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Childhood hyperkinesis is still a deem question in Child Psychiatry. We must try to clarify our diagnostic criteria, and have a “syndromic approach”in child psychiatry (3). As Ross and Ross remind us, the World Health Organization has selected the term “Hyperkinetic Syndrome” to describe the symptom constellation we all know we are talking about, and which the American Psychiatric Association in its classification of 1968 called “Hyperkinetic Reaction of Childhood” ( 7), which was changed to “Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity” in its DSM-III of 1980 (1). Therefore the concept of the existence of a “syndrome” is predominant, even though we cannot yet reach more uniform criteria.
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Knobel, M. (1985). Childhood Hyperkinesis: Symptom or Syndrome, Discriminating Through the Use of L-Dopa as a Therapeutic Agent. In: Pichot, P., Berner, P., Wolf, R., Thau, K. (eds) Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Mental Retardation, and Geriatric Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9367-6_11
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