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Overrepresentation of adoptees in children with the attention deficit disorder |
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| Authors: | Curtis K. Deutsch James M. Swanson Jan H. Bruell Dennis P. Cantwell Fred Weinberg Martin Baren |
| Affiliation: | (1) Department of Psychology, University of Texas, 78712 Austin, Texas;(2) Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, Medical Center, 92668 Orange, California;(3) Office of Research, Fairview Hospital, 92626 Costa Mesa, California;(4) Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children, M5G 1X8 Toronto, Ontario, Canada;(5) Department of Behavioral Neurology, 200 Trapelo Road, 02254 Waltham, Massachusetts;(6) Department of Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatric Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Center for the Health Sciences, 90024 Los Angeles, California;(7) Educational, Behavioral and Development Pediatrics, 92668 Orange, California |
| Abstract: | In a sample (N-200) from two populations of children diagnosed as having the attention deficit disorder (ADD: DSM-III diagnosis for  hyperactivity ), a 17% rate of nonrelative adoption was found. This figure represents an approximately eight-fold increase over the base rate of nonrelative adoption estimated in a non-ADD control group and in the general population.This work was supported by a grant from the Ontario Mental Health Foundation. |
| Keywords: | attention deficit disorder hyperactivity hyperkinesis minimal brain dysfunction adoption |
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