PSYC 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Major Depressive Disorder, Prefrontal Cortex, Bipolar Disorder
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Neurodevelopmental disorders: a category of disorders that has changed between the dsm 4 and 5. in the dsm 5 there is something called the autism spectrum disorder that encompasses some of the disorders that were separate before. The disorders are clumped together to reflect the fact that it is difficult to identify all of them separately. Another change is that what was called adhd includes adult adhd: add and adhd. It is characterized by restlessness, inattentiveness, and impulsivity. In the past 10 years, about 30-80% of children with adhd showed symptoms related to. Adhd does not just disappear in someone"s life, it continues into adulthood: concordance rates are relatively high for identical twins at 55% and lower for fraternal twins at 32%. There is something with genetics that contributes to adhd: we used to think that adhd was predominant among males, but it may be that it manifests itself differently in females, autism spectrum disorders.
