Females with ADHD are likely underdiagnosed for a variety of reasons, including some differences in symptoms and an unequal focus on males in research. ADHD was originally called hyperkinetic reaction of childhood.
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.
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But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience. Necessary Necessary. But it seldom is in so great a degree as totally to impede all instruction; and what is very fortunate, it is generally diminished with age.
Crichton, , reprint p. The American Psychiatric Association furthermore determines that for the diagnosis of ADHD, the symptoms have to be present before the age of seven. According to Crichton, the incapacity of attending, if not innate, can also be caused by nervous disorders.
This notion was later rediscovered in the concepts of minimal brain damage or dysfunction. In this disease of attention, if it can with propriety be called so, every impression seems to agitate the person, and gives him or her an unnatural degree of mental restlessness.
People walking up and down the room, a slight noise in the same, the moving a table, the shutting a door suddenly, a slight excess of heat or of cold, too much light, or too little light, all destroy constant attention in such patients, inasmuch as it is easily excited by every impression. The barking of dogs, an ill-tuned organ, or the scolding of women, are sufficient to distract patients of this description to such a degree, as almost approaches to the nature of delirium.
It gives them vertigo, and headache, and often excites such a degree of anger as borders on insanity. When people are affected in this manner, which they very frequently are, they have a particular name for the state of their nerves, which is expressive enough of their feelings. They say they have the fidgets. However, his descriptions do not entirely reflect the current concept of ADHD.
He does not mention any symptoms of hyperactivity Palmer and Finger It is possible that Crichton observed hyperactive or impulsive symptoms in his patients Palmer and Finger , but failed to recognize a correlation and decided not to specify them in this context. His brief description is consistent with some of the symptoms of this ADHD subtype, but does not fully meet the criteria for a clinical diagnosis.
He studied medicine in Heidelberg, Halle, and Paris Herzog et al. Hoffmann rejected the common opinion of his time that psychiatric patients were obsessed or criminal, but rather regarded mental disorders as medical issues Thome and Jacobs In , he founded a new and very advanced hospital in Frankfurt. He was head of this institution until his retirement in Herzog et al. As Hoffmann detailed in his autobiography, he had several times previously pulled a piece of paper out of his notebook and had made little drawings to calm and amuse crying children, thus making possible an undisturbed medical examination Hoffmann , cited by Seidler ; Thome and Jacobs The second edition followed a year later and Hoffmann added some stories, which included among others the story of Fidgety Phil Hobrecker The th edition was released in and the number of editions can no longer be counted these days Herzog et al.
In the story of Fidgety Phil, Hoffmann illustrates a family conflict at dinner caused by the fidgety behavior of the son and culminating in his falling over together with the food on the table. This can be interpreted as an early case of ADHD. The initial statement suggests that the father had anticipated some misbehavior of his son at table, indicating that this was no singular or occasional event.
It is a first hint at the presence of an underlying persistent disorder. Subsequently, Hoffmann describes symptoms of inattention and hyperactivity in Philipp.
This behavior represents explicit symptoms of inattention. Philip screams with all his might, catches at the cloth, but then that makes matters worse again. In this story, Hoffmann depicts a boy showing significant symptoms of inattention. He finally fell into a river. Petit mal absences show a wide variety of mild to moderate motor accompaniment, and retropulsion of the head is quite common retropulsive petit mal, Janz Seidler sees in the slightly different gestures of the protagonists a completely different situation, namely an open conflict between a father and his naughty, misbehaving son.
It is therefore possible that he wanted children to learn from his stories. Since at his time the symptoms of inattention and hyperactivity were not established as a psychiatric disorder, Hoffmann may have presented observations of conspicuous behavior without considering describing a disorder.
Still was a British pediatrician who was born in Highbury, London, in He became involved in research into childhood diseases and wrote several medical textbooks about his findings Farrow In , he was president of the first international pediatric congress Hamilton They comprise the cases considered as historical descriptions of ADHD, i. Interestingly, Still observed 15 cases of boys and five cases of girls. Most children for whom the first manifestation of the defect was determined showed symptoms before the age of 7 7 out of 9 cases , which currently is a diagnostic criterion of DSM-IV-TR.
The symptoms listed are:. The keynote of these qualities is self-gratification, the immediate gratification of self without regard either to the good of others or to the larger and more remote good of self. Still, , p. Although most of these symptoms are not directly associated with the current concept of ADHD, the keynote identified by Still fits an important finding of modern ADHD research. These descriptions are similar to the current concept of impulsivity.
Although not explicitly mentioned in DSM-IV-TR, impulsivity as a main symptom of ADHD is often associated with a lack of emotional impulse control, a low frustration tolerance and some abrupt outbursts of rage Barkley b. Still describes some cases with signs of impulsivity,. Difficulties at school are frequently observed in children with ADHD. Some of the cases cited by Still showed remarkable symptoms of inattention, for example,. Another boy, aged six years, with marked moral defect was unable to keep his attention even to a game for more than a very short time, and, as might be expected, the failure of attention was very noticeable at school, with the result that in some cases the child was backward in school attainments, although in manner and ordinary conversation he appeared as bright and intelligent as any child could be Still, , p.
He furthermore described children who pathologically stole or lied with extraordinary insensitivity to any punishment, children who were aggressive and attacked strange children or threatened to hurt their mothers Still , p.
Still did not predominantly refer to inattentive-impulsive children, but rather described several types of deviant behavior observed in children. Among these cases, there were probably also some cases of ADHD such as the ones depicted above.
Hyperactivity as a main symptom of ADHD is hinted at in one case, i. This was confirmed by the encephalitis lethargica epidemic, which spread around the world from to and affected approximately 20 million people Conners ; Rafalovich The residual effects appeared as fatal as the encephalitis itself. The disease was thought to irreversibly damage the patients physically or mentally Rafalovich Many of the affected children who survived the epidemic encephalitis, subsequently showed remarkably abnormal behavior.
Many descriptions of children with this disorder include some characteristic symptoms of ADHD, and some behaviors of postencephalitic cases might also be attributed to ADHD.
Most of the afflicted children, however, would not have met the current ADHD criteria. The era of the postencephalitic child pursued the course of Still and explained unconventional behavior of children physiologically and medicalized deviant child behavior.
The most characteristic symptom of affected children was a marked motor restlessness Kramer and Pollnow , p. In their cases, the authors observed no bodily symptoms, sleep disturbances, or nocturnal agitation, which were specific to the postencephalitic behavior disorder Kramer and Pollnow , p. In contrast to the postencephalitic motor drive, the restlessness observed in the cases of Kramer and Pollnow could be observed only by day Kramer and Pollnow , p. According to Kramer and Pollnow, the most obvious symptom of children with hyperkinetic disease is a remarkable motor activity, which appears to be very urgent Kramer and Pollnow , p.
These children cannot stay still for a second, run up and down the room Kramer and Pollnow , p. This description is very similar to the current characterization of hyperactivity, one of the main symptoms of ADHD.
Kramer and Pollnow furthermore consider the observed motor activity as being characterized by a conspicuous lack of purposefulness Kramer and Pollnow , p. Children with hyperkinetic disease indiscriminately touch or move everything available without pursuing a goal Kramer and Pollnow , p.
They often do not use objects according to their function, but regard them as stimuli inducing activity Kramer and Pollnow , p. These children switch the light on and off, move chairs around the room, climb the table, the cupboard or the windowsill, jump around in their beds, turn keys in the keyhole, rip paper, go round in circles, throw objects out of the window, or beat their toys rhythmically on the floor without any purpose Kramer and Pollnow , p.
This aimlessness of action exemplified by quickly changing activities is possibly due to a distinct distractibility by new and intensive stimuli, which is another symptom mentioned by Kramer and Pollnow. The children described by Kramer and Pollnow often cannot complete a set task or do not answer to questions Kramer and Pollnow , p. They are unable to concentrate on difficult tasks Kramer and Pollnow , p. These descriptions comply with the second main symptom of ADHD, i. This symptom is also described by Kramer and Pollnow as a further characteristic of the hyperkinetic child.
According to these authors, hyperkinetic children show no perseverance in their activities, e. However, Kramer and Pollnow also noticed that the children were able to persevere at some activities of their interest for hours Kramer and Pollnow , p. Both a lack of perseverance and the ability to concentrate on certain tasks can be observed in children with ADHD. Kramer and Pollnow describe furthermore that the children are unstable in their mood Kramer and Pollnow , p.
They observed an increased excitability, frequent fits of rage, and a tendency to become aggressive or to burst into tears for marginal reasons Kramer and Pollnow , p. For example, you may have workaholic tendencies, talk a lot, fidget constantly, or drive very fast.
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