, Hayes AJ, Carucci S, Atkinson LZ, Tessari L, Banaschewski T, Coghill D, Hollis C, Simonoff E, Zuddas A, Barbui C, Purgato M, Steinhausen HC, Shokraneh F, Xia J, Cipriani A | display-authors = 6 | title = Comparative efficacy and tolerability of medications for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in children, adolescents, and adults: a systematic review and network meta-analysis | language = English | journal = The Lancet. Psychiatry | volume = 5 | issue = 9 | pages = 727–738 | date = September 2018 | pmid = 30097390 | pmc = 6109107 | doi = 10.1016/S2215-0366(18)30269-4 }}</ref> By contrast, the subjective ratings of children undergoing ADHD treatment are seldom included in studies evaluating the efficacy of ADHD treatments.

There have been notable differences in the diagnosis patterns of birthdays in school-age children. Those born relatively younger to the school starting age than others in a classroom environment are shown to be more likely diagnosed with ADHD. Boys who were born in December in which the school age cut-off was December 31 were shown to be 30% more likely to be diagnosed and 41% to be treated than others born in January. Girls born in December had a diagnosis percentage of 70% and 77% treatment more than ones born the following month. Children who were born at the last 3 days of a calendar year were reported to have significantly higher levels of diagnosis and treatment for ADHD than children born at the first 3 days of a calendar year. The studies suggest that ADHD diagnosis is prone to subjective analysis.<ref name=":0" />


== Research directions == == Research directions ==
===Possible positive traits === ===Possible positive traits ===
Possible positive traits of ADHD are a new avenue of research, and therefore limited.
Possible positive traits of ADHD are a new avenue of research, and therefore limited.<ref name="Hoogman_2020">{{cite journal |vauthors=Hoogman M, Stolte M, Baas M, Kroesbergen E |title=Creativity and ADHD: A review of behavioral studies, the effect of psychostimulants and neural underpinnings |journal=Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews |volume=119 |pages=66–85 |date=December 2020 |pmid=33035524 |doi=10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.09.029 |s2cid=222142805 }}</ref>


A 2020 review found that creativity ] with ADHD symptoms, particularly ] and quantity of creative achievements, but not with the disorder of ADHD itself&nbsp;– i.e. it has not been found to be increased in people diagnosed with the disorder, only in people with subclinical symptoms or those that possess traits associated with the disorder.<ref name="Hoogman_2020" /> Divergent thinking is the ability to produce creative solutions which differ significantly from each other and consider the issue from multiple perspectives.<ref name="Hoogman_2020" /> Those with ADHD symptoms could be advantaged in this form of creativity as they tend to have diffuse attention, allowing rapid switching between aspects of the task under consideration;<ref name="Hoogman_2020" /> flexible ], allowing them to remember and use more distantly-related ideas which is associated with creativity; and impulsivity, which causes people with ADHD symptoms to consider ideas which others may not have.<ref name="Hoogman_2020" /> However, people with ADHD may struggle with ], which is a cognitive process through which a set of obviously relevant knowledge is utilized in a focused effort to arrive at a single perceived best solution to a problem.<ref name="Hoogman_2020" /> A 2020 review found that creativity ] with ADHD symptoms, particularly ] and quantity of creative achievements, but not with the disorder of ADHD itself&nbsp;– i.e. it has not been found to be increased in people diagnosed with the disorder, only in people with subclinical symptoms or those that possess traits associated with the disorder. Divergent thinking is the ability to produce creative solutions which differ significantly from each other and consider the issue from multiple perspectives. Those with ADHD symptoms could be advantaged in this form of creativity as they tend to have diffuse attention, allowing rapid switching between aspects of the task under consideration; flexible ], allowing them to remember and use more distantly-related ideas which is associated with creativity; and impulsivity, allowing them to consider ideas which others may not have.<ref name="Hoogman_2020">{{cite journal | vauthors = Hoogman M, Stolte M, Baas M, Kroesbergen E | title = Creativity and ADHD: A review of behavioral studies, the effect of psychostimulants and neural underpinnings | journal = Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews | volume = 119 | pages = 66–85 | date = December 2020 | pmid = 33035524 | doi = 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.09.029 | hdl = 1874/409179 | url = https://repository.ubn.ru.nl//bitstream/handle/2066/227072/227072.pdf | access-date = 28 August 2023 | url-status = live | s2cid = 222142805 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230906213830/https://repository.ubn.ru.nl//bitstream/handle/2066/227072/227072.pdf | archive-date = 6 September 2023 }}</ref>

A 2020 article suggested that historical documentation supported ]'s difficulties with procrastination and time management as characteristic of ADHD and that he was constantly on the go, but often jumping from task to task.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Catani M, Mazzarello P | title = Grey Matter Leonardo da Vinci: a genius driven to distraction | journal = Brain | volume = 142 | issue = 6 | pages = 1842–1846 | date = June 2019 | pmid = 31121603 | pmc = 6536914 | doi = 10.1093/brain/awz131 }}</ref>


===Possible biomarkers for diagnosis=== ===Possible biomarkers for diagnosis===
Reviews of ADHD ]s have noted that platelet ] expression, urinary ], urinary ], and urinary ] levels consistently differ between ADHD individuals and non-ADHD controls.<ref name="Scassellati_2012">{{cite journal |vauthors=Scassellati C, Bonvicini C, Faraone SV, Gennarelli M |title=Biomarkers and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a systematic review and meta-analyses |journal=Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry |volume=51 |issue=10 |pages=1003–1019.e20 |date=October 2012 |pmid=23021477 |doi=10.1016/j.jaac.2012.08.015 }}</ref> These measurements could potentially serve as diagnostic biomarkers for ADHD, but more research is needed to establish their diagnostic utility.<ref name="Scassellati_2012" /> Urinary and ] phenethylamine concentrations are lower in ADHD individuals relative to controls and the two most commonly prescribed drugs for ADHD, ] and ], increase phenethylamine ] in treatment-responsive individuals with ADHD.<ref name="Berry_2007">{{cite journal |vauthors=Berry MD |title=The potential of trace amines and their receptors for treating neurological and psychiatric diseases |journal=Reviews on Recent Clinical Trials |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=3–19 |date=January 2007 |pmid=18473983 |doi=10.2174/157488707779318107 |quote=Although there is little direct evidence, changes in trace amines, in particular PE, have been identified as a possible factor for the onset of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). ... Further, amphetamines, which have clinical utility in ADHD, are good ligands at trace amine receptors. Of possible relevance in this aspect is modafanil, which has shown beneficial effects in ADHD patients and has been reported to enhance the activity of PE at TAAR1. Conversely, methylphenidate, ...showed poor efficacy at the TAAR1 receptor. In this respect it is worth noting that the enhancement of functioning at TAAR1 seen with modafanil was not a result of a direct interaction with TAAR1. |citeseerx=10.1.1.329.563 }}</ref><ref name="Scassellati_2012"/> Lower urinary phenethylamine concentrations are also associated with symptoms of inattentiveness in ADHD individuals.<ref name="Scassellati_2012"/> Reviews of ADHD ]s have noted that platelet ] expression, urinary ], urinary ], and urinary ] levels consistently differ between ADHD individuals and non-ADHD controls. These measurements could serve as diagnostic biomarkers for ADHD, but more research is needed to establish their diagnostic utility. Urinary and ] phenethylamine concentrations are lower in ADHD individuals relative to controls. The two most commonly prescribed drugs for ADHD, ] and ], increase phenethylamine ] in treatment-responsive individuals with ADHD.<ref name="Berry_2007">{{cite journal | vauthors = Berry MD | title = The potential of trace amines and their receptors for treating neurological and psychiatric diseases | journal = Reviews on Recent Clinical Trials | volume = 2 | issue = 1 | pages = 3–19 | date = January 2007 | pmid = 18473983 | doi = 10.2174/157488707779318107 | quote = Although there is little direct evidence, changes in trace amines, in particular PE, have been identified as a possible factor for the onset of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). ... Further, amphetamines, which have clinical utility in ADHD, are good ligands at trace amine receptors. Of possible relevance in this aspect is modafanil, which has shown beneficial effects in ADHD patients and has been reported to enhance the activity of PE at TAAR1. Conversely, methylphenidate, ...showed poor efficacy at the TAAR1 receptor. In this respect it is worth noting that the enhancement of functioning at TAAR1 seen with modafanil was not a result of a direct interaction with TAAR1. | citeseerx = 10.1.1.329.563 }}</ref> Lower urinary phenethylamine concentrations are associated with symptoms of inattentiveness in ADHD individuals.<ref name="Scassellati_2012">{{cite journal | vauthors = Scassellati C, Bonvicini C, Faraone SV, Gennarelli M | title = Biomarkers and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a systematic review and meta-analyses | journal = Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | volume = 51 | issue = 10 | pages = 1003–1019.e20 | date = October 2012 | pmid = 23021477 | doi = 10.1016/j.jaac.2012.08.015 }}</ref>


== See also == == See also ==
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* {{slink|Accident-proneness#Hypophobia}}
* ] – a temporary state sharing many of the symptoms of ADHD
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== Further reading == == Further reading ==
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* {{cite book |vauthors=Hinshaw SP, Scheffler RM |title=The ADHD Explosion: Myths, Medication, Money, and Today's Push for Performance |isbn=978-0199790555 |year=2014 |publisher=Oxford University Press }} * {{cite book | vauthors = Barkley RA, Benton CM |title=Taking charge of adult ADHD : proven strategies to succeed at work, at home, and in relationships |publisher=The Guilford Press, a division of Guildford Publications, Inc.|year=2022|edition=2nd|isbn=9781462547524|oclc=1251741330}}
* {{cite book | vauthors = Hallowell EM, Ratey JJ |title=Driven to distraction : recognizing and coping with attention deficit disorder from childhood through adulthood|publisher=Anchor Books|year=2011|edition=1|isbn=9780307743152|oclc=1200786886}}
* {{cite book | vauthors = Hinshaw SP, Scheffler RM |title=The ADHD Explosion: Myths, Medication, Money, and Today's Push for Performance |isbn=978-0-19-979055-5 |year=2014 |publisher=Oxford University Press }}
* {{cite book | vauthors = Mate G |title=Scattered minds : a new look at the origins and healing of attention deficit disorder|publisher=Vintage|year=1999|isbn=9780676972597|location=Canada|oclc=48795973}}
* {{cite book | vauthors = Schwarz A |title=ADHD Nation: Children, Doctors, Big Pharma, and the Making of an American Epidemic |year=2016 |url=https://archive.org/details/adhdnationchildr0000schw_d3y4 |publisher=Scribner | oclc=951612166 |isbn=978-1-5011-0591-3}}
* {{cite book | vauthors = Young JL |title=]|date=9 Jan 2007|publisher=Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc}}
* {{cite journal | vauthors = Pliszka S | title = Practice parameter for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder | journal = Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | volume = 46 | issue = 7 | pages = 894–921 | date = July 2007 | pmid = 17581453 | doi = 10.1097/chi.0b013e318054e724 | s2cid = 602465 | doi-access = free }}
* {{cite journal | vauthors = Reaser A, Prevatt F, Petscher Y, Proctor B | year = 2007 | title = The learning and study strategies of college students with ADHD | journal = Psychology in the Schools | volume = 44 | issue = 6| pages = 627–638 |issn = 0033-3085 | eissn = 1520-6807 | lccn = 64009353 | oclc = 1763062 |publisher = Wiley-Blackwell | doi = 10.1002/pits.20252 }} * {{cite journal | vauthors = Reaser A, Prevatt F, Petscher Y, Proctor B | year = 2007 | title = The learning and study strategies of college students with ADHD | journal = Psychology in the Schools | volume = 44 | issue = 6| pages = 627–638 |issn = 0033-3085 | eissn = 1520-6807 | lccn = 64009353 | oclc = 1763062 |publisher = Wiley-Blackwell | doi = 10.1002/pits.20252 }}
* {{cite book |title=ADHD Nation: Children, Doctors, Big Pharma, and the Making of an American Epidemic |year=2016 | vauthors = Schwarz A |url=https://archive.org/details/adhdnationchildr0000schw_d3y4 |publisher=Scribner | oclc=951612166 |isbn=978-1501105913}}
* {{cite journal | vauthors = Pliszka S | title = Practice parameter for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder | journal = Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | volume = 46 | issue = 7 | pages = 894–921 | date = July 2007 | pmid = 17581453 | doi = 10.1097/chi.0b013e318054e724 | s2cid = 602465 }}
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Neurodevelopmental disorder

"ADD", "ADHD", and "Hyperactive" redirect here. For other uses, see ADD (disambiguation), ADHD (disambiguation), and Hyperactive (disambiguation).

Medical condition
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Other namesFormerly: Attention deficit disorder (ADD), hyperkinetic disorder (HD)
An image of the brain showcasing the underlying relationship between the neurology and neuropsychology of ADHD.
ADHD arises from maldevelopment in brain regions such as the prefrontal cortex, basal ganglia and anterior cingulate cortex, which regulate the executive functions necessary for human self-regulation.
Specialty
Symptoms
Usual onsetPrior to age 12
CausesGenetic (inherited, de novo) and to a lesser extent, environmental factors (exposure to biohazards during pregnancy, traumatic brain injury)
Diagnostic methodBased on impairing symptoms after other possible causes have been ruled out
Differential diagnosis
Treatment
Medication
Frequency0.8–1.5% (2019, using DSM-IV-TR and ICD-10)

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by executive dysfunction occasioning symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity, impulsivity and emotional dysregulation that are excessive and pervasive, impairing in multiple contexts, and developmentally-inappropriate.

ADHD symptoms arise from executive dysfunction, and emotional dysregulation is often considered a core symptom. Impairments resulting from deficits in self-regulation such as time management, inhibition, and sustained attention can include poor professional performance, relationship difficulties, and numerous health risks, collectively predisposing to a diminished quality of life and a direct average reduction in life expectancy of 13 years. The disorder costs society hundreds of billions of US dollars each year, worldwide. It is associated with other neurodevelopmental and mental disorders as well as non-psychiatric disorders, which can cause additional impairment.

While people with ADHD often struggle to initiate work and persist on tasks with delayed consequences, this may not be evident in contexts they find intrinsically interesting and immediately rewarding, potentiating hyperfocus (a more colloquial term) or perseverative responding. This mental state is often hard to disengage from and is related to risks such as for internet addiction and types of offending behaviour.

ADHD represents the extreme lower end of the continuous dimensional trait (bell curve) of executive functioning and self-regulation, which is supported by twin, brain imaging and molecular genetic studies.

The precise causes of ADHD are unknown in most individual cases. Meta-analyses have shown that the disorder is primarily genetic with a heritability rate of 70-80%, where risk factors are highly accumulative. The environmental risks are not related to social or familial factors; they exert their effects very early in life, in the prenatal or early postnatal period. However, in rare cases, ADHD can be caused by a single event including traumatic brain injury, exposure to biohazards during pregnancy, or a major genetic mutation. There is no biologically distinct adult-onset ADHD except for when ADHD occurs after traumatic brain injury.

Signs and symptoms

Inattention, hyperactivity (restlessness in adults), disruptive behaviour, and impulsivity are common in ADHD. Academic difficulties are frequent, as are problems with relationships. The signs and symptoms can be difficult to define, as it is hard to draw a line at where normal levels of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity end and significant levels requiring interventions begin.

According to the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) and its text revision (DSM-5-TR), symptoms must be present for six months or more to a degree that is much greater than others of the same age. This requires at least six symptoms of either inattention or hyperactivity/impulsivity for those under 17 and at least five symptoms for those 17 years or older. The symptoms must be present in at least two settings (e.g., social, school, work, or home), and must directly interfere with or reduce quality of functioning. Additionally, several symptoms must have been present before age 12. The DSM-5 's required age of onset of symptoms is 12 years. However, research indicates the age of onset should not be interpreted as a prerequisite for diagnosis given contextual exceptions.

Presentations

ADHD is divided into three primary presentations:

  • predominantly inattentive (ADHD-PI or ADHD-I)
  • predominantly hyperactive-impulsive (ADHD-PH or ADHD-HI)
  • combined presentation (ADHD-C).

The table "Symptoms" lists the symptoms for ADHD-I and ADHD-HI from two major classification systems. Symptoms which can be better explained by another psychiatric or medical condition which an individual has are not considered to be a symptom of ADHD for that person. In DSM-5, subtypes were discarded and reclassified as presentations of the disorder that change over time.

Symptoms
Presentations DSM-5 and DSM-5-TR symptoms ICD-11 symptoms
Inattention Six or more of the following symptoms in children, and five or more in adults, excluding situations where these symptoms are better explained by another psychiatric or medical condition:
  • Frequently overlooks details or makes careless mistakes
  • Often has difficulty maintaining focus on one task or play activity
  • Often appears not to be listening when spoken to, including when there is no obvious distraction
  • Frequently does not finish following instructions, failing to complete tasks
  • Often struggles to organise tasks and activities, to meet deadlines, and to keep belongings in order
  • Is frequently reluctant to engage in tasks which require sustained attention
  • Frequently loses items required for tasks and activities
  • Is frequently easily distracted by extraneous stimuli, including thoughts in adults and older teenagers
  • Often forgets daily activities, or is forgetful while completing them.
Multiple symptoms of inattention that directly negatively impact occupational, academic or social functioning. Symptoms may not be present when engaged in highly stimulating tasks with frequent rewards. Symptoms are generally from the following clusters:
  • Struggles to maintain focus on tasks that are not highly stimulating/rewarding or that require continuous effort; details are often missed, and careless mistakes are frequent in school and work tasks; tasks are often abruptly abandoned in favour of another before they are completed.
  • Easily distracted (including by own thoughts); may not listen when spoken to; frequently appears to be lost in thought
  • Often loses things; is forgetful and disorganised in daily activities.

The individual may also meet the criteria for hyperactivity-impulsivity, but the inattentive symptoms are predominant.

Hyperactivity-Impulsivity Six or more of the following symptoms in children, and five or more in adults, excluding situations where these symptoms are better explained by another psychiatric or medical condition:
  • Is often fidgeting or squirming in seat
  • Frequently has trouble sitting still during dinner, class, in meetings, etc.
  • Frequently runs around or climbs in inappropriate situations. In adults and teenagers, this may be present only as restlessness.
  • Often cannot quietly engage in leisure activities or play
  • Frequently seems to be "on the go" or appears uncomfortable when not in motion
  • Often talks excessively
  • Often answers a question before it is finished, or finishes people's sentences
  • Often struggles to wait their turn, including waiting in lines
  • Frequently interrupts or intrudes, including into others' conversations or activities, or by using people's things without asking.
Multiple symptoms of hyperactivity/impulsivity that directly negatively impact occupational, academic or social functioning. Typically, these tend to be most apparent in environments with structure or which require self-control. Symptoms are generally from the following clusters:
  • Excessive motor activity; struggles to sit still, often leaving their seat; prefers to run about; in younger children, will fidget when attempting to sit still; in adolescents and adults, a sense of physical restlessness or discomfort with being quiet and still.
  • Talks too much; struggles to quietly engage in activities.
  • Blurts out answers or comments; struggles to wait their turn in conversation, games, or activities; will interrupt or intrude on conversations or games.
  • A lack of forethought or consideration of consequences when making decisions or taking action, instead tending to act immediately (e.g., physically dangerous behaviours including reckless driving; impulsive decisions).

The individual may also meet the criteria for inattention, but the hyperactive-impulsive symptoms are predominant.

Combined Meet the criteria for both inattentive and hyperactive-impulsive ADHD. Criteria are met for both inattentive and hyperactive-impulsive ADHD, with neither clearly predominating.

Girls and women with ADHD tend to display fewer hyperactivity and impulsivity symptoms but more symptoms of inattention and distractibility.

Symptoms are expressed differently and more subtly as the individual ages. Hyperactivity tends to become less overt with age and turns into inner restlessness, difficulty relaxing or remaining still, talkativeness or constant mental activity in teens and adults with ADHD. Impulsivity in adulthood may appear as thoughtless behaviour, impatience, irresponsible spending and sensation-seeking behaviours, while inattention may appear as becoming easily bored, difficulty with organization, remaining on task and making decisions, and sensitivity to stress.

Although not listed as an official symptom, emotional dysregulation or mood lability is generally understood to be a common symptom of ADHD. People with ADHD of all ages are more likely to have problems with social skills, such as social interaction and forming and maintaining friendships. This is true for all presentations. About half of children and adolescents with ADHD experience social rejection by their peers compared to 10–15% of non-ADHD children and adolescents. People with attention deficits are prone to having difficulty processing verbal and nonverbal language which can negatively affect social interaction. They may also drift off during conversations, miss social cues, and have trouble learning social skills.

Difficulties managing anger are more common in children with ADHD, as are delays in speech, language and motor development. Poorer handwriting is more common in children with ADHD. Poor handwriting can be a symptom of ADHD in itself due to decreased attentiveness. When this is a pervasive problem, it may also be attributable to dyslexia or dysgraphia. There is significant overlap in the symptomatologies of ADHD, dyslexia, and dysgraphia, and 3 in 10 people diagnosed with dyslexia experience co-occurring ADHD. Although it causes significant difficulty, many children with ADHD have an attention span equal to or greater than that of other children for tasks and subjects they find interesting.

IQ test performance

Certain studies have found that people with ADHD tend to have lower scores on intelligence quotient (IQ) tests. The significance of this is controversial due to the differences between people with ADHD and the difficulty determining the influence of symptoms, such as distractibility, on lower scores rather than intellectual capacity. In studies of ADHD, higher IQs may be over-represented because many studies exclude individuals who have lower IQs despite those with ADHD scoring on average nine points lower on standardised intelligence measures. However, other studies contradict this, saying that in individuals with high intelligence, there is an increased risk of a missed ADHD diagnosis, possibly because of compensatory strategies in said individuals.

Studies of adults suggest that negative differences in intelligence are not meaningful and may be explained by associated health problems.

Comorbidities

Psychiatric comorbidities

In children, ADHD occurs with other disorders about two-thirds of the time.

Other neurodevelopmental conditions are common comorbidities. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), co-occurring at a rate of 21% in those with ADHD, affects social skills, ability to communicate, behaviour, and interests. Learning disabilities have been found to occur in about 20–30% of children with ADHD. Learning disabilities can include developmental speech and language disorders, and academic skills disorders. ADHD, however, is not considered a learning disability, but it very frequently causes academic difficulties. Intellectual disabilities and Tourette's syndrome are also common.

ADHD is often comorbid with disruptive, impulse control, and conduct disorders. Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) occurs in about 25% of children with an inattentive presentation and 50% of those with a combined presentation. It is characterised by angry or irritable mood, argumentative or defiant behaviour and vindictiveness which are age-inappropriate. Conduct disorder (CD) occurs in about 25% of adolescents with ADHD. It is characterised by aggression, destruction of property, deceitfulness, theft and violations of rules. Adolescents with ADHD who also have CD are more likely to develop antisocial personality disorder in adulthood. Brain imaging supports that CD and ADHD are separate conditions: conduct disorder was shown to reduce the size of one's temporal lobe and limbic system, and increase the size of one's orbitofrontal cortex, whereas ADHD was shown to reduce connections in the cerebellum and prefrontal cortex more broadly. Conduct disorder involves more impairment in motivation control than ADHD. Intermittent explosive disorder is characterised by sudden and disproportionate outbursts of anger and co-occurs in individuals with ADHD more frequently than in the general population.

Anxiety and mood disorders are frequent comorbidities. Anxiety disorders have been found to occur more commonly in the ADHD population, as have mood disorders (especially bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder). Boys diagnosed with the combined ADHD subtype are more likely to have a mood disorder. Adults and children with ADHD sometimes also have bipolar disorder, which requires careful assessment to accurately diagnose and treat both conditions.

Sleep disorders and ADHD commonly co-exist. They can also occur as a side effect of medications used to treat ADHD. In children with ADHD, insomnia is the most common sleep disorder with behavioural therapy being the preferred treatment. Problems with sleep initiation are common among individuals with ADHD but often they will be deep sleepers and have significant difficulty getting up in the morning. Melatonin is sometimes used in children who have sleep onset insomnia. Restless legs syndrome has been found to be more common in those with ADHD and is often due to iron deficiency anemia. However, restless legs can simply be a part of ADHD and requires careful assessment to differentiate between the two disorders. Delayed sleep phase disorder is also a common comorbidity.

Individuals with ADHD are at increased risk of substance use disorders. This is most commonly seen with alcohol or cannabis. The reason for this may be an altered reward pathway in the brains of ADHD individuals, self-treatment and increased psychosocial risk factors. This makes the evaluation and treatment of ADHD more difficult, with serious substance misuse problems usually treated first due to their greater risks. Other psychiatric conditions include reactive attachment disorder, characterised by a severe inability to appropriately relate socially, and cognitive disengagement syndrome, a distinct attention disorder occurring in 30–50% of ADHD cases as a comorbidity, regardless of the presentation; a subset of cases diagnosed with ADHD-PIP have been found to have CDS instead. Individuals with ADHD are three times more likely to be diagnosed with an eating disorder compared to those without ADHD; conversely, individuals with eating disorders are two times more likely to have ADHD than those without eating disorders.

Trauma

ADHD, trauma, and adverse childhood experiences are also comorbid, which could in part be potentially explained by the similarity in presentation between different diagnoses. The symptoms of ADHD and PTSD can have significant behavioural overlap—in particular, motor restlessness, difficulty concentrating, distractibility, irritability/anger, emotional constriction or dysregulation, poor impulse control, and forgetfulness are common in both. This could result in trauma-related disorders or ADHD being mis-identified as the other. Additionally, traumatic events in childhood are a risk factor for ADHD; they can lead to structural brain changes and the development of ADHD behaviours. Finally, the behavioural consequences of ADHD symptoms cause a higher chance of the individual experiencing trauma (and therefore ADHD leads to a concrete diagnosis of a trauma-related disorder).

Non-psychiatric

See also: Accident-proneness § Hypophobia

Some non-psychiatric conditions are also comorbidities of ADHD. This includes epilepsy, a neurological condition characterised by recurrent seizures. There are well established associations between ADHD and obesity, asthma and sleep disorders, and an association with celiac disease. Children with ADHD have a higher risk for migraine headaches, but have no increased risk of tension-type headaches. Children with ADHD may also experience headaches as a result of medication.

A 2021 review reported that several neurometabolic disorders caused by inborn errors of metabolism converge on common neurochemical mechanisms that interfere with biological mechanisms also considered central in ADHD pathophysiology and treatment. This highlights the importance of close collaboration between health services to avoid clinical overshadowing.

In June 2021, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews published a systematic review of 82 studies that all confirmed or implied elevated accident-proneness in ADHD patients and whose data suggested that the type of accidents or injuries and overall risk changes in ADHD patients over the lifespan. In January 2014, Accident Analysis & Prevention published a meta-analysis of 16 studies examining the relative risk of traffic collisions for drivers with ADHD, finding an overall relative risk estimate of 1.36 without controlling for exposure, a relative risk estimate of 1.29 when controlling for publication bias, a relative risk estimate of 1.23 when controlling for exposure, and a relative risk estimate of 1.86 for ADHD drivers with oppositional defiant disorder and/or conduct disorder comorbidities.

Problematic digital media use

See also: Screen time, Internet addiction disorder, Problematic smartphone use, Problematic social media use, and Video game addiction This section is an excerpt from Digital media use and mental health § ADHD.

In April 2018, the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health published a systematic review of 24 studies researching associations between internet gaming disorder (IGD) and various psychopathologies that found an 85% correlation between IGD and ADHD. In October 2018, PNAS USA published a systematic review of four decades of research on the relationship between children and adolescents' screen media use and ADHD-related behaviours and concluded that a statistically small relationship between children's media use and ADHD-related behaviours exists. In November 2018, Cyberpsychology published a systematic review and meta-analysis of 5 studies that found evidence for a relationship between problematic smartphone use and impulsivity traits. In October 2020, the Journal of Behavioral Addictions published a systematic review and meta-analysis of 40 studies with 33,650 post-secondary student subjects that found a weak-to-moderate positive association between mobile phone addiction and impulsivity. In January 2021, the Journal of Psychiatric Research published a systematic review of 29 studies including 56,650 subjects that found that ADHD symptoms were consistently associated with gaming disorder and more frequent associations between inattention and gaming disorder than other ADHD scales.

In July 2021, Frontiers in Psychiatry published a meta-analysis reviewing 40 voxel-based morphometry studies and 59 functional magnetic resonance imaging studies comparing subjects with IGD or ADHD to control groups that found that IGD and ADHD subjects had disorder-differentiating structural neuroimage alterations in the putamen and orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) respectively, and functional alterations in the precuneus for IGD subjects and in the rewards circuit (including the OFC, the anterior cingulate cortex, and striatum) for both IGD and ADHD subjects. In March 2022, JAMA Psychiatry published a systematic review and meta-analysis of 87 studies with 159,425 subjects 12 years of age or younger that found a small but statistically significant correlation between screen time and ADHD symptoms in children. In April 2022, Developmental Neuropsychology published a systematic review of 11 studies where the data from all but one study suggested that heightened screen time for children is associated with attention problems. In July 2022, the Journal of Behavioral Addictions published a meta-analysis of 14 studies comprising 2,488 subjects aged 6 to 18 years that found significantly more severe problematic internet use in subjects diagnosed with ADHD to control groups.

In December 2022, European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry published a systematic literature review of 28 longitudinal studies published from 2011 through 2021 of associations between digital media use by children and adolescents and later ADHD symptoms and found reciprocal associations between digital media use and ADHD symptoms (i.e. that subjects with ADHD symptoms were more likely to develop problematic digital media use and that increased digital media use was associated with increased subsequent severity of ADHD symptoms). In May 2023, Reviews on Environmental Health published a meta-analysis of 9 studies with 81,234 child subjects that found a positive correlation between screen time and ADHD risk in children and that higher amounts of screen time in childhood may significantly contribute to the development of ADHD. In December 2023, the Journal of Psychiatric Research published a meta-analysis of 24 studies with 18,859 subjects with a mean age of 18.4 years that found significant associations between ADHD and problematic internet use, while Clinical Psychology Review published a systematic review and meta-analysis of 48 studies examining associations between ADHD and gaming disorder that found a statistically significant association between the disorders.

Suicide risk

Systematic reviews in 2017 and 2020 found strong evidence that ADHD is associated with increased suicide risk across all age groups, as well as growing evidence that an ADHD diagnosis in childhood or adolescence represents a significant future suicidal risk factor. Potential causes include ADHD's association with functional impairment, negative social, educational and occupational outcomes, and financial distress. A 2019 meta-analysis indicated a significant association between ADHD and suicidal spectrum behaviours (suicidal attempts, ideations, plans, and completed suicides); across the studies examined, the prevalence of suicide attempts in individuals with ADHD was 18.9%, compared to 9.3% in individuals without ADHD, and the findings were substantially replicated among studies which adjusted for other variables. However, the relationship between ADHD and suicidal spectrum behaviours remains unclear due to mixed findings across individual studies and the complicating impact of comorbid psychiatric disorders. There is no clear data on whether there is a direct relationship between ADHD and suicidality, or whether ADHD increases suicide risk through comorbidities.

Causes

ADHD arises from brain maldevelopment especially in the prefrontal executive networks that can arise either from genetic factors (different gene variants and mutations for building and regulating such networks) or from acquired disruptions to the development of these networks and regions; involved in executive functioning and self-regulation. Their reduced size, functional connectivity, and activation contribute to the pathophysiology of ADHD, as well as imbalances in the noradrenergic and dopaminergic systems that mediate these brain regions.

Genetic factors play an important role; ADHD has a heritability rate of 70-80%. The remaining 20-30% of variance is mediated by de-novo mutations and non-shared environmental factors that provide for or produce brain injuries; there is no significant contribution of the rearing family and social environment. Very rarely, ADHD can also be the result of abnormalities in the chromosomes.

Genetics

See also: Missing heritability problem

In November 1999, Biological Psychiatry published a literature review by psychiatrists Joseph Biederman and Thomas Spencer found the average heritability estimate of ADHD from twin studies to be 0.8, while a subsequent family, twin, and adoption studies literature review published in Molecular Psychiatry in April 2019 by psychologists Stephen Faraone and Henrik Larsson that found an average heritability estimate of 0.74. Additionally, evolutionary psychiatrist Randolph M. Nesse has argued that the 5:1 male-to-female sex ratio in the epidemiology of ADHD suggests that ADHD may be the end of a continuum where males are overrepresented at the tails, citing clinical psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen's suggestion for the sex ratio in the epidemiology of autism as an analogue.

Natural selection has been acting against the genetic variants for ADHD over the course of at least 45,000 years, indicating that it was not an adaptive trait in ancient times. The disorder may remain at a stable rate by the balance of genetic mutations and removal rate (natural selection) across generations; over thousands of years, these genetic variants become more stable, decreasing disorder prevalence. Throughout human evolution, the EFs involved in ADHD likely provide the capacity to bind contingencies across time thereby directing behaviour toward future over immediate events so as to maximise future social consequences for humans.

ADHD has a high heritability of 74%, meaning that 74% of the presence of ADHD in the population is due to genetic factors. There are multiple gene variants which each slightly increase the likelihood of a person having ADHD; it is polygenic and thus arises through the accumulation of many genetic risks each having a very small effect. The siblings of children with ADHD are three to four times more likely to develop the disorder than siblings of children without the disorder.

The association of maternal smoking observed in large population studies disappears after adjusting for family history of ADHD, which indicates that the association between maternal smoking during pregnancy and ADHD is due to familial or genetic factors that increase the risk for the confluence of smoking and ADHD.

ADHD presents with reduced size, functional connectivity and activation as well as low noradrenergic and dopaminergic functioning in brain regions and networks crucial for executive functioning and self-regulation. Typically, a number of genes are involved, many of which directly affect brain functioning and neurotransmission. Those involved with dopamine include DAT, DRD4, DRD5, TAAR1, MAOA, COMT, and DBH. Other genes associated with ADHD include SERT, HTR1B, SNAP25, GRIN2A, ADRA2A, TPH2, and BDNF. A common variant of a gene called latrophilin 3 is estimated to be responsible for about 9% of cases and when this variant is present, people are particularly responsive to stimulant medication. The 7 repeat variant of dopamine receptor D4 (DRD4–7R) causes increased inhibitory effects induced by dopamine and is associated with ADHD. The DRD4 receptor is a G protein-coupled receptor that inhibits adenylyl cyclase. The DRD4–7R mutation results in a wide range of behavioural phenotypes, including ADHD symptoms reflecting split attention. The DRD4 gene is both linked to novelty seeking and ADHD. The genes GFOD1 and CDH13 show strong genetic associations with ADHD. CDH13's association with ASD, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression make it an interesting candidate causative gene. Another candidate causative gene that has been identified is ADGRL3. In zebrafish, knockout of this gene causes a loss of dopaminergic function in the ventral diencephalon and the fish display a hyperactive/impulsive phenotype.

For genetic variation to be used as a tool for diagnosis, more validating studies need to be performed. However, smaller studies have shown that genetic polymorphisms in genes related to catecholaminergic neurotransmission or the SNARE complex of the synapse can reliably predict a person's response to stimulant medication. Rare genetic variants show more relevant clinical significance as their penetrance (the chance of developing the disorder) tends to be much higher. However their usefulness as tools for diagnosis is limited as no single gene predicts ADHD. ASD shows genetic overlap with ADHD at both common and rare levels of genetic variation.

Environment

In addition to genetics, some environmental factors might play a role in causing ADHD. Alcohol intake during pregnancy can cause fetal alcohol spectrum disorders which can include ADHD or symptoms like it. Children exposed to certain toxic substances, such as lead or polychlorinated biphenyls, may develop problems which resemble ADHD. Exposure to the organophosphate insecticides chlorpyrifos and dialkyl phosphate is associated with an increased risk; however, the evidence is not conclusive. Exposure to tobacco smoke during pregnancy can cause problems with central nervous system development and can increase the risk of ADHD. Nicotine exposure during pregnancy may be an environmental risk.

Extreme premature birth, very low birth weight, and extreme neglect, abuse, or social deprivation also increase the risk as do certain infections during pregnancy, at birth, and in early childhood. These infections include, among others, various viruses (measles, varicella zoster encephalitis, rubella, enterovirus 71). At least 30% of children with a traumatic brain injury later develop ADHD and about 5% of cases are due to brain damage.

Some studies suggest that in a small number of children, artificial food dyes or preservatives may be associated with an increased prevalence of ADHD or ADHD-like symptoms, but the evidence is weak and may apply to only children with food sensitivities. The European Union has put in place regulatory measures based on these concerns. In a minority of children, intolerances or allergies to certain foods may worsen ADHD symptoms.

Individuals with hypokalemic sensory overstimulation are sometimes diagnosed as having ADHD, raising the possibility that a subtype of ADHD has a cause that can be understood mechanistically and treated in a novel way. The sensory overload is treatable with oral potassium gluconate.

Research does not support popular beliefs that ADHD is caused by eating too much refined sugar, watching too much television, bad parenting, poverty or family chaos; however, they might worsen ADHD symptoms in certain people.

In some cases, an inappropriate diagnosis of ADHD may reflect a dysfunctional family or a poor educational system, rather than any true presence of ADHD in the individual. In other cases, it may be explained by increasing academic expectations, with a diagnosis being a method for parents in some countries to obtain extra financial and educational support for their child. Behaviours typical of ADHD occur more commonly in children who have experienced violence and emotional abuse.

Pathophysiology

Current models of ADHD suggest that it is associated with functional impairments in some of the brain's neurotransmitter systems, particularly those involving dopamine and norepinephrine. The dopamine and norepinephrine pathways that originate in the ventral tegmental area and locus coeruleus project to diverse regions of the brain and govern a variety of cognitive processes. The dopamine pathways and norepinephrine pathways which project to the prefrontal cortex and striatum are directly responsible for modulating executive function (cognitive control of behaviour), motivation, reward perception, and motor function; these pathways are known to play a central role in the pathophysiology of ADHD. Larger models of ADHD with additional pathways have been proposed.

Brain structure

The left prefrontal cortex, shown here in blue, is often affected in ADHD

In children with ADHD, there is a general reduction of volume in certain brain structures, with a proportionally greater decrease in the volume in the left-sided prefrontal cortex. The posterior parietal cortex also shows thinning in individuals with ADHD compared to controls. Other brain structures in the prefrontal-striatal-cerebellar and prefrontal-striatal-thalamic circuits have also been found to differ between people with and without ADHD.

The subcortical volumes of the accumbens, amygdala, caudate, hippocampus, and putamen appears smaller in individuals with ADHD compared with controls. Structural MRI studies have also revealed differences in white matter, with marked differences in inter-hemispheric asymmetry between ADHD and typically developing youths.

Functional MRI (fMRI) studies have revealed a number of differences between ADHD and control brains. Mirroring what is known from structural findings, fMRI studies have showed evidence for a higher connectivity between subcortical and cortical regions, such as between the caudate and prefrontal cortex. The degree of hyperconnectivity between these regions correlated with the severity of inattention or hyperactivity Hemispheric lateralization processes have also been postulated as being implicated in ADHD, but empiric results showed contrasting evidence on the topic.

Neurotransmitter pathways

Previously, it had been suggested that the elevated number of dopamine transporters in people with ADHD was part of the pathophysiology, but it appears the elevated numbers may be due to adaptation following exposure to stimulant medication. Current models involve the mesocorticolimbic dopamine pathway and the locus coeruleus-noradrenergic system. ADHD psychostimulants possess treatment efficacy because they increase neurotransmitter activity in these systems. There may additionally be abnormalities in serotonergic, glutamatergic, or cholinergic pathways.

Executive function and motivation

ADHD arises from a core deficit in executive functions (e.g., attentional control, inhibitory control, and working memory), which are a set of cognitive processes that are required to successfully select and monitor behaviours that facilitate the attainment of one's chosen goals. The executive function impairments that occur in ADHD individuals result in problems with staying organised, time keeping, procrastination control, maintaining concentration, paying attention, ignoring distractions, regulating emotions, and remembering details. People with ADHD appear to have unimpaired long-term memory, and deficits in long-term recall appear to be attributed to impairments in working memory. Due to the rates of brain maturation and the increasing demands for executive control as a person gets older, ADHD impairments may not fully manifest themselves until adolescence or even early adulthood. Conversely, brain maturation trajectories, potentially exhibiting diverging longitudinal trends in ADHD, may support a later improvement in executive functions after reaching adulthood.

ADHD has also been associated with motivational deficits in children. Children with ADHD often find it difficult to focus on long-term over short-term rewards, and exhibit impulsive behaviour for short-term rewards.

Paradoxical reaction to neuroactive substances

Another sign of the structurally altered signal processing in the central nervous system in this group of people is the conspicuously common paradoxical reaction (c. 10–20% of patients). These are unexpected reactions in the opposite direction as with a normal effect, or otherwise significant different reactions. These are reactions to neuroactive substances such as local anesthetic at the dentist, sedative, caffeine, antihistamine, weak neuroleptics and central and peripheral painkillers. Since the causes of paradoxical reactions are at least partly genetic, it may be useful in critical situations, for example before operations, to ask whether such abnormalities may also exist in family members.

Diagnosis

ADHD is diagnosed by an assessment of a person's behavioural and mental development, including ruling out the effects of drugs, medications, and other medical or psychiatric problems as explanations for the symptoms. ADHD diagnosis often takes into account feedback from parents and teachers with most diagnoses begun after a teacher raises concerns. While many tools exist to aid in the diagnosis of ADHD, their validity varies in different populations, and a reliable and valid diagnosis requires confirmation by a clinician while supplemented by standardized rating scales and input from multiple informants across various settings. The diagnosis of ADHD has been criticised as being subjective because it is not based on a biological test. The International Consensus Statement on ADHD concluded that this criticism is unfounded, on the basis that ADHD meets standard criteria for validity of a mental disorder established by Robins and Guze. They attest that the disorder is considered valid because: 1) well-trained professionals in a variety of settings and cultures agree on its presence or absence using well-defined criteria and 2) the diagnosis is useful for predicting a) additional problems the patient may have (e.g., difficulties learning in school); b) future patient outcomes (e.g., risk for future drug abuse); c) response to treatment (e.g., medications and psychological treatments); and d) features that indicate a consistent set of causes for the disorder (e.g., findings from genetics or brain imaging), and that professional associations have endorsed and published guidelines for diagnosing ADHD.

The most commonly used rating scales for diagnosing ADHD are the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA) and include the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) used for parents to rate their child's behaviour, the Youth Self Report Form (YSR) used for children to rate their own behaviour, and the Teacher Report Form (TRF) used for teachers to rate their pupil's behaviour. Additional rating scales that have been used alone or in combination with other measures to diagnose ADHD include the Behavior Assessment System for Children (BASC), Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function - Second Edition (BRIEF2), Revised Conners Rating Scale (CRS-R), Conduct-Hyperactive-Attention Problem-Oppositional Symptom scale (CHAOS), Developmental Behavior Checklist Hyperactivity Index (DBC-HI), Parent Disruptive Behavior Disorder Ratings Scale (DBDRS), Diagnostic Infant and Preschool Assessment (DIPA-L), Pediatric Symptom Checklist (PSC), Social Communication Questionnaire (SCQ), Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS), Strengths and Weaknesses of ADHD Symptoms and Normal Behavior Rating Scale (SWAN). and the Vanderbilt ADHD diagnostic rating scale.

The ASEBA, BASC, CHAOS, CRS, and Vanderbilt diagnostic rating scales allow for both parents and teachers as raters in the diagnosis of childhood and adolescent ADHD. Adolescents may also self report their symptoms using self report scales from the ASEBA, SWAN, and the Dominic Interactive for Adolescents-Revised (DIA-R). Self-rating scales, such as the ADHD rating scale and the Vanderbilt ADHD diagnostic rating scale, are used in the screening and evaluation of ADHD.

Based on a 2024 systematic literature review and meta analysis commissioned by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), rating scales based on parent report, teacher report, or self-assessment from the adolescent have high internal consistency as a diagnostic tool meaning that the items within the scale are highly interrelated. The reliability of the scales between raters (i.e. their degree of agreement) however is poor to moderate making it important to include information from multiple raters to best inform a diagnosis.

Imaging studies of the brain do not give consistent results between individuals; thus, they are only used for research purposes and not a diagnosis. Electroencephalography is not accurate enough to make an ADHD diagnosis. A 2024 systematic review concluded that the use of biomarkers such as blood or urine samples, electroencephalogram (EEG) markers, and neuroimaging such as MRIs, in diagnosis for ADHD remains unclear; studies showed great variability, did not assess test-retest reliability, and were not independently replicable.

In North America and Australia, DSM-5 criteria are used for diagnosis, while European countries usually use the ICD-10. The DSM-IV criteria for diagnosis of ADHD is 3–4 times more likely to diagnose ADHD than is the ICD-10 criteria. ADHD is alternately classified as neurodevelopmental disorder or a disruptive behaviour disorder along with ODD, CD, and antisocial personality disorder. A diagnosis does not imply a neurological disorder.

Very few studies have been conducted on diagnosis of ADHD on children younger than 7 years of age, and those that have were found in a 2024 systematic review to be of low or insufficient strength of evidence.

Classification

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual

As with many other psychiatric disorders, a formal diagnosis should be made by a qualified professional based on a set number of criteria. In the United States, these criteria are defined by the American Psychiatric Association in the DSM. Based on the DSM-5 criteria published in 2013 and the DSM-5-TR criteria published in 2022, there are three presentations of ADHD:

  1. ADHD, predominantly inattentive presentation, presents with symptoms including being easily distracted, forgetful, daydreaming, disorganization, poor sustained attention, and difficulty completing tasks.
  2. ADHD, predominantly hyperactive-impulsive presentation, presents with excessive fidgeting and restlessness, hyperactivity, and difficulty waiting and remaining seated.
  3. ADHD, combined presentation, is a combination of the first two presentations.

This subdivision is based on presence of at least six (in children) or five (in older teenagers and adults) out of nine long-term (lasting at least six months) symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity–impulsivity, or both. To be considered, several symptoms must have appeared by the age of six to twelve and occur in more than one environment (e.g. at home and at school or work). The symptoms must be inappropriate for a child of that age and there must be clear evidence that they are causing impairment in multiple domains of life.

The DSM-5 and the DSM-5-TR also provide two diagnoses for individuals who have symptoms of ADHD but do not entirely meet the requirements. Other Specified ADHD allows the clinician to describe why the individual does not meet the criteria, whereas Unspecified ADHD is used where the clinician chooses not to describe the reason.

International Classification of Diseases

In the eleventh revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-11) by the World Health Organization, the disorder is classified as Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (code 6A05). The defined subtypes are predominantly inattentive presentation (6A05.0); predominantly hyperactive-impulsive presentation(6A05.1); and combined presentation (6A05.2). However, the ICD-11 includes two residual categories for individuals who do not entirely match any of the defined subtypes: other specified presentation (6A05.Y) where the clinician includes detail on the individual's presentation; and presentation unspecified (6A05.Z) where the clinician does not provide detail.

In the tenth revision (ICD-10), the symptoms of hyperkinetic disorder were analogous to ADHD in the ICD-11. When a conduct disorder (as defined by ICD-10) is present, the condition was referred to as hyperkinetic conduct disorder. Otherwise, the disorder was classified as disturbance of activity and attention, other hyperkinetic disorders or hyperkinetic disorders, unspecified. The latter was sometimes referred to as hyperkinetic syndrome.

Social construct theory

The social construct theory of ADHD suggests that, because the boundaries between normal and abnormal behaviour are socially constructed (i.e. jointly created and validated by all members of society, and in particular by physicians, parents, teachers, and others), it then follows that subjective valuations and judgements determine which diagnostic criteria are used and thus, the number of people affected. Thomas Szasz, a supporter of this theory, has argued that ADHD was "invented and then given a name".

Adults

Main article: Adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Adults with ADHD are diagnosed under the same criteria, including that their signs must have been present by the age of six to twelve. The individual is the best source for information in diagnosis, however others may provide useful information about the individual's symptoms currently and in childhood; a family history of ADHD also adds weight to a diagnosis. While the core symptoms of ADHD are similar in children and adults, they often present differently in adults than in children: for example, excessive physical activity seen in children may present as feelings of restlessness and constant mental activity in adults.

Worldwide, it is estimated that 2.58% of adults have persistent ADHD (where the individual currently meets the criteria and there is evidence of childhood onset), and 6.76% of adults have symptomatic ADHD (meaning that they currently meet the criteria for ADHD, regardless of childhood onset). In 2020, this was 139.84 million and 366.33 million affected adults respectively. Around 15% of children with ADHD continue to meet full DSM-IV-TR criteria at 25 years of age, and 50% still experience some symptoms. As of 2010, most adults remain untreated. Many adults with ADHD without diagnosis and treatment have a disorganised life, and some use non-prescribed drugs or alcohol as a coping mechanism. Other problems may include relationship and job difficulties, and an increased risk of criminal activities. Associated mental health problems include depression, anxiety disorders, and learning disabilities.

Some ADHD symptoms in adults differ from those seen in children. While children with ADHD may climb and run about excessively, adults may experience an inability to relax, or may talk excessively in social situations. Adults with ADHD may start relationships impulsively, display sensation-seeking behaviour, and be short-tempered. Addictive behaviour such as substance abuse and gambling are common. This led to those who presented differently as they aged having outgrown the DSM-IV criteria. The DSM-5 criteria does specifically deal with adults unlike that of DSM-IV, which does not fully take into account the differences in impairments seen in adulthood compared to childhood.

For diagnosis in an adult, having symptoms since childhood is required. Nevertheless, a proportion of adults who meet the criteria for ADHD in adulthood would not have been diagnosed with ADHD as children. Most cases of late-onset ADHD develop the disorder between the ages of 12–16 and may therefore be considered early adult or adolescent-onset ADHD.

Differential diagnosis

Symptoms related to other disorders
Depressive disorder Anxiety disorder Bipolar disorder

in manic state

in depressive state

  • same symptoms as in depression section

The DSM provides differential diagnoses – potential alternate explanations for specific symptoms. Assessment and investigation of clinical history determines which is the most appropriate diagnosis. The DSM-5 suggests oppositional defiant disorder, intermittent explosive disorder, and other disorders such as stereotypic movement disorder and Tourette syndrome, in addition to specific learning disorder, intellectual disability, autism, reactive attachment disorder, anxiety disorders, depressive disorders, bipolar disorder, disruptive mood dysregulation disorder, substance use disorder, personality disorders, psychotic disorders, medication-induced symptoms, and neurocognitive disorders. Many but not all of these are also common comorbidities of ADHD. The DSM-5-TR also suggests post-traumatic stress disorder.

Symptoms of ADHD that particularly relate to disinhibition and irritability in addition to low-mood and self-esteem as a result of symptom expression might be confusable with dysthymia and bipolar disorder as well as with borderline personality disorder, however they are comorbid at a significantly increased rate relative to the general population. Some symptoms that are viewed superficially due to anxiety disorders, intellectual disability or the effects of substance abuse such as intoxication and withdrawal can overlap to some extent with ADHD. These disorders can also sometimes occur along with ADHD.

Primary sleep disorders may affect attention and behaviour and the symptoms of ADHD may affect sleep. It is thus recommended that children with ADHD be regularly assessed for sleep problems. Sleepiness in children may result in symptoms ranging from the classic ones of yawning and rubbing the eyes, to disinhibition and inattention. Obstructive sleep apnea can also cause ADHD-like symptoms.

In general, the DSM-5-TR can help distinguish between many conditions associated with ADHD-like symptoms by the context in which the symptoms arise. For example, children with learning disabilities may feel distractable and agitated when asked to engage in tasks that require the impaired skill (e.g., reading, math), but not in other situations. A person with an intellectual disability may develop symptoms that overlap with ADHD when placed in a school environment that is inappropriate for their needs. The type of inattention implicated in ADHD, of poor persistence and sustained attention, differs substantially from selective or oriented inattention seen in cognitive disengagement syndrome (CDS), as well as from rumination, reexperiencing or mind blanking seen in anxiety disorders or PTSD.

In mood disorders, ADHD-like symptoms may be limited to manic or depressive states of an episodic nature. Symptoms overlapping with ADHD in psychotic disorders may be limited to psychotic states. Substance use disorder, some medications, and certain medical conditions may cause symptoms to appear later in life, while ADHD, as a neurodevelopmental disorder, requires for them to have been present since childhood.

Furthermore, a careful understanding of the nature of the symptoms may help establish the difference between ADHD and other disorders. For example, the forgetfulness and impulsivity typical of ADHD (e.g., in completing school assignments or following directions) may be distinguished from opposition when there is no hostility or defiance, although ADHD and ODD are highly comorbid. Tantrums may differ from the outbursts in intermittent explosive disorder if there is no aggression involved. The fidgetiness observed in ADHD may be differentiated from tics or stereotypies common in Tourette's disorder or autism.

Also, the social difficulties often experienced by individuals with ADHD due to inattention (e.g., being unfocused during the interaction and therefore missing cues or being unaware of one's behavior) or impulsivity (blurting things out, asking intrusive questions, interrupting) may be contrasted with the social detachment and deficits in understanding social cues associated with autism. Individuals with ADHD may also present signs of the social impairment or emotional and cognitive dysregulation seen in personality disorders, but not necessarily such features as a fear of abandonment, an unstable sense of self, narcissistic tendencies, aggressiveness, or other personality features.

While it is possible and common for many of these different conditions to be comorbid with ADHD, the symptoms must not be better explained by them, as per diagnostic criterion E in the DSM-5. The symptoms must arise early in life, appear across multiple environments, and cause significant impairment. Moreover, when some of these conditions are in fact comorbid with ADHD, it is still important to distinguish them, as each may need to be treated separately.

Management

Main article: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder management

The management of ADHD typically involves counseling or medications, either alone or in combination. While there are various options of treatment to improve ADHD symptoms, medication therapies substantially improve long-term outcomes, and while eliminating some elevated risks such as obesity, they do come with some risks of adverse events. Medications used include stimulants, atomoxetine, alpha-2 adrenergic receptor agonists, and sometimes antidepressants. In those who have trouble focusing on long-term rewards, a large amount of positive reinforcement improves task performance. Medications are the most effective treatment, and any side effects are typically mild and easy to resolve although any improvements will be reverted if medication is ceased. ADHD stimulants also improve persistence and task performance in children with ADHD. To quote one systematic review, "recent evidence from observational and registry studies indicates that pharmacological treatment of ADHD is associated with increased achievement and decreased absenteeism at school, a reduced risk of trauma-related emergency hospital visits, reduced risks of suicide and attempted suicide, and decreased rates of substance abuse and criminality". Data also suggest that combining medication with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can have positive effects: although CBT is substantially less effective, it can help address problems that reside after medication has been optimised. The nature and range of desirable endpoints of ADHD treatment vary among diagnostic standards for ADHD. In most studies, the efficacy of treatment is determined by reductions in symptoms. However, some studies have included subjective ratings from teachers and parents as part of their assessment of treatment efficacies.

Behavioural therapies

There is good evidence for the use of behavioural therapies in ADHD. They are the recommended first-line treatment in those who have mild symptoms or who are preschool-aged. Psychological therapies used include: psychoeducational input, behavior therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, interpersonal psychotherapy, family therapy, school-based interventions, social skills training, behavioural peer intervention, organization training, and parent management training. Neurofeedback has greater treatment effects than non-active controls for up to 6 months and possibly a year following treatment, and may have treatment effects comparable to active controls (controls proven to have a clinical effect) over that time period. Despite efficacy in research, there is insufficient regulation of neurofeedback practice, leading to ineffective applications and false claims regarding innovations. Parent training may improve a number of behavioural problems including oppositional and non-compliant behaviours.

There is little high-quality research on the effectiveness of family therapy for ADHD—but the existing evidence shows that it is similar to community care, and better than placebo. ADHD-specific support groups can provide information and may help families cope with ADHD.

Social skills training, behavioural modification, and medication may have some limited beneficial effects in peer relationships. Stable, high-quality friendships with non-deviant peers protect against later psychological problems.

Digital interventions

Several clinical trials have investigated the efficacy of digital therapeutics, particularly Akili Interactive Labs's video game-based digital therapeutic AKL-T01, marketed as EndeavourRx. The pediatric STARS-ADHD randomized, double-blind, parallel-group, controlled trial demonstrated that AKL-T01 significantly improved performance on the Test of Variables of Attention, an objective measure of attention and inhibitory control, compared to a control group after four weeks of at-home use. A subsequent pediatric open-label study, STARS-Adjunct, published in Nature Portfolio's npj Digital Medicine evaluated AKL-T01 as an adjunctive treatment for children with ADHD who were either on stimulant medication or not on stimulant pharmacotherapy. Results showed improvements in ADHD-related impairment (measured by the Impairment Rating Scale) and ADHD symptoms after 4 weeks of treatment, with effects persisting during a 4-week pause and further improving with an additional treatment period. Notably, the magnitude of the measured improvement was similar for children both on and off stimulants. In 2020, AKL-T01 received marketing authorization for pediatric ADHD from the FDA, becoming "the first game-based therapeutic granted marketing authorization by the FDA for any type of condition."

In addition to pediatric populations, a 2023 study in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry investigated the efficacy and safety of AKL-T01 in adults with ADHD. After six weeks of at-home treatment with AKL-T01, participants showed significant improvements in objective measures of attention (TOVA - Attention Comparison Score), reported ADHD symptoms (ADHD-RS-IV inattention subscale and total score), and reported quality of life (AAQoL). The magnitude of improvement in attention was nearly seven times greater than that reported in pediatric trials. The treatment was well-tolerated, with high compliance and no serious adverse events.

Medication

The medications for ADHD appear to alleviate symptoms via their effects on the pre-frontal executive, striatal and related regions and networks in the brain; usually by increasing neurotransmission of norepinephrine and dopamine.

Stimulants

Methylphenidate and amphetamine or its derivatives are often first-line treatments for ADHD. About 70 per cent respond to the first stimulant tried and as few as 10 per cent respond to neither amphetamines nor methylphenidate. Stimulants may also reduce the risk of unintentional injuries in children with ADHD. Magnetic resonance imaging studies suggest that long-term treatment with amphetamine or methylphenidate decreases abnormalities in brain structure and function found in subjects with ADHD. A 2018 review found the greatest short-term benefit with methylphenidate in children, and amphetamines in adults. Studies and meta-analyses show that amphetamine is slightly-to-modestly more effective than methylphenidate at reducing symptoms, and they are more effective pharmacotherapy for ADHD than α2-agonists but methylphenidate has comparable efficacy to non-stimulants such as atomoxetine. In a Cochrane clinical synopsis, Dr Storebø and colleagues summarised their meta-review on methylphenidate for ADHD in children and adolescents. The meta-analysis raised substantial doubts about the drug's efficacy relative to a placebo. This led to a strong critical reaction from the European ADHD Guidelines Group and individuals in the scientific community, who identified a number of flaws in the review. Since at least September 2021, there is a unanimous and global scientific consensus that methylphenidate is safe and highly effective for treating ADHD. The same journal released a subsequent systematic review (2022) of extended-release methylphenidate for adults, concluding similar doubts about the certainty of evidence. Other recent systematic reviews and meta-analyses, however, find certainty in the safety and high efficacy of methylphenidate for reducing ADHD symptoms, for alleviating the underlying executive functioning deficits, and for substantially reducing the adverse consequences of untreated ADHD with continuous treatment. Clinical guidelines internationally are also consistent in approving the safety and efficacy of methylphenidate and recommending it as a first-line treatment for the disorder.

Safety and efficacy data have been reviewed extensively by medical regulators (e.g., the US Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency), the developers of evidence-based international guidelines (e.g., the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and the American Academy of Pediatrics), and government agencies who have endorsed these guidelines (e.g., the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council). These professional groups unanimously conclude, based on the scientific evidence, that methylphenidate is safe and effective and should be considered as a first-line treatment for ADHD. The likelihood of developing insomnia for ADHD patients taking stimulants has been measured at between 11 and 45 per cent for different medications, and may be a main reason for discontinuation. Other side effects, such as tics, decreased appetite and weight loss, or emotional lability, may also lead to discontinuation. Stimulant psychosis and mania are rare at therapeutic doses, appearing to occur in approximately 0.1% of individuals, within the first several weeks after starting amphetamine therapy. The safety of these medications in pregnancy is unclear. Symptom improvement is not sustained if medication is ceased.

The long-term effects of ADHD medication have yet to be fully determined, although stimulants are generally beneficial and safe for up to two years for children and adolescents. A 2022 meta-analysis found no statistically significant association between ADHD medications and the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) across age groups, although the study suggests further investigation is warranted for patients with preexisting CVD as well as long-term medication use. Regular monitoring has been recommended in those on long-term treatment. There are indications suggesting that stimulant therapy for children and adolescents should be stopped periodically to assess continuing need for medication, decrease possible growth delay, and reduce tolerance. Although potentially addictive at high doses, stimulants used to treat ADHD have low potential for abuse. Treatment with stimulants is either protective against substance abuse or has no effect.

The majority of studies on nicotine and other nicotinic agonists as treatments for ADHD have shown favorable results; however, no nicotinic drug has been approved for ADHD treatment. Caffeine was formerly used as a second-line treatment for ADHD but research indicates it has no significant effects in reducing ADHD symptoms. Caffeine appears to help with alertness, arousal and reaction time but not the type of inattention implicated in ADHD (sustained attention/persistence). Pseudoephedrine and ephedrine do not affect ADHD symptoms.

Modafinil has shown some efficacy in reducing the severity of ADHD in children and adolescents. It may be prescribed off-label to treat ADHD.

Non-stimulants

Two non-stimulant medications, atomoxetine and viloxazine, are approved by the FDA and in other countries for the treatment of ADHD.

Atomoxetine, due to its lack of addiction liability, may be preferred in those who are at risk of recreational or compulsive stimulant use, although evidence is lacking to support its use over stimulants for this reason. Atomoxetine alleviates ADHD symptoms through norepinephrine reuptake and by indirectly increasing dopamine in the pre-frontal cortex, sharing 70-80% of the brain regions with stimulants in their produced effects. Atomoxetine has been shown to significantly improve academic performance. Meta-analyses and systematic reviews have found that atomoxetine has comparable efficacy, equal tolerability and response rate (75%) to methylphenidate in children and adolescents. In adults, efficacy and discontinuation rates are equivalent.

Analyses of clinical trial data suggests that viloxazine is about as effective as atomoxetine and methylphenidate but with fewer side effects.

Amantadine was shown to induce similar improvements in children treated with methylphenidate, with less frequent side effects. A 2021 retrospective study showed that amantadine may serve as an effective adjunct to stimulants for ADHD–related symptoms and appears to be a safer alternative to second- or third-generation antipsychotics.

Bupropion is also used off-label by some clinicians due to research findings. It is effective, but modestly less than atomoxetine and methylphenidate.

There is little evidence on the effects of medication on social behaviours. Antipsychotics may also be used to treat aggression in ADHD.

Alpha-2a agonists

Two alpha-2a agonists, extended-release formulations of guanfacine and clonidine, are approved by the FDA and in other countries for the treatment of ADHD (effective in children and adolescents but effectiveness has still not been shown for adults). They appear to be modestly less effective than the stimulants (amphetamine and methylphenidate) and non-stimulants (atomoxetine and viloxazine) at reducing symptoms, but can be useful alternatives or used in conjunction with a stimulant. These medications act by adjusting the alpha-2a ports on the outside of noradrenergic nerve cells in the pre-frontal executive networks, so the information (electrical signal) is less confounded by noise.

Guidelines

Guidelines on when to use medications vary by country. The United Kingdom's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence recommends use for children only in severe cases, though for adults medication is a first-line treatment. Conversely, most United States guidelines recommend medications in most age groups. Medications are especially not recommended for preschool children. Underdosing of stimulants can occur, and can result in a lack of response or later loss of effectiveness. This is particularly common in adolescents and adults as approved dosing is based on school-aged children, causing some practitioners to use weight-based or benefit-based off-label dosing instead.

Exercise

Exercise does not reduce the symptoms of ADHD. The conclusion by the International Consensus Statement is based on two meta-analyses: one of 10 studies with 300 children and the other of 15 studies and 668 participants, which showed that exercise yields no statistically significant reductions on ADHD symptoms. A 2024 systematic review and meta analysis commissioned by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) identified seven studies on the effectiveness of physical exercise for treating ADHD symptoms. The type and amount of exercise varied widely across studies from martial arts interventions to treadmill training, to table tennis or aerobic exercise. Effects reported were not replicated, causing the authors to conclude that there is insufficient evidence that exercise intervention is an effective form of treatment for ADHD symptoms.

Diet

Dietary modifications are not recommended as of 2019 by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, or the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality due to insufficient evidence. A 2013 meta-analysis found less than a third of children with ADHD see some improvement in symptoms with free fatty acid supplementation or decreased consumption of artificial food colouring. These benefits may be limited to children with food sensitivities or those who are simultaneously being treated with ADHD medications. This review also found that evidence does not support removing other foods from the diet to treat ADHD. A 2014 review found that an elimination diet results in a small overall benefit in a minority of children, such as those with allergies. A 2016 review stated that the use of a gluten-free diet as standard ADHD treatment is not advised. A 2017 review showed that a few-foods elimination diet may help children too young to be medicated or not responding to medication, while free fatty acid supplementation or decreased eating of artificial food colouring as standard ADHD treatment is not advised. Chronic deficiencies of iron, magnesium and iodine may have a negative impact on ADHD symptoms. There is a small amount of evidence that lower tissue zinc levels may be associated with ADHD. In the absence of a demonstrated zinc deficiency (which is rare outside of developing countries), zinc supplementation is not recommended as treatment for ADHD. However, zinc supplementation may reduce the minimum effective dose of amphetamine when it is used with amphetamine for the treatment of ADHD.

Prognosis

ADHD persists into adulthood in about 30–50% of cases. Those affected are likely to develop coping mechanisms as they mature, thus compensating to some extent for their previous symptoms. Children with ADHD have a higher risk of unintentional injuries. Effects of medication on functional impairment and quality of life (e.g. reduced risk of accidents) have been found across multiple domains. Rates of smoking among those with ADHD are higher than in the general population at about 40%. About 30–50% of people diagnosed in childhood continue to have ADHD in adulthood, with 2.58% of adults estimated to have ADHD which began in childhood. In adults, hyperactivity is usually replaced by inner restlessness, and adults often develop coping skills to compensate for their impairments. The condition can be difficult to tell apart from other conditions, as well as from high levels of activity within the range of normal behaviour. ADHD has a negative impact on patient health-related quality of life that may be further exacerbated by, or may increase the risk of, other psychiatric conditions such as anxiety and depression. Individuals with ADHD may also face misconceptions and stigma.

Individuals with ADHD are significantly overrepresented in prison populations. Although there is no generally accepted estimate of ADHD prevalence among inmates, a 2015 meta-analysis estimated a prevalence of 25.5%, and a larger 2018 meta-analysis estimated the frequency to be 26.2%.

Epidemiology

Main article: Epidemiology of attention deficit hyperactive disorder
Percentage of people 4–17 ever diagnosed in the US as of 2011

ADHD is estimated to affect about 6–7% of people aged 18 and under when diagnosed via the DSM-IV criteria. When diagnosed via the ICD-10 criteria, rates in this age group are estimated around 1–2%. Rates are similar between countries and differences in rates depend mostly on how it is diagnosed. Children in North America appear to have a higher rate of ADHD than children in Africa and the Middle East; this is believed to be due to differing methods of diagnosis rather than a difference in underlying frequency. (The same publication which describes this difference also notes that the difference may be rooted in the available studies from these respective regions, as far more studies were from North America than from Africa and the Middle East.) As of 2019, it was estimated to affect 84.7 million people globally.

ADHD is diagnosed approximately twice as often in boys as in girls, and 1.6 times more often in men than in women, although the disorder is overlooked in girls or diagnosed in later life because their symptoms sometimes differ from diagnostic criteria. In 2014, Keith Conners, one of the early advocates for recognition of the disorder, spoke out against overdiagnosis in a New York Times article. In contrast, a 2014 peer-reviewed medical literature review indicated that ADHD is underdiagnosed in adults.

Studies from multiple countries have reported that children born closer to the start of the school year are more frequently diagnosed with and medicated for ADHD than their older classmates. Boys who were born in December where the school age cut-off was 31 December were shown to be 30% more likely to be diagnosed and 41% more likely to be treated than those born in January. Girls born in December had a diagnosis and treatment percentage increase of 70% and 77% respectively compared to those born in January. Children who were born at the last three days of a calendar year were reported to have significantly higher levels of diagnosis and treatment for ADHD than children born at the first three days of a calendar year. The studies suggest that ADHD diagnosis is prone to subjective analysis.

Rates of diagnosis and treatment have increased in both the United Kingdom and the United States since the 1970s. Prior to 1970, it was rare for children to be diagnosed with ADHD, while in the 1970s rates were about 1%. This is believed to be primarily due to changes in how the condition is diagnosed and how readily people are willing to treat it with medications rather than a true change in incidence. With widely differing rates of diagnosis across countries, states within countries, races, and ethnicities, some suspect factors other than symptoms of ADHD are playing a role in diagnosis, such as cultural norms.

Despite showing a higher frequency of symptoms associated with ADHD, non-White children in the US are less likely than White children to be diagnosed or treated for ADHD, a finding that is often explained by bias among health professionals, as well as parents who may be reluctant to acknowledge that their child has ADHD. Crosscultural differences in diagnosis of ADHD can also be attributed to the long-lasting effects of harmful, racially targeted medical practices. Medical pseudosciences, particularly those that targeted Black populations during the period of slavery in the US, lead to a distrust of medical practices within certain communities. The combination of ADHD symptoms often being regarded as misbehaviour rather than as a psychiatric condition, and the use of drugs to regulate ADHD, result in a hesitancy to trust a diagnosis of ADHD. Cases of misdiagnosis in ADHD can also occur due to stereotyping of people of color. Due to ADHD's subjectively determined symptoms, medical professionals may diagnose individuals based on stereotyped behaviour or misdiagnose due to cultural differences in symptom presentation.

A 2024 study in CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report reports around 15.5 million U.S. adults have attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, with many facing challenges in accessing treatment. One-third of diagnosed individuals had received a prescription for a stimulant drug in the past year but nearly three-quarters of them reported difficulties filling the prescription due to medication shortages.

History

Timeline of ADHD diagnostic criteria, prevalence, and treatment
Main article: History of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

ADHD was officially known as attention deficit disorder (ADD) from 1980 to 1987; prior to the 1980s, it was known as hyperkinetic reaction of childhood. Symptoms similar to those of ADHD have been described in medical literature dating back to the 18th century. Sir Alexander Crichton describes "mental restlessness" in his book An inquiry into the nature and origin of mental derangement written in 1798. He made observations about children showing signs of being inattentive and having the "fidgets". The first clear description of ADHD is credited to George Still in 1902 during a series of lectures he gave to the Royal College of Physicians of London.

The terminology used to describe the condition has changed over time and has included: minimal brain dysfunction in the DSM-I (1952), hyperkinetic reaction of childhood in the DSM-II (1968), and attention-deficit disorder with or without hyperactivity in the DSM-III (1980). In 1987, this was changed to ADHD in the DSM-III-R, and in 1994 the DSM-IV in split the diagnosis into three subtypes: ADHD inattentive type, ADHD hyperactive-impulsive type, and ADHD combined type. These terms were kept in the DSM-5 in 2013 and in the DSM-5-TR in 2022. Prior to the DSM, terms included minimal brain damage in the 1930s.

ADHD, its diagnosis, and its treatment have been controversial since the 1970s. For example, positions differ on whether ADHD is within the normal range of behaviour, and to degree to which ADHD is a genetic condition. Other areas of controversy include the use of stimulant medications in children, the method of diagnosis, and the possibility of overdiagnosis. In 2009, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence states that the current treatments and methods of diagnosis are based on the dominant view of the academic literature.

Once neuroimaging studies were possible, studies in the 1990s provided support for the pre-existing theory that neurological differences (particularly in the frontal lobes) were involved in ADHD. A genetic component was identified and ADHD was acknowledged to be a persistent, long-term disorder which lasted from childhood into adulthood. ADHD was split into the current three sub-types because of a field trial completed by Lahey and colleagues and published in 1994. In 2021, global teams of scientists curated the International Consensus Statement compiling evidence-based findings about the disorder.

In 1934, Benzedrine became the first amphetamine medication approved for use in the United States. Methylphenidate was introduced in the 1950s, and enantiopure dextroamphetamine in the 1970s. The use of stimulants to treat ADHD was first described in 1937. Charles Bradley gave the children with behavioural disorders Benzedrine and found it improved academic performance and behaviour.

Research directions

Possible positive traits

Possible positive traits of ADHD are a new avenue of research, and therefore limited.

A 2020 review found that creativity may be associated with ADHD symptoms, particularly divergent thinking and quantity of creative achievements, but not with the disorder of ADHD itself – i.e. it has not been found to be increased in people diagnosed with the disorder, only in people with subclinical symptoms or those that possess traits associated with the disorder. Divergent thinking is the ability to produce creative solutions which differ significantly from each other and consider the issue from multiple perspectives. Those with ADHD symptoms could be advantaged in this form of creativity as they tend to have diffuse attention, allowing rapid switching between aspects of the task under consideration; flexible associative memory, allowing them to remember and use more distantly-related ideas which is associated with creativity; and impulsivity, allowing them to consider ideas which others may not have.

Possible biomarkers for diagnosis

Reviews of ADHD biomarkers have noted that platelet monoamine oxidase expression, urinary norepinephrine, urinary MHPG, and urinary phenethylamine levels consistently differ between ADHD individuals and non-ADHD controls. These measurements could serve as diagnostic biomarkers for ADHD, but more research is needed to establish their diagnostic utility. Urinary and blood plasma phenethylamine concentrations are lower in ADHD individuals relative to controls. The two most commonly prescribed drugs for ADHD, amphetamine and methylphenidate, increase phenethylamine biosynthesis in treatment-responsive individuals with ADHD. Lower urinary phenethylamine concentrations are associated with symptoms of inattentiveness in ADHD individuals.

See also

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