Adopted youth more likely to have mental disorders.They're twice as likely as nonadopted peers to have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), formerly called hyperkinesis or minimal brain dysfunction, a chronic, neurologically based syndrome characterized by any or all of three types of behavior: hyperactivity, distractibility, and impulsivity. or oppositional defiant disorder Oppositional Defiant Disorder Definition Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) is defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders , according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a study of adolescents adopted as babies. Adolescents who were adopted as infants are significantly more likely to have a psychiatric disorder than those who were not adopted, according to a study released in early May. The researchers, emphasizing that most of the adoptees in the study were psychologically healthy and faring well, said that, as a group, those adolescents faced a greater risk for two psychiatric conditions: attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder Attention deficit disorder Psychiatry An inability to control behavior due to difficulty in processing neural stimuli, resulting in ↑ motor activity, ↓ attention span Epidemiology ADHD is the most common and oppositional defiant disorder. About 7 in 100 adolescents who were not adopted met the criteria for attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, about half the rate for adopted adolescents. The study compared a random sample of 540 adolescents who were not adopted, all born in Minnesota, with a representative sample of adoptees placed by the three largest adoption agencies in Minnesota. Of the latter group, 514 were foreign adoptions and 178 were domestic. By Margaret Keyes, lead author, University of Minnesota (body, education) University of Minnesota - The home of Gopher. http://umn.edu/. Address: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. |
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