1996/01/01 by Mina Rydell, Sebastian Lundström, Christopher Gillberg +8 · 1 voice · 1 citation
Medicine · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder #Bipolar Disorder and Treatment #Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development #Social Sciences and Policies
paper · doi:10.1111/jcpp.12882
openalex publication_date 1996/01/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
We found no evidence of an increase in ADHD-like traits at the extreme end of the distribution from 2004 to 2014, but small increases in normal and subthreshold variations of ADHD-like traits were observed. This suggests that the increased rates of clinically diagnosed ADHD might reflect changes in diagnostic and treatment practices of ADHD, administrative changes in reporting diagnoses, greater awareness of ADHD, better access to healthcare, or current overdiagnosis, rather than an increase in the ADHD phenotype.