Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Pathogenesis and pathophysiology of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: from childhood to adulthood

  • Editorial
  • Published:
Journal of Neural Transmission Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Albayrak Ö, Friedel S, Schimmelmann BG, Hinney A, Hebebrand J (2008) Genetic aspects in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. J Neural Transm, this issue, pp 305–315

  • Albrecht B, Rothenberger A, Sergeant J, Tannock R, Uebel H, Banaschewski T (2008) Interference control in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: differential stroop effects for colour-naming and counting. J Neural Transm, this issue, pp 241–247

  • American Psychiatric Association (1992) Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, 4th edn. Text revision. American Psychiatric Association, Washington, DC

  • T Banaschewski D Brandeis (2007) ArticleTitleAnnotation: what electrical brain activity tells us about brain function that other techniques cannot tell us – a child psychiatric perspective J Child Psychol Psychiatry 48 415–435 Occurrence Handle17501723 Occurrence Handle10.1111/j.1469-7610.2006.01681.x

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • T Banaschewski BM Neale A Rothenberger V Roessner (2007) ArticleTitleComorbidity of tic disorders and ADHD – conceptual and methodological considerations Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 16 IssueIDSuppl 1 5–14 Occurrence Handle17665278 Occurrence Handle10.1007/s00787-007-1002-8

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • RA Barkley M Fischer L Smallish K Fletcher (2003) ArticleTitleDoes the treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder with stimulants contribute to drug use/abuse? A 13-year prospective study Pediatrics 111 97–109 Occurrence Handle12509561 Occurrence Handle10.1542/peds.111.1.97

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • J Biederman (2003) ArticleTitlePharmacotherapy for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) decreases the risk for substance abuse: findings from a longitudinal follow-up of youths with and without ADHD J Clin Psychiatry 64 3–8 Occurrence Handle14529323 Occurrence Handle1:CAS:528:DC%2BD3sXotl2ru70%3D

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • J Biederman SV Faraone (2005) ArticleTitleAttention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder Lancet 366 237–248 Occurrence Handle16023516 Occurrence Handle10.1016/S0140-6736(05)66915-2

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • JK Buitelaar (2005) ArticleTitleADHD: strategies to unravel its genetic architecture J Neural Transm (Suppl) 69 1–17

    Google Scholar 

  • J Buitelaar A Rothenberger (2004) ArticleTitleForeword – ADHD in the political and scientific context Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 13 1–6

    Google Scholar 

  • RA El-Zein SZ Abdel-Rahman MJ Hay MS Lopez ML Bondy DL Morris MS Legator (2005) ArticleTitleCytogenetic effects in children treated with methylphenidate Cancer Lett 230 284–291 Occurrence Handle16297714 Occurrence Handle10.1016/j.canlet.2005.01.003 Occurrence Handle1:CAS:528:DC%2BD2MXht1aqu77K

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • SV Faraone (2005) ArticleTitleThe scientific foundation for understanding attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder as a valid psychiatric disorder Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 14 1–10 Occurrence Handle15756510 Occurrence Handle10.1007/s00787-005-0429-z

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • C Gillberg IC Gillberg P Rasmussin B Kadesjö H Söderström M Rastam M Johnson A Rothenberger L Niklasson (2004) ArticleTitleCo-existing disorders in ADHD – implications for diagnosis and intervention Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 13 80–92 Occurrence Handle10.1007/s00787-004-1008-4

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • J Hebebrand A Dempfle K Saar H Thiele B Herpertz-Dahlmann M Linder H Kiefl H Remschmidt U Hemminger A Warnke U Knolker P Heiser S Friedel A Hinney H Schäfer P Nurnberg K Konrad (2006) ArticleTitleA genome-wide scan for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in 155 German sib-pairs Mol Psychiatry 11 196–205 Occurrence Handle16222334 Occurrence Handle10.1038/sj.mp.4001761 Occurrence Handle1:CAS:528:DC%2BD28XnsV2mtw%3D%3D

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Huss M, Poustka F, Lehmkuhl G, Lehmkuhl U (2008) Children with ADHD have a reduced long-term risk for nicotine use disorders after treatment with methylphenidate. J Neural Transm, this issue, pp 337–341

  • CP Jacob J Romanos A Dempfle M Heine C Windemuth-Kieselbach A Kruse A Reif S Walitza M Romanos A Strobel B Brocke H Schäfer A Schmidtke J Böning KJ Lesch (2007) ArticleTitleCo-morbidity of adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder with focus on personality traits and related disorders in a tertiary referral center Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 257 309–317 Occurrence Handle17401730 Occurrence Handle10.1007/s00406-007-0722-6

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • K Konrad S Neufang GR Hanisch Fink B Herpertz-Dahlmann (2006) ArticleTitleDysfunctional attentional networks in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: Evidence from an event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging study Biol Psychiatry 59 643–651 Occurrence Handle16197925 Occurrence Handle10.1016/j.biopsych.2005.08.013

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • A Lumen J Oosterlaan JA Sergeant (2005) ArticleTitleThe impact of reinforcement contingencies on AD/HD: a review and theoretical appraisal Clin Psychol Rev 25 183–213 Occurrence Handle10.1016/j.cpr.2004.11.001

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • S Mannuzza RG Klein JL Moulton (2003) ArticleTitleDoes stimulant treatment place children at risk for adult substance abuse? A controlled, prospective follow-up study J Child Adolesc Psychiatry 13 273–282

    Google Scholar 

  • G Polanczyk MS de Lima BL Horta J Biederman LA Rohde (2007) ArticleTitleThe worldwide prevalence of ADHD: a systematic review and metaregression analysis Am J Psychiatry 164 942–948 Occurrence Handle17541055 Occurrence Handle10.1176/appi.ajp.164.6.942

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • V Roessner M Robatzek G Knapp T Banaschewski A Rothenberger (2006) ArticleTitleFirst-onset tics in patients with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: impact of stimulants Dev Med Child Neurol 48 616–621 Occurrence Handle16780635 Occurrence Handle10.1017/S0012162206001290

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Roessner V, Banaschewski T, Fillmer-Otte A, Becker A, Albrecht B, Sergeant J, Tannock R, Rothenberger A (2008) Color perception deficits in co-existing attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and chronic tic disorders. J Neural Transm, this issue, pp 235–239

  • Stopper H, Walitza S, Warnke A, Gerlach M (2008) Brief review of available evidence concerning the potential induction of genomic damage by methylphenidate. J Neural Transm, this issue, pp 333–336

  • E Taylor M Doepfner J Sergeant P Asherson T Banaschewski J Buitelaar D Coghill M Danckaerts A Rothenberger E Sonuga Barke HC Steinhausen A Zuddas (2004) ArticleTitleEuropean clinical guidelines for hyperkinetic disorder – first update Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 13 7–30 Occurrence Handle10.1007/s00787-004-1002-x

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • A Thapar K Langley P Asherson M Gill (2007) ArticleTitleGene-environment interplay in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and the importance of a developmental perspective Br J Psychiatry 190 1–3 Occurrence Handle17197648 Occurrence Handle10.1192/bjp.bp.106.027003

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Tiffin-Richards M, Hasselhorn M, Woerner W, Rothenberger A, Banaschewski T (2008) Phonological short-term memory and central executive processing in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder with/without dyslexia – evidence of cognitive overlap. J Neural Transm, this issue, pp 227–234

  • ME Toplak U Jain R Tannok (2005) ArticleTitleExecutive and motivational processes in adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) Behav Brain Funct 1 8 Occurrence Handle15982413 Occurrence Handle10.1186/1744-9081-1-8

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • ND Volkow GJ Wang J Newcorn JS Fowler F Telang MV Solanto J Logan C Wong YM Ma JM Swanson K Schulz K Pradhan (2007) ArticleTitleBrain dopamine transporter levels in treatment and drug naive adults with ADHD Neuroimage 34 1182–1190 Occurrence Handle17126039 Occurrence Handle10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.10.014

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • S Walitza B Werner M Romanos A Warnke M Gerlach H Stopper (2007) ArticleTitleDoes methylphenidate cause a cytogenetic effect in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder? Environ Health Persp 115 936–940 Occurrence Handle1:CAS:528:DC%2BD2sXnvFalt7w%3D Occurrence Handle10.1289/ehp.9866

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • EG Willcut AE Doyle JT Nigg SV Faraone BF Pennington (2005) ArticleTitleValidity of the executive function theory of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a meta-analytic review Biol Psychiatry 57 1336–1346 Occurrence Handle10.1016/j.biopsych.2005.02.006

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • World Health Organization (1992) The ICD-10 classification of mental and behavioural disorders: clinical descriptions and diagnostic guidelines. World Health Organization, Geneva

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

    M. Gerlach & A. Warnke

  2. Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

    J. Deckert

  3. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

    A. Rothenberger

Authors
  1. M. Gerlach
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. J. Deckert
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. A. Rothenberger
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. A. Warnke
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Gerlach, M., Deckert, J., Rothenberger, A. et al. Pathogenesis and pathophysiology of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: from childhood to adulthood. J Neural Transm 115, 151–153 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00702-007-0870-x

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00702-007-0870-x

Search

Navigation