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I Accept Show Purposes. Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Sign Up. ADHD was first mentioned in Charles Bradley stumbled across some unexpected side effects of this medication the next year. Many years later, doctors and researchers began to recognize the benefit of what Bradley had discovered.
This manual listed all of the recognized mental disorders. It also included known causes, risk factors, and treatments for each condition. Doctors still use an updated version today. A second DSM was published in This edition included hyperkinetic reaction of childhood for the first time. The FDA approved the psychostimulant methylphenidate Ritalin in It became more popular as an ADHD treatment as the disorder became better understood and diagnoses increased. The medication is still used to treat ADHD today.
They changed the name of the disorder from hyperkinetic reaction of childhood to attention deficit disorder ADD. Scientists believed hyperactivity was not a common symptom of the disorder. They removed the hyperactivity distinction and changed the name to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD. The APA included the three symptoms of inattentiveness, impulsivity, and hyperactivity into a single list of symptoms and did not identify subtypes of the disorder.
The fourth edition established the three subtypes of ADHD used by healthcare professionals today:. What if you learned that the very first detailed published description of a condition that we now think of as ADHD was in , when John Adams was president of the United States? Or that references can be found even further back in time—all the way to Ancient Greece! The earliest mention of what seems to be ADHD was by Hippocrates, often called the father of modern medicine.
He lived in Greece from about to BC. He was known to have made at least one reference to some patients who could not keep their focus on any one thing for long and had exceptionally quick reactions to things around them. Medical textbooks in the s did refer to children who had what we think of today as ADHD symptoms. Then in , British pediatrician Sir George Frederic Still delivered three lectures about a group of children who had difficulty paying attention for a long time.
He said they had a hard time self-regulating and could be aggressive or very emotional and defiant. He noted that they did not have any intellectual impairments, in general, and that more boys than girls were affected.
Still also looked into the question of whether the unnamed condition was something passed down in families. The disorder was the result of an epidemic of encephalitis lethargica, a form of a brain inflammation caused by a virus.
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