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Health impacts of endocrine disruptors The growing scientific literature suggests that endocrine disruptors could play a part in conditions including attention deficit disorder and impulse control disorders, Bloom added.
—Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 29 Oct. 2024
For example, the ability to suppress or filter out stimuli—a function that individuals with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or attention deficit disorder struggle with—develops in the brain as early as 16 weeks of gestation, per Wisner.
—Daliah Singer, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024
Aberrant connectivity patterns accompany depression, schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit disorder, dementia and epilepsy.
—Max Bertolero, Scientific American, 1 July 2019
For example, kids can become depressed, anxious, or show signs of behavior disorders or attention deficit disorders at this time.
—Katherine Lee, Parents, 30 July 2024
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1978, in the meaning defined above
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“Attention deficit disorder.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/attention%20deficit%20disorder. Accessed 27 Nov. 2024.
Kids Definition
attention deficit disorder
noun
: a condition that is characterized by an inability to maintain attention or by excessively active and impulsive behavior or by a combination of both and that interferes with one's ability to function in school, home, work, or with others
Medical Definition
attention deficit disorder
noun
: attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
In the early 1980s, the third DSM added a condition it called "attention deficit disorder", listing two types: attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity … and attention deficit disorder as the subtype without the hyperactivity. However, seven years later, a revised DSM (DSM-III-R) replaced ADD (and its two sub-types) with ADHD …—Kathy Gibbs, Griffith University
—abbreviation ADD
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