The risks
for hyperkinetic disorder / ADHD in children were elevated 50 percent or more when the mothers had used the common painkiller for more than 20 weeks in pregnancy.
Not exact matches
In the 1950s and»60s the terms
for it were minimal brain damage, Strauss Syndrome,
hyperkinetic impulse
disorder, minimal brain dysfunction, and
hyperkinetic reaction of childhood.
Some children with primary
hyperkinetic disorders will also be abused or subject to poor parenting, itself a risk factor
for delinquency and
for poor outcomes in ADHD (figure 2).
Participants were prospectively recruited from child and adolescent psychiatry and child health clinics in the United Kingdom and included 240 clinic children who met diagnostic criteria
for attention - deficit / hyperactivity
disorder or
hyperkinetic disorder.