Association between childhood dimensions of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and adulthood clinical severity of bipolar disorders.

CONCLUSION: Adults with bipolar disorders who reported higher levels of childhood symptoms on the Wender Utah Rating Scale presented a more severe expression of bipolar disorders in terms of age at onset and comorbidity. The Wender Utah Rating Scale could be employed to screen for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder but also for 'at-risk behaviors' in adult bipolar disorder cases and possibly for prodromal signs of early onset in high-risk subjects. PMID: 27066819 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry - April 10, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Etain B, Lajnef M, Loftus J, Henry C, Raust A, Gard S, Kahn JP, Leboyer M, Scott J, Bellivier F Tags: Aust N Z J Psychiatry Source Type: research