High rate of affective disorders in probands with attention deficit disorder and in their relatives: a controlled family study
- 1 March 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 144 (3) , 330-333
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.144.3.330
Abstract
In a controlled family study of attention deficit disorder, data were collected on first-degree relatives of 22 children with attention deficit disorder and 20 normal children. The rate of major affective disorder was significantly higher in the attention deficit disorder probands (32%) and their relatives (27%) than in the normal control subjects (0%) and their relatives (6%). The findings indicate that attention deficit disorder is associated with higher risk for affective disorder and suggest that probands who have both disorders may represent a distinct subgroup.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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